Reasons after the jump.

To start off, I shall quote a paragraph from an article written by Houkoholic from Seiyuu3.

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Now this may seem strange to some of you, but Japan has a concept of “Portrait Rights” (I seem to recall that some other countries such as Hong Kong has it too, but don’t quote me on that) – I won’t go into details, there’s a much better article about the concept here, but basically it boils down to that you are not allowed to use any pictures of any person without their consent because it is a violation of personal rights as well as property rights, this is one of the reason why if you visit Japanese blogs, especially those similiar to the Akiba blog varity, you would find the webmasters painstakingly mosaic out all the faces on the photos.

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There it is. Portrait Rights is the reason why we are not allowed to take photos of Japanese artistes and post them on the Internet. A violation of personal rights as well as property right… would you like people to take photos of you eating lunch, without  your permission? I suppose not. Whenever a person takes pictures of a Japanese artiste without their permission, he or she is infringing on the personal rights of that artiste. Not the behaviour of what I would call a fan, as I am sure you would agree.

This is the reason why Japanese fans are so “well behaved” at anime events, for lack of a better term. They know and respect the rights of their idol, and they would not want to do anything to hurt the interests of their idol. This is also the reason why the AFA Committee were so strict on the “no photography” policy in the K-On Girls and all concert segments in AFA for the past two years.

“So what can the Japanese do if we ignore their requests? They can’t do anything to us, hahaha.”

Erm, think again.

The artistes’ management might or might not resort to legal actions, but that is hardly the biggest threat. What they CAN do is to pull out of the region completely, and leave South-East Asia a barren wasteland devoid of live performances from Japanese seiyuu-singers. And trust me, word and reputation spreads very fast within the Japanese anison industry.

That’s right. No more May’N for Singapore and Malaysia, no more Ichirou Mizuki, no more appearances by the K-On Girls, no more epic performances by Yoshiki Fukuyama. No more Shoko-tan, and no more Minori Chihara for events like Daicon. All is dust in the wake of the stupidity and inconsideration of uncaring South-East Asian “fans”.

No real anison fan in the region wants that to happen, I believe.

The threat is very real, so please, dear readers, consider the industry and the personal rights of the Japanese artistes the next time you might want to take photographs despite requests not to do so. The individual actions of any single person might not matter in the short term, but like the ripples caused by a stone that was thrown into a still pool, such actions might have far-ranging consequences that none of us will be able to predict in the near future.      

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.

Almost 1 year after Dragonball Kai aired, the moment we have been awaiting for has arrived. If you have not been watching, do catch the action on next week’s dragonball kai.

Its a Sunday morning and Tsubomi don’t wants to wake up…

Its that time of the year again when precure OPs on TV change to include sneak previews of the precure movie that is going to show soon. And this year the magic date is 20th March.

We not only get to see both our new precures on the big screen.

We get the whole cast. But sadly its the time of the year I can’t be in Japan to catch this movie <_<.

And we push on to some Erika. Apparently she likes ramen. Now I know what to treat her.

Apparently Blossom gets stronger with every episode. Next week we will see some 瞬間移動

For all intentions and purposes, I could not figure out why Aniki is here. But he appears in epi 23 of Kamen Rider W as Ooniki Ichirouta.

Ooooh yeah….

So BakaTest Ep8 was full of fun and Evangelion references. This post won’t be a very wordy review post, but it will be full of nice screenshots. So please look forward to it.

I don’t blame Yuuji for wanting to look though. Himeji is simply delicious.

Flat, but still ok I guess.

This is no error man, no error. Hideyoshi is win.

For some reason this turned out to be the most perfect screenshot I made. It would be

wallpaper quality if the resolution was higher.

Yeah. Eva reference.

Another wallpaper-worthy screenshot. Onegai Teacher reference?

The latest Gundam SEED reference in the series.

I sure hope there is a 2nd season to BakaTest. 13 episodes is simply not enough for such a fun series. And where are my BakaTest cards in WS???

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.

 Today, S/Mileage was given a challenge. The prize is a major debut in May. Their job is simple, its to collect 10,000 pictures of smiles from around the world. They have 1 month to do it. Pictures collected during this event would be put up on a big 2m by 4m mosaic board.

Below is 2 clips of the announcement.

More details here. Click here to submit your photos. If your a fan or you just want your pic up there with all of us, please do help by submitting your smiles.

Tsubomi always seems to fall over something every episode <_<

What makes this episode special is the double henshin sequence.

This is the first time since the first few precure seasons we get such a scene.

But I prefer the Cure Marine solo henshin >.<

HeartCatch Precure!!

Of cos the double waza

 集まれ!花のパワー!

マリンタクト!                      ブロッサムタクト! 

集まれ!二つの花の力よ! 

 プリキュア！

 フローラルパワー　フォルティシモ！！

Once again, this is a double waza 

 And its a gattai waza

 Yes, they did gattai-ed for a few seconds.

 Its all flashy and good.

 If you are hoping for the nana insert song, its there as the background music to one of the scenes. So you won’t be able to hear it clearly.

 But then, Erika is cute right? >.<

Seiup delivers again! I don’t think this is the complete set of the swimsuit pictures from Haruka Tomatsu’s photobook, but its a start.

More after the jump.

Nice long legs and a wink. Yummy.

A bigger version of one of the poses in the 1st picture. Cute and sexy.

If I had any doubts as to whether I should buy this photobook, those doubts have just evaporated. I shall be observing Haruka Tomatsu’s career from now on with great interest, yes…

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.

Today marks the opening of the official site of S/Mileage. If your wondering why im posting this, 3 of the girls are previously from the original members of the 1st season of Shugo Chara Egg. On top of that, they are going on twitter too. Do look out for their new single on 3/14.

Disclaimer: I am not hired to advertise them.