In today’s update: a change in nomenclature, Amusement Cafe Maid in Japan GRAND OPEN, Misaki arrives, and a veritable passel of figure news. Media Side Just when I thought Tenchi was good and buried, Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club comes along and revives him. Well, not him. But the general concept. To quote Moon Phase: “…What […]

In today’s update: a change in nomenclature, Amusement Cafe Maid in Japan GRAND OPEN, Misaki arrives, and a veritable passel of figure news.

Media Side

• Just when I thought Tenchi was good and buried, Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club comes along and revives him. Well, not him. But the general concept. To quote Moon Phase: “…What the hell.”
• Web Anime Style continues its Top2 design works series today with introductions of the remainder of the Topless cast. For those who haven’t seen the show, this doesn’t mean what you think it does.
• Yesterday was the grand opening of Amusement Cafe Maid in Japan, and Akiba Blog was on hand to witness the proceedings. His scoop, along with those of Moeyo! Akibajin Blog and Galge.com, confirm yesterday’s suspicion that this particular establishment boasts a much higher ratio of cute than most of its competitors. I haven’t been to a cosplay cafe in awhile, but this one might be worth checking out…

Ero Side

• Berkana has a demo movie up for their December 9th release of Last Song.
• FlyingShine’s Kurai Mirai 3 uploads some sample CG today, along with Game Style’s launch of a special page dedicated to it. Release date: November 25th.
• Ruf has a few wallpapers available for its December 16th release of Yumemiru Kusuri, featuring its three main heroines.
• Puzzlebox uploads some sample CG for Niizuma wa Sailor-fuku today, but nothing we haven’t seen before at its Janus site. Release date: December 2nd.
• Game Style appends a batch of images to its special page for LiLiM Nama’s November 25th release of Ryoujoku Rensa.
• Galge.com has posted a higher definition .mpg version of the trailer for Pink Pineapple’s December release of Hininten Gausu.

Hobby Side

• Launching today’s fair passel of figure news is the announcement that Misaki has come, descending upon us, the unworthy masses, as a blessed angel of redemption.
• In another scoop gleaned from mokeiura, preliminary designs for the C69 Keumaya doujin figure have been leaked. In related news, it seems he went to China to observe the production process himself; I’d have to say this crosses the line between doujin and “this is what I do for a living”.
• Hot on the heels of its November releases scoop, Figure Alternative posts the anticipated lineup of every single last bishoujo figure to go on sale in December. Quite a few more items of interest next month, an unfortunate coincidence (with Comiket) indeed…
• Fans of a certain web-based serial flash animation may find this item amusing. [source: Akiba Blog]
• On Sale Today: Konami’s Figure Mate Mahou Sensei Negima! vol. 2 trading figures, and Toysworks Solid Work Collection Jinki Extend (both trading figures and gashapon).
• Coming Attractions: In December, this Shuffle! Heroines trading figure set from Atelier-Sai. In January, this WAVE Arika PVC from My Otome. And in February, this Soul Calibur 3 Round 1 trading figure set from Megahouse, along with the Toysworks Ichigo Mashimaro bathtime trading figures mentioned yesterday, and this Megahouse Rein Mikamura PVC from G Gundam.

I’m still looking for pictures, links and ideas regarding the elusive moe, post ’em if ya got ’em. Hint: not the Simpsons character or the Stooge.

Work is proceeding apace on the article; it’s something like 3,300 words at this point, I’m thinking it’ll max out at around 5,000. This may be 4,999 too many, but we’ll see. Still on target for a release some time this week…

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