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And just for good measure - some Mirai Suenaga pumpkins crafted by Chun.
By Danny Choo - www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
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末永みらいとは末永みらいとは当サイト「カルチャージャパン」(dannychoo.com/jp)のマスコットキャラクターだ。キャラクターデザインは2007年にイラストレーターアザミユウコさんと共に開発した。それ以降みらいちゃんは世界的に支持を受けることになり、グッドスマイルカンパニーやコスパ、ニトロプラスなどのいろんなグッズ展開もしてきました。
By Danny Choo - www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
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Now thats something you dont see everyday - a blow-it-up-yerself-oppai-mousepad.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26288/Anime+Magazines.html
Mirai Suenaga joins Wagnaria as a new member! Speaking of which, its your last day to stand a chance to win a free return ticket to Japan - details here.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26675/Wagnaria.html
The character design of the anime versions are created by Kazunori Iwakura who is also responsible for titles like Railgun, Toradora, Sky Girls, Kimikiss, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue and more.
Here we see our 4 main characters (from left to right) Haruka Suenaga, Mirai Suenaga, Eiji Seiun and Kanata Hoshikawa. Detailed design references in the Mirai Millennium Design post and character profiles currently live here.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26311/Mirai+Millennium+OP.html
Today Mirai-chan gets to cosplay as our other mascot Nanami-chan - the diligent but clumsy high school girl who works for a construction firm part time.
こ (ko) for "kouji"Following on from the previous hiragana in this Moekana series which was け, today we learn "こ" (ko). Today's word is "こうじ” [工事] (pronounced "kouji") which means "construction".
The katakana equivalent of "こ" is "コ".
Today's model is Mirai Suenaga illustrated by Ikkyu-san.
ExampleYou can use this in a sentence like:-
igirisu no douro kouji wa eien no you ni tsuzuku mon dane
イギリスの道路こうじは永遠のように続くもんだね
The roadworks in England seem to go on forever
ExerciseType out (not copy paste) "こ” 50 times on my Facebook Wall or tweet "こ" 50 times with an @dannychoo at the end while trying to say "こ" 20 times with one hand on your dolphin (male) or eyes (female).
Any other word that begins with "こ" that's otaku or Japan related that you can think of?
All Hiragana in the Moekana series is being tagged "hiragana"
Moekana - ke
Moekana - ku
Moekana - ki
Moekana - ka
Moekana - o
Moekana - e
Moekana - u
Moekana - i
Moekana - a
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View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26139/Moekana+-+ko.html
As mentioned in yesterdays Oppai Day post, today is Pantsu Day in Japan. Reason is that 8/2 would be pronounced as "8" = "pa" and "2" as "tsu" ="pantsu". Sauce from Google sensei. Just thought it was important to share this vital piece of information with you.
And to celebrate today's event Xeph from Collateral Damage Studios have come up with his most awesome Oppai X Pantsu Day Combo illustration of our Mirai-chan.
To share our love for pantsu, I think we should all share our fave illustration for pantsu - my one is this one by DMYO >
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There is a poll embedded in this article.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26202/Pantsu+Day.html
A month ago, I wrote an article on how to mass produce your own products. The post was rather popular and was picked up on many sites and social networks around the world - could have been because I posted it on April the 1st and folks didn't know whether it was true or not.
Well as we say in these neck of the woods - "April Fools come true" ^o^
I also learned through the traffic that that Taiwan, China and Russia are big markets for this type of doll.
Today I want to talk about the progress I've made on the soft vinyl doll that I'm modelling after my mascot character Mirai Suenaga and share with you my learnings in the hope that you can avoid the mistakes that I made during my first ever attempt to design and manufacture a product for the masses.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26928/Mirai+Suenaga+Doll.html
Read more about Mirai Suenaga >>>
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More AFAX related goodies in the posts listed below.
- Singapore Itasha
- AFAX Day 1
- Takaaki Kidani
- AFAX Stage
- Tokyo Arrival 2
- Kana Hanazawa
- AFAX Day 0
- AKB48
- Anime Festival Asia 2010
- View more...
