Archive for the 'Anime and Otaku' Category

First maid cafes, now Samurai maid cafes

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

We all know of Maid cafes in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. One of the newest themed bars is the Samurai cafe which capitalizes on the “Sengoku” Boom.  The  Sengoku Style Cafe & Bar Mononopu is staffed by cute girls who wear a combination of maid costumes and samurai armor and caters to lonely history buffs.

Samurai maid [...]

Star Trek in Japanese

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The following videos found on youtube are Star Trek  宇宙大作戦 in Japanese. The original series was dubbed by Japanese voice actors.

Captain Kirk and Spock
Dr. McCoy

Hello Kitty at Hard Rock Cafe Tokyo

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

From May  last year, photos showing an exclusive limited edition Hello Kitty pins and apparel at the Hard Rock Cafe Tokyo Japan.

Some items still available.
Source: Tokyobling

Thelma Aoyama sings new Doraemon movie theme song

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The theme song for the new 2010 Doraemon movie “Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King” Doraemon Nobita no Ningyo Daikaisen” 映画ドラえもん のび太の人魚大海戦 is a beautiful song by 23 year old Japanese American R&B singer Thelma Aoyama 青山テルマ from Okinawa.
A few weeks ago on January 27th, Thelma had released her newest single, Fall in Love, which [...]

Japan Airlines JAL Doraemon plane to promote new Doraemon 2010 movie

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

From Tokyo MX news comes a feature about the new Japan Airlines 日本航空 JAL  Doraemon ドラえもん plane.  Despite being in all sorts of financial difficulties, JAL has a tied up with anime character Doraemon in a new marketing campaign whereby a Boeing 777-300 will be decorated with large 3.5X15m colorful image of Doraemon characters to [...]

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