Canned Dogs

Seiyuu Katou Emiri, known for her role as Kagami in Lucky Star, was interviewed in Famitsu, and she was asked if she likes video games. She reveals that she loves gaming and especially RPGs, and has been playing Final Fantasy XI since two years ago.

Then she reveals she has five jobs at lvl 75: Red Mage, White Mage, Black Mage, Bard, Summoner, Blue Mage at lvl 70 and Scholar at lvl 65.

People that played the game estimate it would take about 5000 hours to get that far, and she only started playing 2 years ago.

I wonder what is Togashi’s total FF11 play time if Katou Emiri can play the game that much while working still!

A 3D vs action game featuring characters from Shounen Magazine and Shounen Sunday has been announced for the PSP. The game will be developed by Konami and the current release date is unknown. No details are given yet, aside from that special moves would be executed by pressing a single button.

They are obviously making this game so they can have Kaizou vs Zetsubou. There can’t be any other reason to make this game.

Currently announced to be in the game:
Air Gear
Fairy Tail
Hajime no ippo
Inu Yasha
Hayate no Gotoku
Sakigake!! Cromartie High School
Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi
Kekkaishi
Zettai Karen Children

Shown in screenshots:
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Magister Negi Magi

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A 18 year old man has been arrested in Aichi for carjacking a 65 year old lady with a knife in the carpark of a shopping centre. The reason he gives for doing so is that he wanted to go to Tokyo to attend Comic Market. The police activated the helicopter after it was reported and caught him quickly enough.

Insert mandatory comment about Comiket being a gathering of criminals. Insert mandatory comment about GTA.

Nitro+ has announced that a 2D fighting game made based on their characters is now in the works under MileStone. The game will be based on Nitro+ Royale but will also be reworked on with new high res sprites. They hope to be able to release the game in 2009.

The game will be based on the NAOMI. Also they have not explicitly mentioned anything about working on the gameplay, but talked about bringing the game to a “arcade fighting game” level.

Famitsu has released information about the anime staff that is working on the anime and some character roughs. The main staff appears to be the same as the staff that worked on the Higurashi anime aside from the character designer.

Series composition is by Kawase Toshifumi again, which means I will probably keep watching the anime but not like it anyway.

Also Shanon is played by Kugimiya. She gets too much work.

The producer for the game has put up an official apology on the website taking full responsibility for having released an incomplete game and says that a new producer is on the job now and they are aiming to send out an append disc on 28th February 2009.

Sure killed all hopes that they accidently released an old build and would release a gigabyte patch quickly. Mahou Shoujo Ai was kinda cool so it’s sad to see it end this way.

I wonder if Kuroki is still alive.

The 428 anime has been officially called CANAAN. This post is an excuse to say again that 428 was great, Type-moon’s bonus scenario in the game felt really out of place however. Also the game only sold 34,000 on the first week, Famitsu’s scores really don’t mean anything to their readers anymore.

Official site here (NSFW)

- Character stand cg didn’t look like Kuroki Masahiro’s art
- Game was released without any delays
- Sample CG on official site had unmodified CG straight from Ai 2
- System requirements: 1.5gb, Actual installation: 473mb
- Blank screen during some ero scenes
- Notice on official site that a patch will be released
- Notice on official site removed in less than 30 minutes
- Notice about patch written on official site again
- Notice removed in less than 30 minutes again
- Has only 14 event CG total when unpacking the files (NSFW)
- Less CG than what is shown on the website
- ごらんの有様だよ！！！ (quote from back of package)

Many already expected it to be a nuclear landmine, but it exceeded all expectations and the big bang happened.

Apparently the new cool thing to do recently is to hire voice talent to speak in a completely different language from the game they’re voicing for, because the Taiwanese online SRPG Norn Saber Online has gotten various Japanese voice actresses to provide Japanese voice overs for their Chinese game.

Voice cast:
Suzuki Mariko
Touma Yumi
Kanda Akemi
Kuwashima Houko
Noto Mamiko
Yasui Eri
Hirohashi Ryou

Photos from the voice recording and a video from the game with some of their voices is available here.

A short trailer for ElectromagneticWave’s doujin anime Kowarekake no Orgol, has been posted on the official website, and the theme song has been posted at Sound Online’s site. From past posts on their blog and from the preview, it does seem like they have a bunch of guys with professional experience afterall.

Also from his site, it appears that POP is releasing a Sunred doujin at comiket, which makes him the coolest guy on the block now.