Well howdy doo, ladies and gentlemen. Semi-eventful weekend. I joined a gym. Pretty soon I will be ultra buff. That’s the good stuff. Ah, and I spent a chunk of yesterday learning to do dynamic flash tie-in stuff for the SUPER SECRET PROJECT. Yes, I am back to working on it. Largely because I am in a bad mood, so it’s a good distraction. Also, I’ve been watching Black Lagoon and I feel it’s necessary to tell you… Revy gets me rock hard. Just saying. Rollup.

Anime/Manga/Games

• The upcoming OVA Strait Jacket has had its site put online. Looks like it has a gun and a mech. The first disc hits stores on the Wednesday. Also it’s based on a light novel if you care.
• In completely unrelated news, TOKYOPOP has licensed Futari Ecchi. Good on them. Hopefully it’ll get edited for content. Haha. Oh, I kid. If it does, I will be slapping some lips.
• Looks like AX07 is shaping up to have some pretty heavy otaku numbers there. Our brothers in arms from pedolicious, moetron, and Clockwork Machina will be there. Looks like Shingo even tricked Ol’ Pete (sorry, man. Everyone gets a nickname here.) into flying him over to talk about what us hardcore fans like to call “drawn titty porn games.” Sadly, I can’t make it out. Anyone else going? Someone tell Pete to give me a job. I am a sexy genius and he knows he wants this up in his offices. HE KNOWS IT! Please?
• Chibi Maruko-chan is getting turned into yonkoma in the Japanese newspaper The Chunichi Shinbun. Now, I know very few of you have any idea what that it, but behind Sazae-san, it’s been the number two anime in Japan for… like… since ever. FANS REJOICE! I hope it’s good. Yonkoma have a very fine line there. They can be great, but lots of them are just horrible.

Figures

• More Pia Carrot he Youkoso? WELL FUN! This time it’s Kunugi Ayano and she’s meido type. This figure seems really familiar. It doesn’t look too terrible. Out in September for 7,140 yen.
• Orchid Seed is bringing the eroero with this Al Ajif and Another Blood from Demonbane. Just a warning, the main pic on HobbyStock is uncensored. For the full uncensored shots, head to AmiAmi. Not that great looking. Together they will be 9,800 yen this October. A high price for such small ladies.
• Ugh. More throw away Evangelion garbage. It’s a 1/8 scale resin Asuka. It’s uninspired crap in both pink and white. Didn’t look at the pages. Looks like it will cost near on 12,000 yen… I didn’t check. Garbage.
• Looks like Kotobukiya has finally jumped on the Kanon train. To save repeating myself, both carves look ok. Not super, but decent. First up, Ayu is representing with taiyaki. She’s standing 165mm tall and is due out in August for 4,410 yen.
• And for Nayuki fans, there will be a figure for you guys this time! Nayuki is standing 190mm tall and looks… meh. Just meh. Some odd bits to her. She’s also out in August for 4,410 yen.
• And to finish up this fairly uninspired group, we have yet another Asuka from NGE. Her lips are very adult there. She’s some sort of… gosurori/meido thing. Not sure. It says gosurori, so I’ll go with that. I guess sitting on marble steps versus standing near tea is the kicker. She looks pretty ok in the pictures, and Kotobukiya is dropping her this August for 5,040 yen. Oh yeah, 180mm tall.

WOO! Time for… you know… that stuff I am doing after I finish typing this. Hmm, I sort of shut down there for a second. Anyway, I’m working hard on the secret project now, so hopefully we can have something soon. I had to sort of checked out there for a while for data aggregation. Troublesome stuff there. Anyway, Time for maybe a nap or something.