For anime and manga lovers who are old enough to remember Saint Seiya or Knights of the Zodiac, they should be glad that a MMORPG centered around Saint Seiya called Saint Seiya Online will be released by Sega this year.

In China, the online game was named 圣斗士OL and is already in beta. From the prizes (from PSP to MP3 players) that the Chinese players can get during this beta testing period, we reckon that Saint Seiya Online will attract new fans who have no idea who is Athena or Masami Kurumada.
Image: 圣斗士OL

The Gundam Exia of Cosfest VII: Super Henshin is cosplay awesomeness at its best. But how do you get to see all the cosplayers in under 3 minutes?
Hit the video below for the Anime Cosplay Train which the cosplayers formed a train, danced to the music and paraded in and out of the Cosfest VII exhibition area in record time.

Cosfest VII: Super Henshin, organized by Singapore Cosplay Club and SCC Square has just ended with a bang. The 2-day cosplay event (5th and 6th July) was one of the major cosplay events in Singapore. I attended Day 2 of the great event and was very impressed by the great turnout of the cosplayers, the audience and the Papparazzi (photographers).
One of the most impressive cosplays was Clive’s Gundam Exia (GN-001).

I was lonely.

Don’t hide behind my back.

I sure win one.

Babes attract to me.

I’m kewl.
The behind-the-scences insight from The FØØL’s Progress will give you the details and sweat of constructing and assembling …read more

The popular anime and manga, Case Closed or Detective Conan, is coming to Wii this September. You can follow the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, young-chap-turned-kid-detective in this Wii game. The story starts out as Conan is having fun in the all new Mirapolis theme park but a series of crimes will send Conan into a series of investigations instead.
In September 2008, Detective Conan fans and young detectives all over the world will enjoy “CASE CLOSED – The Mirapolis investigation” on the Nintendo Wii! This adventure game will thrill kids: visit crime scenes, solve enigmas, find clues, collect evidence, play super …read more

A new Singapore startup, Comiqs, has just came up with an online application that let you turn your photos into comic-panel-styled flash widget that can be embedded anywhere in your online properties. Simply, this application let you choose your photos, make it into a comic panel, with speech bubbles and lame captions attached. I’ve tested the application last night at an event and I gave this tool a two thumbs up. It works with your Flickr account (soon with Facebook).
About Comiqs
Comiqs is a service that lets our users create and share their comic-style stories with the community. We aim to …read more

We are not the PowerPuff Girls.
MMORPGs just keep churning out from different developers just like hamburgers dishing out from McDonald’s at insane speed. Another fantasy-based adventure online game, Grand Chase (not a new game but new in Singapore), has just got into Open Beta. The game’s target audience is young teenagers or tweens or adults who have not grown up.
Grand Chase is a Free-To-Play 3D-rendered fantasy adventure online game. Featuring anime-inspired characters set against a colorful, medieval backdrop, Grand Chase puts players in the role of Bermesiah elite troopers on the mission to chase KazeAaze, the Queen of Darkness.
There are …read more

The Jap are crazy (to the level of “Otakuness”) over anime and robots but using work hours to edit Wikipedia on Gundam doesn’t garner much approval.
Japan’s Agriculture Ministry reprimanded six bureaucrats after an internal probe found they spent work hours contributing to Wikipedia on topics unrelated to farm issues — including 260 entries about cartoon robots.
“The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam,” said ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura.
Maybe they should use a proxy via Yahoo! News

In Japan, voice acting or seiyu (声优）work is big business. Many voice actors and actresses are regarded as shining idols in Japan. Houko Kuwashima, capable of doing voice acting for young boys, old men to kawaii girls and feminine women, is the voice role for Kasumi, again, in Dead or Alive Online (A DOA online game by Tecmo Japan and Shanda China). And yap, her singing is nice too. Check out her number in anime, Gundam Seed Destiny, below.

Pretty & Brainy 桑島 法子 via DOA Online

The twisted tale begins when a 9-year old Singapore kid has to cough up SGD$5000 to pay for illegal anime downloading…

Singapore anime otakus fight back, start a Black Ribbon campaign and organize an “Odex Anime Holocaust” on 25th August, 5pm @ Youth Park, Singapore.

THERE WILL BE A COLLECTION OF ODEX CD’S AT THE YOUTH PARK FOR DESTRUCTION ON AUGUST 25TH, 2007 AT THE YOUTH PARK OPPOSITE ORCHARD CINELEISURE! PLEASE BRING ALONG YOUR ODEX BOX CASES TO TRADE THEM IN FOR A BLACK RIBBON. THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT 5:00PM (1700 HRS). YOUTUBERS FEEL FREE TO VISIT, ALL ARE WELCOME. …read more

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