Canned Dogs

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.

The next issue of Famitsu has announced that Chunsoft’s latest “next-gen” sound novel Imabikisou, which was originally released for the PS3, will be ported to the Wii with extra scenarios not available in the PS3 version. The game will be called Imabikisou kaimeihen and will serve as the “complete” version.

Didn’t the game’s producer say something about how the PS3 was the only system that could do all the next-gen stuff they were trying to do with the game!

I’ll update this post as more info/pics appear.

Mahou tsukai no yoru
- Art by Koyama Hirokazu
- Game slated for release 2009, possibly at the start of 2009
- For all ages
- Most of the story will be the same as the original
- It’s all-ages because they did not want to change the original story just for ero scenes
- Pics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Background art

Girl’s Work
- Not much is revealed yet
- The concept of this story is that the city itself is the main character
- The city where there story takes place is Shinjuku which has become like Paris
- No characters revealed, but lots of art of very beautiful scenary
- Pic: 1

Tsukihime
- All the art will be redrawn from the ground up again.
- Release will be after Mahou tsukai no yoru
- Satsuki is introduced as one of the 6 main heroines of the game
- Not decided if it will be 18+ or all ages, or if it’ll have voices
- Pic: 1

New sequel to Fate/Tiger Colosseum
- New characters Angra Mainyu and Kiritsugu

The below are just stuck into the magazine as a record of Type-moon’s past april fools jokes.

Neco Arc the movie
- Pic: 1

Fushigi energy Korona RIVIVE
- Pic: 1

Hazakura-Romantic
- Pic: 1

Partially via: Seasons of Change