Category — Entertainment

Forget slicing up your dinner plate with these, you can still chow down and show your affiliation with these cool lightsabre chopsticks. Colour choices give you Darth Vader Red, Luke Skywalker Blue, or Yoda Green.

Available in November 09 for around US$10 at Kotobukiya.

Via TokyoMango

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Ahh.. Japanese school girls are endearing! Watch as this winner of a popular Japanese variety tv show, who was flown to the UK to visit the set of the Harry Potter movies, interviews Rupert Grint who plays Ron Weasley.

Via TokyoMango

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Jackie Chan seems to spread his image around a bit.. (we’ll have a forthcoming post with images of “his” dim sum restaurant in Taipei!). For anyone who’d like to see him combat some computer viruses, check out this advert for Kaspersky Labs.

I don’t think the Segway has any relevance but at least it adds a new “dimension” to his skills…

Via Switched.com

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For our readers in the US, we wrote about Asian video content providers DramaFever.com back in January and now they’re about to go live publicly with over 50 Korean Dramas! If you’re in New York City on the 6th August, check out their free launch party – details below.

DramaFever.com has been in testing and design all year long and it’s finally going live in August. DramaFever will be launching with over 50 Korean Dramas, adding Chinese and Japanese dramas later in 2009. All videos are legally licensed, subtitled and streaming in high def. Viewers can watch for free with a handful of overlay ads per episode. In the near future, DramaFever plans to offer an ad-free subscription model.

To celebrate, DramaFever will host a launch party in NYC on Thurs, Aug 6 from 7-9pm at Circle Nightclub. Guests will receive gift bags from sponsors Ito En, Theme Magazine, TimeOutNY magazine, mark. cosmetics, MiN New York, and La Vie Zen Spa. The event is free admission and 21+

There will also be special performances by Asian American artists Magnetic North (hip hop), Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (spoken word artist from HBO Def Poetry) and Taiyo Na (hip hop).

Location: Circle Nightclub, 135 West 41st St, New York, NY
Age 21+

Full details are here:
www.dramafever.com/blog/?p=382

For more artist info:
www.magnetichiphop.com
www.yellowgurl.com
www.taiyona.com

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Cosplay takes the stage at the most important convention for the activity – the World Cosplay Summit. It takes place in Japan every year and is about to happen literally, which means any fans wanting to attend should already be there!

Here’s a clip from the World Cosplay Summit in 2006. Shows some competitors really going for it on stage.

Check the World Cosplay Summit website

Via LostAtEMinor

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We spent a day at the Design Festa in Tokyo last May. It’s an amazing arts event full of lots of independent artists!

We covered alot of the Design Festa over 5 posts on our other blog MangoVine.net, which you can check out via the links below. The event happens every May and November and its worth timing a trip to Tokyo especially for it, if you’re interested in creativity!

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Personal Creativity at its Finest!

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Linh’s Big Hair

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Amazing Variety of Artist Work

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Performers and Entertainment

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Amazing Cardboard City Model

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Ashley Buerkett’s Mario World Board Game is meant to be built yourself, but as a paper city designed as board game, it takes a different angle on the Italian plumber. It comes complete with a plexi-glass container along with full DIY instructions.

See more on Ashley’s website

Via The Awesomer

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Watch this superb and luscious animation created by Ani7ime Studio. It was created by students at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and runs just under 15 minutes.

Called “Brain Water” it tells the story of mental pressure, depicting kids being constantly forced to do their home work by overbearing monsters. They have water for brains that can get heated by tension, and when over-stressed, the kids produce steam that feed the monsters and the city they live in.

Via 88-Bar

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The ChinaJoy Cosplay Carnival illustrates the growth of Cosplay in China. 99.9% of people born after 1990 like comics and animation, which fuel Cosplay, whereas only 21% born in the 1970s like the media.

Read more about the China Cosplay scene on China Daily

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We’ve been covering Tokyo in our other blog MangoVine.net and recently wrote up our trip to Sanrio Puroland – the theme park home for all of Sanrio’s characters. Hello Kitty, Dear Daniel, Melody, Cinnamon etc.

There are 8 posts in total. If you’re a fan of Hello Kitty, you’ll want to check out these original posts – lots of photos and videos! They might inspire your next trip to Japan!

Sanrio Puroland – Hello Kitty & Co for a heavy dose of kawaii

Linh does Sanrio Puroland

Video Snapshot of Sanrio Puroland

Sanrio Puroland Show – Oz – including Video

Sanrio Puroland Attraction – Boat Ride – including Video

Sanrio Puroland Attraction – Hello Kitty Black Wonder – including Video

Sanrio Puroland Show – Cinnamon’s Secret Door – including Video

Sanrio Puroland Show – Believe – including Video

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