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And after your trip you will look out of the window on the flight home thinking how this trip changed the decisions you will make for the rest of your life - just like it did to mine.
And it all could start with a purchase of Mirai Nendoroid! Good Luck and we'll speak again in December.
Lowest Price Trusted Online Retailers
Order from AmiAmi (Worldwide shipping) - Includes Exclusive Moekana IC Sticker 2980 yen
Order from Hobby Search (Worldwide shipping) 3200 yen
Hobby Link Japan (worldwide shipping) 3429 yen
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26658/Free+Ticket+To+Japan.html
Asanon is doing the voice of Mirai-chan and we have already recorded her first single which I'm planning to use as the opening for the second season of Culture Japan. Today Asanon has come to Lucy Pop in Musashikoyama for the second fitting.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26165/Mirai+Suenaga+School+Unif...
Learning to brush ones teeth can be scary for some kids in Japan - but thanks to anime, things dont have to be so scary after all.
Introducing Doraemon and Dorami - two anime characters who kids love. Plushies of these 2 characters have been modified with human teeth so that kids can practice teeth brushing without having to feel scared at all...
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26783/Japan+Toothbrushing.html
How many of you are watching the second season of Oreimo? Is Kirino Kousaka your fave girl? If so then you may be interested in this 1/8 scale figure by Alphamax - spent time at their offices to bring you these shots of Kirino.
Product Name: Kirino Kousaka One Piece Ver. (more details at Alphamax)
Series: Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Scale: 1/8
Material: PVC
Height: Around 20cm
Spec: Painted
Sculptor: HIRO
Release Date: December 2013
Retail Price: 7,800 yen
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26933/One+Piece+Kirino+Kousaka....
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet [翠星のガルガンティア] is an original sci-fi mecha anime coming in April 2013. The story is a collaboration between director Murata Kazuya [村田和也] (Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos) and scriptwriter Urobuchi Gen (Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero). Animation production will be handled by Production I.G (009 RE:CYBORG, Eden of the East).
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26805/Gargantia+on+the+Verdurou...
Photo coverage of the Thailand Game Show that took place between Jan 11 and 13th. I only knew of the existence of the Tokyo Game Show but never knew of the Thailand Game Show.
The Thailand Game Show has been running for quite a number of years now and is organised by celebrity Pongsuk Hiranprueck. Previous guests include Jam Project. This years Japan guest was me ^^;
While TGS does have some console game coverage, most of it is PC games - and most of that being League of Legends. I still have not got into PC gaming yet but I've been looking for a way for me to play online games with my readers. At the moment I try to get regular time with my PS Vita, PS3 or Xbox - but all of them have a friend limit.
There was quite a presence of Japanese anime in the form of cosplay and booths selling merchandise. Through our booth at TGS this year, we discovered that there was a high demand for Japanese content.
Comrades at HIVE were involved in some of the planning and they recommended me as a guest to Pongsuk which is why I was at TGS. I was asked to give a talk on MICE which is a strategy that many governments are trying to utilize to increase tourism. Through attending various events around the world and being involved in the planning of such events like Anime Expo and AFA, I gave some insight into what organisations should be doing to build their MICE experience.
Anyway, I'm going to leave you with the rest of the photo coverage below^o^
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26826/Thailand+Game+Show.html
The syringe included enables you to take samples of your soldiers which you would then inject into your best friends cuppa tea.
You can also use the syringe to blow up the mousepad.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26288/Anime+Magazines.html
Read more about Mirai Suenaga >>>
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About 20 mins later and I'm all done! The flavour I chose was Cyanogenmod 10.1 Nightly. I used SMS Backup & Restore to backup my SMS messages.
The rest of my data is all on Google - contacts, save data, apps and wot not. All of that gets installed in the new system automatically after logging in.
All Android phones require a Google account. Gmail is my mail tool and I love the way that people I reply to just appear in my contacts on my phone. Google calendar schedules also automatically appear without having to do anything.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26872/Japan+recommends+iPhone+o...
