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Japanese Man Takes Video Game Character As Wife

A Japanese man has married a character in a popular video game, taking her -- and his handheld game console -- on an overseas honeymoon.
The man, who prefers to use his online moniker SAL9000, met character Nene Anegasaki while playing dating simulation game "Love Plus."
They got married a few weeks ago, broadcasting their ceremony live on Japan's version of video-sharing website Youtube.
SAL9000, who did not want to reveal his real name for fear of being misunderstood, admits to be an "otaku," a breed of Japanese youth obsessed with video games, computers and fantasy worlds.
"In the Japanese otaku or nerd culture, there's a tradition of calling characters my wife, and I sort of thought of Nene as my wife. Since I was calling her that, I thought we'd just have to get married then," he told Reuters Television.
"If more people were to find ways of expressing themselves like this, I think it would make society a bit more interesting."

The newlyweds, who went on a honeymoon to Guam, now go on dates around Tokyo, with SAL9000 taking pictures of Nene, installed in his Nintendo DS, in front of famous landmarks and then posting them on social networking sites.

As the game "Love Plus" has voice recognition software, SAL9000 says it's possible to have a sort of conversation with Nene or even play simple games such as rock, paper, scissors.

He also has vowed to have and to hold, for better and for worse, even if another, updated version of the game is released.

"I think I'll probably continue playing Love Plus. I won't cheat," SAL9000 said.













source: jpopasia

KAT-TUN Brings New CM And Song- "The D-Motion" For Christmas Friday

Today the announcement that KAT-TUN had been chosen for the New Year's "Decotomo★DX" CM (mobile greeting interchange) appeared and brought a surprise with it"

KAT-TUN's New Song 「THE D-MOTION」
The information also comments about gorgeous set, glittering clothes (including a surprise) and comedic acting. Broadcast started December 25. CM already up for download in Japan in two versions.

Click Here to watch the CF

Upcoming 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards Nominee List Revealed!

The nominee list for upcoming 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards 2010 has been revealed!

Said to be one of the Korean popular music award ceremonies established by Sports Seoul in the 1990s which contributed to many other award ceremonies later on, the 19th Seoul Music Awards awarding the best singers of year 2009 will be held on 3rd February 2010.
Nominated for BonSang:

So Nyeo Shi Dae
Super Junior
GDragon
2PM
Baek Ji Young
Brown Eyed Girls
MC Mong
Kim TaeWoo
KARA
SS501
Davichi
SHINee
Son DamBi
LeeSsang
Outsider
Lee Seung Gi
Epik High
Park HyoShin
SG Wannabe
Bobby Kim
Lee SeungChul
FT Island
Ivy
WheeSung
8eight
K Will
Im ChangJung
2AM
UKiss
Epik High

Nominated for Newcomer award:

4Minute
T-ara
After School
f(x)
MBLAQ
BEAST
TaeGoon
Rainbow
Secret
2NE1


Nominated for High1 Popularity award:
Combined list of singers from nominee list of BonSang and Newcomer award
Background info: Seoul Music Awards joined hands with High1 resort in 2008 to further promote the event when Hallyu wave was growing stronger.

Additional information:

Daesang : One Daesang artist chosen from the 10 Bonsang artists
Bonsang : Top 10 artists are chosen. Voting(20%) Digital/Album sales(50%) Research(10%) Judges(20%)
Rookie : 3 chosen
Mobile Popularity(determined by fan voting) : 1 or 2
Plus Digital Music, Best Album, Hallyu Special, Performance, R&B, Hip Hop, Trot Awards-


Voting:
Voting will start from 26th December all the way till 1st February 2010
Voting method is by using mobile phone and entering voting key
High1 Popularity award: Based 100% on mobile votes
For Bonsang, Daesang and Newcomer award: Based 20% on mobile votes

DaeSang winner history for the past 9 years:

2009: WonderGirls
2008: Big Bang
2006: Dong Bang Shin Ki
2004: ShinHwa
2003: Lee Hyori
2002: BoA
2001: Kim GunMo
2000: Jo SungMo

SHINEE Tops Music Charts In Thailand

Korean idol group SHINee has topped Thai music charts with their hit single "Ring Ding Dong" for three consecutive weeks, according to their agency on Wednesday.

"Ring", the title track from their mini-album "2009, Year Of Us", was ranked at No. 1 in album sales and on television music charts for the third week, SM Entertainment said in a press release.
The song has been topping music channel Channel V's "Countdown Asian Chart" since the first week of December. "Countdown" is a weekly music chart which ranks songs by the number of viewers' requests it has received.
"Ring" also sold the most albums in the country, according to weekly albums sales chart "Gram Asian Pop Top 10" which is released by Thai's record store franchise Gramophone. This is the third week SHINee has been named the top-selling artist.
The five-member pop group enjoyed a successful comeback this year with their third mini-album "2009" which was released in late October. They have had several other K-pop hits, including their debut single "Older Girl, You're So Pretty" and "Juliette" earlier this year.
The group is scheduled to make several television appearances this week, including the year-end episode of KBS music show "Music Bank" on December 25. They will be performing their new single "JoJo" as well as "Ring".

New Boyband "Child Of Empire" For Official Debut In January

Known as the big3 upcoming boybands with BEAST and MBLAQ, group Child Of Empire will have their debut next year in January!

The group which have been gaining popularity through cable channel reality program will have their official debut. Initially the group has been called ‘rivals’ to new idol groups BEAST and MBLAQ, but their debut was pushed back much to many fans’ disappointment.
The group recently did their MV filming in GyeongGiDo. With that, they has been preparing for their debut coming January. Much anticipation to their debut and upgrade in dance and vocal skills since the group members have shown its capabilities through their appearance on the reality program.
In addition, the group has received ’lovecalls’ for CF even before debut and the group has also done filming for 3~4 CF before their official debut coming up strong as a newcomer group.
A staff revealed, “The boys will show vocal and performance better than what fans will expect. Even though their debut was pushed back, they have been preparing for it. And they have been waiting for their debut.”

source: jpopasia

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