April 2013 Eroge Releases

The arrival of spring can only mean the blossoming of new love and the return of D.C.. CIRCUS’ much-anticipated D.C.III R X-rated will allow you to get to know your fellow Kazami/Kazamidori Gakuen classmates much better. Make a girlfriend in hibiki works’ LOVELY×CATION or ASa Project’s Hitotsu Tobashi Renai (although beware of love triangles!). SLG enthusiasts will have their hands full with Eushully’s Madou Koukaku, while those looking for a little magic may wish to check out Yonaki Uguisu’s Unmei Yohou o Oshirase Shimasu. There’s something here for everyone!

A busy month full of somewhat almost borderline decent titles and a few probably so bad they will need warning labels for the potential health risks. Likewise there are a few games that perhaps by some miracle granted by the eroge gods will be blessed enough to bring about a diamond in the rough. In the end it could have been a better month and could have been much worse, after a winter drought of decent titles even some of the average games are starting to look better by the month.

Winter 2013 Anime Impressions

I wonder if we’ll ever see a return to a more diverse anime package for a season. Besides Maoyuu, everything else is just there to fill up and drain those minutes of the day when you’re bored. In a way that’s not so bad, but it would better if I could just watch something that would remind me of why I started watching anime in the first place. Come on, how about more anime where the characters actually face a real crisis other than trying to make friends or the like >_O. Either way, these 3 minute anime shorts are a great way for me to entertain myself while waiting for a ranked game to start in league of legends!

Worst season in recent memory. Even the shows or well show I was looking forward to turned out to be a disappointment. Seasons like this are why I don’t pay as much attention to anime anymore. Sure it is more popular, but there just isn’t much worth the time anymore for this medium. I can only hope the piles of garbage anime helps kill off some of the excess popularity for the sake of emphasis on quality again.

As usual, here’s a chart so follow along! And of course a preview from Random Curiosity!

What Happens After Bad Ends?

Navel has announced a sequel to Tsurioto! Otome Riron to Sono Shuuhen -École de Paris- continues from the bad end and will feature imouto Resona along with two new heroines, Meryl and Bluette. It’s not a bad end when you end up with your imouto!

Release dates have been set for the following:

Negai no Kakera to Shirogane no Agreement – June 28th
Santaful☆Summer – June 28th

PeasSoft’s Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki has been delayed to May 24th.

In three tightly contested chara polls, Imoban‘s Renge, Reminiscence‘s Axela and Eiyuu Senki‘s Billy the Kid came out on top. Renge and runners-up Mashiro and Kanako will highlight the upcoming H trial, while Billy the Kid will be getting a dakimakura. The short story for Kimisora‘s second chara poll winner Sekka is now up on Cabbit’s website.

The Tiny Dungeon complete book and the Visual Arts 20th anniversary memorial book will be on shelves March 27th and March 28th, respectively.

New figures available for preorder include:

Arcadia – 1/7 scale Sakuya (Shining Blade, July, ￥11,340)
Beat Hobby – non-scale Manaka sukumizu ver and white sukumizu ver (TH2, June, ￥6200)
Orchid Seed – non-scale Flandre (Touhou, October, ￥7800)

Every night is nainai time with this Hazuki and Ren dakimakura. Other dakis are available for Justy×Nasty‘s Mikaru and Floria, and Konosora‘s Amane.

I’ll be heading off soon to Hong Kong and Japan for the next three weeks or so, so this will be the last weekly news until I’m back the second week of April. The April post will go up as scheduled, but it won’t account for any delays that are announced while I’m gone. I’ll still be on Twitter if you want to get a hold of me. The imoutos are waiting for me!

S-Something’s Going Inside!?

Do you miss Hatsukoi 1/1‘s Runa, Yukino and Kyou? Well, tone work’s has released two voice dramas which are quite worth listening to! You can listen to a normal day at Pizza Moon and a visit by Runa to Nono-nee’s room to read her stash of shoujo manga and do… other things.

GIGA’s Baldr Sky Zero has been delayed to July 26th.. New titles announced this week include:

ETOILES – Mizukano! Mizugi no Kanojo to H Shiyo (July 26th)
SofthouseChara – BUNNYBLACK3 (May 31st)

Iris has announced a 3rd append data for Nainai, titled “Hazuki’s first dentist play”. Let me fill those cavities for you.

Kotori has topped the Konosora FD chara poll once again. The Tasogare no Saki ni Noboru Ashita chara polls have started, with the winners getting wallpapers. It runs until March 11th. Also currently running are the chara polls for Pastel Chime 3 (until March 11th) and Gears of Dragoon (until March 10th).

∀-brand has resin kits available for preorder for Hanairo Heptagram‘s Tamami and Asuka (with mini Miyuri). Both are priced at ￥13,020 and you only have until March 4th or supplies last. ALTER’s 1/7 scale figure of Mahoyo‘s Touko will be out in July for ￥9240.

