End Of A Journey?

Yes, I’m still alive (barely). My work kept me away from playing my games, let alone updating this site.

Yesterday I just finished Sakura Sakura, and at the same time I realized something. The time I need to finish one game is getting longer and longer, and of course the main reason is my job. Having only about 5 to 6 hours a day of free time is not a good sign for my eroge collections. So I’m starting to think, should I stop playing eroge? Well pretty much it’ll be a difficult one since I’ve been doing this for the past years. Limiting the game I play in a month is pretty much a better choice yet a difficult one since most of them are very tempting.

Now I’m so much missed my old college days where I have pretty much the whole day of free time to play. Being a salaryman really took my times, or maybe it only because I can’t manage my time well enough between work and hobby. For the time being I’ll try to keep up on my eroge life to the limit.

PS: I don’t think I’m gonna do reviews again…

PS2: Akabei Soft 2 & Akatsuki Works joined the crowds of banning foreign IP.

July 2009 Eroge Pickup List

‘Kay, June’s over and it only mean 2 things. First it means that we already halfway in 2009, the second means that we’re already on July with its releases and I haven’t finished a game from June’s list T_T. For now let’s put aside the bans issue and enjoy this fine release list of July.

While initially July itself already had a long list of good games, some of June’s games have been pushed back to this month, adding more pain to the list. Ciel’s Fault!! is for one instance. The very bad part of this month is, almost all of the really good games are released altogether by the end of the month. I’ll blame myself for not having a summer holiday like those in Japan :(

Quick Impression on June’s Releases

While I’m still waiting for my main dishes of the month, Sakura Sakura and Primary, I’ve been trying other games like Oni Uta, Stellar Theater, and Sabae no Ou Scenario II for a couple hours of gameplay.

For Oni Uta, although I expected it to be a good game, in fact its rather… weird. Artwork + HD-WS are great, but some other aspects like sounds & BGMs are still far from my normal expectation. With all that points, it made Oni Uta to be on the bottom list of games to be played/finished.

On the other hand, Roseblue with its debut game Stellar Theater did a great job. Although it still feels like an old day eroge, but still suffice. I think I’m gonna finish this game after I’m done with Sakura Sakura and Primary.

Sabae no Ou Scenario II is well, pretty much the same like the first one. If you’re not familiar with it maybe you’ll be confused with its game book system. Nevertheless, it’s a dark atmosphered game, so you’re gonna like this game if you’re into it.

No Eroge For You Gaijins!

Following up Minori’s extreme path, Yuzusoft and Moonstone already blocked foreign IP access to their sites. I could expect the list of it will grow, but on the contrary I REALLY PRAY that it won’t grow any further than this.

Just some times ago the feminists are demanding the rape based games to be banned from the eroge world. And now, adding more pressure to Japan, UNICEF now demands loli next to be banned. Now the world sees Japan as the source of malicious porn things of the entire universe?! Give me a break. I must admit Japan is the kingdom of the weirdest fetishes that I’ve encountered, but must that make them receive all these treatments? Just because they’re somehow weak against international pressure? It just sound not fair to me.

For now I’llbe preparing for the worst that us who lived outside Japan won’t get much info on eroge as before or even enjoy the eroge itself. And keeps praying that this situation will fade away fast enough.

Doomsday Upon Erogamers

What us erogamers feared recently finally somehow came true. EOCS (Japanese adult game censorship regulations) in response to the (freak’n) feminists yappin’ released a list of things that will be banned to be in any eroge. The list itself is ridiculous since it includes things like girl or student council, what the heck is wrong with it? Most of the stuff in the banned list is things that we encountered in most eroge. If they were banned, what’s to be in an eroge? A typical school romance? C’mon, if all of them were like that, one company of eroge should suffice, and they should only released only 1 game in a year.

I don’t know in response to the ban list or not, Minori banned all non-JP IP address in accessing their site. It’ll be a matter of time untill all follows. Hopefully not…

So folks, be prepared for the worst. That in the future eroge will be as dull as TV shows.

WLO Fandisk To Be Released

It feels just like yesterday that I finished Ina’s route in WLO Sekai Renai Kikou, and now a fandisk for it is about to be released in September. W.L.O.世界恋愛機構L.L.S.-LOVELOVESHOW- (WLO Sekai Renai Kikou LLS -Love Love Show-) features omake of the girls in the original game. But not only that they had another story that involves ALL other sub-heroines in the game (hurrah for Kaede & trio maids omake XD). So far only Kaede, Chiriko, and Hikari from the sub-heroines that will have H-scenes with them, but I think all of them will have one. Can’t wait for this.

In the mean time, I’ve dropped Valkyrie Complex from my playlist since it took too much time in level grinding & farming. Just finished Tayutama -It’s happy days- and finished Miyako’s route in Hanaoto. Will play as much as I can until this month’s releases.

