Guy: I’d like to tattoo a picture of Fate-chan on my back
Shop: Ahhh Fate-chan is nice isn’t she!! What age should she be at? What about the barrier jacket?
Guy: Elementary school version, and please come up with some different clothes instead of the barrier jacket. Bardiche will need to be in there.
Shop: Okay, I’ll let you know once it’s ready
Flying panties will go on sale starting on the 6th of March for 1000 yen. They’re ornithopter panties that flap their “wings” to fly, and were made under the supervision of Sci-fi writer Nojiri Housuke.
Also they will be holding a event called Sora fest! on the 6th of March, where everybody can get together and fly their panties together. And they’ll have a workshop on the day itself on how to make your own flying panties and also a talk session on flight by some famous people.
The panties can supposedly stay in flight for 20 seconds powered just by rubber bands. I can’t imagine how it’ll look when 100 people fly their panties.
Both Nanoha the movie and Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works went on cinemas on the same day on the 23rd of January.
Nanoha was screened at 19 cinemas across Japan, accumulating 61,292,300 yen at the box office with 39,863 people having watched it. That means an average of approximately 3,220,000 yen per cinema in two days.
Fate/Stay Night was screened at 12 cinemas across Japan, accumulating 37,699,500 yen in the box office with 24,407 people watching it, coming to an average of approximately 3,140,000 yen per cinema over two days.
Also the sales of goods for Nanoha at Shinjuku Mirano 1 on the first day hit 11,959,025 yen (total sales for one cinema), which beat the record set by Evangelion by 167%.
It’s pretty hard to comment on anything when both movies are a big success.
Via: 【興行】劇場公開アニメを語ろう31回目【収入】, bunkatsushin
A doujin opera adaptation of Higurashi no naku koro ni will apparently be held at the Nerima Bunka center on the 13th of March, with tickets going on sale starting on the 2nd of February at 2,000 yen each. This is a doujin production, meaning it’s not official or anything.
A number of the opera songs can be sampled here. They’re Hatsune Miku versions so if you want to hear the real thing you have to go watch the opera.
Media Magic has announced that they’ll be releasing new Evangelion themed bicycles designed personally by Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, the character designer for the Evangelion series. They commissioned him to design the bikes as cycling is one of his hobbies apparently.
They’ll be called the EVA00BIKE type-r and EVA02BIKE type-a, modeled after Rei and Asuka respectively. They’ll go for 98,280 yen (US$1093) each and are slated to release in mid June.
Media Magic also released a EVA01BIKE in 2006 which wasn’t designed by Sadamoto and goes for half the price and possibly look cooler too.
Link: Official site
Voting also ended for the best eromanga of 2009.
Back when Maid yome was released, it was apparently already sold out in some places even before the official release date because of early releases, and places like Akiba Toranoana 1 and Melonbooks were sold out on the first day of release of the book. Still out of stock in Amazon Japan right now.
There were a total of 568 eromanga released in 2009 that were eligible in the voting.
1st place (22 votes)
Maid yome - Kizuki Aruchu
2nd place (19 votes)
Koisuru pantsu - Okada Kou
3rd place (18 votes)
Mai Favorite - Kisaragi Gunma
4th place (14 votes)
Chijou no hito - Tsukino Jougi
5th place (11 votes)
JC ecchi - Shiwasu no Okina
6th place (10 votes)
Muchipuri - Arima Zin
6th place (10 votes)
Tayutayu - Yamatogawa
8th place (9 votes)
Namanaka - Nora Shinji
8th place (9 votes)
Hajimeteno - Zukiki
10th place (8 votes)
Honey Blonde - Fukuda-da
10th place (8 votes)
Hajimete koi wo shita - Asagi Ryuu
10th place (8 votes)
Sayonara, oppai. - Aoki Kanji
10th place (8 votes)
I Love! - Yarii Shimeta
Bonus: 2009 sales ranking from Akihabara Toranoana A
Via: Akibablog
1st place
Maid yome - Kizuki Aruchu
2nd place
Mai Favorite - Kisaragi Gunma
3rd place (voted 1st in 2008)
Tsundero - Takeda Hiromitsu
4th place
Chijou no hito - Tsukino Jougi
5th place
Lucky na hi - Inu
6th place
Momozono gakuen danshiryou ni youkoso! - Sameda Koban
7th place
Konya no Sikorsky - F4U
8th place
Honey Blonde - Fukuda-da
9th place
Boitore! - PONPON
10th place
Koisuru pantsu - Okada Kou
Each person could vote for up to 6 different titles, and each person could give an additional +1 or +2 points to a title he feels was really game (total of 3 extra points to spend). With each game vote the person can choose one aspect of the game which he thought was exceptionally good, so games with good scenario get a higher score in the scenario section and games with better “gaming” get a higher score in the Playability section.
