Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 28, 2010
By now, most of you should be familiar with the Japanese practice of gijinka, where various objects and programs are turned into cute girls or prettyboys. It’s pretty standard now, but Choujigen Game Neptune (Superdimensional Game Neptune) has taken this to an all-new high – or low, depending on your perspective on the trend. Choujigen Game [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 8, 2010
Over in the Twitter universe, a single post has sparked a lot of discussion – the official Bandai Namco Games twitter account announced that a Pac-Man anime is in the works for broadcast in 2012. It’s going to be in 3D, and in the opinion of this American blogger, it’s already a bad idea. How [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 6, 2010
It’s been five years after the first iDOLM@STER game took over arcades, which led to two highly successful Xbox 360 games, 4 portable versions, and a whole ton of concerts and CD releases. Last weekend, Namco Bandai announced the newest installment of the famous music-producing simulation: The iDOLM@STER 2. Interestingly, the sequel is going straight [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 22, 2010
NIS America’s famous penchant for special editions is serving it well for its upcoming anime releases of Toradora! and Persona: Trinity Soul. The game company-turned-anime company is treating its anime titles like its game releases, putting the entirety of Toradora! and Persona: Trinity Soul in two-disc sets and packaging them with, among other things, full color [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 18, 2010
The freakish tableau you see above is a diorama created by store employees at Gamers in Akihabara. I’ve always loved the crazy little displays they put up to advertise upcoming products or just mess with people (one of my all-time favorites is repurposing School Days‘ infamous “There’s no one inside” for a reminder about bathroom [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 3, 2010
Yes, that’s right. Subaru, the car company, has published a free dating sim game, playable on popular Japanese social networking site Mixi. The game is titled Love Drive, and unlike other games in the genre, uses real models. The game takes place entirely in your car (a Subaru Legacy B4, of course) as you drive [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 2, 2010
What happens when you take JAM Project and their old-school anime sensibilities away from the vaunted Super Robot Wars series? A whole lot of fan service rushes in to fill the vacuum. You get Mizuki Nana playing a busty fairy princess, and watch an opening sequence that’s so shamelessly fan service-oriented that one of the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 27, 2010
I have no idea why I like the Quiz Magic Academy OVA so much. I like the arcade and DS games because of my undying love for trivia games and game shows (though my lack of a Japanese education hurts me when it comes time to answer social studies and history questions), but the OVA [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 15, 2010
Sega, which previously found success with its Love and Berry and Mushiking game franchises, is trying to recapture the young girl crowd with Lilpri – Yubipuru Himechen (very roughly, “Little Princess – Change into a Princess With a Shake of Your Finger”), a fiendishly addictive combination of magical girl fantasy and collectible card game. The [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 23, 2009
It’s been a long time since the heyday of Shiina Hekiru, so it’s entirely possible that you don’t know who she is. Her most famous role came 15 years ago, as Hikaru in Magic Knight Rayearth. After that, she gained a lot of popularity as a singer, especially after a 1997 concert at the legendary [...]
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