And just a random rant on Kamen Rider Decade. Decade’s Complete Form is utter joke, why didn’t they design a better one…

Since it’s kinda popular, added a webclap on the sidebar. So feel free to click it :P

Busy Life IS Busy

Yeah I knew that I didn’t update my blog as much as before. The main reason is there’re these pile of works that had to be done, hence making my free time to update or looking for interesting news less than before. If I’m talking about a free time, it includes the time to play the eroge. Until now, I can’t finish even a route on Valkyrie Complex, and that made my motivation to play it grows weaker. Tried to play other ones like Tayutama or Hanaoto to refresh my mood but its just the same. My mind and time are completely taken over by the works. I think this kind of life will continue for at least a couple of months. *sigh*

Upon my lunch time today I just browsed around and stumbled on this outrageous news on Sankaku Complex. Now Japan will ban any nekomimi (and kemonomimi in general) and pregnancy related eroge to be sold in the stores. I could care less about the pregnancy one, but banning kemonomimi from the eroge industry is just plain madness. I know that somehow it could relate to bestiality but then again, what the f*ck, it’s just a girl with animal ears! For now the news is still kinda blurry, but if it proven to be true in the future, I’ll gone mad since its one of my favorite theme. After that, what’s next? Completely banning all eroge? Or maybe from that day on, any sex related stuff will be banished from this world and we’ll all live in a black and white colored only world. Darn those feminists, why don’t they mind their own business and leave Japan (and us) alone???

On the lighter news, the 1/1 scale Gundam in Odaiba is just getting better and better. I wish I could be there now and see it with my own eyes.

1/1 Scale RX-78-2 Gundam Finished

Have you guys ever imagined what’ll happened if we got real Mobile Suits around in this time? Well now we’re experiencing one since in Odaiba, Tokyo Japan they already finished building one Gundam, as a statue though.

As you guys probably already know, this life sized RX-78-2 Gundam is built as 30th anniversary of the Gundam series. The statue itself is just finished yesterday and will be open to public at July 11th to August 31th. No info on what’ll happened to the statue after that. I’m just hoping it’ll be still around on my trip to Japan next year XP. On a side note, many speculated that this is JSDF’s secret project to counter North Korea’s missiles threat, who knows? Photos are courtesy of punynari, you could see more at his blog.

No Review For This Month

Just finished playing Tenshin Ranman yesterday, but I won’t do the review for it since Accany already done it. Planning to do Tayutama -it’s happy days- but Accany already did the review as well XP. What’s left on my list is Valkyrie Complex but I doubt I could the review for it since it’s quite lenghty. So I decided not to do reviews for this month, another reason for it is I had quite a load of works that has to be done in this month.

On overall Tenshin Ranman is great. High quality artwork, nice music, and great story. My character ranking is:

1. Sakuya-Hime
2. Ruri
3. Sana (sorry Micchi, tail + loli attracts me more XP)
4. Aoi
5. Yukari
6. Mahiro

I wish there were routes for Honoka & Wataru… I can’t help to be greedy *grins*

1K Hit?

I didn’t check my site for only two days and today I found out that the hit counter already passed 1,000. It maybe a small number for some of you but that’s pretty surprising for me.

When I first made this blog, it was supposed to be my online diary and for fun. But after I looked on Micchi’s, Accany’s, and some other blogs I’m started to think “maybe I’ll try to write about eroge and such”. Then again, I didn’t put my hopes up too much on the visits since this site was intended to be a diary. After 2 months, the visit count is surprisingly already passed 1K, while I predicted only around 3 digits count.

Well, thanks for the guys who already visited my site. I’ll try to keep an update for this site and improving myself.

ナツユメナギサ OP Movie

Yeah it’s a pretty late news, since I just remembered that I have downloaded the op movie some days ago. SAGA PLANETS had uploaded their op movie for their ナツユメナギサ. The op theme is “bumpy-Jumpy!” by KOTOKO (yay!). Need more Hitsuji goodness here (≧▽≦)

On eroge news, Ciel’s Fault!! got delayed until July…

Kujikawa Rise Figures

Usually I rarely had any interests in buying figurines and such, but this time this figure really took my attention. This is a figure of Kujikawa Rise from Persona 4 by Wave. She’s my favorite character from that game, came in second place is Amagi Yukiko.

There’s another one by Alter, Rise in her bikini. It pretty good but I think her expression is kinda weird. In any case I’m planning to buy Wave’s one on my trip to Japan next year. If Alter’s version turned out to be good, I’ll get it too (along with some other nendoroid & figmas).

