Hey guys, looking for a distraction for like ten to thirty minutes? This will do pretty well. It’s a program that mashes together pokemon characters into cute or creepy new characters! Take your favorites and mash em together! Here’s my charmander and squirtle mash-up, the technical term for this character is a Squirtmander! AWWWWWWW! var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname="This is fun, you should try it:"; a2a_co...

Photo from LA Weekly Blog This past weekend was the Power Morphicon, the fan convention for Power Ranger enthusiasts…be they fans of the original series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers or any of the numerous spinoff series that are still actually on television. Growing up, I was ADDICTED to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, watching it every single day and tirelessly wanting more. Yeah, I was obsessed. The show, which was originally based on a Jap...

This is an interesting manga comic that is in the middle of being translated at the moment. It’s astro boy teaching the ‘legend’ of John Lennon. It’s funny how his life is being told is such a fantastical way, but  it’s interesting nontheless. Here are a few example pages: Check out the rest here! a2a_config.linkname="Astro Boy John Lennon Manga"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://kawaiikakkoiisugoi.com/?p=4124"; a2a....

Wow. Just wow. Yoshifumi Takashe, a 30-year old guy living with his mother in Kasai, Hyogo prefecture, burned down the house they shared after his mom threw out some boxes of Gundam robot action figures. Takashe is quoted in this article as saying, “The Gundam figures are like the partners I spend my life with,” he reportedly said after pleading guilty at western Kobe’s District Court. “I wanted to die with them in a fi...

This is an odd magazine cover, that’s for sure. American pop starlet (ex-diva?) Britney Spears is on the cover of the Japanese Pop Magazine, dressed as a bride in an anime costume. She teamed up with photographer Takashi Murakami, who this article calls “The Japanese Andy Warhol”. The result is a vibrantly colored photo adorning the front cover of the upcoming issue of the mag. I’m not sure why I decided to post about thi...

Photo from LA Times While the Anime industry is definitely a global phenomenon, you may be as surprised to read the following article as I was when I first read it. Apparently, The problems plaguing the industry are numerous. Seeking lower costs, production companies for decades have been outsourcing the work to animation companies in South Korea, India, Vietnam and elsewhere, where scores of trade schools have cropped up and artists can be hired...

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Duel Jewel, one of the great pioneers of visual kei in America, best known for “Hanauta” one of the songs from One Piece anime, are back n hitting us with TWO mini-albums in the same year!! WILL, their last mini-album, came out on 3/17/2010. We are now informed by a sleek, revamped http://www.DuelJewel.jp that we should expect the second mini-album of the year to come flying at us on 09/22/2010. It will be entitled ZERO and it is unc...

Hello Everyone, At Tune in Tokyo, we are firm believers in the importance of visual branding for club events. We are fortunate to have worked with great artists to create the look for our flyers, mascots, and campaigns, and demonstrate that our events are both a destination for Japanese music, and fashion. We wanted to take an opportunity to tell you a little more about Tune in Tokyo artist Jettila Lewis, and perhaps provide a little inspirati...

Art Project of the Day: Gotta put ‘em all out of their misery: “Ugly Pokémon” sculptures, created by DeviantARTist EatToast for Otakon 2010, which took place last weekend. A few of the figurines are available for purchase via eBay. a2a_config.linkname="Sweet DeviantArt Pokemon Figurines!"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://kawaiikakkoiisugoi.com/?p=3657"; a2a.init("page");

photo found at Comics Alliance I posted about this way back a while ago, but more information just came out regarding four special anime series that will be premiering on G4 in 2011. Madhouse, the animation studio behind this coolness, is working on four separate anime series chronicling the tales of Wolverine, Iron Man, Blade and the X-Men. While clips and extensive previews of the series are not really available yet, there is a trailer for the ...

The World Cosplay Summit took place this weekend in Nagoya, Japan, and Italy emerged victorious. By that, I mean the grand prize winners were Luca Buzzi and Giancarlo di Pierro, who dressed up as Link and Ganondorf of the Legend of Zelda games. According to this recap from Anime News Network, the Italians beat out representatives from 15 countries and did so in front of about 15,000 summit attendees. That’s a lot of costumes. The article a...

The lines between J-Pop and K-Pop are increasingly being blurred. It’s no coincidence that the Tune in Tokyo sound is an amalgamation of Gobal Pop with an Asian flavor–we love to spin whatever is catchy and progressive, and any of our attendees will know that we love dance music from both Japan and Korea. Tune in Tokyo was founded as a J-Pop and J-Rock club event, and since our beginnings in earnest, our sound has expanded to reflect ...

Just the other day I remember my friend posting a blog of someone making fun of bad cosplayers, by comparing them to really Really good cosplays. Unfortunately I can’t find that link… But today while doing random google searches for Japanese news I came across this… Asahi Shimbun I found this particularly interesting as in the blog making fun of bad cosplayers…. they were all non-asian.. and all the good cosplayers were as...

Greetings from Tune in Tokyo! We’re back with additional updates on Japanese music and pop culture events in Los Angeles! First up, Anime Jungle & The Cure Shop welcomes a very special guest to Little Tokyo for Nisei Week! On August 14th and 15th, Anime Jungle welcomes legendary Japanese actor Daisuke Ban, the original Kikaida, for a special appearance and autograph signing in conjuncture with the Nisei Week parade. Come out to see this...