S: Scenario
C: Character, Voice
G: Graphics, effects
M: Music
P: Playability
H: The ero in the game on a scale of 1 to 5, averaged out
1st place
BALDR SKY Dive2 “RECORDARE”
Released 27/11/2009 by Giga
S:40 C:9 G:3 M:16 P:124 H:2.33
413 pts
2nd place
BALDR SKY Dive1 “LostMemory”
Released 27/03/2009 by Giga
S:29 C:6 G:2 M:10 P:130 H:2.65
360pts
3rd place
装甲悪鬼村正 -FullMetalDaemon MURAMASA-
Released 30/10/2009 by Nitro+
S:115 C:9 G:18 M:2 P:0 H:1.87
337pts
4th place
Ore tachi ni tsubasa wa nai
Released 24/04/2009 by Navel
S:89 C:64 G:0 M:0 P:0 H:1.94
329pts
5th place
Hoshizora no memoria
Released 27/03/2009 by FAVORITE
S:58 C:36 G:14 M:8 P:0 H:2.60
235pts
6th place
Maji de watashi ni koi shinasai!
Released 28/08/2009 by Minatosoft
S:10 C:105 G:1 M:1 P:0 H:3.18
193pts
7th place
Dies irae -Acta est Fabula-
Released 25/12/2009 by Light
S:42 C:20 G:8 M:2 P:0 H:1.84
153pts
8th place
Shirokuma Bellstars
Released 11/12/2009 by Pulltop
S:18 C:58 G:4 M:0 P:0 H:3.45
147pts
9th place
Himegari dungeon meister
Released 24/04/2009 by Eushully
S:0 C:2 G:1 M:0 P:69 H:3.62
118pts
10th place
Sakura sakura
Released 26/06/2009 by Haikuosoft
S:12 C:52 G:7 M:3 P:1 H:2.97
117 pts
11) Coμ ~Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku~ - Akatsuki Works
12) Mashiroiro Symphony - Palette
13) Tenshinranman -LUCKY or UNLUCKY!?- - Yuzu soft
14) Natsuyumenagisa - Saga Planets
15) Kikouyokusenki Tenkuu no Yumina - ETERNAL
16) Suzunone7! - Clochette
17) Alice 2010 - Alicesoft
18) Shinigami no kiss wa wakare no aji - ALcot Citrus
19) Natsu no ame - Cube
20) Hikari no Valusia - Liar soft
21) Kyonyuu Fantasy - Waffle
22) W.L.O. Sekai Renai Kikou - Akabeesoft2
23) Bishoujo - Tanuki soft
24) Yoake mae yori ruri iro na -Moonlight Cradle- - August
25) Trample on “Schatten!!” - TailWind (closed)
Via: 2009年ベストエロゲー投票雑談スレッド
Ore tachi ni tsubasa wa nai is my personal top for best scenario for 2009. Then again I haven’t played Muramasa, Hoshizora, or Dies Irae.
Yokota Takuma (23)’s manga submission Senka ni saku has been announced to have won the honorable mention award in the 29th Jump Treasure newcomer’s manga award.
Yokota is also known as YOKO on 2ch and he’s the artist for the web manga version of Onanie Master Kurosawa.
His manga will be available for reading online soon on Shounen Jump’s website.
Basically this means he has a chance to get on Akamaru now and maybe sometime in the far future he’ll get onto Shounen Jump with some luck and some vipper power.
They ended at 9,082,000 yen for the Stratocaster and 7,761,000 yen for the Telecaster, but over 20 bidders on the Telecaster had their accounts suspended when it was determined they had no intention of paying, and after that there were numerous bid cancellations and the Telecaster ended up going at 3,050,000 yen.
The Stratocaster that ended at 9,082,000 yen on the other hand had over 50 bid cancellations and the auction itself was canceled.
Yahoo auctions has got the positive feedback system like on ebay, but it apparently wasn’t enough to stop this from happening.
Via: Cyzo
