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more about #anime dirtybacon: I totally had relations with her yesterday. She's a cheating slut. more » darngooddesign: Awesome, next time I get caught being an idiot I'm going to claim it was "performance art". more » jrghoull: I need to know...did he f**k his DS? If not, did he f**k the cartridge instead? more » Kaiser-Machead: I....hate.....this place. This..zoo...this prison. This...reality. Whatever you want to call it... It's the DS...if there is such a thing. I can tast... more » Noobs-R-Us: Perhaps he should be one of those tens of thousands of people who kill themselves in Japan each year. The man is clearly a loser. more » ice2032: get a life, you sad pathetic little man more » Alfisted: Please Giz, DO NOT link to the honeymoon vid. more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: What is the Matrix? THIS is the Matrix. more » Invisible-Echidna: Asian countries are in a pissing contest for the biggest replica robot now? What's next? the real thing? It. has. begun... more » ThisDudeRufus: I can't wait to see the news, "Giant Robots save Japanese economy". Or is that destroy? more » jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware: Can we please build a 500ft Sentinel facing west somewhere on Hawaii? It would incorporate a missile defense system that fires from the robot's exte... more » maven2k: I don't know, it sure seems like a good hiding place for some kind of secret weapon if you ask me. more » Dr. H. F. Danger: Soon to be neighbors...Eva unit01 and Escaflowne more » kitsuneconundrum: gotta fight/scare those pesky north koreans. Nukes? Pwfah! We got here some mecha! more » sharked: What a bootleg-ass version of Mazinger Z. Can't the Koreans do anything original. Maybe a lifesized Starcraft base or somthing. more » sm753: I'll get flamed by Koreans but here it goes. Korea has always been trying to "one up" Japan and China for decades. They're also notorious for "borrowi... more » OMG! Ponies!: Sadly, after the failed "Pink Goo" Statue of Liberty experiment, the US has continued to lag in the Giant Frakkin' Robot arms race. It is a sad day w... more » rogsim: Now they needs ones for the Robotech VF-1 and Voltron (lion and vehicle). more » xAnarChisTx: Alright, if us Americans were to build a robot to represent for our country, who would we build? And no talking about past plans for Michael Jackson ... more » Noobs-R-Us: Too bad Michael Jackson is dead or he would be all over this like flies on shit. more » -
#gaming
Video Surfaces of Man Taking Anime Video Game Character To Be His Lawfully Wedded Wife
As promised, the wedding ceremony between a man named Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki, a character from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, was filmed and broadcast across the internet. It's predictably sad. More » -
#robots
Korea's Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans
Holy crap! So Japan builds giant Gundam and Testsujin statues (59 and 60-feet, respectively), now Korea is building this freakin' huge Taekwon V (Voltar the Invincible) replica that will be more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. More » -
#astroboy
New Astro Boy Trailer Makes Me Want This New Astro Boy Toy
Check out this wicked Astro Boy figurine recently spotted at Hong Kong's Ani-Com show. I can't wait for the big-screen CG reboot of everyone's favorite Pinocchio-like android kid with arm canons. Speaking of which, new full-length trailer after the jump! More » -
#japan
Japan's 2-D Lovers: Falling In Love with a Body Pillow
Lisa Katayama of TokyoMango has a story in this week's NYT Magazine about otaku in Japan who are in love with anime pillowcases. Yes, they are "dating" body pillows with cartoon prepubescent girls on them. What's going on in Japan? More » -
#robots
Japan Building Another Gigantic Robot: Tetsujin
We knew this day would come. Japan builds one giant robot and, like a first taste of heroin, the country follows a destructive path of building opulent robo statues until there's a 60-foot robot for every man, woman and child. More » -
#rc
The Scope Dog R/C Mech Will Have You Going From Six To Midnight
I think a "wow" is in order with the Scope Dog R/C mech. Plucked from the 80's anime series VOTOMS this 1/24 scale Scope Dog Turbo Custom can do it all. More » -
#spacebattleshipyamato
Space Battleship Yamato Cruises into Lego Form
Fans of that 70s-era anime Space Battleship Yamato (or Star Blazers, if you saw it in the U.S.), here's an amazing LEGO replica of the cruiser by Vincent Cheung. [Brickshelf via Akihabara News] More » -
#clips
The Japanese Giant Robot Show to End All Giant Robot Shows
If you thought that Voltron or Power Rangers was entertaining, wait until you see Engine Oh G12. Its robot is assembled from twelve different vehicles, including a shark car. More » -
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#vocaloid
Vocaloid 3: Japanese Synthesized Singing Sensation Now Knows English
Vocaloid, the super-popular singing synthesizer from Japan has now gotten an update—and it (she) is bilingual! Meet Megurine Luka, who's "moody and husky" voice is now yours to command in both Japanese and English. More » -
#clips
Even Anime Has Turned on Sony
It's a sad state of affairs when Sony loses the hearts and minds behind Japan's unofficial national past time: Anime. From the show Kannagi, we won't ruin all the fun...but we will say, "It's a Sony!!" [Thanks Tyler!] -
#usb
Junk 4GB Of Stuff in The Trunks of Lupin The Third And Gundam
Anime fans can now store information on two of the genre's most famous characters—Lupin the Third and Gundam. Both USB figurines come with little extra accessories (like a pistol for Lupin and a shield for Gundam) and store 4GB of stuff. When you want to use them, twist their legs into sitting position and a USB port will pop out the back. Yeah, you're loading info into Lupin and Gundam's butts. Got a problem with that? The Gundam USB will be available in late November, and the Lupin one will come mid-December. Pricing was not yet available. [Buffalo Japan via Akihabara News] -
#mecha
Lifesize Scopedog Mecha Towers Over Iron and Steel Celebration
As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation got ironsmithing genius Kogoro Kurata to display his insane 1:1 scale model of the Scopedog mecha from the 80s anime series VOTOMS. Weighing in at two tons and standing a full four meters tall, it dwarfed everything else at the exhibition. The cast iron structure was actually finished in 2005 and has been on display before at other Japanese conventions, but it still thrills every time it rears its mechanical head. Look at the detail on this thing! More » -
#clips
VOCALOID 2: The Japanese Anime Song Generator
Think Garageband for otakus. This Japanese software suite lets you plug in lyrics and melody and generates an "authentic-sounding" song via its music and vocal synthesizers. As you can see above, the software features a 16-year- old "Virtual Singer," which croons out whatever disgustingly sweet (or just disgusting) lyrics you enter in (Japanese only, we're assuming). It's so popular in Nippon that it's actually the #1 selling software on their Amazon. And for good reason—the songs they generate actually sound like it could have come from a generic teenaged anime. Hit the jump for two videos. More »
