http://theakiba.com Your Portal to Japan Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:46:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The catalog of Comiket 75 started to accept orders one months ago and it's only available til the 6th. December. This time, like the old ones, the catalog is illustrated by 12 illustrators along with a CD/DVD. I will bring you more about the catalog after it released and you ... http://theakiba.com/2008/12/01/comiket-75-catalog-coming/ Every year I wait for two different months, August and December, not just for holidays coming, but the Comiket on those months. After the August Comiket 74, and now the Comiket 75 is coming this December, 28th, 29th and 30th. I'm gonna follow all the way to the Comiket and ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/28/comiket-75-is-coming-tony-taka-latest-work-preview/ I'm always interested in the IN (Insert Song) of the third episode of anime series Chaos;Head. The song, Haritsuke no Misa (磔のミサ), is sung by FES (CV:Yui Sakakibara/榊原ゆい) from a band called PHANTASM (ファンタズム). In the series, the song is a prophecy one, the lyrics itself describes the murder event. The ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/26/chaoshead-in-fes-yui-sakakibara-haritsuke-no-misa/ And finally it comes! I've been waiting for this Single for months since the first time I watched the series. The OP of the anime has been released for a couple of weeks, and there it comes. Compared with OP by Mami, I'd like to say that I prefer the ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/25/to-aru-majutsu-no-index-ed-released-iku-rimless-fuchinashi-no-sekai/ Yeah, it finally comes after waiting for nearly a week. Some fans of Chaos;Head and Seira Kagami keep on asking me on the comments whether the version of ED of the anime is from the Single, and to which I cannot answer since I hadn't got the Single at that ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/24/chaoshead-ed-single-released-seira-kagami-feat-ryohei-first-sight/ I've been reading books and articles these days, finding that a good website (not necessary to be a blog) should have its own theme and style. Simply using themes created by other designers doesn't make me feel happy and satisfied. After poking around all those spectacular websites and blogs, I ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/24/learning-css-and-working-on-a-new-theme/ Cute Japanese High School Girls Round 2! When doing this, it occurred to me that I'm really fond of school uniform, not just those beautiful Seifuku in Anime, but in the real world. Girls in school uniform always look beautiful, pure, and, of course, young! I should have done this every ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/22/cute-japanese-high-school-girls-2/ The ED of the second season of Gundam 00 Prototype is schedule to release on December 3rd, and the following version was recorded from the PV of the track. The image above has nothing to do with the ending song of the 2nd season, but a drama CD named Gundam 00 ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/20/gundam-00-2nd-season-ed-chiaki-ishikawa-prototype-full-version/ Seira Kagami's latest Single first sight is schedule to released on tomorrow and I will put up the link to the whole disc as soon as I get it. The ED of Chaos;Head is included as the second track of this Single. The following link is the 320Kbps version of the ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/19/chaoshead-ed-seira-kagami-super-special-single-version/ There we go. The CD single version of the OP, Hakanaku Mo Towa No Kanashi (UVERworld - 儚くも永久のカナシ), was just released (schedule to release on Nov. 19th.). I've put up a radio version before (64Kbps), fans who love this track can download by clicking the link below. Preview TV Size Version: [audio:UVERworld ... http://theakiba.com/2008/11/16/gundam-00-2nd-season-op-hakanaku-mo-towa-no-kanashi-single-version/