Canned Dogs

Korean music composer esti has reported on his twitter account that SeeD, the art director for the online golf game Pangya has passed away from an illness. SeeD had done a lot of the art in Pangya till sometime later in the middle of Season 3 when most of the art was done by nyanya while SeeD worked on the PSP version of Pangya. He has been working on an unannounced project recently.

SeeD’s website can be seen here, seems he was born in 1981.

I haven’t touched Pangya in a long time now, but I liked that artist.

Paying 1,000 yen to get slapped by a girl (both ways) is apparently not as uncommon as previously thought as Japanese blog Coffee Writer writes. This place called Akiba Hizamakura Nurse Station which specializes in head massages while you lie on a girl’s lap is also already offering the slapping service, at the same price of 1,000 yen for both ways too.

Maybe we just didn’t know about it, but it might already be normal in that industry to slap both ways at the standard price of 1,000 yen!

But there are apparently other more wonderful places in Akiba under the same company that owns Nurse Station:

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Latest Famitsu has revealed that Marvelous Entertainment is currently producing Fate/Extra, which is a dungeon crawler RPG based on Fate for the PSP. No real details on the game system are known yet. You can choose to play as a male or female character, and it looks like Rin and Shinji are in the game, also there’s a new Rider that’s different from the Stay Night Rider.

Staff:
Scenario supervision: Nasu Kinoko
Character design supervision: Takeuchi Takashi
Director: Kadowaki Shouetsu (Blue Dragon, Luminous Arc 2)
Producer: Ninou Kazuya (Sekaijyu no meikyuu, 7th Dragon)

Ninou Kazuya was also recently announced to be the director for Capcom’s upcoming RPG Last Ranker. Why is he working on two projects for two different companies at the same time anyway.

Pics: 1, 2, 3

The official website for Angel Beats! has announced that it is currently in hikikomori mode and will only come back on the 30th of September.

Interview with Angel Beats! producer Toba Hirofumi from Dengeki G’s magazine:

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Director: Kishi Seiji (Seto no Hanayome, Tentai Senshi Sunred)
Art Director: Hirata Katsuzou (Strike Witches, Gurren Lagann)
Sound director: Iida Satoki (Seto no Hanayome, Tentai Senshi Sunred)
Production: PA Works (true tears, CANAAN)

Pics: 1, 2

Got to wait till evening before I have time to write about the details from the interview in the mag.

Via: Media create

Idolmaster DS has sold 31,000 copies in its first week. I guess the reports from retailers that Idolmaster DS was completely eaten by Love Plus was true, Idolmaster DS had large amounts in preorder and sold about 20,000 on the first day but it was reportedly not too good after that.

Had to mention IM@S sales since I already posted about Love Plus and Dream C Club.

Currently:

It looks like Love Plus might hit 100,000 after all.

Also there’s too much kissing in Love Plus. I wish there was a function to disable kissing.

Photos of her featured on nikkei of all places too. Article doesn’t have any details saying if she’s hired by Sega or something sadly.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be using Vocaloid 2 technology to allow players to make Boss sing. There will be a separate voice database for the Japanese and the English versions, and will make use of the SaaS service NetVOCALOID to synthesize the voices from a main server set up by Konami.
Via: ITmedia

Edit: The vocaloid technology will be used for the last boss “AI”, and it’ll use Kikuchi Yumi’s voice for the database.
Via: OnlinePlayerEX
Thanks to the comment that pointed this out.

A new blood donation room will be opening in front of the Akihabara station on the 1st of October and they’ll be having a Hatsune Miku exhibition event from 1st October 2009 to 8th January 2010. They will have Hatsune Miku music, promotional videos, and related products on display at the blood donation room, with full support from Good Smile Company too.

Maid cafe Schatzkiste has announced that an art exhibition for Akiman (Street Fighter, Turn A Gundam) will be held in their cafe from the 10th of October to the 31st of October. No other details have been announced yet.

Akiman quit Capcom several years ago and is now holding an art exhibition in a maid cafe, Nishimura Kinu quit Capcom and is doing that new Chunsoft game. I wonder what BENGUS is up to now, haven’t seen his stuff in a while. I don’t even know if he’s still with Capcom.

Also, Yoshikawa Tatsuya has a new Capcom game. He’s probably the only Capcom illustrator still with Capcom now whose work I can still recognize.

A new shop called Cute room will be opening in Akihabara on the 4th of October and they will allow customers to do all sorts of activities with the girls there, such as getting slapped in the face (both sides) at the great bargain price of 1,000 yen (US$11).

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Spice and Wolf author Hasekura Isuna has sighted some discussion online about his investments and he has decided to divulge his portfolio on his blog.

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