Play Second Life? Love The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya? Willing to spend a few hard-earned real-life dollars in order to use Haruhi as your avatar in the game, the better to boost your online self-esteem even as your real-life social skills diminish by the minute? Good news!

This Haruhi avatar was created by Second Lifer Maegen Parvenu, and I can’t find it on her store, I’m guessing it’s in the $200-300 (Linden dollars) range, which is probably like, a dollar or two in the game.

But frankly, Second Life kind of terrifies me, so I refuse to sign up an account to get all the details. There are several Haruhi avatars listed on their marketplace though. If you’re into that sort of thing.

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Back when I was still at aO we reported on meet-me, a new online virtual Tokyo that was announced shortly after Second Life Japan was announced. CNN now reports that meet-me is going to be completely G-rated and family friendly.

Whew! I’m so glad that they told us, because now we all know that Second Life is going to be cooler (on the scale of virtual world sims, anyway) than meet-me. And that was a decision that was causing me to stay up at night.

According to anime!anime!, TransCosmos has started a seiyuu academy online with the Seiyuu Training Organization. And it’s not just online, but as part of the virtual world Second Life.

It’s supposed to be an “international” academy, but don’t the Second Life games operate on different servers per country? Anyone wanna try and get into Japanese Second Life and check it out?