June 2009 Eroge Pickup List

Well, May is over and I think all the epic releases of the month are out. I bet lots of you were still playing Tenshin Ranman and Valkyrie Complex, or not… Anyway as the month already changed, so as the pick up list and epic titles of this month. Most of the nice releases are concentrated at the end of month (as usual).

If you don’t know, Overflow’s Cross Days is delayed again until this summer with unspecified date. For this month, if you’re a fan of Taka Tony you could pick up Ciel’s Fault!!. In the sequel division, we got one (or a fandisk?) for Nitroplus’ Sumaga, Sumaga Special. Aside from the already well known companies, we got some new ones like RoseBleu. Sakura Sakura is planned to be released on this month, but keep crossing your fingers.

Nakano Azusa’s K-ON Debut?

K-ON! slice of life musical anime until now had Akiyama Mio as its moe idol. But as episode 9 airs, we had a new member joining the Keionbu, Nakano Azusa. On many thoughts, she will be the club’s next idol (or rather a playmate) along with Mio. With a new member joining in, the opening movie changed a little bit by adding Azusa in it, although partially.

For now, I can’t wait until K-ON!’s next single release which will have 「私の恋はホッチキス」 (My Love is a Stapler) from episode 8, my current favorite song from the series.

And that’s for the K-ON! and some Azu-nyan goodness. On my eroge side, still playing Tenshin Ranman Sakuya-hime’s route, and still can’t decide whose route I’ll do next, they’re all too good! With Valkyrie Complex, Tayutama, Hanaoto, and as an extra @homemate in the queues, I don’t have much time X(

More Sleep Hours Required

At last, my lack of sleeps for the last few weeks finally paid off. I could barely woke up from my bed during the weekend. My body felt so heavy and dull, not to mention the terrible headache there. Luckily on Monday I felt much better so I didn’t have to pull the day off for my work. Though I still feel dizzy all day long, a bit more rest at the noon fixed it up. And today I’m completely recovered. I think from now on I should refrain sleeping at 3 a.m since I have to wake up at 6 in the morning during the weekday.

That’s for the rants. After watching the latest episodes of Tears to Tiara, my RPG spirit has risen up to the peak. I want to play an RPG game so badly. With a couple more days until Vakyrie Complex released, I hope I could endure it XP. Then again, along with Valkyrie Complex we’ll get Tenshin Ranman, Tayutama -it’s a Happy Days-, Hanaoto, and some other releases. It’ll be a hard choice to pick which game to be played first. I’d love to play VC first, but then again I also can’t wait to play Tenshin Ranman. If I could choose an inhuman abilities, I think I’ll choose Katsuragi Keima’s ability from The World God Only Knows (Kami no Mizushiru Sekai) manga, which enables me to play multiple games at the same time lol.

In any case, 3 days left until this month’s releases.

Marmalade’s New Game

While we’re still waiting for this month’s releases, there’re bunch of updates on the upcoming games for the next few months. One of them is Marmalade just opened the site of their new game キスと魔王と紅茶 (Kiss x Lord x Darjeeling). The story’s about a boy who suddenly became a “Maou” in his school. Don’t get the wrong idea first, the Maou in this game is somehow not your usual Maou. Gotta love Marmalade’s artwork on this game.

Other updates that I got is UnisonShift’s Skotama Slave and CandySoft’s Mecha Mimi got an op movie on their website now, you could check them out. And there’re tons of other update on many games and I’m just to lazy to list them all XP.

PS: Recently I used the same words too much on the titles… Gotta think some better wordings orz

Akatsuki Works’ New Game

Meant to post this yesterday by my ISP just gave up on me. In any case Akatsuki Works strikes back! After their Rui ha Tomo wo Yobu and Devils Devel Concept, they got a new project, コミュ―黒い竜と優しい王国― (Komyu -Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku). The Comyu is written as COμ like in the image. If you imagine that this will be a medieval fantasy setting game, then you’re wrong. The game’s genre is 新美少女伝奇エンタメADV or roughly translated as new bishoujo digital entertainment ADV (CMIIW). Well I could be wrong though since there isn’t much info on it.

Oh BTW, 7 days left until epic releases :D

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Shakunage’s New Game Announced

Today, Shakunage finally revealed their summer game, みみをすませば (Mimi wo Sumaseba), a kemonomimi based game. I can tell that the character design is cute. Of course this is somehow subjective since I’m a big fan of kemonomimi, especialy nekomimi and kitsunemimi (´ω｀).

I’ve played Shakunage’s Prawf Clwyd (or anything like that) and it’s pretty good, too bad I somehow missed Ninkyou Hana Otome. Oto Puri is a trap based game and I just skipped that because the protagonist is too feminine as a trap (I hate this kind of trap).

So for now I’m just hoping that this game is not released in July…

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