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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.

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!

Source.

Yeah you read that right, that’s some serious crazy shit that Taiwanese otakus are doing. The Kugyuu is going to be guest at the Taipei International Book Exhibition 2010 and will be doing some signing provide you buy some Shana goods, limited to the first 89 customers, from one of the venders which goes on sale on the morning of the 27th. However not just one or two, but up to twenty crazy otakus decides that it’s a good idea to start lining up on the 3rd – 25 days before the sales date, and predictably they made it to the news.

Just when you think fanboy craziness can’t get any crazier, someone is out there to prove you wrong.

So after the big/huge/gigantic news of Nana-chan’s performance on Kouhaku, you have to admit that everything else is not that news worthy, and even downright boring. So after turning my nose up at the other pieces for a few weeks, here are some things which are finally worth posting.

Mizuki Nana stars as lead in new Pretty Cure
Well had to begin with Nana-chan now that she’s on after burner towards mainstream stardom and recognition. As all Nanatards will know, Nana-chan has the tendency to star in either shitty throw away side characters of good shows, or good characters in shitty throw away shows, with very little exceptions. So now that she finally gets to be the heroine of the biggest anime franchise in Japan watched by little girls AND lolicons “big adult friends” alike for a full year, it’s time to celebrate that she’s going to actually live up to the voice acting part of her seiyuu career (probably). Oh, and Nanoha fanboys should be happy to see that Nana-chan gets to play more ass-kicking, brutal fist-fighting magical girls that would make most modern day shounen heros look like pussies.

Mizuki Nana sings for new Metal Gear Solid game
Just can’t stop the big news once you’ve gone to ultra-celebrity status can you? As revealed in her blog, Nana-chan just recorded an insert song titled “恋の抑止力” (Koi no Yokushiryoku, Love’s Deterrance) for the latest Metal Gear game. Kojima Hideo is a pretty big seiyuu fan (some may say even an otaku?), so it’s not too surprising that he would create an opportunity for Nana-chan to show off her vocals in his game. Perhaps he even went out of his way to make this happen to satisfy his inner seiyuu-ota, who knows. Now whether the English version of the game would have this song though is a different story, but I would recommend people to play the J-dub anyway as I’ve found the franchise had always felt too Japanese in its presentation style and writing thus fairly incompatible with an English track (it’s like dubbing a Kung-fu movie you know? no matter how good you do it, it just doesn’t work), Nana-chan being in there or not.

Tomatsu Haruka’s new photo book sample photos
The title is “Pi Touch! High Touch!” (sorry for the lame Idolmaster breast-touching event joke), and as promised, there’s the bikini shot! They seem to have toned down her approachable cutesy girl-next-door image for something a little more young adult. Want or Do Not Want? That’s for you to decide.

Takahashi Chiaki to release photo book and DVD
As she wrote in her blog here, while this is not anything new and hardly news worthy, I liked how she gave her motivation for doing these things in a recent Famitsu interview (thanks for pointing it out Dom! Would’ve been too lazy to read it otherwise) – “Because those celebrities and gravue idols are coming here [into the voice acting world], so I’d thought I’ll go over there too.” – a strange yet great display of her pride in voice acting in doing what is, as she sees it, as essentially the same thing (rookies light-heartingly entering into another profression’s world). The full interview is fairly interesting too, like how when she told her parents she was going to become a seiyuu instead of going to university, her father kicked her out of the house hoping she would be deterred in her quest and come back to her senses, but he still gave her a million yen anyway as living expense before doing so.

IM@S Christmas Live
Looks AWSME, all those bitching about the commercialisation of Christmas can die in imaginary hell fire because it gave us Santa Girl costumes (probably the only thing worth celebrating on Christmas for an atheist like me, LOL). Now when are those Blu-ray/DVDs coming out, pretty please?