Hatsune Miku Google Chrome Theme "Tell Your World" Full Version finally released!!

Hatsune Miku made my heart by this song...

I have something to deliver you....(Kimi ni todoketaimonoga....)

A full length Music Video of The famous tune from Google Chrome commercial, which has on aired nationwide in Japan, has finally, finally been released just one day before the release of Livetune's new album "Tell Your World EP".

This video is a collaborative work of several top creators. See the colorful tone, sharp move, dreamy effect, we can't expect more from this video. The good news is the first limited edition of "Tell Your World EP" is packed with DVD of music videos in the album.

Began from the New Year Holiday's Google Commercial to NHK's special program to various TV programs, Miku suddenly starts growing beyond the small online world of Youtube and Otaku community to mainstream. Maybe or most probably we can see her the Japanese version of Grammy award at this year end?? But before that, what about London Olympic??? YAY.
(source: Natalie)

Tracklist

1.	[CD] Tell Your World	[Disc 1] TELL YOUR WORLD
2.	[CD] Far Away	[Disc 1] FAR AWAY
3.	[CD] Star Story	[Disc 1] STAR STORY
4.	[CD] Half Step	[Disc 1] HALF STEP
5.	[CD] Fly Out	[Disc 1] FLY OUT
6.	[CD] ジュビリー	[Disc 1] JUBILEE
7.	[CD] Tell Your World (Panda BoY Remix)	[Disc 1] TELL YOUR WORLD
8.	[CD] Tell Your World (open the scenery rmx by fu_mou)	[Disc 1] TELL YOUR WORLD
9.	[DVD] Tell Your World -Music Clip-	[Disc 2] TELL YOUR WORLD
10.	[DVD] Tell Your World -Trailer movie-	[Disc 2] TELL YOUR WORLD

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M.A.G. - Miko Action Game for Smartphones

"巫女 Miko" is a Japanese word describe a woman who can communucate with the spirit world of Gods, but in modern days, this word almost always means a woman who work at Shinto shirine, for example those girls who wear stunningly clean and beautiful traditional clothes, sit at the counter of shirine's office as a receptionist, sometimes help visiters buy goods. Exactly the girls you see in the blow picture.

Girls work at a shrine's store selling religious goods on New Years Eve

Not to mention, Miko is a famous object for Otaku's craving, because overlapping of sacred elements and esthetics of Japanese traditional attire stirs up something in their minds. Yes, you can guess it's a kind of forbidden adore.

"M.A.G", the title of this exciting simple scroll action shooting game, is an abbreviation of Miko Action Game.

M.A.G. for iOS

M.A.G. for Android

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Toaru Majutsu no Index Alarm App for iPhone

Cute Amine Girls games, or Moege are all about (virtual) interaction with Anime girls. Whether it's a high school drama style sweet story or SF style or an ancient saga in which usually players embark on a mission to defeat an evil empire like Final Fantasy in it's early days, what we (or I..) expect is how well the game satisfy or provoke something sexual in us with whatever stories...

But, of course not all Anime fans have sexually quirks. Just like putting intricate figure dolls on your desk shelf, you just want having fun talking to, cooking with the girls, or maybe you want them to wake you up in a dull morning...

This is again an alarm-clock app of a character from a famous anime called 'Toaru Majutsu no Index (A Forbidden Tome of A Certain Magic or A Certain Magical Index)'.

As you don't wake up and keep the girl from having breakfast (because she has to wake you up, you know she is so loyal), she is getting hungry and angry. For some reason she describe how she is hungry in numbers, like "I'm 22.5 % hungry!!". This number indicates how long you took to wake up after the alarm. Somehow her reaction may tempt you to try to leave her until she gets 100% hungry...

This app is priced at 600yen(apprx $7.5), which is a bit expensive or a right price (it also has a voice library and stock wallpapers)? How do you think?

*I could't confirm this app is available in U.S. iTunes.

