In the midst of my trip to Tokyo last weekend, my keitai rings. It’s Shingo. “Hello? What’s up? We still meeting today?” I ask. “Maritan to Hanasou signing event at K-Books in Akiba. Starts at 11. I can’t get in in time. Can you make it?” comes the distorted voice (his phone ain’t so good) of HDs Editor-In-Chief. “Hell’s yeah,” I reply, looking at the nearest subway clock. “I can be there in 10 minutes,” I say. The next train is coming in 5 minutes and I have to travel one stop then change from subway to JR Line.

Orchid Seed represented last week with their latest assay in the PVC craft, this extremely (nay voluptuously) endowed kit based on the cover illustration of Inoue Takuya’s Chichinoe+ artbook. How does this offering stack up against other recently released figures? Let’s just say I’m more than happy to return to the warm, fluffy pillows of large chested fandom after a brief flirtation with the other side…

Slated for release on June 29th, Xuse’s Seinarukana – The Spirit of Eternity Sword 2 - is shaping up to be the premiere ero RPG title of 2007 (pending further information on Alice Soft‘s end of the year offering), and the demo movie online today only serves to reinforce this impression. Stunning visuals and a theme song that are nothing short of epic in scope, panoramic 3D landscapes spanning multiple worlds, a huge cast of characters, a 2D battle system that certainly looks cool – the only thing that could tank this now would be some rotten writing, and the folks at Erogamescape seem to like its predecessor well enough that I doubt there’s much worry in that department. Seriously thinking about picking this up… (shamelessly stolen epic image below)