Beautiful Tokyo!

I just can’t get enough of these videos of traveling through Tokyo.   Here is another great video from Cat2525jp over at youtube of traveling through Tokyo at night.  It’s just mesmerizing and always seems to have just the right music with the subject.  Enjoy!

K-ON! Preview?

I came across this video under the heading of K-ON! 14 Preview and it certainly appears to be the authentic K-ON!.  I haven’t quite figured out if it’s a preview or what, but it most definitely has Korean subtitles and it looks more like a segment of something longer rather than a preview.  Also it’s a cam shot, why do you suppose that would be?  Take a look and see what you think.  I’m not sure what to make of it.

Update:  It appears that this is an extra episode that is contained on the K-ON! number 7 Blu ray disc.  I’ve watched it and it’s a truly delightful episode and moe as ever.

Special Edition Figures from GSC

Good Smile Company is offering some very nice limited edition figures during the 2010 Wonder Festival.  One of them is the Ritsu and Mio Nendoroid Live Stage set which depicts the first K-ON! performance by Ritsu and Mio.  Very adorable and with the instruments included for what is listed as 8,000 JY.  Not too bad for a very limited set.  Here is one more photo.  More can be seen at their site here.

Perfume Zero Gravity Live

More moe-ness from Perfume in their live version of Zero Gravity.  It’s one of my favorites of the “new” new songs on the Triangle album.  Their dance moves just keep getting better with every live performance.  I can’t wait to see more of this concert.

Also their performance of Night Flight at Yoyogi is another example of their great dance moves.  They must spend enormous amounts of time perfecting these moves, not to mention doing a whole concert of them.  Wow. You will need to follow the link to youtube as the video has embedding disabled, but it’s worth it.

Azunyan Nendoroid!

Finally a look at the up coming Azunyan Nendoroid in full color and it is a real kawaii addition to the K-ON! group.  I will definitely have to get her pre-ordered when she is available so I will keep an eye on GSC to see when she will be coming out.The photo is courtesy of Hobby Stock Blog and is from Comiket 77.  While looking around trying to find some more information on Ms Azunyan I came across the most moe video featuring her that I think I have seen.  Check it out.

Also of note from the Comiket 77 photos, there is a preview of a Black Rock Shooter Nendororid.  Talk about adorable.  I currently have the Black Rock Shooter pre-ordered and the release date continues to be pushed back.  I believe the latest that I have found is the end of February or March sometime.  Oh well, I can wait.  Here are the two different Black Rock Shooters.This one is courtesy of GSC.  The following Nendoroid is from the Hobby Stock Blog post.I can’t wait!

New Petite Nendoroids

From the new anime “Bakemonogatari” Good Smile C0 is releasing Petite Nendoroids of three of the main characters, Koyomi Araragi, Hitagi Senjougahara, and Tsubasa Hanekawa.  I happen to think that this is one of the most gorgeous looking animes I’ve seen in a while.  They use a lot of warm tones and simple backgrounds to give it a very clean look.  Very cool.  So on to the Nendoroids.

They are, of course, all quite adorable as you can see.

Kimi ni Todoke

One of the new animes out this fall is Kimi ni Todoke and it is really special.   It’s a wonderful story about a girl who doesn’t seem to fit in with the rest of her class and the efforts she goes to, to try and make friend and begin to fit in with the help of some of her classmates.  What I love more than anything is the animation style which is similar to Paradise Kiss.  As you can see from the following images, they use the animation style to tell the story too.

This is really a wonderful show and you should give it a try if you get the chance.

K-ON! Azunyan Mug

I saw that this adorable mug from K-ON! is now available for pre-order from Toylet.net It just makes you want to have some afternoon tea.

It’s hard to tell from the photos just how big this mug is, and for the price ($32) it had better be a proper sized mug.  But it sure is adorable.  The mug is supposed to be in stock the end of February, so we’ll have to wait.

20th Century Boys 3!

The final chapter of the 20th Century Boys movie trilogy finally came out in Japan last August and as of now is scheduled to come out on video in Japan in February according to ANN.  This is one of my favorite mangas and they have done a wonderful job on the movies, so I am really looking forward to the third and final movie in the series.  Here is a sample of some trailers for the movie.

They have hinted that there is a difference from the original manga, so I’m interested to see if they made any changes from the original plot line.  I guess I’ll just have to wait until February to find out.

Amazing Tokyo Video

I just love these videos from cat2525jp.  You’ve seen  the driving videos here before, now there are videos from the trains over there and they are incredible.  It’s almost like flying.  And, of course, it’s in HD so it looks really good.  Check them out.