Archive for June, 2009

New Chunsoft game featuring Nishimura Kinu

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

what about akiman
The latest Famitsu has revealed that Chunsoft is making an AVG game called “Extreme escape 9 hours 9 people 9 doors” for the DS and it’ll be published by Spike. It’ll have the scenario written by Uchikoshi Koutarou (Ever17, 12RIVEN, Memories off) and have character designs by Nishimura Kinu (Street Fighter series)

The story is about 9 people who have been kidnapped and trapped somewhere on a ship, and they have bangles on their arms numbered from 1 to 9. In order to open a door, the total sum of the numbers on each person passing through has to be equal to the number written on the door, and only 3 to 5 people can pass through the door.

After getting through a numbered door, they will be in a sealed room which players have to figure out how to get out from to proceed (something like crimson room). There are several numbered doors so the other people that did not go through a door will try a different door, and the separate groups may still get to meet up again later and reshuffle the members.

Scans: 1, 2, 3
Bonus: 428 is being ported to the PS3 and PSP by Spike

Dream C Club is coming 27th August

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

jobless
“Aren’t you… going to get a real job?”

The two additional characters for Dream C Club were earlier revealed in magazines and have now also been revealed on the official website. One is a jyakigan* woman named Mari and the other is a robot girl named Airi. Apparently they keep the tradition of asking the toughest questions to the protagonist who does all sorts of part-time jobs and gambling just to pay for his cabaret addiction!

Also the game has been voted on Gemaga magazine as the #1 most wanted upcoming game. Gemaga readers traditionally like galge a lot so it’s not surprising, but it’s still funny to see it beat DQ9 and FF13.

However they’re only entertaining the customers because it’s their job and sometimes they accidentally let their true feelings appear on in their expressions while singing.

I still haven’t figured out what the extra C stands for in Dream C Club.

*I don’t know how to explain what jyakigan is so I just translated Mari’s profile instead

I am currently the vocalist in the indies band that I’m in with my elder brother. Music gives me my soul and gives me a place to release it. But… it’s hard to get used to staying alive.

I hope to meet somebody with the kind of sensibility that can scoop my soul out and snatch it away.

Via: オレ的ゲーム速報@刃 and 【Xbox360】ドリームクラブDREAMCCLUB18指名目

VisualArts blocks foreigners too

Monday, June 29th, 2009

kaikoku site kudasai yo

Following the lead of minori and yuzusoft, the VisualArts Visual Antena website has also blocked foreign IPs, displaying the message “PLEASE PLAY THE GAME OF YOUR COUNTRY IF YOU PRAY FOR THE WORLD PEACE!:-)」” to foreign visitors.

As of writing, only Visual Antena seems to be blocking foreign IPs and the websites for brands under VisualArts are still accessible.

It seems it is definitely the new trend to block off all foreigners!

Also minori has apparently been using their block to urge foreign visitors to write to the Japanese government through the government website. I hope polite informed comments were being sent instead of emotional mail centering around kill and rape.

Tony and Carnelian art keyboards up for order

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

noroiE☆2 magazine has announced that they are taking orders for the production of illustration keyboards featuring art from Tony and Carnelian. The art is directly printed on the keyboard instead of using stickers so it looks a lot better than what you’d normally see.

For a moment I thought the art was photoshopped on top of the keyboard in the photo. Costs 10,000 yen (US$100) for one though.

Almost becoming a site about politics

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

triple toast tofu

Reading too much about eroge and politics makes me forget about “normal” stuff! Also Rorona seems to be pretty well received, I should go get it already…

Tears to Tiara gaiden - Avalon no nazo - announced for PS3
I was thinking “they should return Nakamura to ero and stop producing console games”, but I remembered that Nakamura’s ero art isn’t that good anyway, and I was glad. Then I remembered that Kawata is doing White Album for the PS3 and I cried.

Railgun staff announced, 2
Director Nagai Tasuyuki (Toradora) and series structure by Minakami Seishi (Birdy DECODE 02). Also Kuroko’s head seems to be too big in the image

Fairy Tale TV anime announced for Autumn
By A-1 and Satelight.

Summary of 26th June conference

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

master art

Translation of the summary of the conference held on the 26th of June as from this blog here.

In all it actually did not go too bad because Edano and Hosaka have done a really good job arguing against the changes proposed by the LDP and Komeito which was obviously overdoing it.

Edano and Hosaka have become the new heroes, with people on 2ch repeatedly speaking of sending monetary contributions to the two of them to show their support.

Also Hanashi Yasuhiro has just made enemies with all the Johnny’s fans. Apparently he does not understand the meaning of fear.

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Owner of Tachibana shoten in Akiba arrested

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

zetsubou

Game director, scenario writer, and AV director Toriyama Jin reports on his blog that:

1) On the 23rd of June, police have done a search on the Akihabara branch of Tachibana shoten. The shop owner is arrested. It is not known exactly the reason he was put under arrest for, but it is likely for distribution of indecent material.

