Miyuki Kanabe, an actress best known as the third Sailor Moon in the Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon musical and Kyoko Kakei in the Battle Royale 2: Requiem (and Revenge) film, died suddenly of heart failure at a Kawasaki City hospital on June 18 at 4:08 a.m. She was 24. In February of 2007, she had to step down from her upcoming role of Eponine in the Les Misérables musical due to poor health, and she had been in and out of the hospital in her hometown ever since.
Kanbe won the role of Usagi Tsukino and her magical girl alter-ego Sailor Moon in an audition with 500 other applicants. She would play the role in this stage adaptation of Naoko Takeuch's manga from 2000 to 2001. She then appeared in several television series and movies. In particular, she played Kyoko Kakei in 2003's Battle Royale II: Requiem and played Hinaka Tachibana in the Kamen Rider, television series and film from 2005 to 2006. She also sang the first two opening themes for the 2003-2004 anime series Mermaid. She was said to be in good spirits when she met with her agency's head in Tokyo's Shibuya ward on June 9. Even though she left the Les Misérables production before it opened, the producers at TOHO reportedly left a standing offer for her return by saying, "We want you to come back when you get better."
Source: Sankei Sports, Lori Lancaster, Animenewsnetwork
Picture Source: BattleRoyaleFilm hosted by imageshack
Mainstream Japanese arcade game company Konami confirmed the release of the new installment of Beatmania IIDX series with the new "Empress". It is said to due release late Fall 2008 while currently is in testing stages. Due to BeForU's groups uncertainty, it is not certain weather they would appear in this new installment. "Empress" is said to have a pink theme with many new songs such as a remix version of popular DanceDanceRevolution (short for DDR) song "B4U" by NAOKI. This is so far Beatmania's 16th addition, compared to DDR having 8 editions. M
Like all Beatmania IIDX series, they do not release american versions of either arcade console or Playstation disc. Majority of vocalists can be revisted on Avex's anime + game music branch called "AVEX TUNE". Artists such as; M.o.v.e, Kosaka Riyu, BeForU, and others are affiliated with this branch.
Well I guess I was having fun discovering spammers in the Asian Entertainment forums during this spring break haha.
If you have registered it is the case that you have difficulties acessing the forum threads, please contact a moderator or the Administrators. Best one to contact is Ichiban, he can probably give you da hook ups haha.
Small contradicting information last annoucement on March2008, recently the project of downloads have been iffy so in result, we will continue to host rotation direct downloads offered in 'media zone' which only takes registration to enjoy!
Hey, Hope you guys enjoy your upcoming spring break and have a blast on St. Patricks day.
Quick few announcements from unkowwn here;
-Media zone has a new feature that includes streaming videos and pernament downloads of high quality promotional videos. This part of the forum is for Aznpop members only so...haha. If you have trouble viewing the video and/or playing it on your media thingy, refer to the sticky links or provided links on the topic itself. In the case that fails, just contact our adminstator Ichiban, or poke one of the other friendly staff members. Don't contact me though haha, you can ask me about japanese entertainment though :D.
-Japanese entertainment; Unkowwn will try to make two monthly artist spotlights. Basically a shoutout to these artists for people who have not yet heard of them or willing to try somthing new.
And one quick announcement: You will need to re-register again to the new forum if you have not done so already before. And Unkowwn (me^^) will be leading the Japanese Entertainment section of AznPoP
Well it has come to my attention that we have a glitch. Well, maybe not the Forum itself, but to those who use Web Based E-Mail Accounts, such as hotmail, yahoo, and gmail. It would appear that these providers are blocking our attempts to send new members, who are signing up, their Validation E-mails, which will allow them to enter into the Forum. About 120 such people were blocked, and each one of them, have been sent E-Mails, by yours Truly to try to sort this out.
What I am asking people who are reading this, that if your one of the poor souls who never got your Validation E-mail, I created a special Backdoor E-Mail Account, to personally contact me, should you need to Manually get Validated.
I will, like wise, try to keep an eye on the list of new sign-ups to see if anyone gets stuck in the Validation Process.
I am truly sorry that it has happened, as I have seen that many of you have been long time members of this Forum. Basically without getting validated you cannot even contact us for help. That is why I created the Special E-mail Account, should you need to get hold of me. This message is viewable from outside the Forum, as well as inside. Here is the E-mail Account Info:
The Account is: ichiban7too@yahoo.com
If you are inside the forum, and you need to reach me, the best way is always through the PM (Private Message) System. The e-mail address, above, is only in case you can't communicate to us through normal means.
Is a silly trojan program that's currently cruising the intertubes, casually pulling over to the side of the tubes to make you an offer and scan your pc for free.
I personally, left my browser open on heavy.com and went to the loo. when i returned to watch the video i was streaming, i was greeted by error scan. god it pissed me off. just when i was streaming a vid from holyvirals about the wonders of israel...heh..no wonder they call it the holy land...
So you might be innocently cruising aznpop and suddenly the page reverts to some errorscan thingy and it tells you it found 40+ defects in your registry that might cause your pc to experience freezes, crashes, system slow down and what not. At the same time your download manager pops out asking you to dl the free software. Don't. That's like condemning yourself to eternal damnation.
The mode of transportation is by asking you to download the scanning software manually, so the risk of infection is zero up to the point where you actually fall for their sweet talking ways and click "ok, download me bad boy~"
