New figure for preorder now. The girl is an orginal character “Nana” on the front cover of Megami Magazine Creaters Vol.8, illustrated by E-ji Komatsu (駒都えーじ). This figure and ,of course, that clinical thermometer are elaborately recreated. The figure will be released on May, sounds like pretty long time ahead. Producted by OrchidSeed (NSFW). More pics and preorder at Hobby Search.

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You may have already seen the artbook of the Bishoujo game In solitude, where we are least alone (ヨスガノソラ). And now we have the latest 3D mouse pads for the game, illustrated by Hiro Suzuhira and Takashi Hashimoto.

There’re two of them as a set, one is Kazuha Migiwa (渚一葉, on the left) and other Sora Kasugano (春日野穹, on the right), the sister of the protagonist. There’s no big Opai but the normal ones, even smaller may be. The Kazuha Migiwa one, which is illustrated by Hiro Suzuhira, has a heigt of 30mm (M size) while Sora Kasugano which is illustrated by Takashi Hashimoto has a height of 23mm (S size), and you can now tell me the difference if you own a 3D mouse pad ^^

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Friends may notice that the site keeps on changing from time to time. This is because I’m doing some experiments. Remember several friends mentioned in the comment about the identity and style of one’s own, and I’d like to think it over and over. And it’s about time to jump out of the box labeled “Dannychoo” ^^.

I’d like to create a new theme for TheAkiba and at the same time make the website focus more on Anime, even considering remove the unrelated categories. As for the theme, I haven’t started to design the layout but I’m keeping searching on the net and browsing different kinds of sites and tried to get inspired. Will add some new elements to the new theme and remove the unrelated contents.

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What is Nekomimi (猫耳, cat ears), Nekomusume (猫娘), or Catgirl? There might be lots of names but all of them refer to one thing that most of us have already well know of. “A catgirl is a female with cat ears, a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. ” You can read more on Wikipedia.

Poking around on moe and then I found some really nice pics on Nekomimi, and most of them are Stick Posters Not sure whether it’s some kind of artbook or just some illustrator campagin, it’s just awesome.

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Mami Kawada’s (川田まみ) latest Single masterpiece, acts as the OP2 of the Anime To Aru Majutsu no Index was just released. Nice track indeed but the Anime started to disappoint me in some aspects. Maybe I should just read its novel instead ^^

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Who’s Hirokazu Koyama (こやま ひろかず, visit blog) ? I guess few people know this guy. But what about when I mention TYPE-MOON any impressions? I guess we are all familiar with Takashi Takeuchi (武内崇) and Nasu Kinoko (奈須 きのこ) who work together and even co-found TYPE-MOON. But Hirokazu Koyama did do lots of good artworks, say Mahoutsukai no Yoru (魔法使いの夜, Witch of the Holy Night) which will be illustrated by Hirokazu Koyama and be released some time this year.

And about this SilverRain (シルバーレイン), I guess fewer people know, especially non-Japanese visitors. SilverRain is an online web page game (to me, it seems like an online galgame) created by TommyWalker, illustrated mainly by Hirokazu Koyama, currently only available in Japanese. Basically I have no idea what this game is about and how it works. I was attracted totally by Hirokazu’s illustrations.

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I don’t play Galgames (eroge) but always attracted by those splendid CGs and illustrations. So does this one, Valkyrie Complex (ヴァルキリーコンプレックス), produced by CIRCUS is one of those erotic games with excellent CGs but also whose plot and lines are still unknown to me. I’m not saying anything offensive towards eroge and in the bottom of my heart I really want to have a try when I’m not too busy. Maybe I prefer those 3D games, like Love Death 2 (らぶデス2) or the ones produced by Illusion in which I can be more “active” ^^.

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Late release of REI’s artwork. Maybe you have already known, REI (Circle name: REI’s ROOM) is not a Japanese but a Chinese (Taiwan) and also one of the most talent illustrators in the world. Sometimes I got confused with her artwork and Satoshi Kiba’s (木場智士, Circle name: RETRO).

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Not have heard any news of the Neon Genesis Evangelion ever after the first movie last year and when I was poking around on the net I found some beautiful scans on moe (above one, looks like the elder version of Asuka, indeed it is) and started to look for interesting stuffs. Somebody said it is a novel, no idea. Here’s the plot.

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When I was just about to say that I’ve is not gonna make a new OP or ED for the Anime, I heard a noise of some electronic sounds from the speaker, noticing that I was watching the episode 17 of To Aru Majutsu no Index. Something wrong with my laptop? Suddenly the sound came to a clear mode, unveiling that a new track was coming. The Single will be released on 4th. Feburary, voiced by Mami Kawada (川田まみ).

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