Archive for December, 2010

Picture of the day – 31/12/2010

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Currently having a lovely struggle to make asian characters work with Photofiltre for the Animated chart. Things can’t be simple, can they..
On another note, some of you probably noticed that I reworked the website’s main index page
(ie: http://neregate.com), making colors more unified and removing the big collapsing block, leaving only two buttons.
I was originally planning to add more links aside from the blog one, but in the end I didn’t.

Spring 2011 Animes chart v2 (Static) Released




Now that’s what I call a “new” version.
I advise you to read the v2 release notes ;)

Spring 2011 Animes charts v2 (Static only)

Picture of the day – 30/12/2010

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The chart is coming in a few hours.
I’ve been at it for almost 12 hours straight and I’m getting seriously tired (cos I want to finish this).
There’ll be about 30 new additions (I didn’t expect that many either) and several updates.
Also, someone tell me why the fuck do they need to put anime titles that are 3km long?
Example : “Precure All-Stars DX3 Mirai ni Todoke! Sekai o Tsunagu Niji-Iro no Hana”
I mean.. what the fucking fuck? (No, I’m not mad at all, really).

Picture of the day – 29/12/2010

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Like I said previously, started working on the v2 of the Spring chart.
There seem to be lots of new shows, so I think you’ll be pretty pleased with the v2 (including me)
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Picture of the day – 28/12/2010

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Japanese Artists – Okara

The choice for today was pretty tough, but I went for this one in the end.

Okara (雪花菜)

Okara has only been on Pixiv for about 2 months, so it’s quite a “fresh” artist there. He/she hardly gets any votes on his/her pictures, making it hard for people to discover him/her, which is quite a shame because Okara is truly one skilled of an artist. Just check out the picture on the left, look at the complexity of the girl’s yukata and its patterns, the sakuras in the background, the colors, etc. The picture is very detailed, and you can tell that much attention is put into everything (even the frame is quite stylish).
I do hope that Okara will get in the Pixiv rankings one day, because he/she really deserves it.

Website :
None.


Pixiv ID :



As a general rule, I’ll never post more than 5 pictures of an artist when I feature him/her.

Picture of the day – 27/12/2010

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Sooo, after an extended maintenance, the site is back to normal.
Press F5 if you still see the Christmas look and not the original one.

I’m gonna close the Useless Poll on the sidebar soon (I think the winner is pretty obvious now).
Expect both a safe and a 18+ image gallery of Kuroneko soon :twisted:

I’ve added a contact form (small link below my avatar, top of the right sidebar) in case some of you need to contact me fast & directly instead of using your mail client.

Like every Monday, I’ve changed the Beat of the week on the sidebar.
This week is “Lacrimosa” with Kalafina. Great song imo.

I also changed the “Guess this Anime”‘s sound for this week. Can you guess where it is from? ;)
We had 6 winners for last week’s session :
Ingu, Jumendez-sama, LaLa-Sama, Raitsui, Xephelion and wujunjie. Gratz !
The correct answer was “Spice and Wolf II – Special 2″ but any “Spice and Wolf” answer was accepted.

I’ll start working on the Spring chart tomorrow, should be out in 2-3 days at most.
Japanese Artists post coming next.

Picture of the day – 26/12/2010

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Japanese Artists post tomorrow.
I’ll probably start working on the next version of the Spring chart as well.
About one day remaining for this week’s Guess this Anime game on the sidebar.
Give it a try if you didn’t already ;)

Picture of the day – 25/12/2010

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Picture of the day – 24/12/2010

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Merry Chirstmas ;)
This and a 18+ picture as xmas present. Owww, lucky you.

Have a great day,

Zana

GUILTY GEAR XX ΛCORE 1/8 Dizzy Figure by Alter


Special mention to this yet-to-be-released figure by Alter featuring Dizzy from Guilty Gear.
The level of detail is pretty high and, needless to say, the figure itself is gorgeous.
Only drawback is.. its high price (well, for a figure of that size and this much detailed, it is understandable). You can preorder it for about 9400 yens (~113 USD) if you search thoroughly.
As I’ve told you before, I’m not much into collecting figures, because it’s expensive (this one is a perfect example). Although, I’ve been thinking of getting one for the sake of owning at least one nice figure from Japan.
To buy or not to buy, that is the question :p

Side note : If you’re interested in knowing how figures are made, you may want to have a look at this entry.

Maker : Alter Original Title : GUILTY GEAR
Modeler : Toshiiyuki Yagyu Release date : April 2011
Size : ~310mm (with wings) Price (including tax) : 12,390 yens (~149 USD)
Scale : 1/8 Price (excluding tax) : 11,800 yens (~142 USD)

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Picture of the day – 23/12/2010

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Will start working on the v2 of the Spring chart and on a new version of AniFetch at the beginning of next week (I don’t have what’s needed with me right now).

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