Canned Dogs

Also the virtual child porn thing is at its peak right now, and there’s a lot happening everyday, but it’s impossible for me to keep up with all that due to work

Update: Added info on the recollection scenes

Kodansha’s seasonal anthology manga magazine ITAN will be launching vol. 0 on the 25th of March and it has been trying to become a new magazine concept which will be something that has never been done before.

The concept of the magazine is that it aims to be the magazine which will provide whatever the author feels is the best story he can think of, without any restrictions on genre.

The magazine’s policy is to not stick to conventional methods in running the magazine, and they’ve been doing stuff such as deciding the name of the magazine via a web poll and having the front cover and back cover of the magazine done via a pixiv contest.

They’re also hoping to spin off web manga from works that are on the magazine, and hopefully ultimately become a magazine where the actual magazine and the web will complement each other.

Via: ITmedia

Kodansha seems to be experimenting a bit recently with their love plus stuff and this magazine. Hopefully something cool comes out of all this and pull them back from their losses in recent years.

Atelier Totori coming in June for the PS3
Should be announced in famitsu or dengeki in the coming weeks

That’s a picture of the scripts that were used for Love Plus. Minaguchi had commented on a radio show once that it took more than a year to record all the voices for Love Plus, that’s a huge amount.

This was shown during the Love Plus special feature on the new NHK TV show MAG.net

Project Diva new DLC “Dreamy Theater”
It will allow output onto an external screen using the PS3, and instead of just doing an output of the PSP screen it’ll use high polygon models so it looks better on bigger screens

Visit Ugomachi with Nishimata Aoi on a 4 day 3 night tour
Costs 49,800 yen (US$554), and will take place from 20th May to 23rd May, maximum 40 people only. Nishimata is becoming a superstar or something

Rockman buns
The boxes are awesome

Murata Yuusuke (Eyeshield 21) drawing in a sketch book (nico)
One shot sketch using a felt pen without doing any pencil roughs

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March 6, 2010, Tokyo, JAPAN — NKH, an amateur group of aspiring web-livecasters, and Nicotech, an open Internet community of Sunday engineers, held Sora-Fes! and launched 150 of “Flying Panties.”

Sora-Fes, literary meaning “Sky-Festival” in Japanese, welcomed nearly 200 people who wanted to share their love for sky and flying toys. The 2000-yen($22) admission included a rubberband-powered ornithopter, or “Flying Panty,” which all participants made and launched together.

The brief movie about the event is shown at:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1268052780
(requires Nicovideo registration)
or
http://www.nicotter.com/watch/1268052780
(unofficial Nicovideo mirror site)

I was actually quite surprised some time ago when several wholesale suppliers let me know that they’ll be carrying the flying panties product. I guess these guys are ready to take over the whole of Japan.

Kannagi author Takenashi Eri’s actual brother and fellow mangaka Yuuki Shinichi will apparently be doing a Kannagi spinoff manga called Kanpachi on Comic REX, the magazine which Kannagi was originally running on before it went on hiatus due to Takenashi falling to illness.

I loved both Takenashi Eri and Yuuki Shinichi’s stuff back then since their anthology days. Yuuki is always extra awesome when his work is based on somebody else’s existing work so this should hopefully be nice.

Via: 結城の小屋

2ch servers finally back up again..

Results from Sega x Piapro’s Hatsune Miku costume design contest
Complete with 3D renders, was also shown in the recently announced Diva 2nd for the PSP

Touhou 12.5 Double Spoiler
Bunkachou 2, apparently going to be pretty hard, sounds good

Joysound Karaoke weekly rankings
Nine vocaloid songs in the top 30 karaoke songs on Joysound’s Karaoke weekly rankings for the week 22 Feb to 28 Feb

#3 Magnet
#4 World is mine
#6 Melt
#8 Uraomote Lovers
#9 Romeo to Cinderella
#10 Roshinyuukai
#15 Just Be Friends
#18 Black Rock Shooter
#28 Double Lariat

Film strip showing Nagato’s collarbone sells for 356,000 yen (US$3,987) on Yahoo auctions

The cool thing recently is to give out film strips for repeated viewings of the same anime movie, and the other cool thing is to bid high money for it on Yahoo auctions.

Also it lost to Fate’s smile that was worth 532,000 yen.

Touhou doujin TCG called Mugen was launched by doujin circle AT Project at Reitaisai 6 in March 2009

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Supercell won the best 5 new artists award
Awarded by the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s 24th Golden Disc awards

Video of penning the manga Kachou Reijou (youtube)
Author Takachi Hironari, manga currently runs on Shounen Magazine. It took 30 minutes to pen that frame apparently. I didn’t know he was an ex-animator!

Kodansha 5,700,000,000 yen in losses
Kodansha!

New proposed legislation amendment in Japan
Any character that regardless of actual age has an appearance of being under 18, and has a possibility of causing youths to lust for or possibility of bringing this fantasy to real life, will have to be censored