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Ultimately Cute Beach Queen Azusa Nakano Figure by Wave

Ichiro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:22:59 +0000

Lonely otakus who normally spend their summers alone must reconsider booking hotels and reservation at the beach, as Azu-nyan will come with us 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.

The figure also comes with two facial expressions and cat ears.

See any cleavages? Flat chest goodness it is…

Pre-orders are available for international buyers.

Saint Young Men Russ-K Commercial – MAD

Ichiro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:24:16 +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 some our favorite characters.

Jesus with those moves and eccentric charisma, it is no wonder that schoolgirls find an uncanny resemblance of Him to Johnny Depp…

The original Version:

More Killer moves from other characters:

Learn Japanese with Rikaikun – Chrome Extension

Ichiro — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:09:10 +0000

Anime-goers and Japanese enthusiasts that are learning Japanese should not miss this great extension for Google Chrome. Rikaikun, a dictionary extension for Google Chrome which is a conversion/counterpart from the popular FireFox extension Rikaichan. Similar to Rikaichan’s functions, when enabled hovering the mouse on Japanese text would pop out a tooltip which has the translation and hiragana pronunciation of the text. By hitting the shift/enter button, more information of the Kanji will be presented.

More details about Rikaikun on the developer’s website, and you can read more about Rikaichan here.

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.

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.

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…

Vocaloid – Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai – MAD

Ichiro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:10 +0000

Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai’s OP is here edited skillfully to make a wonderful Vocaloid MAD. The music video features all the vocaloid characters, including new comer Megurine Luka.

The video shows skillfull editing and animation skills, though most are traced it still is a difficult task to do.

Watch in HD!

It could have been better if the vocaloid software were also used, since it’s the essence of it…

Here is a comparison video of the original version and the MAD.

Tsumugi Hair Makeovers

Ichiro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:16:37 +0000

K-On’s pickle eyebrowed princess, Tsumugi, is here displaying sorts of amusing hair styles for us to view.

But it seems that the eyebrows are spared from the works…

via SanCon

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.

【ニコニコ動画】けいおん！ビバップ

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.

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!

Ichiro-Style’s 100th Post Milestone!

Ichiro — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:06:56 +0000

Finally, Ichiro-Style has achieved its 100th post milestone. Since its inception from February, Ichiro-Style went through all the troubles from building a web page and setting up a server. There was one instance where the worst case scenario has transpired, the website got deleted without having back-ups and had almost zero chance of recovery (it’s a good thing that google is our friend), but this did not seem to stop Ichiro-Style, it even made us grow and improve (as you can see from the recent change from the theme). But all this hardships didn’t come to fruition without our beloved readers and friends (Special mention to Sankaku Complex and its constituents.) that linked us here.

I suppose I should take this also as an opportunity to bring back our previous articles that seemed to be special. Some of these are my personal favorites, and some are the most frequently visited posts. To start it off, I’ll give you the top 10 of the posts.

10. Motto☆Hade ni ne!

This one is my very first post, which is why I consider it as special. It is about the complete version of the opening song from Kannagi (which is my favorite anime at that time, which also explains why the characters are in the banner). I was all about Kannagi at that time, and I didn’t seem to mind if I ever made all my articles about that anime.
You can see how short the article was since I was not good at it. At that time, I have always found words to be quite shy to me that they hide and I could not write them in my posts.

9. Musuhi No Toki

This is my second post, it’s is again about Kannagi. I could not think of a new post so that is why it ended up with this. But it seems that I always get back at it and listen to the song that contributed to the birth of this website.

8. Nagi-Sama Cosplay

Now it is all about Nagi, she is my anime goddess and inspiration. This post caters an extremely well made cosplay rendition of Nagi.

7. Let’s Go! Omnyouji – Old News On New Site!

This one is one of my personal favorites, the Omnyouji MAD that almost made me crazy listening to it. You just have to find out yourself why by reading the post. You could also check out the lyrics in Kana and Romaji so you can sing along.

6. Perfume – Seventh Heaven

This MAD seems to be one of my favorite, because the animation is spectacular and quite fitting to the music and the mood. This is also one of the animations that made me work on my animation studies at that time.

5. Hatsune Miku – World is Mine and The Greatest Princess in the World

This is one of the best Hatsune Miku songs I have ever listened to, and this post is also one of the most viewed and frequently visited from this site.
This song also comes with a Kawashima Ami version which is also very good. In my opinion, it really beats the Hatsune Miku version as this one is more natural to hear and just quite skillfully made.

4. Violin Meltdown

Another one from my favorite MAD collection is the Violin Meltdown. This video seems to be popular until now, that is why this post continuous to be one of the most visited posts too. Thanks to YouTube, that every time someone watches the video I uploaded, they click the link written at the video description that links back here.

3. Ichiro’s Style in Colors

This post is about my mediocre digital coloring skills helping a friend of mine online with his line art. Not much about it, but it seems special for me.

2. Ichiro’s Epic Fail (;_;)

As mentioned in the introduction, this post talks about the recent Failure of Ichiro (which is me) who did not back up his website and also ending up deleting it together with the whole database with the posts and website settings in it.

1. Philippines bans Sankaku Complex, Cause: Not enough Philippine related articles

Save the best for the last, as some of us might say. This post is my most favorite and also is the most viewed in Ichiro-Style. This article is an April fools that really got everyone fall for it. And I also felt this is one of my best written articles as I really have difficulty with words at that time.
Well since I’ve spoiled it already, you could still read it and look at the comments to find out some of those who fell for it.

And now to sum up this post. I hereby thank all of the readers/visitors specially those who regularly come here and of course Sankaku Complex and company, the bloggers who link here and Nagi-sama who is the one that gave birth to this site.
Lastly, feel free to give suggestions via the comments or you can contact me in the Sankaku Complex IRC Channel where I frequent upon. And also, if you have some extra “peanuts”, you could donate it via the donation cat-box on the right side of the page.