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The rumor is true.

The title of Nanami’s character song is “Nanairo Generator” (Seven Colour Generator). I suspect it would probably make the rounds on the net fairly soon.

Someone brought to my attention (forgotten who though) that the red bikini Tomatsu Haruka wore in her 2nd photobook “High Touch!” is of similiar design to the swimsuit that lead to Aya Style, except Toma-chan actually put it on right.

Toma-chan photo stolen from j1m0ne.

I wonder if this was a delibrate choice just to spite Hirano Aya.

I bought my own copy too (the legs are just too hard to resist), but I’m not going to risk scanning it. j1m0ne already reviewed and concluded the photobook is pretty nice and I agree with her, fans of Toma-chan should definitely buy it for fapping admiring.

There is an unconfirmed rumor stating that multiple store staff in Akiba’s computer stores hinted that a new limited edition OEM release of Windows 7 coming out this Friday (13th March) will see an original gift containing an original character song by one of the several Windows 7 moe mascot Madobe Nanami, voiced by none other than our beloved Nana-chan. The special OEM set is said to be limited to 77,777 copies. This is still a rumor though, so I’ll probably keep an eye on various Akiba news sites and blogs to see whether this is true or not, and if true, I suspect that the special CD would make its round on the intertubes very soon just like the previous omake CD containing the original Madobe Nanami themepack.

Madobe Nanami is a mascot created by the Windows 7 Mania Jimousho (the real name is Techno Alliance K.K) to promote Windows 7 amongst OEM builders. It’s currently not officially recognised by Microsoft.

EDIT: The link seems to have been 404′ed. So it might just be the rumor is unfound afterall.

EDIT2: It’s true afterall.

Animelo Summer 2010’s website has gone live. The theme for this year is “Evolution”.

So far we’ve got two old timers JAM Project and Kuribayashi Minami leading two new additions – seiyuu unit Sphere (Kotobuki Minako, Takagaki Ayahi, Tomatsu Haruka and Toyosaki Aki) and fripSide of A Certain Scientific Railgun fame on Saturday, and already a huge star cast of Nana-chan, Yukarin, May’n and Momoi Haruko on Sunday.

Nana-chan and Yukarin on the same day is expected as this year is the year of the Nanoha movie. So expect Phantom Minds and My Wish My Love as part of the song list on Sunday, and maybe they would finally get around to do the whole Nanoha/Fate duet that all those fans had been dying to see.

In addition to the main Animelo event, this year we also see two spin-offs – Anisummer Girls’ Night and Animelo Summer Live in Shanghai (!). Girls’ Night as the name implies is going to be limited to female performers only and shall take place sometime in late October to early November in Tokyo and Osaka. While Animelo Summer Live in Shanghai is going to be the first overseas Animelo and will take place around late November in Shanghai (duh), and they are aiming for a 10,000 crowd venue.

woo we’ve moved to a new server. welcome to eri.bardiche.net. of course, it should appear exactly the same as before.

Woo look at 'em legs

No I didn’t make this up.

Seems that a certain magazine (can’t confirm which yet, so there’s still a possiblity that this is a PS job) has printed out Hirano Aya’s profile and listing “Dekobitch” as her accepted nickname. Since we know that the majority of Japanese people fails at English, Hirano Aya herself failing pretty hard at it herself with her punk t-shirts, and that publications fails equally as hard here (no this is not a stereotype, but a fact, remember Chihara Minori “The jewel in a dunghill“?), so they could very well be throwing this one in when not knowing exactly what it means.

Aya Style already gave me a hell of an entertaining time, can’t wait to see how this one unfolds. Oh wait, could this be another of those tricks to get gossiping going since Hirano Aya has been pretty quiet recently….

The fans are crazy, so there’s no surprise that when the Kugyuu appeared in person on the day, chaos breaks out, and makes it to the news (again). You can watch a clip of the news here.

So apparently more than a thousand fans tried to cram into the event space just to get a glimps of the Kugyuu in person, a couple of people fainted (literally), many fell due to the pushing and shuffling, and one of the book booths got pushed over by the crowd causing thousands of volumes of manga to be scattered on the floor.

To finish off this post, here’s a pic of one person infected with the Kugimiya Disease showing off his loot on TV.

EDIT: More video

So the fans were climbing barriers and even dissambled the dividers to get a look (whoa, show some manners, dudes!), some took advantage of the chaos to pick pockets (smart guys… I mean damn you thieves!), and the guy showing off the loot was one of those who camped 20+ days, and he wore a glove to shake hands with the Kyuguu so that he can treasure it, hmmm, okie dokie…..

LOL @ the spin machine working at full force. Before Kouhaku, the majority of Nana-chan’s mainstream TV interviews can only be said to be degrading and painful to watch. How things have changed. Look at how they managed to turn one of the biggest lolicon otaku cult fav franchise that is the remake of the original Nanoha (when Nanoha and Fate were still 3rd graders) into something that sounds positive. The difference is striking, in the interview at the 3:15 mark they managed to put on videos of pretty female interviewees, and the guys can easily pass off as normal or even イケメン (ikemen which means good looking/handsome, like the two young guys after the two females), instead of the usual stereotypical pale otaku with glasses and bad hair (ok there was one at around the one minute mark). They even managed to spin the Nanoha movie premiere event into one where it looked as if everyone were there for Nana-chan’s appearance, despite the event has other seiyuu like Yukarin (whose fans are even MORE rabid).

Ah, TV entertainment industry, how manufactured your are.

Pics are NSFW, you’ve been warned. Probably should check that your family members aren’t behind your back looking over your shoulder too.

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Title of the book is “Juicy Dancing”, and will be the first as well as last photobook she would release (we’ll see about that). Goes on sale on 10th Feburary.

She did it. So she’s conquered all of the Oricon Weekly Charts (Singles, Album, music DVD, music BD). She’s been on Kouhaku. She’s done a 30k+ audience dome live (What’s a Budoukan live worth now except in nostalogic name recognition’s sake?). You name it, she’s done it. There’s nothing left in the domestic market for her to take aim at except going on a few more TV music shows just to tick them off the secondary “To Do” list, and the harsh reality is starring right in her face that her domestic fanbase has hit the invisible ceiling even after obtaining all these trophy achievements – the number shows that Phantom Minds isn’t her best selling single in its first week, it came first by external circumstances ie the lack of formidable opponents. So here’s a friendly suggestion, nay, a challenge to her managers: how about following the footsteps of JAM Project and take the initiative in bringing her directly to the rest of the world? There’s a whole new market for you to explore and conquer out there. Go on, show us the “Cool Japan” soft-power that you are so proud of. I dare you!