Very hot in Japan this Summer - need another fan.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26670/Desk+Diary+2012+09.html
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Recently had a giveaway to win this Racing Miku from Good Smile Company over at Facebook - winner announced this morning.
But the nice folks at Hobby Search are offering another Racing Miku as a giveaway! This time we'll run the giveaway here at dannychoo.com.
To win, all you have to do is leave a comment below with your feedback on what sort of improvements you would like to see around here - it can be anything from "more posts about Japan, figures, dolls or wot not" to "site needs speeding up" or "I want to earn points when I comment so that I can use those points for getting discounts when buying figures online" - leave any feedback that would help me improve the community and content. If you are already content with everything, just leave a comment to let me know what you already like.
I'm asking because we are nearing the completion of the Ruby version of Mirai Gaia. As many of you know, Mirai Gaia is the web platform that runs this and all of my client sites too.
Ruby will run on Amazon EC2 and will be able to scale as traffic increases. I'm also thinking of merging figure.fm back to this site and include proper comrades functionality so that you can follow the posts belonging to just your comrades. There will be a single Culture Japan account which you can use across a variety of networks too.
The main reason why we lost the community was because I could not afford to maintain it - server costs are obscene! Now that my company is making a wee bit of a profit, I can afford to invest into scaling my web properties. All your data is safe and will be available on the new platform too.
The new Mirai Gaia will provide you with a bunch of tools to pull and push your content to and from networks such as Flickr, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress etc. I want to provide you with tools that make content creation as easy as doing a bottom burp.
As I have a large amount of Japanese users too - I want to connect you with them through the new platform which will help you absorb the culture much quicker though making new Japanese friends.
If you think that the otaku/Japan content community is missing something and you would like to see it then mention that in your comment too. If you are a dab hand at photoshop, have a good sense of design, can translate from Japanese to English and would like to do some part time work to help out on the up n coming stuff then leave a comment too!
Will choose a winner this time next week - the winner will be notified by me replying to your comment below. I'll need your snail mail which I will pass onto Hobby Search - they will send you your Racing Miku when she's out later this year.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26539/Racing+Miku+Giveaway.html
Lots of illustrator work can be found in Dengeki Moeoh.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26288/Anime+Magazines.html
Find out more about the Culture Japan girls >>>
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Busou Shinki [武装神姫] is a mecha musume series based on Konami’s Busou Shinki figure line. Directed by Kikuchi Yasuhito [菊地康仁] (Macross Frontier, Infinite Stratos) and produced by 8-Bit (Aquarion Evol, Infinite Stratos), Busou Shinki has the trappings to feature a lot of pint-sized action.
The story takes place in the near future where these 15cm tall figures each have their own AI and fit into the fun and antics of everyday life.
There is a poll embedded in this article.
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26691/Busou+Shinki+Anime.html
Mirai in her Solar marine uniform, Summer school uniform, bikini and birthday suit.
By Danny Choo - www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/1587/Mirai+Suenaga.html
You can also get the raw psd file for all the variations of mirai-chan illustrated by Koizumi Amane-sensei complete with logos.
Inside the PSD file you will find layers for various facial expressions and all her uniforms. Feel free to use for non-commercial purposes (wallpaper/stickers etc).
Maybe you can make some wallpapers and upload to devientart or pixiv!
Would be great if some folks can make some Android, iPhone, iPad and other wallpapers too! If you do then just provide a link to mirai.fm when uploading - then leave a link in the comments below to your work. I'll be recruiting folks who make exceptional designs!
More photoshop files of Mirai and our other characters listed up below. Also lemme know if any of these links are broke and I'll fix straight away ><
Anime Valentines Day Card
Ayase Hazuki
Kizuna Yumeno
Chitose Shirasawa
Haruka Suenaga by Iizuki Tasuku
Kuuchuu Yosai
Kanata Hoshikawa by Iizuki Tasuku
Koku
Tasuku Iizuki
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View more at www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26834/Koizumi+Amane.html