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A Photographer - Mount Fuji 1

Spring Lakeside

In past several years, more than 300 thousands people climbed Mount Fuji per year. There may be various reasons for this sudden Fuji boom, but the most notable one is that Moust Fuji got listed on Japan's tentative list for World Heritage Sites. What caught my attention is it's not listed as a 'natural heritage' but as a 'cultural heritage'. As Natume Soseki once wrote with a little irony "(Fuji ha)wareware ga koshiraetamonzyanai. - Fuji is not something we created.", we want to ask a simple question why the object which was not created by human being is listed as cultural heritage. To understand it, we should take a little time to learn and re-discover the long history of Mountain faith and culture of Fuji.

Since this is a broad topic, I write several posts on different topics of Mountain faith and culture of Fuji. Make sure to check out articles come later ;)

In this post I introduce you to the photographer who had been obsessed with Fuji for his whole life. His name is Okada Kohyo.

Okada Kohyo

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This photo "Yamanami - Mountain Wave" was exhibited at British Museum in 2006, as an image of Japan

Kohyo - Koh yoh - Red Sunlight

If you look at the first photo and 1000yen note blow, you may find something interesting. It is not known to many of Japanese that the famous illustration of Fuji on Banknotes of Japan is based on the photo taken by Okada Kohyo (1895 ~1972).

Kohyo, who started photographing Fuji while he was a university student had been a contracted photographer for Tokyo metropolitan government. At the request from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he held a number of exhibitions abroad, letting world know the word Fujiyama.

It is said that Kohyo took 380thousands (gasp!) of original photos of Mount Fuji. But among these none could reach the goal set by himself. He boasted, 'None of my pictures are what I can call Masterpiece', and called Mount Fuji 'My Girl'.

Mount Fuji is printed on current 1000 yen notes and previous 5000 yen notes.

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JapatheRock - About This Blog

The rhythm in the title of this blog is taken from the famous character of the legendary film, Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars.

From the 5th grade, I've been a serious fun of the film. It's made it easier for me to start conversation with people from all over the world who I first meet and bond with them.

In this blog, I write a lot about Japan. But for the fact, I don't live in Japan. Honestly speaking, back when I was there, I was desperately looking for the opportunity to get out of Japan and live a totally new life in a totally new world. I didn't like Japan, my mother nation. I used to hate Japan's lack of diversity, Japanese language, Japanese products, Japanese cityscape and landscape, the way Japanese people are. Everything about Japan looked pointless and ugly to me. Once when i was in late teen, I tried to list up all the shortcoming, at least for me, of Japan. About when I reached roughly 40 or 50 shortcomings, I went to a rest room. I was washing my hands, then I looked at a mirror, found I myself was the very Japanese thing. I was so desperate and stopped counting. Looking back, it was totally an adolescent depression that almost people would have. But this has been a sort of a cornerstone of the way I think about my life and defined (or in some case, limited) my life a great deal.

One of the good things about getting old is that you could gradually accept the way myself is. In my case I could gradually take off the blindfold on my eyes and start looking at a bright side of Japan. Coincidentally the gradual change of my attitude toward Japan has come at the time of Japanese economic decline, and moreover Tohoku great earthquake and Tsunami in Mar 2011. So it may be because of a combination of the  process of getting old and compassion for the struggling country. But whatever it may be, it is also true that over the years Japan and Japanese culture has been widely spread around the world and got serious popularity. It dawned on me that when I'd refused to take even a single look at Japan, the world had learned a lot about Japan and discovered there's something special there. I felt I re-discovered Japan through the western media and foreigners who passionately love the country. And I have to admit it's much more feel-so-nice to hear about Japan from non-Japanese than Japanese, simply because those foreigners talk about Japan with considerable passion (not all of them but many of them do). On the top of that, to describe why they are impressed with Japan, they present comparisons between Japan and say America or China or UK or Italy or S.Korea or whatever countries. When I grew up in Japan I was taught things are the way they are because that's the way they are. There's few logical reasonings, which drove me mad. But Japanese things once I thought pointless or stupid are sometimes have some good points in comparison with other cultures, and that cleared my mind.

I'm still not sure what this blog is about, but I think it can be read as a diary about how I'm re-discovering Japan and what does it mean to me as a Japanese expat.

