Who is the most favored character in “Detective Conan”?

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Detective Conan: 15 Minutes of Silence“, the official site conducted a survey: Who is the most popular character?

Taking in 30.5% of the votes, Edogawa Conan (Kudo Shinichi) ranked #1 with 27,258 votes. Conan’s rival, Kaito Kid, snatched 2nd place with 19%, and Heiji Hattori, Conan’s best friend and rival, stole 3rd place with 10.8% of the votes.  In 4th place is Haibara Ai with 8.5%. Shinchi’s girlfriend, Mouri Ran, took 5th place with 5.6%, and the rest of the characters had less than 1% in votes.

The poll was conducted from February 18th to March 31st, in which one person was allowed to vote three times, and there were a total of 9,086 applications.

Who was your favorite character?

Source: Mantan Web

Kalafina opens up their own cafe in Shibuya

Chamber pop group Kalafina updated their official blog with a picture of “Kalafina Cafe”!

From April 14th until the 17th, the cafe Shibuya PARCO will be decorated with gigantic pictures of the pop trio. “Please enjoy yourselves while eating delicious food, sweets, and while looking at the pictures~!”, member Wakana wrote to their fans. “We’re reeeeaaally looking forward to going to the cafe too!”

Fans commented, “I’ve made plans to go to the cafe today~”, “I can’t wait to meet you all there!”, and“I’d love to sit there and drink tea while looking at huge pictures of Kalafina.”

Source: Kalafina’s Official Blog

Mano Erina shows off her schoolgirl charm

Singer Mano Erina updated her blog today with a picture where she’s posing and look very cute in a charming school cardigan. Even though she’s just turned 20, she’s still hanging on to her youthful look!

Mano wrote on her official blog, “I’ve just come back from rehearsals for the Fan Club event on the 16th! I want to have a great event that will put smiles on everyone’s faces!” She added, “There will also be a collection box at the event for donations to the Tohoku earthquake relief efforts. Everyone who’s coming to the event, let’s make the power of your smiles reach everyone in the disaster area… and in the event on the 16th, there’s something I want to show everyone (*^ー^*) And I’m trying something new so I hope it’ll be a success!”

Fans commented excitedly about the event, saying “Something you want to show us? Trying something new? I wonder what it is, I really can’t wait!”, and “Is the thing you want to show us maybe… chugging an entire drink now that you’re 20? Haha!”

Source: Mano Erina Official Blog

FRIDAY illustrates the life of workers at Fukushima Dai-ichi

In continuation of last week’s article featuring several heartbreaking pictures from regions that were severely hit by the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake and the following tsunamis, the weekly tabloid and pictorial magazine FRIDAY once again focused their main story on the aftermath of this calamity.

For this week’s edition the magazine was able to illustrate the life of those that are struggling to keep the situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi (Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant) from getting any worse. The government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) are careful not to let the workers and helpers speak too much in public, but the magazine still managed to get inside the two hotels that are being used as their living quarters where some of them even have to sleep in the corridors.

FRIDAY is not allowed to show the faces of the workers, but even without their expressions it’s easy to see how frustrating it must be to live and work for them.

Check out the pictures below.

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Source: Tokyohive