A short one minute clip of Nana Mizuki performing live at Animelo 2009 popped up online. It looks like some type of promotional video. I'll let you know when I find out more information. Don't forget, we're still waiting for approval to publish our pictures of Animelo and we have a lot of Nana!

Video included inside.

Just as a heads up, we took thousands of photos of Animelo and we have sent some of them off for approval from the artists' respective companies. We'll have them uploaded as soon as we get them back. We'll have our official coverage report as well as survival guide soon!

Wow, it's been quite a while since my last post and will probably be my last here in Tokyo. A lot has happened after August 17. The staff took a break and headed off to Kyoto and Osaka on the bullet train for a break. We ended up in 2 Madarake stores in Osaka, as well as visited their Super Potato, and Volks' store there. Came back to Tokyo on the 20th and went to see Tokyo Tower as well as the Odaiba Gundam. The 22nd was the first day of Animelo, and it was simply amazing. When the lights first dimmed, a sea of glowsticks lite up the stadium in harmony. It is definitely something you must see at least once in your life. We took over a thousand photos from Animelo as well as a photoshoot session with May'n (Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier), and Miyano Mamoru (most recently Setsuna from Gundam 00). We also had an interview with them which we will have up later, and maybe a few surprises and treats for you readers out there. :p
Again, another short post and we know many of your are anxious to read our full reports, articles, and of course photos to all the events and places we went to this summer.  

I apologizing for not updating sooner, the staff was completely exhausted after day 3 of Comiket, and then immediately training for over an hour to Chofu in Tokyo for a press event. Essentially, Dwango, the parent company of Japan's largest video site, Nico Nico Douga, invited roughly close to about 100 of their premium members to a Billy Herrington event.
Goodsmile Company was also there to announce a few new Figmas of Billy. We'll have the full coverage report later with plenty of photos as well as some video we recorded of the event. We actually got lost a few times before finally finding the place by turning on the data roaming option on my phone and downloading a map.

As for Comiket itself, day 3 the entire staff split up and met back in the afternoon. Surprisingly, we got the chance to meet with artist Inu, who is probably best known for creating the original doujinshi, Hatsu Inu. Inu-sensei was very pleased to know that he had fans in America and thanked everyone who enjoy his works. Look forward to a future interview by us with Inu-sensei coming soon!

Today was a resting day, as half the staff woke up past 12PM. We dropped by Akihabara for a quick visit to see some of the stuff we may have missed at Comiket. To our surprise, the streets were packed with people carrying bags we saw at Comiket. Stores that sell doujins were fully packed with people pushing and bumping into each other just like at Comiket. There was even a line to gain entrance into the doujin floors of the anime store Toranoana complete with a person carrying a sign for the end of the line, again just like Comiket. We also went back to visit the floors we missed at the 2nd hand anime store, Mandarake, and surprisingly I finally found the item I spent a week so far looking for in Tokyo. Lets just say I am finished with my purchases and am not looking forward to figuring out how to pack everything back.