Canned Dogs

Moon Phase has the news on White Album and the staff working on it, and they’ve apparently got Hirano Aya to voice Yuki and Mizuki Nana to voice Rina. And the art for the game will continue to be by Kawata Hisashi while the character designs for the anime will be by Yoshinari Kou.

…Yoshinari Kou!?

Also the PS3 version of the game will have the SLG elements taken out and White Album will be a pure AVG game. The songs White Album, Sound of Destiny, and Powder Snow from the PC version will still be used in some way even if they have new songs for the OP and ED.

The story for the anime will be different from the game.

I’m not sure how many people reading this have actually heard of Rune, but they were a middle sized eroge maker which has been around since 1999 when they released Fifth and has been semi-popular among certain groups of people.

A large number of their staff including their CG editors and their scenario writers have been quitting since early May. And most recently the two artists that Rune has always been known for, Nonohara Miki and Akamaru, who have been in the company since the beginning, have revealed on their blogs that they too, have quit.

An ex-staff(?) from Rune had appeared on 2ch last night saying that they had quit because they weren’t receiving their pay, and that most of the staff had gone their separate ways instead going as a team and forming a new brand under a different company. However, their upcoming game 8665^3 was already mostly completed when the staff left the company, so chances are that it’ll somehow still get released.

Nonohara and Akamaru are apparently still working together in their new job, though it’s unknown where they’ve moved to yet.

Info from the new issue of Push!! magazine

NSFW pics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

- All they can reveal at this point about the new minigame is that it’s related to how Saya is a spy that’s after the school’s secret treasure and there’s something underground under the school.

- Saya is a spy and moves alone a lot and basically only interacts with the main character. Tennen boke tsundere.

- Text is 1.4 times as much as the original and voice data has increased by a lot, hence the need for 2 DVDs.

- 10 new tracks for the music.

- Some characters have new scenarios, especially Kudo and Haruka.

- All the new heroines have their own endings.

- Kanata’s scenario will come after the end of Haruka’s scenario so her attitude will be very different.

- Little Busters EX has been worked on since September last year.

- Schedule has been really tight, especially Na-Ga who had to work on both the new character and a sub character that became a main character.

- No plans for a console port of the game, because the mini game will be hard to do on the PS2.

- The guy that was originally supposed to write the scenario is really packed right now so Maeda started writing again.

- They’ve got a lot of outside help this time, especially with the mini games.

- The baseball part has also changed, they talk more now and more characters are added*

- There will be ways for people that have already played the original to only play the newly added parts immediately.

- They’ve put in effort on the H scenes, up to three H scenes for some characters.

- H scenes are not written by Maeda but by Shirokiri, Maeda tried his hand with H scenes before in Tomoyo After but it didn’t work out at all.

- Kinniku sensation ending will be powered up

- Tonogawa is already working on Rewrite (current progress 5%)

- Still undecided if Rewrite will be 18+ or all ages, they’ll follow whatever the chairman decides

- Orito Shinji is looking for a disciple

- They haven’t decided what they’ll do for Key’s 10 year anniversary

*They originally said that new characters aren’t going to get involved in the baseball mini game but we’ll pretend they never said that

Via: Key新作リトルバスターズ！　Part351

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

Takes about 15 to 20 hours to finish every route. Everything was pretty average aside from Haru’s route. Ugh, I don’t know. A number of people have been bashing the game already, I don’t think it’s that bad, but it’s not anywhere on the level of Sharin no kuni at least.

There’s still all the weird inconsistencies between earlier routes and Haru’s route that I couldn’t figure out. It almost feels like they changed the plot at the last minute and didn’t have time to fix the earlier parts…

The devil on G string

NSFW scans of Little Busters! Ecstasy from Tech Gian and Push
1, 2, 3, 4

Also, should trackbacks be turned on? I originally turned it off when I got the site on wordpress because it looked like an unneeded feature and it sticks in between the comments. But I noticed recently that it’s normal for sites to have trackbacks…

Little Busters! Ecstasy is going to be 2 DVDs and the recommended disk space is now 5gb, up from 3.5gb in the original.

Gamepot’s Pangya collaboration event with Hatsune Miku was a new song and a new in-game Hatsune Miku costume. Though it sounds like there is still more to the collaboration that will be revealed on the 22nd of May when it officially launches.

The Xuse guys have formed Eternal and announced their first game after moving to Will. The other Xuse scenario writer has released a doujin game. Still waiting for Xuse to announce that they’re closing…

Sekai de ichiban NG na koi took only 40 days to make. Basically only the scenario was done on September 20th when they started the project, and they aimed to complete it by 22nd November. They actually needed to hire 9 other colouring guys to keep up with the pace that the artist was producing the art at.

Eroge brand Abogado Powers has updated their site revealing their first game Sukusuku mizugi as their first comeback title for release in July. They’ve also announced that they’ll be releasing two other games. The first game looks incredibly… generic.

I was going to write about pixy but a quick google says that Heisei Democracy already wrote something about it so I don’t have to do anything! Though, I wouldn’t be too surprised if pixy was dying even if p2p and piracy weren’t prevalent…

The newly released Time Leap visual guidebook has an announcement from the producer Yamakawa Ryuuichirou that they are planning to release a Xbox 360 version of their real time rendered 3D eroge Time Leap within the year. They also plan to release a fandisk for the PC within the year too.

So after being bashed for having crappy ero scenes they decide to remove all ero scenes and port it to the 360!

The ultimate ero manga (NSFW)

Otaroad blog reports that Lass’ latest eroge 11eyes is starting to get sold out in stores in Nipponbashi. I haven’t seen many negative comments on the story for 11eyes (unlike Tsuyokiss 2), maybe I should try it out next week or something.

Komatsunaya has released a Hatsune Miku typing game called Byoukan Vocaloid Typing free for download for a limited time. You’re supposed to type every letter from A to Z and the lower your score the better.

I was watching the incredibly funny Pangya Japan Cup finals today and they made a surprise announcement that the online fantasy golf game Pangya will be having a collaboration event with Hatsune Miku. Details for the event will be announced on the 22nd.