Japanese Soft Drink manufacturer, Suntory, made a commercial earlier this year for their Coffee drink, “BOSS”–featuring American Actor, Tommy Lee Jones. It seems that Alien Jones, Mr. Jones’ character in the commercial, is working for a local Otaku television station. The end of the commercial is cute, yet a bit disturbing. This isn’t the only [...]

The official website of the anime series, School Rumble, has the trailer online for the upcoming “Third Term” OVA. The series will be packaged along with limited editions of Volumes 21 and 22 of the manga in July and September. There is no word yet on whether FUNimation will pick up Third Semester. The English [...]

At the 2008 Konami Gamer’s Day festival last week, a 40 minute conference for Metal Gear Solid 4 was held, along with series creator, Hideo Kojima. At the meeting, the final trailer was revealed: dubbed in English, and with a very familiar voice for those who frequent movie theaters. Many people may not like this [...]

I have been offered an opportunity to contribute my posts on a Indie Gaming Journal website, VGPro. I must say that the experience is going very well. My first original article I provided to the community are my thoughts on the upcoming release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and the media’s [...]

The Coconut Boys’ (or CCB for short) is next in Ni-Ongaku Spotlight. For those who are into the current generation of J-Pop will get to check out the J-Pop artists in the 80s! The song “Romance ga Toremanai” was featured in the popular J-Dorama, Densha Otoko. CCB is a Japanese New Wave band with that [...]