2) Many of the products that were taken as evidence were of the loli genre. The exact titles are not known, but it is likely that they are games by either brand R or brand M.

3) The most likely reason why the police have tried to charge tachibana shoten for distribution of indecent material is because they wanted to have a scenario where somebody was arrested, in time for the meeting on the 26th of June where the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, and Democratic Party of Japan are meeting to discuss changing the existing child porn laws. However as tachibana shoten was quite thorough in keeping in line with the law. One likely theory is that they were unable to charge tachibana shoten under child porn laws, and instead are trying to use distribution of indecent material so they would still have a case where somebody has been arrested.

Toriyama Jin says he had already known that the police were stepping up before the meeting on the 26th as there have been an increase in arrests related to the child porn laws over the last week, but did not expect a bookstore would become a victim and that they would use distribution of indecent material to make a case as child porn laws did not cover pseudo-loli.

On top of that, the place where they did a house search was in Akihabara, no matter how you look at it, the police is obviously trying to assist the LDP and the Komeito. When this gets reported, Toriyama suspects there’s a high chance that it will probably be used to mislead viewers that there is a need for stronger child porn laws.

The stuff above contains a little speculation, but Toriyama writes that he has confirmed the information from two different sources, so the main points should be true.

Also the 2ch thread for eroge industry people to post in has become quite depressing over the past days with posts where industry people talk about how they had their projects canceled or a writer who specializes in rape and sexual violence stories wondering how he can possibly find a new job now, and even one report from somebody who claims his friend at a small eroge development house had commited suicide as they were already doing pretty bad and now had to give up their next game project which meant the company had no chance of survival (info cannot be confirmed).

Update: Toriyama has updated his post clarifying that it was the owner of “Energy” in Akihabara, which belongs to the Tachibanashoten group, it was not the actual main Tachibanashoten store in Akiba. That particular shop “Energy” actually deals mainly in photos and goods involving real people, so it probably has nothing to do with eroge or art.

Dejipare: doujin and cosplay are not affected

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

The online downloadable doujin and eroge store Dejipare had previously announced that the upcoming new regulations will affect everything being sold on their online store, but have now announced that after having received a flood of emails giving them support and advice, they had another meeting and have decided that doujin and live action cosplay will not be affected by the new rules and will be self-regulated as before.

Doujin is saved! Comic Market usually follows industry standards in what they allow at the event so it was going in a pretty bad direction for a while. Then again dejipare isn’t even in the DHR so it is left to be seen what the other online doujin stores will decide on this.

Also eroge are not mentioned and probably will still be affected by the previously announced regulations.

Sengoku Hime getting ported to PS2 and PSP

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

jirai

Eroge Sengoku Hime was released late last year creating some commotion about the awesome(?) quality of the art and the number of bugs in the game. However it is apparently now going to be ported to the PS2 and PSP for some reason, and with completely redrawn art for some of the characters too.

Comparison pics for redrawn art

The original PC game apparently sold relatively well even despite all the problems for some odd reason. It’s either the great looking package cover that deceived buyers or the game was so bad it attracted the masochists that love crappy games.

Online DL shop announces new restrictions

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

chotto tuttekuru

llpalace’s Online shop dejipare (NSFW) which deals in downloadable doujin and downloadable eroge has announced that adult works belonging to the following genres or have any content that have something to do with the keywords will be restricted, as according to the directions from an unnamed regulation body. (most probably EOCS)

  • Rape
  • Loli
  • Gang Rape
  • Sexual violence (陵辱)
  • Cruel sexual play (鬼畜)
  • Reverse rape
  • Shoujo
  • Forbidden sex (相姦) (such as adultery and incest)
  • Reverse sexual violence (逆陵辱)
  • Forced (強要)
  • Group sex (複数プレイ)
  • School council (生徒会)
  • Bestiality (not catgirls or vampires etc)
  • Bondage
  • Coercion
  • Train groping (車内わいせつ)
  • Enjo Kousai (wikipedia link)
  • Incest
  • Torture
  • Japanese bondage (緊縛)
  • Pregnant
  • Rape (強姦) (another way to refer to rape)
  • Slave
  • Pregnant woman
  • Imprisonment
  • Impregnation
  • Aside from the above keywords, words that attempt to make references to the above words such as (JC / JK / U18 / U15 etc) are also included. There may still be more words that will be added to the list.

    The list does not only cover written information (including scenario, speech, hidden meanings, circle name, brand name), but images and CG (both art and real life images) are also covered in the new restrictions.

    The date that the new restrictions will take effect and exact criteria on how affected media will be judged is still being decided, but will be announced soon.

    Also I couldn’t think of a good English equivalent for many of the keywords, so if anybody has better suggestions for some of the keywords it’ll be great.

    Edit: I missed this, but Minori is restricting foreign access to their website now apparently.