School Days

June 28, 2007 at 8:13 am | In Anime, Bishoujo | 2 Comments

This summer promises to be one of the best yet. Some lovley figures to be released as well as the 4th Naruto motion picture in August. What has got me excited a fair amount is the large amount of new anime starting between next week and September. Probably my most anticipated anime of this season is School Days. The anime is based off of an Eroge of the same name. Story wise, the anime seems pretty average. High School student, Makoto Itou has a crush on a girl in his year named Kotonoha. Although they are in the same year, she has never noticed him before. Another girl named Sekai decides to help him get closer to Kotonoha even though she has strong feelings for Makoto and off starts a love triangle. As i said, sounds pretty average but what made the game famous is its 21 different endings, many of them being extremely violent, ranging from one of the girls getting jealous and killing Makoto or Makoto’s new found partner or one of the girls committing suicide via jumping off the school roof.

Its a love story with a twist to say the least and I’m interested to see how TNK will handle this anime. The character designs are really nice and the animation looks great. This is one anime that i will definatley be watching weekly during the summer. More info on School Days can be viewed on the Official Web Page

Image Recognition Technology on Japanese Cell Phones

June 28, 2007 at 5:41 am | In Japan, Technology | 2 Comments

I have always wondered if this would happen. Image recognition on Cell Phones. Maybe it has already been introduced but as far as I’m concerned it hasn’t ( I don’t pay attention to mobile technology, a phone is a phone to me). Japanese company J-magic has come up with a nifty little online service named Kaocheki, enables one to send digital photo’s of themselves to the service, and find out what celebrities the resemble most. Odd service isn’t it? But i guess its enertainment in the end isn’t it.

Takuya Miyata, the founder of J-Magic Inc. shows off the new Kaocheki service. According the to the service, he looks most like the Japanese comedian, Junji Takada.

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