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ICO x Yawara! Parody...

Ico is cool. Yawara is cool.An Ico parody of the Yawara! anime OP is downright hilarious. (If you hav... [More]

A Rayearth Photoshoot

Magic Knight Rayearth is: one of my favorite series ever. When Alice asked if I'd be interested in bein... [More]

Murakami Animation Studio To Open in LA, Summer 2009

Takashi Murakami, that crazy successful artist who takes the otaku stuff of bittorrents and rapidshares a... [More]

My Japanese Coach is Buggy

Maybe you guys are into video games or manga or anime, and maybe you've probably entertained the notion o... [More]

The PMX 2008 Game Room: Looking Back

Pacific Media Expo (PMX) was never on my radar as an anime congoer, mostly because it wasn't really an an... [More]

Mr. Pizza Factory's Website is Hilarious

Mr. Pizza Factory is a fine pizza place in Los Angeles's Koreatown. The sweet potato mousse and the sco... [More]

Zettai Ryouiki For Laymen

Recently, I had trouble describing the concept of zettai ryouiki.There are lots of websites available det... [More]

On Music Loops in Flower

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More Music From Way Back When...

So earlier I had shown off some old music. There were some other ones that I just found that I figured ... [More]

Katawa Shoujo (Disability Girls) a Real Game?

A long while back, this dude named Raita (known for his stuff under the Zettai Shoujo moniker and more re... [More]

The Japanese Can Test Cameras

Earlier this week, I got a new camera. It doesn't have a super awesome sensor like the Nikon D700, and ... [More]

Ace Combat 6, Saitek, and You

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Current Craziness

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I Got A Seven (7!) Patty Whopper

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Fanfic Writers? Square Enix Wants YOU!

For many video game fans out there, working for the greatest RPG developer in the world would be the awes... [More]

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Roadtrips with Charles di Britannia and Louise Francoise...

Written by Vincent Diamante

Saturday, 06 September 2008 08:25

Yeah, it's been mentioned before, but now (read: almost a year ago) you (read: car owners in Japan) can have an over-the-top male villain (read: Norio Wakamoto) or a tsundere (read: Rie Kugimiya) in your car to drive you on to victory (read: your destination somewhere in Japan)! The MAPLUS Portable Navi 2 is the perfect GPS unit for itasha owners everywhere. It is insane. Or awesome. Or scary. Take your pick...

And actually, there are far more than just those two. On the MAPLUS2 demo page, you can hear samples from, in order, Tooru Furuya, Hikaru Midorikawa, Eiko Masuyama, Yurika Ochiai, Shuiichi Ikeda, Rie Kugimiya, Norio Wakamoto, and Akio Ootsuka.

Youtube videos after the break...

(edit: Updated with more youtube videos...)