Kurogane’s Anime Blog

To make Animeblogger.net even more unique, Maestro is organizing a Mascot Design Competition for everyone to participate. Contest page and details are all here. While yours truly can’t draw or design to save his life, I’m pretty sure a lot of my readers are talented people in this area, so join in and help Animeblogger.net grow even more!

Doing a bit of a favour for dovac of the SOS-dan site.

I’m planning to do a flashmob meet up at Bandai and Kadokawa’s special launch at Anime Jungle on the 29th of May at 7pm. On May 29th at 5pm everyone who’s interested can meet up across the street from AnimeJungle near the Kinokuniya bookstore (pic here) we’ll try to organize something before the launch at 7pm, maybe a impromptu Haruhi dance :P.

More details at the SOS-dan forum thread here. And no, I’m not going to be there considering I’m 5000 miles and a whole ocean away from it >.<

I guess those who have been visiting my blog regularly must’ve noticed a link on the sidebar recently, titled “What is GACC?“. For those who’ve already visited it or know about it, hope to see ya there! As for those who don’t know…

GACC is an event conducted by EMiNA, the anime club of Multimedia University Malacca, and they are quite an active club. GACC, which stands for “Games, Anime & Comics Circle”, is their main event of the year, and it was first held in March last year. Given the “last minute spurt” effort that Malaysians are famous for, the first GACC was a resounding success. Being one of the committee members of the event last year, I must say it was a really fun day.

This year, GACC is being held for two days straight on the weekend of March 17th and 18th, roughly a week from now. EMiNA has set their sights high and for the first time ever, they have managed to invite a seiyuu to their event, Tohru Furuya-san, better known as Amuro Ray from the original Gundam series and also as Tuxedo Mask from the ever popular Sailormoon series. This, incidentally marks the first time a seiyuu has appeared in Malaysia, and this will be a historic event for those in the Malaysian otaku community :D. Tohru Furuya-san is scheduled to be giving a talk, autograph session and he will also be the special judge of the cosplay competition finals on the second and last day of the event.

Of course, there also other events being held too, living to their name of “Games, Anime & Comics Circle”, as not only there will be cosplay competitions, there are also be competitions of PS2 games, Gundam kit building, character designing and also Magic: The Gathering tournaments. Of course there will also be doujinshi booths and anime merchandise booths too. It’s quite possibly the most varied AMG event in Malaysia.

This year, I will also be there for the event as well, and will be covering it for my part-time job. Anyways, to my local readers and interested ones, please do attend the event and make it another success. </shamelessplug>

Event Info:

• Date: 17th and the 18th of March.
• Time: 10am till 6pm.
• Venue: Multimedia University Melaka Campus.
• Scheduled Events:
  • Talk and Autograph Session by Tohru Furuya-san.
  • Cosplay Competition
  • Gundam Kit Competition
  • PS2 Competition
  • Character Design Competition
  • Magic:The Gathering Tournaments
  • Doujinshi booths
  • Anime Merchandise booths

Trojan Targets Winny Users with Anime Pictures
posted on 2007-03-02 23:59 EST

Sophos reports that the trojan Troj/Pirlames-A and its variant Troj/Pirlames-B, are being circulated on the Winny file-sharing network. The trojans pose as screensavers, but when downloaded and executed, they overwrite various files with images from popular anime / Ero-game Kanon.

The images contain statements that warn the viewer to stop using peer-to-peer software like Winny.

Originally publicized on 2ch, Winny is popular with Japanese anime and video-fans, among others. On December 13, 2006, Winny creator Isamu Kaneko was convicted of assisting copyright violations and sentenced to pay a fine of 1.5 million yen. One of the messages refers to Kaneko’s sentence, stating “Even though Kaneko-San was found guilty, you’re still using Winny aren’t you. I really hate such people!”

You know, this virus is really well done. Akiko’s one might as well just make me stop using WinNY.

Source: Anime News Network

After revolutionizing the way image dump sites were handled and introducing the concept of the tagboard, Danbooru is finally dead, no thanks to the semenonfigure, hentai and people with shitty tastes uploading every single damn thing they could find on it.

I still love the concept of danbooru, but too bad it was destroyed by a certain group of people with a lack of common-sense.

Here I implore everyone who has found other tagboards to (ab)use, PLEASE do not ruin them as well. Thank you.

Yeah, I’m back finally from my balik kampung trip for Chinese New Year. I’m proud to declare I’m not an internet addict as I managed to survive 5 days without access, ok minimal access, to the internet. Opera Mini, GMail Mobile and GPRS are great lifenerdsavers.

How was my CNY? I’d say it was an OK trip. I managed to indulge in my annual vice of mahjong, got a nice amount of angpow which will be going to my C2D budget and tasted the real Ipoh “white” coffee (wtf there’s a wikipedia article on it?!!). Of course not forgetting the renewing of family ties, etc. etc.

While I was away, it looks the blogosphere didn’t run out of interesting topics to talk about. Heisei Democracy had an interesting article on dumpster diving animation studios and like Jeff, I’d like to go scrounge around the offices of Kyoto Animation or Megami Magazine when I have the chance.

Meanwhile, tj_han proves himself to be a regular digger with his interesting and undoubtly copypasted article on how nerds/otakus make the perfect partners. Just remember to find the right one for all you nerds out there.

So how was your Chinese New Year, my fellow Chinese readers?

Remember in my Kanon 17 post where I mentioned about a certain Shiori hater? This webcomic shows the reason why. It really happened one day in #animeblogger, about 2 weeks ago, and the exact dialogue is enshirined in the channel already in the form of Guncannon’s WB. Also, I commissioned the comic :).

Impz, the larger-than-his-blogging-persona blogger in IRC now has a fansite dedicated to him! Check out Everyone’s Gay for Impz now!

It’s an open source project so everyone can contribute and if there’s enough contributions, we might even compile this and sell in Comiket!

I’m pretty sure that most people know of RIUVA’s mascot, the ever-GAR tri-penii mango, Tripeman. Following undercover investigations by Agent bj0rn, we finally get to know how useful Tripey is :D!

Put inside spoiler tags to avoid mental scarring.. ▼

:D!

Along with Haruhi’s trailer and the Navelcycle…. more pictures and original source here.

Really shows much the influence of anime and manga have spread in Japan. If I ever decide to get a car(in spite of the rising petrol costs…), I would love put some MILFate and Mizuho decals on them…. but I’ll probably get caught for flouting indecency laws ahaha~…