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If this is how the prototypes look…

This is a follow-up to our previous article on Volk’s Nanoha figure line. Only prototypes of Nanoha and mysterious fanmade character Hayate are shown in their full colourless glory, with Fate left out of the picture for now. I can only assume they are saving the best for the last. 

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After some consideration, we’ve decided to spend some money to remove the vowels and suggestive letters from our old link to make it sound nice and sweet. So to our readers out there, we’ve changed our domain name to NK-DS.ORG. So please update your bookmark and RSS feeds!

So what about the old domain? Well~ It’s just going to rot there and act as a redirect till the day it expires… Σ┗（｀ﾟ△ﾟ´川）┛

Long story short, the seiyuu cast has been announced for this anime adaptation of this figure line. Found the list in a scan of the January issue of Hobby Japan.

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On day one of AFA 08, Kunio Okawara, legendary mecha designer, gave a short talk and panel session. For those who are unfamiliar with him, he is the man behind many designs in the Gundam metaseries, including the second season of Gundam 00, which is currently airing. He has also worked on shows such as GaoGaiGar, Gravion and Votoms.

The man and his creation.

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Here’s a brief summary of the press preview a day before the public opening of AFA 2008.

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In the spirit of Christmas…

Some NKDS readers might already have known about the 2D vs 3D loli abuse issue from sources such as ANN or Sankaku Complex, but the premise around which this conference was based upon tickled my imagination to a certain extent…enough for me to spend some time thinking and writing about it. Thus, it is with great joy that I present the 3rd article to join our Discussions category; an essay that discusses the myriad differences between the 2D loli, and the 3D child.

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This is just out today but a new season of precure called “Fresh Pretty Cure” will out next Spring.
You can view the news on either TV Asahi or Toei.

Better known as the Annual Seiyuu Awards in Japan, for the third iteration, fans outside of Japan can now vote for their favourite Japanese voice actors as well! I suppose this in recognition of the fact that with anime going global faster than expected and seiyuu being a very important of a show, it’s a good gauge of how big which one seiyuu is popular amongst us. This will be very interesting see who comes out on top.

KUGYUU-SAMA NO TAMENII!

Voting begins on the 29th of this month at http://www.seiyuawards.jp/eng/

Source: ANN and Seiyuu3

It had been a long weekend and the climax of Anime Festival Asia 2008 was finally here. It was time for May’n to come on stage to perform. Ever since the news was confirmed at the press conference, we had all been eagerly anticipating her first live performance overseas. For me, it would not be my first time seeing her perform live. I had seen her at Animelo earlier this year, alongside industry greats like JAM Project, Momoi Haruko, Aki Misato and Yui Horie amongst others, on day two of the event.

Please note that this post will not contain any pictures of the artiste due to the restriction on photos of her during the performance. We choose to respect the wishes of both the artiste’s management and organisers with regards to this issue. Lucky us! The organisers have sent us some photos of May’n we can use! Who needs a telephoto lens when you got a photog right in front!

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We were requested to post some new information on Nandemoya, so here goes.

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