Canned Dogs

Livedoor news reports that a fire had broken out at the offices of eroge maker Circus. The cause of the fire is not yet known and there has not been any comment from Circus about the incident yet, but the local fire station in the area has commented that approximately half of the office have been damaged by the fire.

Circus had just announced a bunch of Da Capo projects and a bright future recently too. Man.

Update: Staff from Circus has posted on the Circus official BBS saying that nobody was hurt and their work has not been affected. They also say there will probably not be any delays on the release date, but an official statement will be made on a later date.

Yesterday, introduced via Ishii Jirou from Chunsoft, I managed to get a chance to have a meal with the two gentlemen from TYPE-MOON, Nasu Kinoko and Takeuchi Takashi.

The meeting only lasted for a short while, but the meeting was pure enjoyment and I have not had something like that in a while.

It was the first time we met but I felt like we had already known each other for a long time, I felt a kind of affinity that was like deja vu.

It’s a special privilege that only creators have. Even when age or race are completely different, we can still understand each other instantly when we have the same “smell”.

Even though we’re from completely different areas, it does raise my spirits to get to know people who are working really hard and suffering in agony but continue to still create new work.

It makes me feel that I have to continue working just as hard as they are too!

I got them to sign a copy of Kara no kyoukai as we parted.

Nasu-san, Takeuchi-san, Ishii-san, thank you very much.

Via: Kojima Productions Blogcast

Fan translation of Sharin no kuni has been released.

They’re also working on Sharin no kuni fandisc and G-senjou apparently.

Sharin was totally awesome for scenario game lovers so I’m posting about it. I wish I could write more about it now, but this work thing does not allow much free time recently.

Wakamoto is great.

Thanks to Moogy for emailing me about this.

Just how much D.C. stuff does Circus want to make anyway! How much more are they going to exploit fans!

Via: Nanami no zakkibeya

Title: Taiyou no ko
Scenario: Maruto Fumiaki, Looseboy, Takahiro
Art: Nekonyan, Arufaa, Shironeko sanbou

Details will be announced in Techgian February 2010 issue.

It must be the new trend to throw as many famous writers and artists as they possibly can onto a single project.

Also, being incredibly busy with work is the new trend for me.

Eroge maker Teatime has announced Love Death 4 and revealed that it will be taking the Tech48 face recognition technology even further now, using the camera to detect shapes too.

Details about how the shape recognition is not known yet, but the example suggests that the character will recognize the male sexual organ and react to it.

I guess we might finally be coming to the age where eroge gamers will do hip exercises in front of their monitor while completely naked.

This post is based on a list of eroge that was going around 2ch early last year that went “You should be ashamed of yourself if you haven’t read these “books” before you were 20″.

Somewhere along while writing this I realised that this list is meaningless to post in English because the only guys that can really respond to it at all are the people that understand Japanese anyway, but it was too late and I finished the post.

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I just realized that Amaterasu Translations has released a full translation patch for Tanaka Romeo’s Cross Channel. I liked the game so I’m posting about it now that it’s translated!

Fate/Stay Night writer Nasu Kinoko gave it a rave review back when the game was first released:

There is nothing to say about this.
I had a hunch about it, but I didn’t expect it to be this good.

CROSS†CHANNEL （FlyingShine）

I’ll make this my family heirloom.
It’s both my good fortune and bad luck that I would meet this work which now reigns as an absolute and insurmountable wall.

Anyway the game is too amazing so everybody please play it! Oh man, I know saying all this is like I’m strangling my own neck, but I can’t stop myself from recommending it!

Also I don’t know if they translated it, so this might only apply for the guys that know Japanese, but if you played Cross Channel and haven’t read Tower of Friends (トモダチの塔), you might want to google for it. It’s one of the extra scenarios by Romeo that was in the official settings book which ties up a few loose ends.

Nishimata Aoi has announced on her blog that AA and AAA batteries featuring her art will go on sale in a number of major electronics stores in Japan starting from the 19th of September.

She doesn’t say exactly which of the major electronics stores the batteries will be sold in yet, but she mentions she has seen the list and it’s a bunch of really famous names.

Nishimata has been commissioned to do a lot of random stuff like moe sleeping bags or moe watermelons recently, but this seems like the first time that one of the goods containing her work may be entering large scale distribution. Aside from the Star Wars book that is.

Frontwing’s 3D eroge + dancing girl game Time Leap Paradise has been released and it completely exceeds expectations!

Via: タイムリープ シリーズ Part14