In today’s update: a respectable batch of anime and ero site launches and updates, Ichimashi and Maritan figures, and several previews and reviews courtesy of Akibajin. This may well be the last Mainichi update from HD’s current location… relaunch coming soon!
Media Side
- New Site Launches / Updates
- Yume Tsukai anime site launch
- Fate / stay night anime site renewal
- Rec anime site character page update
- Ayakashi anime site story update
- Yomigaeru Sora episode preview movie online
- Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl new web radio episode
- Mahou Sensei Negima new web radio episode
- Lemon Angel Project web radio site launch
- Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! episode 2 preview movie online
- Chara.cc profiles several miko miko manga in the current BAR Comicholic column.
- The second volume of Comic Chirality will be out on January 13th. I’m pretty sure this is another quarterly comic anthology featuring mostly original and some copyright works (and an Urushihara Satoshi cover)… may or may not be worth the paper it’s printed on.
Ero Side
- Hobby Japan announces the January 25th release of a (non-ero) Fate / hollow ataraxia compilation manga.
- If you go to Sofmap, you can meet a Candy Girl. …I’m sorry, I don’t know why I’m still reporting on this.
- Meteor’s Yu Me Ku Mi launches an all-out offensive this week, including a Galkko feature [sample CG], a Game Style CG update, an official site CG update, and version 2 of the demo. It’s to the point where buying the game would seem almost redundant. :V
- Front Wing’s Boy Meets Girl has been delayed from a January 27th release to February 24th, and the maker seems truly contrite. Aww…
- G.J?’s Tsuma to Mama to Boin has a fresh blog update for the week, nothing of particular interest here aside from a reminder of the game’s upcoming existence.
- Some sites are still updating with New Year’s felicitations, listed the backlog of news posts over at Moon Phase.
- In eroanime news, a few more sample screen shots are online from D3 / White Bear’s February 24th release of Cleavage vol. 1 and the January 27th release of Yakin Byoutou 2 vol. 5.
- New Site Launches / Release Announcements
- Take Out’s Yuuwaku-poi (missed this one earlier)
- We’ve Got Movie Sign!!
- Chise’s Nanakanata
- Sirius’s Maid-san★Spirits!
- Sohfu’s Hidamari no Hana (long faces alert)
- Demo Downloads
- Pulltop’s Princess Waltz (Fuyukomi version)
- Rondo Bell’s Hapikuri
- Sample CG
- Moe’s Imouto Buruma 2
- Panda House’s Shintaisou A
- Cyc’s Senjou de Shoujo wa Karada wo Kakeru
- Red Label’s Mahogaku
- Anesen’s Oshiete Miko-sensei
- Moonstone’s Gift ~Nijiiro Stories~ [official site]
- Lune’s Jokyoushi Yuuko [official site]
- Wallpapers
- Kadokawa’s Fragments Blue
- Saga Planets’ Kouki
Hobby Side
- According to the Flash animation at the top of this page Toysworks will be releasing a set of Ichigo Mashimaro bathtime figures in February 2006. In addition, Toysworks has a special page up for their Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl trading figures to be released in mid-January.
- Maritan represents with a new top image, diary update, figure release announcement with prototype images, and staff diary update, complete with some memorable Engrish.
- Akibajin reviews Pink Company’s Troubled Windows Inu-T & Nyaa-Kee figures, released at Comiket 69. Also up is a review of the Keumaya C69 military girl figure, and previews of Puchi Studio SEED Destiny vol. 3 trading figures, My Otome Torikore! trading figures, Monkey Punch Girl’s Collection trading figures, and if Candy Girl wasn’t enough…
If work on the relaunch proceeds as planned this will be the last mainichi update to be hosted at HD’s current location. we’re working feverishly (?) over at heiseidemocracy.net to get things ready, aiming for a grand opening sometime before the 10th. There are some nifty features in the works that should make the site considerably more accessible, interactive, immersive, and all sorts of buzzwords meant to keep a readership engaged, but at its heart it will be the same old blog that you’re used to (or have just discovered) here. Details on what has changed and what hasn’t will come with the official relaunch announcement, again, hopefully in the next day or two. Stay tuned!
As the database has already been ported to the new location I’ll have to post this and any subsequent pre-launch posts in both locations, and any comments left in the interim may be manually cloned over to the new site as well; if I don’t get back to your comments / questions right away it’s because I’m trying to hold off from the need to transplant things as much as possible. Please bear with the mess, it’ll be over soon… orz