In today’s update: Demonbane benchmarks, Planetarian movies, Gift animes, Witchblade gravures, Stringendo episode twos, Kurushima resin kits, Sakura Taisen Pinky Streets, elf girls, School Rumble bookends, and the two peaks of Kilimanjaro.
- Want to see how your machine stacks up against the new Demonbane 3D Robot Dramatic ACT? The benchmark is here.
- The special package rerelease of Key’s Planetarian now has a demo movie available for download, courtesy of RSK.
- The current issue of Comptiq announces that Gift is set to recieve the animated treatment. …what’s that, a pin dropping? Crickets? Hard to make out…
- Ruike Asuka is a gravure idol. Now, she is also Witchblade (she has a blog post about it, too). I’m not sure exactly what to make of this, but if you’re going to get a gravure idol to represent your heroine, why not go the whole nine yards?
Ero Side
- Not one to rest on their laurels, eroge maker Juliette launches their second title Natsuiro Kouen hot on the heels of Goshujin-sama he‘s release.
- Sample CG updates are online for Inda no Himekishi Janne, FlyingShine’s Inaho no Mirai, and U・Me Soft’s Shimai Souzoku (tracts of land alert on the latter).
- In eroanime news, Galge.com scoops the April 28th release of the second episode of Pink Pineapple’s Stringendo OVA.
Hobby Side
- We haven’t seen Maritan in awhile here, but she’s still updating as usual… a sakura-themed Jie-tan currently graces the front of the site.
- Kurushima announces a pair of well-endowed resin kits due out at the end of May: an aerobics Renki kit from the “Yasumi-chan series”, whatever that is, and a swimsuit Najika from Najika Blitz Tactics.
- Shinguji Sakura (from Sakura Taisen) Pinky St. ahoy! She’s due out in late May.
- Out in late June from Toys Planning is this Elf Girl (deep ver.) PVC, complete with removable tunic.
- School Rumble bookends. From Movic. In June. This is a really cool idea if you ask me, and at that price point it seems they’ll be high enough quality to not look tacky on your shelf. At least, no more tacky than the rest of your figure collection.
Nonami love.
woo, that sakutai pinky is sweet. jetfuel will be happy with this news. ^^
Say, what IS included with the re-release of Planetarian? I bought it last year via download, and I’m wondering what they’ve added/changed/included with this reissue.
>>Port
Word. I don’t know why anyone else even tries, really.
>>LiK
Yeah, I thought he might appreciate it. :3
>>Haesslich
I’ll have to check again, but if I recall correctly it’s nothing more than a “package version” of the original game.
More Stringendo!? Oh god how I waited for this release. Can anyone say, “greatest eroanime to grace our TV screens!”
This is the first time I’ve actually seen a anime / manga marketing promotion using real people that actually uses a suitably … shaped, shall we say, model. I have to say, however, that Takizawa-chan is a much better choice. Kyonyuu Banzai!!
On a related note, Shingo, wither lies the etymological origins of the phrase ‘huge tracts of land’?
In addition to the packaging, you get to hear the heroine’s part of the dialogue fully voiced, and first edition comes with a printed novel as well. That’s all, i guess ^^. I’ll wait for more details from Shingo.
What is a gravure idol? “Gravure is an idol that does mostly bikini shots and other things of that sort, usually considered on the edge of an AV idol, but (usually) never shedding the bikini top.”
So it’s swimsuit or soft-core model? Am I right?
If I’m not mistaken, Gravure Idols don’t do nudity. At the most the do swimsuits and lingerie. I consider that a far cry from AV ot soft-core.
Breaking pace with the current discussion…
Revo of Sound Horizon has a game-sized version of the new Atelier Iris intro up for download. (If you’ve seen the trailer movie at the site, it’s the same song as is used in that.)
Check it out here:
http://sound-horizon.net/music/KiriSeka.htm
It starts out quite grand, complete with a choir and electric guitars. In fact, it sounds very much like a Sound Horizon song (which is a good thing), just a bit more epic. But after it rocks out a bit, Shimotsuki comes along and ruins everything. Now, I realize that a lot of people like good old Haruka, but I’m not one of them. Especially when she sings in a song like this one. Her voice is just to sugary for something that promises to be so epic. In my opinion, they should have gone with singer with a bit more of a mature-sounding voice. Shikata, perhaps–she already delivered on Hymmnos Blue, and I’m sure she could do it again.
Ah well. At least the choir comes back in the end.
Wasn’t there a ‘gravure movies’ feature in that Dead or Alive volleyball game?
>>Agent Wax
“Huge tracts of land” is a quote from a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which a feudal lord is describing the positive attributes of his (very effeminate) son’s bride-to-be in an effort to get him to go through with the marriage. The lord is actually referring to the physical property that will come with her dowry, but the suggestive “cupping” gesture he makes while delivering the line intimates an entirely different line of thought… you probably have to see it to get the full impact.
>>great123
That sounds like a full run-down of the Planetarian augmentations to me, the voice probably being the biggest addition… I’m not aware of any other goodies to be coming with the package beyond what you listed.
>>Lk_LoA
A gravure idol is basically a swimsuit/lingerie model, or a softcore model who doesn’t show nipples or anything that would merit censorship in an AV. Nonami (the “whole nine yards” linked above) has done some nude shoots in bubbly bathtubs and the like, but nothing revealing enough to be classified as porn. Gravure idols are also known for being featured in videos that are basically them running around some tropical island being filmed doing various erotic/fetishistic things without taking their clothes quite entirely off. No, I don’t get it either.
>>VanRaily
I’ll have to check that out when I’m in a safe location to download and digest mp3s. Changing the subject even further, is there some way I could reach you via email or the like? I’d like to get your opinion on a project cooking over here.
>>DMC
I haven’t played DOA volleyball, but I’d bet dollars to donuts you’re right. It would fit right in with the game’s general aesthetic (if it can be said to have one).
>>Shingo wrote:
No, I don’t get it either.
What’s there to get, my man? Just watch! At least you’re able to do so. T_T
And uh … just noticed I misspelt ‘whither’, giving my question a rather questionable meaning.
>>Shingo
So gravure model shoots are basically the Japanese equivalent of Maxim spreads?
I know this a real stupid question but I was wondering from what anime or ero-game/anime the picture of the girl is from? I’d like to check it out, thanks for your patience.
>>Agent Wax
I’m at the point where if a minor misspelling would make a sentence unparsable my brain automatically glosses over it… I didn’t even notice. Not the most valueable trait for someone charged with grading students’ English papers. -_-;;
>>DMC
That’s probably a pretty good correlation; Japanese gravure idols could be compared with American “supermodels”, I guess, although I’m sure there are some siginficant differences that could be found by digging a bit. I’m not exactly up on my Maxim these days (or my gravure idols, aside from a few of the bustier ones).
>>Dan
The thumbnail was lifted from a screenshot from the second episode of Pink Pineapple’s Stringendo eroanime, linked in the post body above. I try to make it a general rule to take the day’s thumbnail from something I’ve linked, for anyone who feels like playing an exciting game of “find the Mainichi Junk thumbnail source from among dozens of obscure links in the post body and win FABULOUS PRIZES”*.
*no fabulous prizes included
…pretty stupid game, really. Please don’t hesitate to ask any time you’re not sure where something’s from.
>>Shingo
Thanks for your patience and I’ll check that anime out, thanks a lot.^_^