Archive for the ‘News’ Category
News!
B’s Log has news of several new games this month:
- Pandora: A new PS2 game from Otomate, with character designs by Kuroba K., who did the art for Souten no Kanata!! (I loved the art for that, though I still haven’t gotten to play it)
- SYK PSP version announced
- Omochabako no Kuni no Alice – an Alice fandisk (PC) announced from QuinRose
- Kuro to Kin no Hirakanai Kagi. – a new R18 game from little cheese. The credits list different names, but the character art really reminds me of Starry Sky
- Tsubasa no Oka no Hime – another new R18 game, from new publisher Snapdragon, set in Victorian England
- Not an otome game, but the popular webcomic/anime Hetalia is being made into a PSP game – produced by Otomate!
- Oh, and there’s a spread with Ruru and Julius…and a mysterious white-haired guy in a mirror! All it says is “Wand of…Truth?”
- It didn’t get an article, but in the release listing there’s a new (at least I never noticed it before) Takuyo game listed as ‘Shinigami to Shoujo’. Who knows if it will come to anything, there’s a game on there that’s been on for years (yeah literally over a year…)
- Tokimemo GS 3 will come out on June 24! Wow that seems fast!
- Hakuouki PS3 is coming in June too, not July! Yayy!
- A bunch of cast announcements, which I think I’ll do separately in mini posts
Other news:
And in personal gaming stuff, I finally got Love Root Zero! Uh, the production isn’t great, it’s taking me a while to get into it partly due to that. Though the seiyuu are good…oh, and the heroine has a voice! Also Last Escort Katze, I’ve gotten through a couple routes there so far.
Love.101 updates – erm, not too much. Planning to open the characters page this weekend though!
Well, that was interesting :D News!
So yeah…I’m so sorry about the blog being AWOL for a long time (3 weeks almost??), I will say that I do NOT recommend GoDaddy and Hostpapa for web hosting…though I eventually got things sorted out and I like my new host Site5, it was very painful and annoying.
But enough of that! I am going to put off my big announcement post till next Friday, because man, there’s been a lot of otome news and I need to catch up!
- Storm Lover, a new game for the PSP is announced by D3P
- A Hakuouki mini-game game, (like Vitamin Y I guess) Hakuouki Yuugiroku just opened its website at Otomate
- Scared Rider Xechs, the mystery otome project, has been confirmed as a PS2 otome game for June 2010 (yay!)
- Another new game from Otomate is announced, Moujuutsukai to Ouji-sama (The Beastmaster and the Prince) for release in June for the PS2 – the pic shows a girl in fantasy(?) clothing, as well as a good-looking blond guy with long hair, and a short, silver-haired guy with an eyepatch, as well as a couple other characters
- Otomate is also adapting Otometeki Koi Kakumei for the PSP, release date in April
- And they’re also adapting Da Capo Girl’s Symphony for the PSP, for June release
- Holy Makinov, Otomate is a well-oiled machine!!
- OH MY GOD, I just saw a flash pic of another Hakuouki game…FOR THE PS3!!!!
Excuse me, I have to go hyperventilate over a PS3 otome game!!
…ok, I’m back. Ahem. The game is set for June, and now I will pretend that I meant to not get all those Hakuouki games all along and wasn’t a huge mistake, and it was all because I knew that this would happen!
In blog news, I’m going to be updating the events calendar over the next couple days, does anyone use Google calendars? I’ve heard it’s good for public calendars, might check it out. Also have to try and find my posts, thankfully I had backed them up to December (though I spent 5 hours last night cleaning up the file to re-upload them, lots of fun!), but I only have some of the Dec and Jan ones. also try to figure out the sidebars, dumb new Wordpress version is not playing nice.
So, what’s new with everyone? 
Do you like the new theme?
More news
Tokimeki Girl’s Side 3 has been announced!
And a release date has been set for Last Escort Club Katze for this March.
Kin’iro no Corda 3 Seiyuu!
Since there are all-new characters in the upcoming Kin’iro no Corda 3 coming out in spring, let’s take a look at their seiyuu! All the original seiyuu are here, as well as several new ones. They’re also from four different schools, so you can have rivalries with them You can see art and some even have voice samples up at the Kin’iro no Corda 3 site. Looking at the teaser pic, I totally thought it was the same gang but Yunoki had cut his hair…but I’m glad they’re new, there’s only so long you can drag out the original story. Yay new Corda!!!
Hozumi Shiro CV: Morita Masakazu
MIzushima Arata CV: Kishio Daisuke
Kisragi Ritsu CV: Konishi Katsuyuki
Kisaragi Kyouya CV: Fukuyama Jun
Sakaki Daiichi CV: Uchita Yuuya
Tougane Chiaki CV: Taniyama Kishou
Toki Housei CV: Ishikawa Hideo
Myouga Reiji CV: Hino Sou
Nanami Sousuke CV: Souta Yuki
Amamiya Sei CV: Miyano Mamoru
Mizushima Yuuto CV: Mizuhashi Kaori
Yagisawa Yukihiro CV: Itou Kentarou
Mini news post
-
VitaminZ Revolution to be released March 25. The GTR will have their own storylines, yay! The B6, principal, and vice-principal, will have new append stories but not their own storylines. There will also be new OP and ED themes sung by Toujuurou and Chisato’s seiyuu.
-
Mizu no Senritsu 2 Hi no Kioku to be released in February.
