It looks like a lot of you were correct when guessing the cast for the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop movie, it has now been made official by Sunrise that Keanu Reeves will star as Spike Spiegel, the lead character in the series. The film itself is a joint project between Twentieth Century Fox, 3 Arts Entertainment, [...]
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Hot girls on billboards sell products - a fact for which I am personally very grateful ^^. In this article I have compiled a set of images of some of the girls appearing on poster/billboard advertisements from my recent trip to Tokyo. Click each image to be taken to its Flickr page, which has a [...]
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Calls have been mounting in Japan for Google to remove its street view feature after images taken by Google of couples entering/leaving love hotels appeared appeared on the service [1]. Shibuya’s ‘Love Hotel Hill’ district, as the name would suggest, is famous for such hotels, so I assume this is where the images in question [...]
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The Otaku Times would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  Hopefully you get lots of otaku goodies (or money ^^). To celebrate, here are a few photos I took of the Christmas decorations in Tokyo on my recent trip, mainly whilst visiting Tokyo Dome City and Tokyo Midtown: [...]
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Introduction to trip For about the past 7-8 years one of the top things I had been wanting to do was to visit Japan, and Asia in general (I live in Europe). Having recently finished university, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to make the wish a reality, so I called up some friends in the [...]
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AnimeNation reports that an article on the popular Japanese website LiveDoor has been published expressing concern over the advance reception that Dragonball Evolution (the official name for the new live-action movie) has been receiving from the international community. The article states that 70% of international comments posted about the movie have been negative. Critical comments [...]
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Viz has announced that starting January 15th it will begin streaming subbed Naruto episodes for free. What is significant about this is that the episodes will be available for streaming within a week of the Japanese broadcast. Upon looking at the official Naruto webpage I see that some episodes are already available for streaming, with the [...]
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The blog is now back online after being down for the last week (or more?), there are two reasons for the downtime: Our webhosting account was suspended; either due to the fact that we were using an outdated version of Wordpress, or due to a load of people hotlinking our images. I have been on holiday for [...]
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Don, a reader of the website Ain’t it Cool News, has supposedly sent in a complete review of the upcoming Dragonball live-action movie after watching a early version of the movie - without the additional scenes and with some unfinished special effects. Supposedly, at least according to Don, the movie doesn’t suck, which will be [...]
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