So you think you’re otaku enough? Maybe not after you watch the videos below ^^;

Just when you think you had about enough Lucky Star, it has now invaded your pc and is on your motherboard and memory! Konota might be using your PC to install ero-games and play MMOs as well! ^^;

Yup, as what the title says, it’s the official 1st anniversary of this website! (Not the 1st anniversary with a girl, PC, console etc) Yes indeed. It has been one full year with some interesting milestones.

It all started with registering a domain. Can’t remember why I chose ‘moeside.net’ but it was probably due to the fact that the first Japanese anime artbook that I bought back in 2005. I wanted my site to have the feeling of “萌え~” , something that attracts readership. Oh, and I felt that “moeside.net” would be a cool name ^^

But first, a short intro on how I started blogging.

Ever wondered how did the Japanese illustraters do such beautiful digital  llustrations that you can cry?

Or do you want to improve your artwork but do not know how?

  ^ Artwork by Matsurya <Link> 

Ever since the wait between Code Geass ep. 23 and it’s next episode to be out in Summer (Japan), many parodies have been created. Don’t know if many of you readers have watched the MAD movie parody of Code Geass anime.

 ^ Lelouche needs to convince C.C to sit on his lap :) 

One of the whole bunch of bad things of an otaku not being in Japan is missing out Akihabara, Comiket, Figures, WF, WHF, maid cafes, more maid cafes, and more more maid cafes and their maids going “ お帰りなさい、ご主人さま～！<insert name of maidーちゃん> はご主人さま会いたかったです。ね～キスして。”　(Of course the kissing part only exists in the minds of old man and ero-games ^^;

One good thing though, is being able to limit yourself from buying all those stuff. Imagine this, ￥10,000　for each game. ￥3000 ~ ￥30,000 for a figure (with the exception of Haruhi BUBBA kit which was ￥160,000 over at Yahoo Auctions Japan), Candy girls going at ￥500,000+++ which you tell your parents it was used for reference books :p Staying in the core of the otaku world requires sacrifices.

However, with the increase in auction and hobby sites, you can now easily purchase figures easily online. Or visit your local hobby (preferably anime stores) and ask them to help ship it over (includes shipping cost as well).

 ^ Tokyo Big Sight, where otaku dreams come true (Source: Heisei Demo)  

With WHF just over (Event reports over at Heisei Democracy’s post by Shingo and DannyChoo’s post ), I began to look through some of the online hobby sites such as 1999.co.jp and amiami for figures.

<Picture Intensive Post! Might include nosebleeding as well>