Date: 2010/01/16, 17
Place: Budoukan

Date: 2010/02/6, 7
Place: Kyoto Event Fall

Cast? Come and see who they are!

Is it a FULL CAST? I won't doubt! Awesome 10th year celebration!!

Great job Neo Romance, Star Light has not even started yet, they're already planning another matsuri @___@

It's actually a really interesting interview, I had much more fun~



( Hoshi pappi~ )


( Suwabe san~ )

Poll count for Seiyuu of the Month is finished.

Past winners:
May 2009 = Nakamura Yuichi & Sakamoto Maaya.
June 2009 = Ishida Akira & Saiga Mitsuki.
July 2009 = Sakurai Takahiro & Paku Romi.
August 2009 = Inoue Kazuhiko & Hayashibara Megumi.
September 2009 = Kamiya Hiroshi & Minagawa Junko.
October 2009 = Ono Daisuke & Saitou Chiwa.

NOVEMBER 2009 WINNERS:
Dansei = Okiayu Ryoutarou with 8 votes.
Suzumura Kenichi was second place with 5 votes.

Josei = Ogata Megumi with 7 votes.
Inoue Marina was second place with 4 votes.

While I went nuts about Hoshi being in the neweast Naruto 2009 movie, I found this cast pic~

( PIC FROM SHONEN JUMP 2009 VOL.32 )
We have Hoshi, Inoue, Morikubo, and Takeuchi're in it! Who's the girl in the back??

Anyone watched the movie already?? I just can't wait for the DVD to come~ So happy Sasuke's in it too, Sugiyama's awesome!

If you want more info on Hoshi's character, follow the link~

Hey everyone. I was helping friends get tickets to OrePara 2009 and it seems everyone was able to get their own tickets so I'm left with extras. These tickets are from the first lottery.

The event is OrePara 2009 **NIGHT** featuring Iwata Mitsuo, Ono Daisuke, Suzumura Kenichi, Morikubo Shoutarou, with guests Hirakawa Daisuke and G.Addict (Kaji Yuuki, Abe Atsushi, Terashima Takuma, Horie Kazuma). ...Yeah, with a cast like that I wish I were going too!
http://www.lantis.jp/special/orepara/

I've got TWO SETS of THREE TICKETS (sequential seats). Cost is 29930 yen for each set of 3 tickets, which includes Pia shipping, system fees, and registered mail shipping WITHIN JAPAN. These can only be sold in sets of three.

If anyone wants these, PM me with your email address and I'll forward you the tousen mail. The tickets are NOT paid for yet. You'll have until 11/16 23:30 Japan time to make the deposit (29550 yen per set) yourself at a Family Mart in Japan.

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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Release date: 2006.04.25.

Songs performed by Morikubo Showtaro & Takahashi Hiroki.

Tracks:
01-Cross Chord
02-Shootin' Stars (movie version)
03-Continued (movie version)
04-Hurry up Drive
05-Change or Never Change
06-Shootin' Stars (single version)
07-Continued (single version)

Download

Cast:
Hirakawa Daisuke
Inoue Marina
Ono Daisuke
Shimono Hiro
Nakamura Yuuichi
Kamiya Hiroshi
Hukuen Misato
Maeda Ai

Kuranoa -Hello Again-
[Details + download]

Kuranoa -yesterday once more-
[Details + download]

I should say I love Gustave Moreau's Bishonen.



I found this amazing look alike with the San Sebastian from the XIX french artist Gustave Moreau and this pose of Takahashi Hiroki. I am sorry I'm Hiroki-centric but I thought you should see this. If this is not the right place to show it, you can delete it ;__;.
 Right click to see the complete image.

I didn't see any rule about fanart in the rules, I hope it's ok ^^;
Based on this photo shoot


(here)

Hi everyone! Suzuki Tatsuhisa's birthday is coming up in a couple days (November 11 in Japan) and we're collecting birthday messages over at the heated_heart community. On his birthday, the entry link will be mailed to Tatsu so he can read everyone's messages. Translation services will be available for short messages.

Please head on over to this entry to leave a message! Comments are temporarily open to non-members so don't worry if you are not part of the community.

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The Seiyuu of the Month November 2009 poll is now open. Hard to believe that it's been half a year already.

I think you all pretty much know the rules by now:
- One vote per person in each category of dansei and josei.
- No voting for past winners again until one year later.
- I withold my own vote so to act as tie-breaker should it become necessary.

I would prefer Japanese order of naming with given name last.

Past winners:
May 2009 = Nakamura Yuichi & Sakamoto Maaya.
June 2009 = Ishida Akira & Saiga Mitsuki.
July 2009 = Sakurai Takahiro & Paku Romi.
August 2009 = Inoue Kazuhiko & Hayashibara Megumi.
September 2009 = Kamiya Hiroshi & Minagawa Junko.
October 2009 = Ono Daisuke & Saitou Chiwa.

Poll closes after 11:59pm PST November 13th.

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Sorry, I'm only translating out the ones I'm interested in, to give you an idea, basically only the MAIN MAIN seiyuu of each work will show up~

●ジャンプフェスタ2010(JUMP FESTA 2010)
　日時：2009年12月19日（土）・20日（日）(2009/12/19・20)
　完全無料・自由入場制、但しステージは要招待状（遠くから眺めるのはできるかと）(Completely FREE! But you need an invitation for stage events)

( ask if you wonder which particular seiyuu will show up but you can't read Japanese )

My free time made me do it!  (I'm talking to you, doxxed_up !)XD

YASUMOTO HIROKI!

Ok I'm mexican. He plays the mexican guy in BLEACH. He is soooo sexy.
Enjoy the icons, you don't need to give credit, I found the images swimming on Google Japan and doxxed_up sent me the Kuroshitsuji screencaps.

The empire strikes back

RSS feeds again

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Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

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Enveloped in postcards

Photos of the week

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hiratahiroaki

I noticed that his blog doesn't have a feed, which is a shame, because it (his blog) is always a fun read. (Example: see November 3 post.)
Please add the feed to your friends list!