A Promising Start

SAGA PLANETS is turning to crowdfunding for their next project. The campaign starts on February 5th and ends on February 29th, with a target of one million yen.

New titles announced over the past month include:

Campus – Natsu Uso -Ahead of the reminiscence-
ClearColorWorks – Saihate★Frontier
CLIP☆CRAFT – Unionism Quartet A³-DAYS
CLOCKUP – Natsu no Kusari
COSMIC CUTE – Sora no Tsukurikata
eye★phon – Tsui Yuri ~Okaasan ni wa Naisho da yo~
HamHamSoft – Low Spec!? ~Ore to Kanojo to Seikyouiku~
Innocent Grey – Ama no Shoujo
Laplacian – Kimi to Yumemishi
LassPixy – Pure Marriage ~Akai Ito Monogatari Madoka-hen~ (April 28th)
Luxury Tiara – Ojou-sama no Hanbun wa Renai de Dekiteimasu! (July 29th)
Purple Software – Amatsutsumi
SMILE – Boku to Koisuru Ponkotsu Akuma. Suggoi Ecchi! (May 27th)
SORAHANE – Toki＊Sora
Wonder Fool – parade

Release dates have been set for the following:

Nekopara Vol.2 – February 20th
Dungeon of Regalias – March 25th
Liber_7 – May 27th
Otome＊Domain – June 24th

The following titles have been delayed:

Amaekata wa Kanojo Nari ni. – February 26th
Happening LOVE!! – February 26th
Koisuru Otome to Shugo no Tate ~Bara no Seibo~ – February 26th
School of Fantasia – February 26th

The December and January appends for PRETTY×CATION2 are available for download.

A few surprising results came out of recent chara polls, with Rinko topping the Cocoro Rista! vote (despite being a subchara), and the store employee winning the Seiiki series subheroine poll (despite not having a tachi-e). In a more expected result, Saya took first in the Yozora chara poll. It wasn’t even close. The Tayutama2 chara poll is underway and runs until January 31st.

Volume 4 of PRETTY×CATION‘s raburabu birthday series (Suzuka) will be on shelves on March 18th.

The Konosora Cruise Sign PSV port has been set for a March 31st release.

Kaga Create, the company that brought us PSV titles Higurashi Sui, Saki -Zenkokuban- and Majokoi Dragon×Caravan, has disbanded as of December 31st, citing difficulties in today’s mobile game-centric environment. It seems that all other fields are suffering from the same dilemma.

New figures recently available for pre-order include:

FREEing – 1/12 scale Super Sonico swimsuit ver. (Super Sonico, May, ￥2759)
Kotobukiya – 1/7 scale Katia (Schwarzemarken, June, ￥8800)
Phat! – Dekachu Ranko (Deremas, July, ￥6481)

Dakimakuras are coming out for Tsuushinbo‘s Emi, Nonoka and Kotone, Panicon‘s Nanaho, Yozora‘s Hikari and Saya, Fall in Love×4tune‘s Karen, Haruno‘s Nanoka and Kanotsuku.

The Kickstarter campaign for the English release of Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra was successful, raising over US$180,000 with 2285 backers.

Tadaima! I’ve been back for almost a week now, but I’m still jetlagged (and for some reason on Europe time). I had a blast and brought back plenty of loot and memories. It was great meeting up with others and enjoying the food everywhere. I’ll probably write a post later about my experience (mainly Comiket), but there’s a lot of things to catch up on first. February post most likely won’t be on time as I haven’t even started on it.