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Japanese Day of the Cat is Today!

Ren -ScarletProphesy- — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:47:58 +0000

Yes, it is indeed Caturday today, or at least for the Japanese. Turns out today is a little-known holiday, called “Neko no hi”. It was established in 1987 by a cat food company. It comes every year on February 22nd. This is because the Japanese think 2/22 sounds like a kitty meowing when you say it!

Here’s a video I found on Youtube that explains the day a little bit more. Happy Caturday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoA04XYGUqs

Princess Maker 2 – Awesome Game from Long Long Ago

Ren -ScarletProphesy- — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:42:28 +0000

I have recently found a great game online, called Princess Maker 2, made by Gainax. The game is about raising a young girl from the heavens. Your choices up until she is 18 define what kind of adult she will be. There is about 80 different possible endings, each with unique and stunning art. While it is pretty old, and was never released in English, there is a translated version floating around.

Though this game is considered to be “abandonware”, I won’t share where I found it. However, I would like to show all of you the beautiful in-game artwork. It’s quite breathtaking! The game is worth playing just because of how lovely the drawings are. Below, I’m including several screenshots of potential game endings… 80 possible endings makes for one hell of a replay value.Wikipedia says that there is 5 Princess Maker games now. Sadly, the only version to have been translated into English is Princess Maker 2. I wish there was a PSP version of this game…

Royal Concubine ending

Bondage Queen ending o.O;

Royal Magician ending

Queen ending

Hatsune Miku Giveaways!

yunapyon — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:03:50 +0000

We wanna thank you for all the KKS readers for supporting our blog and wish a great NEW YEAR of 2012!

So we thought about what you guys would want and something very special from JAPAN…

YES! We’ve got some super rad goods of Hatsune Miku from JAPAN, so be sure to enter this awesome giveaway!

WHAT //

ONE of 2012 calendar and TWO of trading straps. We will pick THREE lucky winners on Sunday March 4th at 10PM. (PCT)

HOW //

Pretty easy folks.

Leave a comment below with name of your favorite song of MIKU chan, make sure you enter your email.

Click “tweet” and “Facebook Like” buttons and share it with your friends! ( bottom of this blog post. )

Good luck! We will ship world-wide! Don’t miss out:)

Hello Kitty x Hatsune Miku

yunapyon — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:23 +0000

WOW. Is this everyone’s “dream come true” kinda collaboration or what? Another great collaboration from Sanrio, this time for those of you who LOVES MIKU and Hello Kitty!

Hello Kitty + Hatsune Miku = SNOW MIKU. Kawaii!! You can only get those SNOW MIKU goods only in Hokkaidou, Japan. There are 18 different goods such as mug cup, towels, stationaries, and T shirts, socks and many more! My favorite is the Yuki-miku Socks & mini note pad. Pretty! You can get them at Sapporo Air Port and Souvenir stores in town. Fingers crossed to get some of them here in US!

Check them out!

Limited edition SNOW MIKU…. I want one!

Wanna see more? Jump here.

(source)

Chocolate Art!

ellie — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:22:43 +0000

I know, I know. It’s a little late to share since Valentines has past, but this is so cool I just had to share. This pâtisserie in Kobe called Frants makes the most realist chocolates! Look at these chocolate made hand tools. The box that comes with the chocolate is shaped like a real tool box which makes it look even more real. They look soooo realistic and flawless.

So maybe for next Valentines, this might be a unique gift for your special someone!

KAWAII IPAD CASES!!

yunapyon — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:51:49 +0000

You all have ipads correct? Ipad is the best thing ever! and you need some cool cases to rock your ipad when you are at work or cafe. I want all these IPAD CASES! KAWAII!! I Found them over RAKUTEN JAPAN. Rilakkuma one is the cutest! Which one is your favorite?

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu “Tsukema Tsukeru”

ellie — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:57:37 +0000

“Tsukema tsukeru” means “putting on fake eyelashes”

Remember we posted up Kyary’s first music video PONPONPON last year? Well her new single that was released in December, Tsukema Tsukeru, is following the steps of PONPONPON and is a big hit too! Here is her music video which got over 10 million views!

Tsukema tsukema tsukema tsukete~ pachi pachi tsukema tsukete~

hahaha I love singing along to this! makes me soooo happy (*^o^*) and love LOVE the lion dancers!!!

IFRAME Embed for Youtube

DIY : what a fun Candy making!

yunapyon — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:46:04 +0000

Who doesn’t love making your own candies! Be creative and have fun with it!

it’s called “Deco tte Candy” ( one of our bloggers got this New Candy kit from Japan! )

Let’s see what they got this time:)

It comes with variety of decorations, enough to make 3-5 super kawaii candis! You can eat them all. Every little piece! Tasted yummy.

Use your imagination and make some shapes! We chose Kitty ( trying to make hello kitty and you’ll see how it ended up looking like. haha )

Really easy steps. No water needed. No serious technique required.

Totally kids friendly!

Fun little drawing on the butterfly, kitty and heart! It was kinda tricky because all the candies I made was tiny tiny size… you can tell i didn’t do a good job on it… I need another package to try and get better at it! :)

Here’s final kawaii candies I made! haha cute right? It was such a fun thing to do for sure. There’s so many products in Japan, DIY kinda candy kit! Poppin cookin is one of those fun candy making kit.

Hello kitty… no, just a kitty and pretty heart <3

can’t wait to try another one! Love making a fun candy!

Would you like to get one? Next time we are in Japan, We can get some for you guys! KKS readers!

Hello Kitty Designer YUKO YAMAGUCHI

yunapyon — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:36:07 +0000

Meet the Hello Kitty designer YUKO YAMAGUCHI! She is the third designer assigned to work on Hello Kitty, and disappointed in the prospect. She has been designing Hello Kitty since 1980, over 35 years. She also created the characters “Dear Daniel” aka hello kitty’s boyfiriend in 1999, and “charmmy kitty”, hello kitty’s pet. in 2004. I am pretty sure you know both of them, right? Sanrio Kawaii!

Yuko continues to travel to boutiques around the world, at 40 a year, to meet with fans, though of course these days, the reception is different.

Yuko said, “I think I can say that Hello Kitty changed my life as much as I changed her life.” (source)

What’s your favorite of all the designs you’ve done?

The [1994-1996] Face series, which generated a real Kitty boom. Until then, Kitty was designed for children and I carried around Hello Kitty merchandise only as samples, because I was the designer. But I actually bought up to 20 pieces from the Face range — five for myself and the rest for my friends — because I knew that from then on nobody would be telling me that Hello Kitty was just for kids. (source)

(source)

Watch her interview when she was in LA.

Check out her kawaii blog, her daily life with hello kitty!

Yuko, keep up with your awesome work! xo

PS VITA Game “GRAVITY DAZE”

yunapyon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:26 +0000

Check out this video clip of the first 15 minutes of gameplay of GRAVITY DAZE. It just came out on Thursday in Japan and it’s definitely the must-buy PS VITA game when it comes out in the states next month. The game is about a girl named Kat who lost her memory and can control gravity. The core mechanic of the game is the player’s ability to manipulate gravity, allowing unique movements and navigation. And it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen. So excited to play this one:)

Gravity Daze was developed for Playstation Vita and directed by Keiichiro Toyama of Silent Hill fame. It was released in Japan last Thursday and will be released in March in US and Europe.

Check out this awesome TV commercial. Pretty amazing.

Vita, cant wait to play with you!