Canned Dogs

Melty Blood Actress again was shown at the Sega private show 2008 spring, but yeah, nothing really new that wasn’t already known before. No additional characters revealed yet, still scheduled for summer release.

Scans of the flyer from am-net: 1, 2

Niconico douga has announced today that they are starting a new video service called spike niconico channel which will be for games that are being distributed by spike in Japan. It currently has trailers games such as Bioshock and Tomb Raider, and they hope to expand to have gameplay videos and interviews.

Now I’m sure it’s completely unrelated but on the same day, niconico has started deleting tons of gameplay videos of Nintendo-owned games due to “requests from the copyright holder” such as the videos of people playing modified versions of Mario and Pokemon, and the videos of fully automatic Mario which had been pretty popular, and especially the recent one of the gumi kyoku. (it’s still up on youtube)

As a result of the deletions, the total number of videos viewed across all videos in niconico douga has dropped by 20 million views today.

I don’t know if it’s just Nintendo or if they’re planning to eventually remove all gameplay videos from the site, but this sucks.

The release date for Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper has been announced along with the contents of the limited edition set MEGAMORI BOX. They’ve also revealed that Irisviel will be playable in the game, and at this rate I guess Iskander and moe moe Waver Velvet will be appearing in the game too.

Also the limited edition set will contain tarot cards from 23 different illustrators including ex-SNK illustrator Shinkirou, master of Charlie Sheen faces. Together in the set is a binder book for the tarot cards, a 72 page settings book, a drama CD, and a special DVD.

That’s almost enough extras in the limited edition set for people to buy the set for the extras and ignore the actual game!

Takara Tomy has announced that they’ll be releasing a Tetsudou musume game for the DS where you play as a magazine reporter who travels around Japan to interview girls working in the Train industry. Tetsudou musume was a semi-popular line of figures made based on girls in train worker uniforms.

Falcom has updated their site today announcing that Zwei II will be released in the summer this year and has released several screenshots of the game. But man, the game is in 3D! Not that I have anything against 3D, but I wish they’d continue Zwei in those awesome 2D graphics.

The Lucky Star OVA will start in the summer apparently. Still by Kyoani. Haruhi in 2009 sounds more real with each passing day!

The Wii Haruhi game will be a dance game.

Dengeki has revealed details on Akibablog about their upcoming magazine renewal that was announced last month. It involves a new logo and… increased number of pages and lower price. 900 pages and 580 yen is awesome, but I guess that means they’ll be back to using cheap paper.

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.

That’s what Okami director Kamiya Hideki is wondering about when he found out about it from English forums. And after confirming that it is true with the localization staff, he is feeling really downcast that Capcom would cut out the credits for everybody that worked on the game.

He also goes on to say how the staff had put in a lot of feelings into the staff credits for Okami to make it something that would suit the end of a long journey as it was also their first game with a long story and that there is nothing that saddens him more to know that everything got cut away.

Update: The official translation of the post in English and Capcom’s official reason as to why they removed the credits

Catching up with small stuff.

Sekai de ichiban NG na koi (eroge) was a lovely game. I wanted to write a post about the great characters and story, but after several bad attempts at writing a post I gave up and decided to just have a small mention about it here.

Clannad has been announced to be one of the anime to be featured at the TBS anime festa 2008 and considering how Air, Kanon, and Clannad were all shown in TBS anime festa first before starting on TV soon after, the possibility of Clannad after story starting in October has become a lot more real.

Clannad on the 360 will have downloadable content (not free). The downloadable content will be Hikari mimamoru sakamichi de which was a collection of side stories sold as a book. More money for Key!

Evangelion 1.0 movie DVD makes record sales selling 219,000 copies in its first week, more than any other Evangelion DVD to date, and also making it the current best selling DVD for 2008. This definitely shows what the power of Ayanami’s naked body can do (!?)

A second live-action Higurashi movie has been announced, no details have been revealed yet on what chapter of Higurashi the 2nd movie will be about. They aren’t even going to see if the first movie is going to be a flop yet!?

Ass flashing Asuka Sawamoto (30) previously claimed she was 22 and that the mass media made a mistake saying she was 30. So now the mass media gets back at her with all sorts of proof from the police and from her blog that she really is 30 years old.