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JackViolet -> well yeah, he does have spending money now. I dunno, I just like considering him as an otaku I guess I still cosplay until now, mostly original cosplays though ^^

Just curious... because everyone here is from around the globe and all... How does Life in Cartoon Motion album cover looks like in your country? Any different designs or different track listings?

I live in Indonesia, the album is already out about a month ago... or so (can't remember) but I didn't get the indonesian version because the "design team" decided to slab this very ugly logo across the artsy cover (I'M IN LOVE WITH Life in Cartoon Motion cover) that says "Special Indonesian Edition" .

Blue Sky, no don't have any families and friends there, I'm just a japan otaku tahaha *dork* I'm a fan of jrock, jpop, japanese culture, food and japanese everything and obsessed with L'Arc~en~Ciel (a japanese rock band) been wanting to see them live, like, forever. SO, my life is kinda gravitate toward on what's happening in Japan. Wait, that's sounds like I follow japanese trends religiously. But, no, I just your regular dork next door.

Strike that, jealous dork, you're going to MTV VMA Japan! Please report to us on the MIKA performance.

Pamette -> sadly he hasn't come to Indonesia to do promo. There are some magazines feature articles about him but only general info, you know. I think he's still concentrating on making it in the US, so I guess the rest of the world has to wait being exposed in the US is a good thing so then the rest of the world will catch up.

C'MON MIKA DO AN ASIAN PROMO TOUR! even the chances of him coming to Indonesia is really small that's okay,I could always go to Singapore or Malaysia

Blue Sky, I'm aware that most people in Japan think that being called as an otaku as an insult. But I call Mika an otaku in the most lovable way possible

I think Maniakku (maniac) would be a less offensive word, but I like saying the word otaku rather than maniakku. Just because otaku is an original japanese word and maniakku is a loan word

I'm a self-proclaimed MIKA otaku :mf_rosetinted:Yes, I am dorky like that

JackViolet-> I dunno. I have this fascination with the whole otaku subculture, i guess. And knowing that Mika spent a few hundred pounds for a japanese robot (maybe Gundam or Evangelion or other Mecha) kinda makes him an otaku in my book

I know that most japanese think being called an otaku is an insult but I think that otakus are misrepresentated sometimes. Like me I call myself MIKA otaku and L'Arc~en~Ciel otaku and I call Mika an otaku not in an insultive way but in the most endearing way

One thing that I kinda get from otakus are the fact that they don't really care about what people say about them, no matter how weird people think they are. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's our Mika right there

it's so fun that you can see him live. I live in Indonesia so I don't think MIKA will come anytime soon I wish I could just see him live

Ah sorry... otaku is a person with has an obsessive hobby toward something, usually used toward anime freaks that collects every bit of memoribilia. So yeah MIKA is an otaku according to my book an I LOVE him for it .

More info here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku

Pamette will you be in Japan on May 26th?

I wish i could be there. If someone gets MTV Japan at home from cable please tape the performance

http://www.vmaj2007.com/about/redcarpetshow.html

He will perform life from the red carpet on May 26th. I wonder what song he will perform though. Other artist that will be performing on the red carper is AI.

MIKA is gonna FREAK:roftl: when he goes to Japan. If he's an otaku like I thought he is, HE WILL FREAK!

It says that he likes Puffy (a j-pop duo consisting of 2 girls. They have they own cartoon show in Cartoon Network called Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. You might know them from Teen Titans theme song).

Yoko Kanno (she arranged many anime and movie theme songs)

Shiina Ringo (yeah one of my fave female singer)

The Yellow Monkey (another fave band of mine. They did the first ending song of Samurai X)

I figure that mika is such an otaku. I really love him because he's just as weird as I am XD

Blue sky teehee i would love to come to VMAJ but sadly I'm not in japan nor I'm japanese I'm indonesian and sadly I'm located in indonesia >_<

OT: I was gonna go there for L'Arc~en~Ciel's concert but i ran out of tickets X(

Life in Cartoon motion will be released in Japan on June 20th, 2007 featuring 13 tracks + 1 hidden track (Over My Shoulder)

http://www.universal-music.co.jp/u-pop/artist/mika/index.html

here is the track listing

01） Grace Kelly

02） Lollipop

03） My Interpretation

04） Love Today

05） Relax, Take It Easy

06） Ring Ring

07） Any Other World

08） Billy Brown

09） Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

10） Stuck In The Middle

11） Erase

12） Your Sympathy ＊

13） Happy Ending

＊ボーナス・トラック (bonus track)

this is different from mine >_< I'm thinking on getting this version also

MIKAは、スカンジナビアでは典型的な男の子の名前。日本では女の子の名前とMIKA本人も知っている。「検索サイト、グーグルでは検索すると、ちょっと前はMika Nakashima が一番上に来た。最近ではボクの時もある」（本人談）

This is funny it roughly says that MIKA in Scandanavia is a boys name while in Japan Mika is used for girls. I think he looked up his name once in google and the name of one of my fave Jp singer Mika Nakashima also comes up XD <-- not sure about the last one though.

I hope no one post this already if somebody has please delete ^^. There are many interesting facts on the Japanese page. If anybody is interested I can roughly translate it ^^

Hihi

I'm Rini an Indonesian MIKA fan. Nice to meet you all

I knew MIKA about a month ago on MTV. I LOVE GRACE KELLY