After dishing out her fun-filled recipes on the Nintendo DS, Wii, and mobile phones, Cooking Mama will finally be setting up shop in arcades! The cutesy cabinet and 46″ touchscreen will probably only show up in Japanese arcades, but isn’t it pretty?

Here’s a video of the Cooking Mama arcade in Cooking Mama-ing action:

[Via GameSetWatch]

Kaaanedaaa!!!

Can you believe that the classic anime Akira is over 20 years old!?

Produced by Sideshow Toy, this Die-Cast replica of Kaneda’s bike from Katsuhiro Otomo’s  groundbreaking manga and anime feature is just over 6 inches tall and nearly 20 freaking inches long!

When it comes to awesomenss of this magnitude, shelf space will be the least of your worries when you hear about the insane $420 price tag. You can currently pre-order it from BigBadToyStore.com for $375 and you can expect it to ship some time in January of 2010. You might wanna’ start saving your monies, like, six months ago…

Someone should invent light-trailing technology just for this thing.

[Via Fanboy]

EA Japan’s upcoming DS game, Shonen Kininden Tsumuji, is pretty much Zelda, but with ninjas. This might be a bad thing for Link and friends because, as we all know, ninjas make everything, like, a gazillion times better.

This game reminds me of that other Zelda-like game with an ancient Japanese setting and heavy use of imagery inspired by traditional Japanese paintings. You know, the one with the wolf that has a sequel coming to the DS in 2010…

Geeze, with Zelda: The Spirit Tracks, Okamiden (the one with the wolf^__-), 3D Dot Heroes, and now Shonen Kininden Tsumuji, it seems like a good time for those who are fans of Zelda-esque gameplay.

Here’s a trailer for Shonen Kininden Tsumuji (Legend of the Boy Ninja Tsumuji).

Check out more on the official Japanese site.

[Tiny Cartridge via GoNintendo]

Revoltech, the line of meticulously articulated, heavily detailed Japanese figures recently held their Revoltech Expo and unveiled a butt-load of new figures as well as some surprising new licenses featuring popular characters from American franchises like Batman, Alien, Jurassic Park, and Nightmare Before Christmas.

While I thought the Batman Revoltech looked kinda’ lame and I could care less about an Alien Revoltech or a Revoltech of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park (although the T-Rex is pretty badass lookin’), the Jack Skellington figure stole my heart and gave it a boner. I also love how they’ve replaced the standard plain Revoltech bases with more fitting stands that better suit each character.

Check out pics of the figures previously mentioned and more at Tokyo Hunter.

A lot of people were pissed to find out Mai Shiranui wasn’t included in the King of Fighters XII roster, but at least SNK had the common sense to put her where she truly belongs: a shmup. Wait, what?

The King of Fighters: Sky Stage is a vertical shooter set in the King of Fighters universe. The title is set for an XBOX Live Arcade release.

I can’t freaking wait. No matter how silly and pointless it seems.

[Via Kotaku]

The latest DLC for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV includes some new stuff to watch on the in-game TV, including the anime parody Princess Robot Bubblegum. It features all the cliches you’d expect from an anime parody. There’s the scantily-clad heroine, pervy old guy, obligatory cute creature, and LOTS of tentacles.

There you have it. You officially never really have to watch a single anime after this because this pretty much sums up the entire genre.

[Via Sankaku Complex]

This Yuzuko Hayakawa PVC figure from Good Smile Company is the first PVC figure that’s blown my mind in a while. I’ve always been a fan of figures that display a good amount of motion and this piece does it in spades. I’m especially loving the swirly chain.

Since I’m not all that familiar with the character, here’s the official press statement:

From the manga currently serialized in YOUNG GANGAN magazine, authored by Dai Satou and drawn by Maseru Gotsubo – ‘Yuzuko Peppermint’, comes a PVC figure of the stylish, silent high school girl, ‘Yuzuko Hayakawa’!

Yuzuko is the wielder of the special ability ‘Peppermint’, that acts as a powerful stimulant whenever she becomes angered. Her normal long black straight hair, as well as the peppermint green hair are both included, allowing you to pose her both before and after using her ‘Peppermint’ ability. The huge iron ball she wields whilst fighting, ‘Shiranuhi’ is also included.

The figure will be sold together with an original drama CD story, written by Dai Satou, placed on a drama CD with a wonderful cast, as well as a booklet including illustrations by Maseru Gotsubo!

You can currently pre-order Yuzuko over at Play-Asia, but hurry because supplies are limited.

[Via GSC]

I spotted this over on moe.imouto.org and thought it’d be perfect for Monday Moe. I’m not sure if she’s supposed be a character from something, or just a creepy picture, but it’s freaking awesome. Creepy, but awesome.

*UPDATE*
3Yen reports that Kirsten Dunst was rocking these cosplay duds in Akihabara for a video shoot directed by McG aka the dude who directed Terminator Salvation. The video is for an exhibition which will take place at the Tate Modern in London later this year.

Kirsten Dunst — an actress that I rarely ever find attractive — looks way sexy in this cosplay getup. Maybe it’s just my severe weakness to thigh-high stockings.

[Via The Frisky]

Kirsten Dunst Cosplay

Fact: Kingdom Hearts Mobile Avatar Phone Straps vol. 1 were freaking amazing.

Double Fact: Kingdom Hearts Mobile Avatar Phone Straps vol. 2 are also amazing. Maybe even amazing-er.

Volume 2 consists of Halloween Town Sora, Leon from FFVIII, Axel from Organization XIII, Vivi the mage, and the almighty Sephiroth.

Each strap costs $9.90 and you can currently pre-order them at Play-Asia. Expect them to ship some time in January.

[Via Kotowari]

Someone out there on the intertubes thought it would be a great idea to turn the Transformers into cute little moe robots (aka moebots) and act out the closing credits to the Lucky Star anime. The results are… something.

[Via Topless Robot]

Some graffiti mural with a random Umbrella Corporation logo from Resident Evil uploaded to Flickr by iLenny.

The talented, but primarily hentai artist Alphonse has created schematics for a masturbatory tool that he dubs the “LCD HIME MKII” which consists of a flat monitor and what looks like a Fleshlight. Not that I’m any sort of Fleshlight expert or something. I just saw one once on the internet, that’s all.

Anyway, this is just crazy and I don’t really know why I’m even posting it. Wait… yes I do — because it’s freaking hilarious!

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Sweet Capcom bomb on a subway car. The Viewtiful Joe makes this like 10 times more awesome. Spotted by treinreis.

As I mentioned at the end of episode 11 of A Little Bit On The Awesome Show, this year’s VGXPO in Philly was a bit lackluster when compared to the one I attended two years ago. That doesn’t mean that the fans in attendance were slacking, though! They held it down to the fullest.

We caught pics of a few cosplayers which you can see past the break. There’s even a dude with the best Tommy Tallarico costume I’ve ever seen in my life.

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