Ichiro-Style! » Anime

Ultimately Cute Beach Queen Azusa Nakano Figure by Wave

Ichiro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:49 +0000

Lonely otakus who normally spend their summers alone must reconsider booking hotels and reservation at the beach, as Azu-nyan will come in ultimately-moe-beach-attire this coming may 2010.

The PVC Figure is a 1/10 scale of the loli Azusa Nakano of the moe blob anime, K-On! The figure would be approximately 160mm tall and would cost at around 3,800 yen to be released by Wave this May 2010.

See any cleavages? Flat chest goodness indeed…

The Figure also comes with another set of facial expression and nekomimi.

International pre-orders are now available.

Saint Young Men Russ-K Commercial – MAD

Ichiro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:00:49 +0000

Vacationing holy men manga “Saint Young Men” features Jesus, Buddha and friends in their own divinely intervened MAD based from a typical boy-band-fashioned commercial of Russ-K. The popular male-group “NEWS” (North East West South) is the original performer of the said CM. Exhibiting their killer moves in the short video, MAD artists could not resist not making their own versions and enlighten us with our favorite characters.

Click here to view the embedded video.

With Jesus having those kind of moves and eccentric charisma, it seems no wonder why school girls find an uncanny resemblance of him to Johnny Depp…

The original version:

Click here to view the embedded video.

More K-Russ MADs

Click here to view the embedded video.

And of course, the Touhou girls would now want to get left out…

Miku Miku Dance – 3D Dance Software

Ichiro — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:17:50 +0000

Have you ever wanted to make those videos you see on Youtube and NicoNicoDouga about dancing 3D Vocaloids, Touhou, Utau, Idolm@sters and many more? I introduce to you MikuMikuDance, it is a software that enables you to import 3D model files in PMD format and lets you control movements and and camera sequences easy and simple. You can also lip-sync the characters to any song that you use for your video manually or by using the VSQ file from the Vocaloid software.

For those who would like to test out this great software, you need to download the software first. Links are provided on the end of the article.

Using the software is easy, but of course at first everything looks very confusing, but after an hour or more of fiddling with the program, you would be able to familiarize all the tools in the program.

A comprehensive video tutorial on the usage is embedded below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Get the Main Software here (English, Japanese).

You can find most Motion Files, Models and Accessories here.

MikuMikuDance Hakurei Reimu [GO MY WAY] – First Test

Ichiro — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:42:21 +0000

My first test of MikuMikuDance with Hakurei Reimu model and static JPEG Background. No dynamic camera angles, no lighting effects, just plain model and motion test for future productions. The background of the video is only a picture I took from my desk, I just estimated the angle for the 3d video.

It seems that it’s not that hard to use MikuMikuDance, the only problem is that it takes a lot of time to do a single pose for every second. But thanks to tweening, most of the frames have calculated measurements of the position of the pose. So for example you raise the arm up from frame 1, and you raise down the arm in frame 10, what would happen is that the program would calculate a movement between frame 1 to 10 so that you would not manually set every pose on every frame.

One of my first few issues with this is that there are no other codecs and compressors installed for saving the Video, when I first saved the AVI file, the two minutes of the video is worth 768 megabytes! So I had to compress it first before uploading to Youtube since my upload speed is slow. Before that, I had to mux the mp3 file with Virtual Dub so that it would have music.

But anyway, just watch the test video below and enjoy…

Click here to view the embedded video.

K-on! Bebop MAD

Ichiro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:24:37 +0000

This amusing K-On! MAD is hitting the charts from Nico Nico Douga. The video is a cross over of K-On characters to the opening music video of classic space anime Cowboy Bebop title “Tank”.

The MAD is very well done and carefully arranged that describing it seems difficult, you just have to watch the video…

Below is the original opening music video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Yoko’s Single, S.t.a.r.S – Kirameki Yoko – Pieces of Sweet Stars

Ichiro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:40 +0000

Oppai moe idol Yoko of Gurren Lagann plus seiyuu Marina Inoue causes a stir in the anime market after the recent release of their first single “S.t.a.r.S” with the debut song “Kirameki Yoko – Peices of Sweet Stars“.

The music video contains many alluring scenes such as oppai shots and pantsu, and a variety of interesting costumes that you must not miss.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The boxset not only contains the CD, but also plenty of new art works as a form of both packaging and illustrated fanbook.

The boxset is available now!

Eden of the East Movies Confirmed

Ichiro — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:33:31 +0000

Johnny abuser anime Higashi no Eden (Eden of the East) of Production IG will delight us with a silver screen adaptation of the anime, but not only with just one, but two separate movies!

The first Johnny anime is confirmed to screen on November 28 titled “Higashi no Eden I: The King of Eden”. And the second movie “Higashi no Eden II: Paradise Lost” will be shown in January of next year (2010).

Via Higashi no Eden Blog.

Fans of the anime might not want to miss this, but there are still no reports in regards to international viewing. We might have to wait for DVD or BD release, but doubtless it would take a while.

K-On! Vocaloid Cosplay

Ichiro — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:46:40 +0000

Moe blob K-On’s death metal godess Sawako sensei seems to be enjoying her time by making the cast wear Vocaloid costumes.

From the looks of it, the cast seem to fit in their assigned costumes.

Here we see the Hirasawa sisters as the Kagamine twins which look very appropriate in their costumes, also here is Ritsu which fits very well to cosplay as Meiko, we also have Mugi-chan as Megurine Luka which just brings out the moe. Mio is here too as Gakupo, but she’s at the corner and shy as usual, then also Azusa, who’s going to be dressed as Miku but is being resistant, then the last is Nodoka as kaito

It’s all thanks to Tam2 for this wonderfull work, you can view their group site here.

Konataism Epic Haruhi OP parody

Ichiro — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:11:12 +0000

Cast of Konataism anime Lucky Star has been made to screen in a Haruhi OP MAD. The fan made OP MAD sure made a stir in the Nico Nico Charts.

It is no doubt that there is a fine display of dedication and effort to finish the MAD wonderfully and look professional. Without further delay, please watch the video below.

A comparison video is made to show you below.

Tsumugi’s Pickled Daikon

Ichiro — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:35:25 +0000

It seems that Mugi-chan is having a make over by shaving off her pickled daikon (the eyebrows).

Would it be good if Tsumugi keeps her thick eye brows, or to shave it thin?

You can view more of the works of the same artist, Nounanka from this pixiv profile