Vocaloid Race Queens 2012 Edition Out Soon!

To celebrate their wins at the Japan GT300 series and the Japan Race Queen Award (narrowly beating out the candidate from EVA Racing), GSC is releasing a new Puchi Nendroid Vocaloid Race Queen set featuring Miku, Rin, and Luka.

Nekomimi Hoodies from the EVANGELION STORE TOKYO-01

Travelling to Tokyo this spring? You might want to drop by the EVANGELION STORE TOKYO-01 in Harajuku for some of these reversible nekomimi hoodies

Snow Miku x Family Mart Yuki Matsuri Collaboration

Hokkaido stores of the Japanese Family Mart convenience store chain will be participating on a special Snow Miku promotion, during Sapporo’s Yuki Matsuri.

Let Shining Blade’s maidens protect your PSP

Sega’s upcoming PSP RPG, Shining Blade, has maidens designed by the legendary Tony Taka (T2 Art Works). In the game, those maidens will protect your player character either through enchantment songs (think Macross), or transforming into blades that you can… Read More »

Japanese Publisher Releases “A Worry-Free First-Time Guide to Cosplay”

A new how-to book published by Omusha Ltd. walks cosplay novices through the intricacies of the hobby. Omusha is better known for its guides and how-to’s on more scientific pursuits such as electrical engineering and satellite construction.

Autographed Cosplay for a Cause Calendar Up on Ebay

With the multiple disasters that struck Japan in March 2011, cosplayers from all over the world have come together to support the country’s recovery efforts. The result of this collaboration is Cosplay for a Cause.

Cool Japan Month launches in Singapore

Today, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan has adopted “COOL JAPAN tactics promotional project” which supports Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in overseas market cultivation of Japanese cultural business. The Cool Japan Projects 2011 for Singapore begins today with its three key focus areas -“Food from Tohoku”, “Fashion” and “Content business”. More after the jump

LiSA to sing Fate/Zero opening theme “oath sign”

Fans of LiSA will be pleased with a recent announcement that she will be singing the opening theme song for upcoming TV anime – Fate/Zero which will be airing in October on Japanese TV.

Fate / Zero ending theme “Memoria” gets a date

Interested to listen to a preview of the ending song of Fate / Zero ? The official website of the singer Eir Aoi has a streaming ad that showcases a sneak preview of the ending theme.

Hatsune Miku LA Concert to get retail release

Sega has announced that they will be releasing the Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and CD versions of Hatsune Miku’s Anime Expo concert in Los Angeles held on July 2. Details after the break