Canned Dogs

The Mangaoh listing for the August issue of Dengeki Hime has revealed that 14 years after the release of the previous game, Alicesoft will be making Toushintoshi 3 and a leaked picture from the magazine reveals that the game is geared towards a winter release this year.

Toushintoshi 2, released in 1994, is considered by many long time Alicesoft fans as one of the best games to have been released by the company with its intricate game balance and story. The game is currently distributed free as freeware by Alicesoft together with their other old games here.

Mangaoh also leaks info from Dengeki G’s Magazine revealing that a PS3 port and an anime for Leaf’s 1998 game White Album is in the works. Moon Phase and Rakugakidou have both confirmed that this news is true so this seems to be 100% certain…

I don’t know why they’re bringing White Album back, I seem to remember back then that it was pretty badly received and marked the end of Leaf Osaka’s golden age.

ここが、あの女のハウスね

From vol. 29 of Young Magazine, one of the editors comment that he feels that some recent seiyuu have been becoming arrogant, talking on and on TV about the feelings of the character that they’re voicing and the character’s background, as if the seiyuu is the original author of the story.

He doesn’t name anybody but he says that the person that he saw spoke of the character in such a way that it made him want to say “you didn’t create this character did you?”, and it makes him hope that only the seiyuu that hold the mindset that they’re “given the role” will be successful.

Young Magazine manga that have been animated recently are Kaiji, Minamike, and xxxHolic. And the most recent TV appearance by a seiyuu is Hirano Aya on Top Runner two weeks ago.

Via: ヤンマガ編集が声優批判「調子に乗るな！」

The website for anime studio Ingres A has apparently put Tales of the Abyss in the list of anime that it has worked on, and Moon Phase is reporting that it’s going to be a TV series by Sunrise with Kodama Kenji as the director and Hishinuma Yoshihito as character designer.

With some luck it won’t end up like the Tales of Eternia TV series!

Kannagi Radio featured Yamamoto Yutaka (director), Kurata Hideyuki (scriptwriter), and Tomatsu Haruka (seiyuu). Yamakan actually briefly talks about what happened to him over at Kyoani last year when he was pulled off being the director of Lucky Star.

He was apparently told that he was fired after being called out one night at 11pm, though he doesn’t reveal the circumstances that led him to get fired. And he tried to fight back but it didn’t work.

I guess that means there isn’t much chance that Yamakan will be helping out with Haruhi new animation like what some fans were hoping. And since Yamakan isn’t going to be around that means chances are that the Haruhi composer Kousaki Satoru won’t be working on the anime either…

The Yomiuri newspaper reports that the economic impact of the Lucky Star stuff in Washimiya town from Dec 07 to May 08 was 41.7 million yen (US$400,000). At the same time, Satte city also reports an economic impact of 25 million yen (US$230,000) from Lucky Star over the same period.

The Washinomiya shrine in Washimiya was featured in Lucky Star, which caused an influx of fans to visit the shrine last year. Washimiya has then been capitalizing on this by holding Lucky Star events and selling Lucky Star goods. A record number of 300,000 visitors to the shrine was also recorded over the new year.

Newspaper image from らき☆すた　≡ω≡.　part417

Chugoku Shimbun says that the “Dagger knife”, a knife that has an edge on both sides, that was used by the killer in the Akihabara stabbing incident is a popular item called “Dagger knife” that is present as an item in popular video games such as Dragon Quest.

Yomiuri Online agrees and reports that the “Dagger knife” is a weapon used in popular video games and the “Dagger knife” is very popular among young teenagers. The police is now discussing countermeasures to possibly tighten the regulation on the possession of knives with long blades. (The current regulation only requires registration if the blade is longer than 15 cm)

Zakzak reports that doujinshi was found in the Akiba killer’s room, and according to his colleagues, he likes to sing “lolicon anime songs” and proclaimed that he only likes 2D girls. The Akiba killer had also previously said that he likes Akihabara and had showed his colleagues around the area to places such as maid cafes.

Zakzak continues reporting on the killer’s interests with games and CDs that the killer had given to a friend, including doujin games such as Eternal Fighter Zero and Chantelise, and the killer reportedly loves a certain “Moe anime girl danmaku shooter” for the PC.

Yahoo reports that Masuda Hiroya, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, has responded that they will try to see if they can regulate dangerous information on the internet in response to the fact that the Akiba killer had posted on a cellphone bbs (not 2ch) about his plans to kill people in Akiba hours before the incident but the authorities did not manage to detect it.

Also, Asahi reports that the police have announced that all the bystanders that tried to save the people that got stabbed should go for a blood test, because one of the males that died had an unnamed disease that can possibly spread by direct contact with his blood.

Somebody scanned the articles from Newtype: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Nothing to say that hasn’t already been said in the last post really.

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Pics from Newtype
The reason why they cancelled 2nd season and started “Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu new animation” instead was because they felt that they couldn’t just do a 2nd season and that they wanted to do a completely new “Haruhi” again. They’re still deciding on the concept for the new anime and how it’ll be like and having meetings for how the story will go.

It’s still probably going to be about disappearance, with those character designs that are shown.

The art exhibition for chapter 4 of the Kara no kyoukai movie started at the ufotable cafe today, but the ufotable blog writes that in the previous 5 Kara no kyoukai art exhibitions that they’ve held at the cafe, they’ve experienced a total of 3 cases of art being stolen from the displays.

They write that they could have a person guarding the showcases or install security cameras, but the cafe is something of a community place and they wish to be able to trust the Kara no kyoukai fans instead of suspecting them.

However, they’ll have trouble holding art exhibitions if these cases of theft continue, and hope that such cases will stop.

Gravure idol defends Arino and gets flamed by Geass fans too

Heart-sama hidebu ball released as crane game prize
From Hokuto no ken

The official site for Negima Ala Alba has updated with a promo trailer of the upcoming OAD anime. I hadn’t noticed that Shinbou was still directing it, but still no signs of any possible battle scenes…

Muhyojo reports that three new serializations will be starting in Shounen Sunday on issues 29, 30, and 31. All three of them are manga that were successful as one shot manga in Sunday, two of the one shots were published early 2007 and another one early this year.

Japanese blog ManiaxZ reports that on the 1st of June, a man was caught attacking a woman on the streets of Akihabara because he lost to her in a video game in the arcades. These violent fighting games sure are making people violent.