The Frontier Works website has announced that they will be expanding Umineko no naku koro ni onto other media starting this summer. I hope they aren’t going to announce an anime, it still feels too early in the story to have an anime already.
Akibablog reports that KFC has told the Akihabara branch to stop dressing Colonel Sanders in a maid costume apparently, so he has been returned to his original self.
Catching up with small stuff.
Sekai de ichiban NG na koi (eroge) was a lovely game. I wanted to write a post about the great characters and story, but after several bad attempts at writing a post I gave up and decided to just have a small mention about it here.
Clannad has been announced to be one of the anime to be featured at the TBS anime festa 2008 and considering how Air, Kanon, and Clannad were all shown in TBS anime festa first before starting on TV soon after, the possibility of Clannad after story starting in October has become a lot more real.
Clannad on the 360 will have downloadable content (not free). The downloadable content will be Hikari mimamoru sakamichi de which was a collection of side stories sold as a book. More money for Key!
Evangelion 1.0 movie DVD makes record sales selling 219,000 copies in its first week, more than any other Evangelion DVD to date, and also making it the current best selling DVD for 2008. This definitely shows what the power of Ayanami’s naked body can do (!?)
A second live-action Higurashi movie has been announced, no details have been revealed yet on what chapter of Higurashi the 2nd movie will be about. They aren’t even going to see if the first movie is going to be a flop yet!?
Ass flashing Asuka Sawamoto (30) previously claimed she was 22 and that the mass media made a mistake saying she was 30. So now the mass media gets back at her with all sorts of proof from the police and from her blog that she really is 30 years old.
Tasogare Frontier has updated their site with a new demo for their upcoming Touhou fighting game, Touhou Hisouten. It’s available from the download page. Reimu, Marisa, Alice, and Shameimaru! are available and Reimu’s story mode is playable up till stage 3.
They haven’t yet announced it on the Tasogare Frontier website, but the full version of the game will be released at the coming Reitaisai on the 25th of May.
Kantou region anime TV viewership from 4/21-4/27
Numbers in the brackets are the viewership from the previous week.
17.6%(18.2%) 04/27 18:30-19:00 CX Sazae-san
11.6%(13.9%) 04/27 18:00-18:30 CX Chibimaruko-chan
10.9%(11.6%) 04/25 19:30-19:54 EX Crayon Shin-chan
10.1%(–.-%) 04/25 19:00-19:30 EX Doraemon
7.7%(8.0%) 04/27 9:00-9:30 CX Gegege no Kitarou
7.7%(6.9%) 04/24 19:00-19:30 TX Pocket Monsters DP
6.7%(6.1%) 04/24 19:30-19:57 TX NARUTO Shippuden
6.4%(8.7%) 04/27 9:30-10:00 CX One Piece
5.7%(5.4%) 04/27 8:30-9:00 EX Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!
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4.5%(4.8%) 04/24 18:00-18:30 TX Gintama
4.3%(4.7%) 04/26 11:20-11:45 EX Atashinchi
3.6%(4.2%) 04/27 7:00-7:30 EX Kyouryuu King
3.5%(3.8%) 04/26 9:00-9:30 TX BLUE DRAGON
3.5%(2.5%) 04/25 18:00-18:30 TX Kirarin Revolution
3.3%(4.6%) 04/25 16:30-17:00 NTV Soreike! Anpanman
3.3%(3.6%) 04/23 19:26-19:55 TX BLEACH
3.1%(3.4%) 04/26 9:30-10:00 TX Shugochara!
3.1%(2.9%) 04/24 24:45-25:15 CX Toshokan sensou
3.1%(1.9%) 04/27 10:00-10:30 TX Zettai Karen Children
3.0%(2.5%) 04/27 9:30-10:00 TX Onegai my Melody kirara
2.7%(3.3%) 04/27 8:30-9:00 TX Net Ghost PIPOPA
2.7%(2.5%) 04/24 17:30-18:00 TX Prince of Tennis (Repeat telecast)
2.6%(2.3%) 04/25 25:55-26:25 TBS Macross Frontier
2.5%(2.9%) 04/24 25:25-25:55 TBS xxxHOLiC
2.5%(2.1%) 04/25 26:25-26:55 TBS Itazura na Kiss
2.2%(2.9%) 04/24 25:55-26:25 TBS ToLOVEru
2.2%(2.9%) 04/25 25:53-26:23 TX Golgo 13
1.7%(2.3%) 04/21 18:00-18:30 TX Soul Eater
1.7%(2.2%) 04/24 26:15-26:45 TX Soul Eater Late show
1.7%(2.0%) 04/27 6:30-7:00 EX Hatarakids My Ham gumi
1.6%(2.3%) 04/22 25:14-25:44 NTV RD Sennou chosashitsu
1.4%(2.8%) 04/27 17:00-17:30 TBS Code Geass R2
1.2%(0.8%) 04/22 25:44-26:14 NTV Top Secret
0.9%(1.6%) 04/21 17:30-18:00 TX BLEACH Best selection (Repeat)
Japanese blog gNorm who’s in charge of the store Hyoutanshoten reports that preorders for Little Busters Ecstasy have been coming in at an amazing pace, almost twice the speed of the original Little Busters. This definitely shows what the power of ero can do…!
Approximately 120 people from the police, the local government, and local volunteers have started patrolling the road on Akihabara amidst complaints of street performances that have been going overboard. And because of that, all the small performances that could be seen around in Akiba have decreased greatly.
Every Sunday or public holiday, the main road in Akihabara is closed from traffic so pedestrians can walk freely on the road, and people have been using this extra space on the roads for stuff like live performances or impromptu photo shoots.
However, there have been an increasing number of people that have been abusing it such as the ass flasher woman and the guys that were using the street to have BB gun and water gun battles and getting into arguments with the police, inciting complaints from pedestrians and shops in the area.
Also, ass flasher Sawamoto Asuka (30) has been released after spending a day with the police and posts on her blog saying that she really is 22 as she always claimed, and that all the news reports about her being 30 were wrong. She supports this claim by saying that she wouldn’t get any work as a self-proclaimed gravure idol if she was 30.
The usual Jump insider on 2ch has revealed that Mx0 will end soon in the coming issues. I don’t post about comics getting cut from Jump, but I liked Mx0 so I’m posting about it! Man I thought it would survive a little longer. Also getting cut from Jump are Poseidon and Hatsukoi gentei.
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Additional note: Just in case anybody misreads, Mx0 is going to end in the next 3-4 chapters or so, it’s not going to end immediately in the next issue of Jump.
AkibaHobby reports that the KFC branch in Akihabara has apparently dressed up their statue of Colonel Sanders in a maid costume to blend into the Akiba culture. He even comes with a heart shaped name plate on his apron that says “Colonel”.
More pics of the wonderful maid is available at AkibaHobby
I wanted to write about this a few days ago, but apparently the 30 second trailer was actually accessed by editing the url for the trailer on the official website, so it wasn’t much news considering how common it is to access the next episode’s trailer by editing the url in anime sites.
I realised ITmedia covered the “leak” anyway, so I thought I should write something about it.
Self-proclaimed gravia idol 30 year old Sawamoto Asuka, known for her addiction for flashing her ass in public on the streets of Akihabara, has just been arrested today on suspicion of having broken annoyance prevention laws, according to TBS news.
She has been warned so many times by the police and she kept going back. This bit of news of her arrest made me laugh really hard.