The official site for eroge maker G.J?'s latest Sano Toshihide-designed game Majodou was updated last night with the welcome news that the game has attained master status! This means it's on its way to the printers as I type this, and barring catastrophe should be complete in time to reach stores for its May 30th release date. Last night's update also included two new awesome sample CG images to further whet the appetite , along with colorized versions of store-specific "omake" telephone cards. See below for a collage of yet-undisclosed game CG:
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The best part of this competition so far is the epic writeups that the staff (or just minhtam) comes up with. It is like a journey through space, despite the fact that we cross the deserts of the Sahara and Gobi, and we are now halfway toward finding the beautiful radiance of the sun. Mathematically, all [...]
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Another great episode, I really just can’t get enough of this series. It was a more “quiet” episode where not much happened, but it was still just as enjoyable as any other episode and the time honestly just seemed to have flew by I was enjoying myself so much. I can get so easily absorbed [...]
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The Wachowski Brothers movie adaptation of Speed Racer opened in the UK and US today, and as such I ventured down to the cinema to check it out. Of course, with the original series being pretty much unknown over here (I don’t think it’s ever even aired over here, though the terrible New Adventures of [...]
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Population: you, Aya Hirano, and the manliest thief ever. Thieves are already pretty manly anyway (see: Kokoro Library and Funny Tortoise the Thief), but they are especially manly when they send advance notice of their thieving intent and still manage to fool everyone anyway. Granted, thief shows tend to have this standard plot-generating mechanism, but [...]
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Raimei’s brother complex? Raimei pledging to be Miharu’s ally and not hide anything from him was nice. Interesting how Miharu is able to inspire such loyalty from his posse. And his Gaydizer power can’t explain this case as, well, Raimei is a girl. Given the Shimizu clan’s penchant for playing samurai, wouldn’t it have flipped Kotarou’s baka [...]
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Finally we’re introduced to another character in this series. Saki is the typical ojou-sama figure in the series but I must vertainly say, she seems more reserved than I thought she would be. Personally I thought she would be a bit more wicked when she got angry, but with Kawasumi Ayako as the voice, I [...]
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About the Author Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything about Sakaki Ichiro, if anyone has any info click the contact me page Azumi Yukinobu is a different matter. What’s unusual is that he normally does dojinshi rather than novel or manga illustration. He’s famous for his Ayanami Rei dojins, as well as his unique art style. As [...]
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The rather lengthy title drives home the fact that wallpapers, on the computer, are serious business. Why, you say? Why can’t you have a large picture of a undressed Shana with a cucumber up her birth canal, you say? Sure, you could, but that would lead to certain undesirably side effects in the trifling object [...]
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Long after this finale was released I finally get this postedAgeha has been taken hostage by Makoto’s father played by Kohei Murakami (Kamen Rider Kabuto, Cutie Honey The Live), he pours Ageha a drink but Ageha refuses to drink it. He tells him it’s not poisoned, because you’re an important hostage. Then Ageha tries to escape but the older vampire is much to fast and strong. At the Eternal Moon Manor Kiyoi is explaining to Masakazu, what Ageha’s situation is, held hostage by a two time murderer. Masakazu complains that Ageha can’t last for long but Kiyoi assures Makoto that it’s not his fault and that Ageha is actually quite strong. The scene switches back to Ageha and Makoto’s father. Ageha is telling him about Makoto and what it’s like living with him. Meanwhile Kiyoi is out searching for the kidnapper’s hiding place while Masakazu and Makoto try to find clues on the internet.I really enjoyed this series a lot, it could have had a tighter storyline in places but overall even the random episodes were very good. My favourite was episode 3 when Masakazu went on the goukon and got into a competition with Haruka. Once the story turned darker and more connected over the past four episodes it really shined.Download the completed series English hardsub episode bit torrent files from TimeLes Subs here. Screen shots of the previous episodes are here.
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Remember how I talked a while back about Neko Rahmen, a 4koma comic strip whose anime had been released subtitled on VUZE a while back and which is now getting a live-action adaptation? Yes/no (circle one and return to me in 5th period!) Well, it’s once again appeared in the news, tangentially anyway: anime!anime! reports that [...]
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It seems that someone over at Kyoto Animation heard me when I complained about the change of director for the second season of Haruhi. The offical Haruhi site has been updated with a change of staff for the upcoming sequel. Tatsuya Ishihara has been named as the “brigade chief representative” and the former confirmed [...]
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Sheryl spends the day with Altoh when she tells him that she’s lost one of her earrings and he may have it.
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So Digital Manga Publishing is bringing Vampire Hunter D creator Hideyuki Kikuchi and the artist for the new VHD manga, Saiko Takaki, to Anime Expo this year. Unfortunately, they’ll just miss crossing paths with another Vampire Hunter D name– Yoshitaka Amano, who illustrated the original VHD novels (and, yes, did character designs for Final Fantasy, [...]
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Latest Guest of Honor Announced for Nation’s Largest Anime/Manga Convention Anaheim, California (May 9, 2008) ‹Anime Expo® 2008 announces the attendance of Masahiro Ando as an official Guest of Honor to this year’s Anime Expo® 2008 held from July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on [...]
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The Anime District has word that FUNimation is going to be rolling out some new licenses– one a day up until Anime Central. Which is a little funny since that seems like they may not be announcing any *at* Anime Central, or maybe just one. But on the other hand, *most* of their fans won’t [...]
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