For those of you that have ways of getting stuff from Japan, knock yourself out to SHIKI's latest album available in a non-M3 location:

http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0010/15/13/040010151375.html

Edit (5/24): Wohoo! I just ordered it :D Used a site called Celga(http://celga.com/). It lets you order from some popular Japanese stores.

I like this site because their fee structure is fairly straightforward. You pay a $2 bank transfer fee, as that's how a majority of purchases work, internal shipping (shipping costs of the item sent to them), a markup fee (pretty much where they make their money), and of course the cost to ship to you. Good stuff :X

Today's new profile background images are from this site:

http://f20.aaa.livedoor.jp/~kusaren/

There's a damn awesome Idol Master comic here (Japanese sorry, but who needs to read the text? It's just freaking cute):

http://www.occn.zaq.ne.jp/kusare/index.html

Hit the GALLERY link too for some awesome stuff :X

Finally got going on this, and even got permission from the website containing the original article to do it so no one gets sued :)

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showpost.php?p=2171925&postcount=1

I can't promise any sort of speedy returns on the translations, as well.. it's translating, and weird grammar and what not comes up all the time. Until then enjoy what's there for now :)

Hey all :X A good majority of my profile images I've gathered from the Japanese site Piapro (I'm no artist). I just found a nice blog that shows you how to sign up for an account on the Japanese site Piapro:

http://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=7610

The Piapro site is mainly a collection of songs, lyrics and illustrations revolving around the VOCALOID synthesis system.

VOCALOID is a system created by YAMAHA that alows users to enter lyrics to songs, and the software will "sing" these lyrics using the voice of the current vocal library. The site revolves around the major VOCALOID:

* Hatsune Miku
* Kagamine Rin / Len
* MEIKO
* KAITO

There are also a few secondary characters you might see:

* Yowane Miku - A joke character created to show the Hatsune Miku purchased by people with no ability to fully utilize her. A "downer" version :)

* Kasane Teto - Another joke, a character made on the popular Japanese BBS 2chan, and popularized by a fake page

* Akita Neru - And another 2chan joke :p Made to be a sort of preppy teen, and a mix of Hatsune Mike and Kagamine Rin.

Note that this is a Japanese community, so randomly busting out English probably isn't a good idea. They'll get confused as to how you even managed to signup :p If you really want to drop someone a note, let me know and I can write up what you want to say and copy and paste it to you. Then I'll show you where to put it.

Can't find the uncensored off hand so have this instead: