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Vocaloid In The News: Brand New Nendoroids, A Special PVC Figure And The Latest Vocaloid China PV
Often confused as an anime or manga title, Vocaloid is a program developed by Yamaha Corporation that allows users to let “vocal androids” sing songs that are entered into the software. While Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is the world’s most popular Vocaloid, Asgard takes a break from the Miku madness and highlights the other Vocaloids in this week’s Vocaloid In The News.
Gumi (グミ), otherwise known as Megpoid (メグッポイド), appears in the latest Good Smile Company line of brand new Nendoroids together with Kamui Gakupo (神威がくぽ). Keep Reading
When the words “zombie apocalypse” is mentiond, a lot of things come to mind and that includes Capcom’s very own Resident Evil. Asgard brings you the latest RE news and we’ll start of with Resident Evil: Restribution.
Imagine Akira Yuki (結城 晶) from Virtua Fighter (バーチャファイター), Jin Kazama (風間 仁 ) from Tekken (鉄拳) and Ryu (ストリートファイター) from Street Fighter duke it out in the same game. That’s right, Namco Bandai Games (株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス) has brought us Project X Zone (プロジェクト クロスゾーン), the first ever fighting game that brings the three huge gaming companies, SEGA (株式会社セガ), Capcom (株式会社カプコン) and Namco Bandai together to form the ultimate fighting game fan’s dream come true. 
A lot of manga-turned-anime titles are due for October, including this unique love story of Mei Tachibana (橘 めい) and Yamato Kurosawa (黒沢 大和) in Suki-tte Ii na yo (好きっていいなよ。).
Work has gone underway for the anime take of Julietta Suzuki’s (鈴木 ジュリエッタ) manga, Kamisama Kiss (神様はじめました) and the anime promo features Tomoe the fox spirit.
September is chock-full with cosplay events for Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. On September 6, 2012, Capitol University held an Intramurals Noon Time Show featuring a Cosplay Competition portion. This event is the noon time show’s highlight and the students of C.U couldn’t get enough. The cosplayers introduced their characters and performed short skits. Winning third place and walking away with 500 PHP (12 USD), is Leshem Bona who cosplayed Katarina from League of Legends.