General News IV: A New Hope?

[d_fallen_god]

Originally Posted by Aaeru

From Asceai's blog

"ErogeShop have announced the temporary suspension of their business while they determine how to best adapt with the modern exchange rate. Foreign eroge fans can still obtain titles through Palet Mail Service and J-List (the latter’s selection of preorder eroge being unfortunately quite limited)."

Well it is quite disappointing... but they want secure their safety to have a peaceful Christmas at least.... ahem....

[Stranger]

AFAIK, the US didn't ask for this step to be taken, JPO did this on their own. That is why no other country (AFAIK) have taken those steps. Although, the JPO might have done this to cut on the cost of checking large packages going toward the US, this where the money made from sending the package doesn't justify the cost of processing it.

note, in 9/11, all the flights were domestic flights, there is no reason to believe that local packages are safe so why block international ones!

[Ojamajo_LimePie]

Originally Posted by d_fallen_god

Well it is quite disappointing... but they want secure their safety to have a peaceful Christmas at least.... ahem....

If the problem is the exchange rate, they should just change their prices to yen.

[Stranger]

they might still need to invoice in USD, as many banks do not support the conversion to all currencies. Also invoicing in USD makes it easier for them and their customer, since their won't be any confusion about the finally price (MG is still getting a lot of complains about Euro, aren't they? imagine the complains about JPY!).

any way, the USD price becomes a problem when they have a large difference in the exchange over a short period of time, after all, they are already using a higher exchange rate internally to offset any small changes. The result of the exchange rate problem might be that they are going to use a higher exchange rate internally, so expect to import eroge for USD 130 instead of USD 105.

UPDATE: another solution of the exchange rate problem would be, that they would stop receiving pre-orders until 4 weeks before the release of the title. Minimizing the exchange rate risk in the process.

[Agilis]

WOOHOO!
Palette updated their homepage http://www.clearrave.co.jp/index2.html and put up to their page for Hare Tokidoki Otekiame!

Say it with me kids.

くすくす・NYAON!
くすくす・NYAON!
くすくす・NYAON!!!!

[appztetra]

Originally Posted by Agilis

WOOHOO!
Palette updated their homepage http://www.clearrave.co.jp/index2.html and put up to their page for Hare Tokidoki Otekiame!

Say it with me kids.

くすくす・NYAON!
くすくす・NYAON!
くすくす・NYAON!!!!

Oooh, never heard there was a new game in the making...
Mashifoni was awesome... so is this.

[Stranger]

Key Head: Maeda Working on Possible Angel Beats! Game
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...gel-beats-game
http://twitter.com/vavasyatyou/status/6355285895553024

which reminds me.... I only watched the 1st 2 episodes....
/me add watching Angel Beats to my to do list.

[fujifruit]

Originally Posted by Stranger

Key Head: Maeda Working on Possible Angel Beats! Game
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...gel-beats-game
http://twitter.com/vavasyatyou/status/6355285895553024

which reminds me.... I only watched the 1st 2 episodes....
/me add watching Angel Beats to my to do list.

Pretty awesome news for me because I enjoyed Angel Beats despite its flaws.

[EmptyShiki]

Thats fantastic. Angel beats really could have been one of the best anime's of the last 5 years if it was fleshed out more, and the visual novel is certainly the medium for fleshing out characters and providing time for decent build up.

[Gumaster]

Do they mean game as in a VN or a game as in an adventure-type game (like persona perhaps?)

...Well, either way it should be awesome if its made

[Stranger]

Tokyo's Revised Youth Ordinance Amendment Bill Posted
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...nt-bill-posted

The revised bill no longer uses the controversially vague term "nonexistent youth" [ ..... ] Instead, the proposed restrictions applies to all characters, regardless of their perceived age.

the proposed ban include twincest and incest, as well as old-sister!

any way, surprisingly, they want to law to apply to manga and anime only. It would be alright for a live film to have those things!

[d_fallen_god]

Originally Posted by Stranger

Tokyo's Revised Youth Ordinance Amendment Bill Posted
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...nt-bill-posted



the proposed ban include twincest and incest, as well as old-sister!

any way, surprisingly, they want to law to apply to manga and anime only. It would be alright for a live film to have those things!

I want to give one reason
well it no wonder since they don't want to be blame by other countries(for indecent content and can be exploit for a bad exmple)....
since anime,manga is quite popular in the net.....=D and they didn't mind visual novel since its not too viral to the world... if you look at it anime and manga is the most viral items on the net....

[fujifruit]

Originally Posted by Stranger

Tokyo's Revised Youth Ordinance Amendment Bill Posted
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...nt-bill-posted



the proposed ban include twincest and incest, as well as old-sister!

any way, surprisingly, they want to law to apply to manga and anime only. It would be alright for a live film to have those things!

Poor Aki-sora...

[Stranger]

I was actually looking forward to 2nd season of Kissxsis and an anime series of Aki Sora

any way, it is _not_ law yet, it might get rejected again.

A new post on the official Mangagamer blog -- http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2010...s-are-changing -- reports progress on DCIF, Da Capo 2 (suggesting it might debut as early as December 2010), Ef, and Edelweiss (re-translation, and the possibility of an iOS version in English).