Weekly Brief

~ With the Fall 2009 anime season underway, I thought it’ll be a good idea to provide you guys with a chart of the new series that’s being aired so that you can decide on what you’ll be following, but there’s so much fan-service lately. [Chartfag]


~ If you’re a devout buddhist, then you will love to live at Ibaraki, Japan. The people who lives there now are probably all enlightened beings. With a statue of Buddha at that size near your home, who wouldn’t be? [TokyoTimes]


~ There’s a new art book being published in November 2009 for the God of modern anime and manga, Osamu Tezuka. It’ll be a definite eye-candy. [OtakuNews]


~ Live-action films based on popular anime series is all the hype in hollywood these days. You can take a look at the full list of animes that’s getting the hollywood treatment. [listal]


~ The infamous world ugliest building, Ryugyong Hotel, in North Korea may finally be completed soon after taking a 16 year hiatus on construction. [BBC News]


~ Gaming will be getting a whole lot manlier with a Fist of the North Star video game under development. Look at who’s going out with Kenshiro! [Kotaku]


~ Let’s end the week off in the most cheerful manner possible. Watch as this Japanese plays the Ponyo theme using his hands only! [JapanProbe]


That’s the week in Asia!


Picture courtesy of crutz

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