I never try to write something we can generalize, because what's presented here is myself and filtered through my world view extremely. But still I'm really glad if you find it interesting.

P.S if you know some cool stuffs, I hope you will let me know. Funny pictures, interesting websites, cool videos, nice toys or goods, whatever, I will really appreciate you.

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If Moe girl were living in your iPhone... - DreamClub PureClock Amane

Usually when spin-offs of gamesofts for desktop gaming consoles are released for gaming portable devices, it may end up somewhat simplified or downgraded. But sometimes things are the opposite. Sometimes portable games would get more unique and diffuse more into your life.

DreamClub PureClock Amane

This is an iOS version of "Dream Club", a famous game for Xbox360. And this might go deeper in your life than Xbox360 version. Simply because you always carry around iPhone, means you're always with Moe girl  who are always sincerely looking forward you to launching the app, too.

This was originally released as a free app, but with the new update, now we can get the full version for $6.99.

When you unlock the full feature, you can change the girl's cloths, use an alarm function, gift her presents, have more voices and more opportunities to TOUCH her (you can shake her boob by touching..).

This basically is an alarm (or clock) app. When you touch the clock in the top-left, the girl's voice will read the present time. It's fine.

Alarm just works fine, too. When the set time has come, the special voice will announce you a time.

You also can present her gifts, though it cost actual money D:
When you treat her alcohol, she got drunk lol. Maybe you shouldn't think too much. Just enjoy her cute expression ;)

Why don't you buy her cloths if you want to make her like you, or just want to see her in your favorite costumes.
You can also take a photo with her, or select a photo from Cameraroll and add her image over it. You can drag the girl's image with two finger so that nicely fit her into the photo.

The girl in this app is a main character of Xbox version. This is a game which you can virtually experiences the Japanese style cabaret club, top-notch, very expensive club. So you can see so many gorgeous Moe girls are working for this club.

When you haven't use this app for a while, she would call you that she miss you... It's maybe Otaku Dream Come True for some people, but for me it's a bit scary, what if you uninstall this app? I just only could imagine a Ring like horrific scene :(

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Murakami Book Covers

Book cover design illustrating the dream-like feeling of three of Haruki Murakami's works.

Just beautiful. Made of leather or fake leather paper?  I like the thin, subtle layer of pattern on the back of inside covers.

(via christianquiambao)

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Let's play Casino with Moe girls

Hello two dimension!! Oh you don't understand what I mean by two dimension? Basically it means cute girls in Anime or Game, which of course have two dimension body.
Anyway, whether you're a serious Otaku or just want to take a peek at Japanese modern culture or an early adopter who just want to try everything new in the market, this is my best recommendation of anime girls game which has a little eroge (Anime like porno game) flavor with high-quality graphic.

The maker of this app (Override Co.) is really famous for the quality of it's eroge games.

Anime Casino Beauty Dealers

In this game you play poker, blackjack and Indian poker with Moe characters, little cute girls. Not surprisingly the company's already released similar games as a series, and this is a second installment of this Anime Casino Dealers series.
So what the difference from the previous one?
Think about it. When you go to a strip club, though I'm quite unsure you've ever been, perhaps the most enjoyable moment there is when strippers are teasing you by taking off their cloths so too slowly, and you're watching it sipping a beer. Or... imagine there's a girl in revealing cloth in front of you, and you could make her take her cloth off, step by step, by beating her in poker..
This game or many other eroge are capturing those situations into the game screen. What matters is not you can enjoy poker itself but you can enjoy the process of girls getting naked.
The answer of the question is... no, there's no difference, except, tough this is a big exception, that girls are different.

all character has big tits in this game

This game has three characters. Madam Scarlet plays poker, Aoi, the girl in a nurse costume holding an injection needle, plays black jack, and Karen, the girl with bunny ears, plays Indian poker.

The system is just the classic way. As you win you get coins and with those coins you can take cards concealing girls' body off.

Can you see the left, second from the bottom card's price is only $1000, and the below that card is $16,000? These girls are really good at teasing you!!

$25,000!!!

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