The new "VocaListener" technology has sparked the interest of many in the Vocaloid community, seeing as how it can adjust the parameters to where the vocal source can sing with a natural human-sounding voice -- almost identical to the original singer... The demo was released on Nico Nico Douga earlier this ...

The 11th official game in the Touhou series, entitled "Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism," has been announced. The full version will most likely be released at Comiket 74, which takes place August 15-17. However, according to the latest blog update from ZUN, a demo will be sold for 300 yen ...

The third animated installment in the Higurashi franchise will be released as an OVA series. It is tentatively titled, "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei" -- name of the fandisc for the original game released in December of 2006. The info comes from the June issue of Megami Magazine ...

A new SWR demo has been released on Tasogare Frontier's website... Although there's no additional characters to be tried out from the available roster, the latest demo does include a few additions such as new attack moves, a Rating system for battles, added bombs, Story Mode spell cards, etc. Reimu's Story ...

With special thanks to How a Girl Figures, I was able to pre-order this amazingly detailed PVC figure of the lovely Hatsune Miku from Goodsmile... As you know, today is the official day this figure of the virtual idol is available for reservation -- sculpted by YOSHI (Trepang). Although this 1/8 ...

Proving that despite rumours that say otherwise, Coengar2 is not dead but has been locked away in the secret manga cave reading until his eyes fall out. This time he reviews an sit down RPG with an interesting premise and a stupid name. Title: ...

The Urotanda warriors continue to stand tall and fight; and reach a high peak they did in this week's Vocaloid Ranking #29. Most amusing entries that I found this time were Ha'chu'ne Miku's rendition of the popular "Nyan-nyan" song -- also liked the “Vocalo-Daioh” (featuring Haku) and “disillusion” covers. "Gekokujou" ...

In celebration of Weekly Shounen Jump magazine's 40th anniversary, a new animated special for both Dragonball and One Piece will be shown during a tour in 10 Japanese cities. The announcement comes from this year's 21st issue of Jump -- on sale today. Bleach and Gintama may also be part ...

In the prologue from Peach-Pit's original Rozen Maiden manga series, Jun receives a letter claiming he has won a prize. The letter asks whether he will "wind-up" or "not wind-up". He chooses the former. In the prologue from this new series, Jun chooses the latter. Thus a new alternative universe ...

In this new released trailer for "Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl - Giratina and the Sky’s Bouquet: Shaymin," we get to hear Shaymin's telepathic voice for the first time. It is not known who the voice actor is yet. In addition, other guest actors were announced... Zero (*played by Nakamura Shidou) Leila ...