- Designs for Kin’iro no Corda new characters (7 guys from other schools) are released! And their seiyuu! This deserves its own post…
News for November!
Got back from a trip on Sunday, and my magazines were waiting for me ^_^ So, here is the news – lots of fandisks!:
- New game from Sanctuary called Miyako set in the Heian era – platform, timing, and rating all TBD! (nice art tho)
- New PC game from experienced amateurs Landkarte which sounds very intriguing – the heroine can have one of five different personalities, and her face is hidden!
- New R18 game from UtM artist! Another loli heroine!
- Fandisk for Wand of Fortune! And I haven’t even finished one route in WoF…
- Fandisk for Garnet Cradle!
- Scoop on Waga Ichizoku – all the six brothers (who as someone commented are all very different) have different mothers!!
That’s from a quick skim of B’s Log and Girl’s Style, if I notice more news like release dates etc. I’ll stick them up! Scans to come for the new games, as well as a couple that have new characters/final art (like the werefrog game!)
Quinrose’s First Game
Mahoutsukai to Goshujin-sama was Quinrose’s first commercial game. It was for the PC, and like following Quinrose games, was fairly drawn out and had a good bit of content, but was not up to the commercial standards of today.
In the October B’s Log, Quinrose announced a totally re-vamped Mahoutsukai to Goshujin-sama. I actually have the original, and can say that this will definitely be totally new.
Just compare the two pics below: the first is from the original, the lower one is the new art:
The character screen of the old version
And the cover of the new version
And not only the art is being redone. There were no voices in the original (I was a little disappointed after paying $50 for it!), but the re-release will be full voice. And to make it even better, they’ve revamped the system (which is acknowledged to be kind of slow), are adding tons of new scenes, and made each route deeper. Apparently the original had a large number of endings (I wouldn’t know, since was never able to finish it…) but they weren’t very involved, so the new version will have fewer, but more involved endings.
I am really looking forward to the new version – I tried to play the old one a little and still couldn’t, it was just too slow (the gameplay and the actual processing speed). The release date hasn’t been announced yet, but we know that it will be for the PC.
August 2009 Magazine News!
Finally got the August magazines, and yay! New games to talk about! There are several, so let’s jump right in, shall we?
First, a totally new title from Takuyo for the PS2, called Kaerabatake de Tsukamaete. It’s set in the city of Tsukiyado, where some environmental problems have caused some of the residents (the heroine and the guys) to become were-frogs!!? For some reason B’s Log has a fan-servicey picture of the heroine, enough that I checked whether it was an otome game or not, but it is! Also interesting, it seems that there are 6 guys, 3 are shown in B’s Log and 3 in Girl’s Style. So far, only a couple of colour pics and line drawings of the characters, whose designs are by Hirose Azumi.
Uta no Prince-sama (PSP) is a new game from Broccoli and Nippon Ichi scheduled for 2010. The heroine attends an entertainment school, and the object of the game is to choose a potential idol to team up with as his songwriter, and work towards graduating, which means a successful audition. Character designs are by Kurahana Chinatsu, and we already know the OP is by Miyano Mamoru!
There’s also a maybe-not-otome game called Dear Girl Stories Hibiki (DS) from ASCII Media Works. It’s based on a comic of the same name, which originated from some radio shows that Ono Daisuke and Kamiya Hiroshi do together. The comic is about the seiyuu (or their characters?) helping out girls who write in with their love problems to a radio show. Of course “Hiro-C” and “Ono-D” will be in this, as well as Yusa Kouji as their boss Tera Ikemen, and several other characters with as yet unnamed seiyuu (who I guess might be the characters you can ‘get’). It already has a release date of December 17.
And lastly, a new Hoshi no Oujo title! The fifth title in the very-loosely connected R18 series (PC only of course!) from Mirai is tentatively called Hoshi no Oujo Oiran, is set in the Bakumatsu era, and is slated for 2010.
Of course, there are some really nice-looking cell-phone games as well, but I won’t torture myself or you by talking about them *sniff*…let’s focus on the bright side with all these new games to look forward to!
Cast announcements!
Seiyuu info on Kurayami no Hate de Kimi o Matsu (coming out for the DS) has been announced:
Aoi Mio CV: Takahashi Hiroki
Sakuraba Katsumi CV: Iwata Mitsuo
Kazano Tarou CV: Fujiwara Yuuki
Honami Yousuke CV: Saiga Mitsuki
Akiyama Tomo CV: Sakaguchi Shuuhei
Kousaka Takahiro CV: Narita Ken
And Signal also has its cast out:
Nakazawa Artur Kouga CV: MIdorikawa Hikaru
Fujimiya Rui CV: Ishida Akira
Takashima Hayato CV: Morikubo Shoutarou
Toudou Yuuki CV: Miura Hiroaki
Houshouin None Yamato CV: Morita Masakazu
Iwato Kazuhiro CV: Satou Michiru
Oda Jin CV: Nakai Kazuya
Kuromine Touya CV: Kondou Takashi
Not again! Love Root Zero delayed
Hopefully this game will actually be published, that’s all I’m hoping for now. Love Root Zero ~Kiss Kiss Labyrinth~ has now been delayed to December. That’s a full 10 months after its original release date! There continue to be pics in the magazines though, so hopefully it will eventually happen. There are lots of other games coming out though, so I’m sure I won’t be bored (right now I’m looking forward to S.Y.K. the most!)