Earlier this year, we had interviewed the creator of Cave Story, Daisuke Amaya at a press event hosted by NIS America. Amaya, who is also known as Pixel, had designed, programmed, and created the original game as a freeware PC game that featured classic 2D platforming mechanics. 

With the new remake Cave Story 3D about to release just weeks away, hear what he had to say about the original game and the remake!

This coming November (11/10), an event called "Miku Party" will be held at 8 different cities across USA! and San Francisco is one of them. This is a world-wide celebration event for Vocaloid fans, "Miku-pa" (Miku party in Japanese) also planned in Thailand, Brazil, France.

During Miku-pa, the live concert in Sapporo will be screened to the fans overseas. it is a special event celebrating the release of "Hatsune Miku Live Party 2011" DVD release on 11/16.

You can find more information by clicking the English tab over at this website and at the official Japanese site of Miku-pa.

Just found out about this news~ And it seems it isn't reported on any English websites yet~

On June 8th, YAMAHA hosted a Nico Nico Douga live stream and released news about the upcoming successor of the Vocaloid system - Vocaloid 3 (called Vocaloid 3 editor)

As I read through, it looks like they are really shooting for making Vocaloid a multi-language and international culture trend. I will do my best to give a summary of the event information.

I know this is not news for those like me that have been following the anime series. I waited and waited for the last 2 episodes, and they finally were broadcasted by MBS.

What do you think?

Trying not to put any spoilers here, but I think it made the story finally goes to a conclusion and I like how the story has been laying down many hints in each episode. I'm happy that my guess about the "truth" after watching episode 10 was actually right. ;)

Some of my friends said, they feel depressed after the anime is done. But knowing it has been such a big success, I'm sure there will be more things following up!

Many Madoka related products are coming out:

Hi Everyone!

Some of you might already knew, or saw it on my FB updates. Nico Nico Douga (NND), English site is now up for beta testing! As a NND user since 2007, I'm so excited about the new English site! =D

(The beta site does not have uploading feature yet, but it will be available sometime next week =D)

Nico Nico Douga is a popular video streaming site in Japan. In the last 1.5 days, the "likes" on their Facebook page increased from 300 to over 1000. I'm sure many many anime fans like me are super excited about it!

The major earthquake disaster that just happened in Japan shocked me deeply. It is hard to imagine a world without anime, manga, J-pop, Japanese cosmetics, lolita fashion, Jrock, RPG and many more.

As a part of the Japanese culture community, I'm organizing this event for charity to Japan. All the income from the tickets will be donated to Japan.

All the donations we get on our side will be donated directly to the Japanese Red Cross through Google or NicoNico Douga. No donations will be used in our event, we'll compensate all other cost for this event ourselves, so please support!

Please tell your friends about the event and even a prayer will help those suffered from the disaster. Thank you!!

「日本への祈り：メイド喫茶で地震援助」
Yukie Dongをはじめとするベイエリアのメイドカフェ関係者が東北地方太平洋沖地震募金を募るためにイベントを企画しました。
3月27日(日)、Senzala (250 E Java Dr, Sunnyvale, CA, USA)

Hello everyone! Yuji Horii, the creator of Dragon Quest was at GameStop in Palo Alto on February 12, 2011. The event started from 1pm-3pm, when I arrived there was already a long line. Everyone in the line got a free slime tee and a Dragon Quest poster.

When we reached the door of GameStop..Mr. Yuji already stopped signing. T^T
But it was a really cool experience to meet and chat with all the gamers in the line.

While waiting, a photographer took my photo and asked me to sign a press release form. Later a friend told me that my photo took that day got on many game news website.

Lucky me!!

You can find a few more photos inside.

Hi, Everyone

This is Yukie~ For those who do not know me, I'm an anime / Vocaloid performer from the West Coast. I'm also a fan of anime, manga, video games for over 15 years.

Thank you to The-O Network for providing me this opportunity to share my otaku thoughts with you!

I will be writing about what’s hot among American and Japanese otakus, latest anime and games, Vocaloid songs, conventions, Japanese fashion, useless things I do in life AND interviews with local otakus just like you!

Reports of the latest local anime/video game/J-culture events I've been to, and my latest show time and music projects will also be included.

So please stay tuned ;)