Astro and Starhub, Malaysia’s and Singapore’s partners with Animax Asia, are set to launch a subscription based Animax Mobile 3G video streaming service starting in November and December 2008 respectively. Below is the press release from Animax.

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You might wonder why I am talking about Fujoshis. When talking about male otakus, some are seen in a bad light. Being too passinate and stuff according to some people. But from what I’ve seen, fujoshi’s are not different either.
For those n00bs, Fujoshi refers to extreme female otakus. You know, the one that pairs up [...]

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Sorry for the delayed post but i was busy sorting out the interview issues with Kurogane from GameAxis whom i joined with for the interview with May’n. The following is our interview with May’n, the singing voice of Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier.

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Event: JUMP Festa 2009
Official Website: http://www.jumpfesta.com
Date: 20/12/2008 - 21/12/2008
Location: Makuhari Messe, Chiba

Sauce: http://www.jumpfesta.com/stage/dragonball.html
Japan’s Jump Festa to Preview Dragonball Film Footage
Shueisha will be previewing footage from James Wong and 20th Century Fox’s live-action film adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball fighting manga at its annual Jump Festa event on December 20. The footage will be shown during [...]

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Main article in Otakuzone can be found here.
I will only quote excerpts from the article as it took up an entire newspaper page and is thus very long.
For all aspiring otakus, if you wish to test how much you know on the anime and manga industry, this test is surely for you. Though at the [...]

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The final guest of AFA08 has been confirmed!

Ichirou Mizuki, Japan’s “King of Anime Songs”, has confirmed that he will be attending Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA08) and will perform live on stage on Saturday, 22 November 2008 as part of the “Anime Live” zone. Visitors to AFA08 will be able to catch the one of [...]

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This was the official trailer for the new DragonBall movie
Dragon Ball - Official Teaser Trailer #1 [VO]by Sawyer17
My first reaction was, “WTH IS THIS CRAP??”. Oh god, I never felt so pissed off by an adaptation. Yes, I expected that it would be USianised, but honestly, not to this state. I started to like Dragon [...]

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From Sankaku complex comes this weird story of a 19 year old young man who was found guilty threathening to stab a seiyuu. The man, who posted in a discussion board using a computer in a Community Center (lol? kinda a lame place to be posting threat thar mate) allegedly posted “Die! On the 30th [...]

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On behalf of Anime Shrine, I would like to extend our best wishes to our Muslim community who celebrate the Syawal season today!
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

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As news of the recent Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda’s sudden resignation went through Japan the other day, some rumours are flying that he will be preceded by Taro Aso/麻生太郎 aka Rozen Aso. A man known to love reading manga when riding his car and also sympathetic to the otaku culture, anime industries speculated that he [...]

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