Life Size Hatsune Miku Statue at Sapporo Snow Festival

There will be a special guest at this years Sapporo Snow Festival, in Hokkaido, which will be a life size statue of vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku. The statue will be on display at the festival between the 6th to the 12th February.

Hatsune Miku will also have a line of Snow Miku goods produced that will only be available at the festival. These will be co-created with the Hello Kitty company Sanrio. This will include two plush dolls and a limited run of 3,000 Nendoroid Snow Miku Fluffy Coat Ver. figures.

Another collaboration with this event is a special railway service called Yuki Miku Densha (which translates as 'Snow Miku Train') which will be running between 19th December and 30th March. This is completed by Hokkaido Prefecture Sapporo City, who also redesigned the trains last year with Hatsune Miku.

Playstation Exclusive Characters Announced for Street Fighter x Tekken

Capcom have released a short trailer showcasing their upcoming title Street Fighter x Tekken which shows off the Playstation exclusive fighters that will be available. These include Pacman (who fights on top of Tekken's Tetsujin's body), Mega Man, Cole from PS3 title Infamous, and the Japanese Playstation mascots Kuro and Toro.



Street Fighter x Tekken will be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 on 9th March in Europe. It will also be released on 6th March in North America, and 8th March in Japan. Playstation Vita will also be getting the game, but the date for this has not been set yet.

New Black Rock Shooter Anime to be streamed Worldwide

 

The Japanese Anime streaming site Nico Nico Channel have recently announced they will be streaming the television series of Black Rock Shooter from 3rd February. They have also announced the series will be streamed with subtitles in 8 different languages so that foreign fans can now enjoy the anime. The series itself will be first shown on Fuji TV on 2nd February.

The anime will be released in foreign languages every Friday evening at 11pm. The languages it will be streamed in are English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. None of these subtitles will be available inside Japan.

The Black Rock Shooter franchise started as an OVA, and has since grown to include figures, computer games, and a four-panel manga called Black Rock-chan and another called Black Rock Shooter ~Innocent Soul~.

The franchise appears to be one of the most popular new releases of last year, and i personally cannot wait for this series to be released in English.

The official website for the anime can be viewed here.

UK Anime Release - 30th January to 5th February

It's that time of the week again to have a look at the upcoming Anime releases for the next week.

There are only 2 releases this week, but both are full series anime releases, so if you do intend to pick these up you will have quite a lot of Anime to get through.

Monday 30th January
Samurai Girls - Complete Collection
Nabari no Ou - Complete Collection

There are also a two Manga releases this week, which is the first time in a while that i have seen any scheduled release dates for them, so thought i would share it too

Tuesday 31st January
Negima! - Volume 33

Friday 3rd February
Highschool of the Dead - Volume 5

Updated Blog Design

Just a quick post to update you all, as i am assuming you may have already seen the graphical overhall of my blog.

It has taken me quite a while to try to get to grips with GIMP, the Open Source equivilant of Photoshop, and as of writing this i still haven't perfected the background images etc so have decided to have a play with the template tools of Blogger. The design is quite different from what i am trying to work on at the moment, but it looks cool enough to stay until i finally perfect my photo editing skills.

What do you think of the update?