Yoko Kanno Composed 1231 for NHK 62nd Kohaku Uta Gassen

This year’s Kohaku will have a more anime feel to it with Yoko Kanno, star anime song composer announced today to be the one commissioned by the NHK to write the opening song for the NHK’s year end event, NHK 62nd Kohaku Uta Gassen.

The song titled ”1231″, is meant to express the youthfulness of the rhythms.

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica won 2011 Media Art Festival Award

Updated: Looks like I mis-translated something, very sorry. Madoka won the Grand Prize.

Akiyuki Shinbo’s Puella Magi Madoka Magica is nominated awarded the 2011 animation of the year for the 2011 Media Art Festival Award. This is decided today on the 15th of December.

The award ceremony will be held on the 21st of February 2012.

Other winning titles are,

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JoySound for the PS3! Updated: It’s Region locked! TT-TT

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Update: I have downloaded Joysound Dive and to my disappointment, It’s region locked. I’m very sorry for making so many happy for nothing.

Have a PS3 at home and nothing to play on it for now (waiting for FFXIII-2 or disappointed by ACE Combat 5)? Now you can use your PS3 as a Karaoke~

Courtesy of Joysound!

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Ultraman Begins again!

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Ultraman is making a return, but this time, there will a big twist… The gigantic hero of my childhood will be continuing it’s almost 40 years run on manga, with the release of Ultraman on Hero’s magazine, starting with the Dec issue, drawn by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi.
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SCANDAL: Budokan one man live 28/3/2012!

Yesterday, we had the announcement of May’n's solo LIVE at Yokohama to be held next March, and now, we have another major announcement to share.

SCANDAL will be having their first one-man LIVE at the prestigious Nippon Budokan!

They will be having this concert on the back of a recent Asia tour and a autumn hall tour set to begin in a few weeks time.

The concert will be held on 28th March 2012, Wednesday.