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Eroge seiyuu costs

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Popular seiyuu: 130 yen per word
Average seiyuu: 100 yen per word (standard price in the industry)
Leave it to them to decide: 90 yen per word (when you ask them for cheap usable people)

Overworked seiyuu: +30 yen
Negotiating with seiyuu that won’t do rape: +20~50 yen
Take everything from the same agency: -10~20 yen

Even when a seiyuu has 5000 words, the price per word will not go down in most cases.

Also if it’s not at least 100 words, they might not accept the job due to stuff like transportation fees and such. So in cases where it’s in the vicinity of 100 words, the company will ask them if it’s possible to do it for something like 20,000 yen instead of going on a per word basis.

Studio costs:

Budget home studio: 3000~5000 yen
Average minor studio: 6000~8000 yen
Average major studio: 9000~12000 yen

Sound editing costs:

Do in-house: 0 yen (not recommended)
Budget sound editing: 30~50 yen (they won’t normalize the voices for you so it’s not recommended, games where the voices are soft during normal scenes and loud during H scenes are done at this price)
Average sound editing: 60~80 yen
Sound editing by somewhere famous: 90~120 yen

Censorship of obscene words

Done in-house: 0 yen (best to do in-house)
Done somewhere else: approx. 50 yen (might be cheaper if asked to do with sound editing)

If you get somewhere that has a studio to handle all the audio related stuff there will be some discounts.

Censorship of obscene words refers to “chinko” and “manko”. Censorship is required when there are seiyuu in the cast that won’t allow these words to be in the game, in such cases the company may censor all instances of these words in the game to standardize

One person says that with their company, it costs at least 1,500,00 yen to 1,600,000 yen for 10,000 words with all costs involved. And that is when they leave it to the agency to pick seiyuu for them. If they pick the seiyuu themselves it easily costs +500,000 yen

Depending on the agency, there are also seiyuu that will take a % of the original costs as secondary use license royalties if the company decides to release a downloadable version, a budget version, PG version, or console ports etc

When a console port or an anime is made, these costs are usually paid by the company in charge of the port, if it’s done in-house then royalties have to be paid together with the additional voices

Ero anime only pays approximately 10,000 yen per episode and takes a day, so when an eroge becomes an ero anime, there are a lot of seiyuu that will refuse to do voices for the ero anime, which is why the ero anime versions usually have a different voice cast

Seiyuu voice recording costs has apparently increased dramatically in recent years, agencies did not charge on a per word basis or ask for secondary use license royalties 5 years ago. Comments from some say it is now about 150% to 300% as compared to before.

Via: 業界関係者に質問しよう　その36

Just in case: Eroge voice acting pay is different from anime

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STEINS;GATE is coming to the PC

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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From Techgian June issue, STEINS;GATE is being ported to the PC.

Everybody was buzzing about how amazing this game was and I almost bought an Xbox360 to play this game but I guess there’s no need to anymore!

Pics: 1, 2, 3

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Mamotte Knight & Kinniku

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

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Ancient’s Xbox360 Indies game Mamotte Knight
Trailer here. A PC demo is available via clicking on that diskette in the middle of the website. Also to run the demo you need to install the Microsoft XNA framework available here. It’s pretty cool!

Kinnikuman author talks about Yoshinoya on twitter
Yoshinoya was bankrupt in the 1980s and asked to have them featured in Kinnikuman as the gyuudon place and they got it, but they’ve never sponsored a single Kinnikuman episode. Which basically means they got revived from the ashes by Kinnikuman for free.

They gave him a bowl with his name on it that was supposed to let him eat gyuudon for free at any of their stores if he brought his bowl, but they rejected it when he tried to use it at a store during a variety show. (they knew in advance that he was coming) youtube link

Shuueisha asked Yoshinoya if they’d like to do anything in celebration for Kinnikuman’s 29th anniversary as a chance to repay the favor, but they rejected it saying they have no intention of doing anything, and Sukiya offered to celebrate it instead so they did the Sukiya ad (youtube).

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Princess Maker Online

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

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Korean company Mgame will be making Princess Maker Online
No details at all because they only just started, they haven’t even decided on a platform yet, but they apparently said that they’re considering mobile phones, smart phones, browser game, social game, console game, and MMORPG. Which basically means they haven’t decided yet. But the genre will still be raising sim. And they hope to release two titles in 2010.

Galge.com is closing
Ahhhhhh

Evangelion body shaped bottles to go on sale
Oh… Japanese hentai…

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Compile Heart’s game about the game industry

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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Platform: PS3
Genre: RPG
Release date: 2010 Summer
Developer: Compile Heart
Publisher: Sega

Takes place in the fictional world called Geimugyokai (Game industry)

Geimugyokai is split into 4 different worlds with 4 different goddesses

The four worlds are Platetume, Rinbox (360), Lasdition (PS3?), Ruwii (Wii)

The four goddesses are Purple Heart (Neptune), Green Heart, Black Heart, White Heart

Battles are in 3D

Game companies are represented by characters in the game too (Gust, Nippon ichi etc)

Able to summon guardian angels from actual games or from pictures in the PS3 photo album

Possible to customize appearances and combos

Neptune and others work together to beat the evil goddess “Majekonnu” (Majikon is the term used to refer to DS flash carts like R4 etc)

Pics: 1, 2, 3, 4

I don’t know if Neptune is supposed to represent an existing hardware or if she’s a new original character, but I sure hope she’s supposed to be the Sega Neptune.

Unrelated MGS: 1, 2, 3

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