In today’s update: Asatte no Houkou TV anime announced, official confirmation of the upcoming Full Metal Panic! TSR OVA (complete with eroero Tessa shot), Simoun broadcast launch and staff / cast information, Princess Princess brings gosurori boys in pretty dresses, Tokito Ami sings the School Rumble second season OP, Hellsing OVA vol. 2 out this summer, the week in eroge, and a stealth Goodsmile PVC figure announcement. Something in this update for just about everyone, I’m guessing.
Media Side
- According to Mag Garden’s official site, Asatte no Houkou, a manga serialized in Comic Blade Masamune, is slated to become an anime. Further production details will appear in the edition of Masamune on sale April 15th.
- HD scooped the news of a new Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid OVA several days ago, and now it’s official: “Warito Hima na Sentaichou no Ichinichi” (trans: The Commanding Officer’s Rather Boring Day) will be released on May 26th, apparently just a single 30-minute episode with the first lot special edition (drama CD included) going for 6,930 yen. Be sure to scroll down for the eroero Tessa shot~
- News in today that Simoun, the most highly anticipated yuri title of the spring season (by default, I don’t think there are any others), will be taking the broadcast slot of Nerima Daikon Brothers on TV Tokyo (Tuesday mornings at 1:30) starting April 3rd. Cast and staff information for the show are online today as well.
- The official Princess Princess anime site has recieved a major makeover, in more ways than one – set in an all-boys school where gothic lolita fashion is king (queen?), the best looking students are selected to be made into “princesses”… While I can’t say how broad its appeal will be, I think this show has the potential to target an interesting range of viewership; along with Simoun, April 2006 is shaping up to be quite the season in terms of alternative gender identity in anime.
- Talkin’ ’bout a revolution: Tecmo yesterday announced their port of golf game Pangya to the Nintendo Revolution, amid much fanfare.
- Toei animation has an official site open for Splash Star, the currently airing iteration of the Pretty Cure saga.
- I’m usually all in favor of girls with glasses, but Tokito Ami, the OP / ED singer of School Rumble season 2 would really be better off without them. Yeah, she really would. [official site]
- According to the official Hellsing OVA site, its second installment will be released in “early summer”. After the series of delays on the first disc I’m not entirely optimistic about this projection, but hold out hopes.
- News from Shueisha Publishing’s Dash Bunko imprint today that volume 11 of the Read or Die serial novel is now on sale. Click for Yomiko’s improbably rendered bosoms, if nothing else.
- Konami’s Rumble Roses XX met the press last Friday. CERO 18+?
Ero Side
- Galge.com scoops the nine eroge titles on sale tomorrow, February 17th. Topping the list are Art’s Costume Player, Ja no Michi wa Hebi’s Kougeki Shoujo Falselion, and the download version of Stellar’s Honey x Bunny.
- Why come up with a new business model when you can enter an already crowded market with a service identical to that of your well-established competitors? Game Doki! is about to find out. The hard way, I’m guessing.
- Based on a character from Mugen Kidou’s Misshitsu ~Situation Elevator~ and produced by Machida Games Store, this eroero Sana Natsuki pillowcase will be on sale March 30th for 15,750 yen. Less than half the price of a used copy of Tsukihime!
- New Site Launches / Release Announcements
- West Vision’s Rieko
- A.S.S’s Kounai Shinshuu
- Caramel Box’s Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru DVD Full Voice Version
- Fan-na’s Esu Efu 2
- We’ve Got Movie Sign!!
- Sample CG
- Fonte’s Fami!
- Xuse’s Supitan
- Groover’s Kanenone Dynatic
- White Cyc’s Kami-sama no Yado!
- Black Package’s Sentakuya Shin-chan
- Crowd’s Sodatete Miryu? [official site]
- Kanisky’s Kazoku Koukan Kindan no Shou [official site]
- Wallpapers
- Bonbee’s Grow Up Bride
- Squeenix’s The World of Mana (not ero)
Hobby Side
- Eroge maker Caramel Box pre-scoops a new Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru Mizuho PVC figure, part of Goodsmile’s lineup slated for official unveiling at Wonder Festival and a subsequent summer release. [higher resolution image]
- The few. The proud. The warning that if you let Maritan’s mother give you a Valentine’s Day gift you will probably die a gruesome and horrible death involving fleshy chunks of … well, you get the idea. Also, a diary update.
- Orchid Seed’s Kuga Natsuki cold cast from My HiME went on sale yesterday, and these lingerie-clad Canvas 2 PVC figures from Toys Planning were on display as well.
I bet there’s a thousand otakus willing to make her day NOT boring….
But then it will be called “Tessa vs Otaku-Hydra” with the tagline “Kill one and another takes its place!”
Tessa does Tokyo?
Surprised Akiba doesn’t have anything up on OS Natsuki.
There has been some word that Strawberry Panic! will commence broadcast in April or at any time during the second quarter. If so, Simoun won’t be the lone one offering the yuri goods~
“News from Shueisha Publishing’s Dash Bunko imprint today that volume 11 of the Read or Die serial novel is now on sale. Click for Yomiko’s improbably rendered bosoms, if nothing else. ”
Err. How are they improbable?
Tessa is fine, but what gives with ranking her above Chidori in popularity? >:( I’ll be staging a sit-in here until they deliver my “Chidori’s very eventful day” OVA, or until I have to leave for work, whichever comes sooner.
>>Agent Wax
Look at the position she’s in. Normally proportioned breasts just don’t hang like that relative to the torso, regardless of size, unless she’s wearing some particularly uplifting undergarments.
>>beerman
I checked out the Strawberry Panic site prior to posting and took the gamble based on its lack of broadcast info that it won’t be coming out in April. If it will, the more the merrier. :3
>>bakaboobie
OS Natsuki?
orchid seed natsuki. iiiii’llll be getting that.
>>Tessa is fine, but what gives with ranking her above Chidori in popularity?
Tessa is nice and volnuerable, and Chidori has that overbearing, tough girl facade. Why is she so angry?! Plus you’ve already got plenty of Chidori with FMP!, FMP! TSR, and Fumoffu. It’s about time we got some Tessa time.