I’ll be quite busy the next few weeks finalizing my trip to Japan. I keep on getting distracted looking at food. There’s so much to eat…

March 2013 Eroge Releases

This month is quite uninteresting as it seems like many companies are settling for an April release date instead. If it wasn’t for delays for games like COSMIC CUTE’s LOVESICK PUPPIES and UnisonShift Blossom’s Ryuusei☆Kiseki, we’d only be left with makura’s Himawari no Kyoukai to Nagai Natsuyasumi. Fandisks, adaptations and remakes round out the rest of this month’s titles.

The sheer number of titles delayed from previous months padded out the scanty ten or so actual releases just enough to make a list that can actually be called such. Not much of interest this month but that just gives us an extra month to work through all the February releases, yay.

YuzuSoft’s Next Title Takes Flight!

YuzuSoft‘s next title will be Amairo＊IsleNauts! The story is set on the floating island Lyzerg, where the protagonist Tooru is a teacher at a girl’s school. It comes out July 26th and features Kiritani Hana as the donut-loving kemonomimi girl Masaki and Natsuno Koori as the shy itoko Airi. Airin is so mine! Her hair-down look reminds me of Sana. The SDs are really cute! Ah man, five months is way too long to wait!!

They’ve also announced a social game YuzuPara… I SEE SANA!!!!!!! They’re also taking suggestions for the navigator girl‘s name (until March 1st).

Other titles announced this week include:

Galette – Santaful☆Summer
Jirai Soft – Tsuisou no Augment (April 19th)
MANATSU_8 – Shirogane Otome (May 31st)

Releases dates have been set for the following:

3-nin Iru! – May 31st
Aikomyu!! – May 31st
Matsuyuki no Hana – May 31st
Meguru Kisetsu no Yakusoku to, Tsunaida Sono Te no Nukumori to – May 31st
Tsukiakari Lunch – May 31st

The following titles have been delayed:

Pocket ni Koi o Tsumete – March 15th
Grisaia no Rakuen – May 24th

Suzuno won the Witch’s Garden chara poll, followed closely by Akari and her imouto Akeno. All three get commemorative wallpapers, while Suzuno also gets a dakimakura, to be revealed in March. Chara polls have started up for Reminiscence (until March 2nd), Imoban (until March 4th) and Zutto Suki Shite, Takusan Suki Shite (until March 31st).

The OST for the D.C.III anime series by Lantis will be on shelves April 24th, while the Daito OST comes out March 29th.

On June 27th, the Memories Off series will have games coming out on both the PS3 and PSV.

Here, have a bunny Super Sonico. This 1/4 scale figure from FREEing is priced at ￥18,800 and ships in July. Other figures available for preorder are Shining Blade‘s Misty (1/8 scale, ￥9660, July) and Touhou‘s Patchouli (1/8 scale, ￥13,650, July).

Hapymaher‘s Alice will help wake you up in this Google Play app.

Getchu 2012 Bishoujo Game Awards

SAGA PLANET’s Hatsuyuki Sakura claimed top place in Getchu’s bishoujo game awards 2012, followed by YuzuSoft’s DRACU-RIOT! and Pulltop’s Konosora. It also was voted best scenario and music, which I don’t have much problems with. minori’s Natsuzora no Perseus had the best graphics and ero (beating out various nukige). Windmill’s Witch’s Garden swayed voters in the system category with its E-mote system, while Minato Soft’s Majikoi S had the most popular OP, “Mecha Shinken SSS!“. Tsukioto‘s Luna won the character category, followed by Hatsusaku‘s “Bunny” Sakura and DRACU-RIOT!‘s Erona Erina. Top imouto was Natsuperu‘s Ren, although my vote went to Kurafuta‘s Yae, who finished 17th. Congrats to all the winners!

Yuzu-soft will reveal their next work on February 21st. Second from the left is mine. New titles announced this week include:

Marmalade – Hoshi no Oto Sanctuary (May 31st)
Paraiso – Otogibanashi wa Yami no Naka (May 31st)
raiL-soft – Asterite Shuushuubako (March 29th)

Release dates has been set for the following:

Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica F – May 24th
BRAVA! – May 31st
ChuSinGura46+1 – May 31st
Love of Renai Koutei of LOVE! – May 31st
Otome wa Karen ni Koi ni Mai! – May 31st
Qualiaffordance – May 31st
Natsukumo Yururu – June 28th

COSMIC CUTE has delayed both of their upcoming games: Lovesick Puppies to March 22nd, and Gleamgarden no Shoujo to July 26th. Meanwhile, Palette has moved up the release date for their nukige Minna Sasagechau! one day to February 28th. It has since been added to the February post.

Michiru and Ushio are the best combo in Leyline as voted by the fans. What about Shizuka-chan? Sharp-tongued imouto Aoi won the Guardian☆Place chara poll. The Konosora FD chara poll has started and will run until March 1st, while the Eiyuu＊Senki dakimakura poll closes on February 25th.

The March issue of Comptiq, which came out on February 9th, includes a Daito drama CD.

Oh, this is a nice Saber figure! This 1/7 scale dress code version by ALTER comes out in July for ￥9660.

Dakimakura are coming out for Oreyome‘s Akari and Hinata, and Monobeno‘s loli Alice. Wait… loli Alice!?

Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day. I spent mine enjoying delicious imoutos. I mean, chocolates from imoutos. Then imoutos.