General News V: The Empire Strikes Back?

[swiftnissity]

According to the Mangagamer forums, at AX people asked about their next release. Apparently they have at-least 3 games ready for release. They're just looking for the best time to release them.

The games being:

Edelweiss (Re-translation)
We Love Master!
The Queen and Princess as your rewards

Supposedly 'Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip~' is also ready too (and is in the process of getting hard copies made).

Edit:
Twitter updates-

http://twitter.com/#!/MangaGamer/sta...37850740830208

We're trying to organize the dates now, but the next release should be #WeLoveMaster RT @Swiftnissity any info on when MGs next release is?

http://twitter.com/#!/MangaGamer/sta...13419843158017

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[fujifruit]

A teaser website announced on Sunday that a television anime adaptation of the Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse novel will run in 2012. The novel itself is spinoff of the 2006 romance simulation game Muv-Luv Alternative from the adult game company âge.

The novel has been running in Enterbrain's Tech Gian magazine since 2007, and it already inspired a manga adaptation by Takashi Ishigaki in ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in 2009.

-Anime news network
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-gets-tv-anime

[Stranger]

A Message From Level 5 President, Akihiro Hino, To Overseas Fans
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/07/25...overseas-fans/

note much, other then, I just opened our office in the US and will be making American games plus bringing some Japanese ones over.

Looks like Imouto Ijime is now fully fan translated: http://vndb.org/v3053

(Just checked J-List, Palet Web, and Hendane. None of them currently offer it. So if you want a legit copy, then ask politely, or use a shopping service. Amazon.co.jp has used copies for 2000 to 2980 yen.)

Imouto Ijime can be purchased on dlsite - http://www.dlsite.com/pro/work/=/pro.../VJ004304.html.

[swiftnissity]

The live feed for the MG panel just started: http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php

I'll edit anything worth mentioning into this post:

Go! Go! Nippon!

since we like having a wide variety, the first title is Go Go Nippon, which will be our next all age releases

as you noticed by now, you can view the english or japanese or both in the game

one thing we haven't talked about is the show photo button

if you are playing the game and you have an internet connection active, it will take you there on google maps

and it has another function which we don't have a screenshot of, when you load the game, you can load the currency rate, and at the end of the game, it will tell you how much money you spent

Ef - a fairy tale of two

we're doing debug and minori has to finish (stuff lost)

and hopefully we'll have this out at the end of this year if minori get their stuff done

Dear Drops

we were trying to have the demo for otakon, but overdrive had to attend a convention in taiwan

how about you give us a release date?

I'm hoping to be done with the translation by sept or october... so hopefully early next year

Harem Party

so this our latest game from tactics, one of the subbrands of nexon

and it's called Harem Party

I'm about an 8th of the way through testing, it's due thursday...

and i'll blame it on the text inserters if you ask me later

so if it's delayed... that's why

Conquering the Queen

Conquering the Queen

this is our latest game from Liquid, one of nexton's harder brands

that's the title we're giving it

others may not it as mashou no nie(?), or the queen and princess are your rewards

We Love Master

probably the best thing i can tell you about this game is we're releasing it on august 1st

Video

we're getting ready to launch video distribution on our website

some will be download to own

most of which hentai video

we made a deal with the studio "Discovery"

who is well known for their animation of many visual novels

many of which are out of print classics

including one we'll be launching

night shift nurses, uncut, uncensored

Comic

and the second one, we've gotten, is... why are you manga gamer if you don't sell manga

we have worked out a license with akitashinsha... comic tenma...

(not sure on name)
(and a few others)

we have several different mangas coming out

some of which have already been released by icarus

Questions

Q: Working with more 7th expansion titles?
A: Ray(?) is a possibility, We're hoping that higurashi sells more first

Pretty sure it refers to Higurashi Rei

Q: Working with Type-Moon?
A; their case is interesting, i'll leave it at that

Q: Progress on age negotiations?
A; Progress, yes.
Say anything officially, no. Kinda the ef situation

we are actually in negotiations with several other companies

we had a post about the top 10 most requested companies

there's a 3rd company on that list we're in talks with

and a few other companies we're talking with include some now familar faces

Q: My problem with the stuff you have released is that they aren't game games, so maybe if you got a contract with someone like alicesoft
A: That would be nice... as to the rest of that question.. (he whistles)
Stay tuned

Possibly refers to the Circus game with gameplay they spoke about like a year ago?

Q: Navel?
A: we're talking with them to get oretsuba
that's going well, but we don't have it yet

--Also--
2 new blog posts from MG:

Conquering the Queen: http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2011...ing-the-queen/

Harem Party: http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2011...g-harem-party/

[swiftnissity]

4 new product pages from MG
http://www.mangagamer.com/r18/Titles/Catalog/1

Harukoi Otome ~Greetings from the Maidens' Garden~
Harem Party
Conquering the Queen
DEARDROPS

[swiftnissity]

I managed to track down the blog post that MG mentioned at otakon

we are actually in negotiations with several other companies

we had a post about the top 10 most requested companies

there's a 3rd company on that list we're in talks with

and a few other companies we're talking with include some now familar faces

http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2010...u-want-to-see/

Top 10 Developers
1. Visual Arts/Key
2. CIRCUS
3. Black Cyc
4. Nitroplus
5. KID/CYBERFRONT
6. Leaf
7. minori
8. Innocent Grey
9. Liarsoft
10. Type-Moon
10. UNiSONSHIFT

They're already working with CIRCUS, Minori and Innocent Grey. Plus they said that they'd spoken to Visual Arts and they weren't interested yet (low sales). And at Otakon they hinted that it wasn't Type-Moon.
JASTUSA is working with Nitroplus.

Meaning it can only be:

3. Black Cyc

5. KID/CYBERFRONT
6. Leaf

9. Liarsoft

Hopefully its Black CYC
:o

[fujifruit]

Originally Posted by swiftnissity

I managed to track down the blog post that MG mentioned at otakon



http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2010...u-want-to-see/



They're already working with CIRCUS, Minori and Innocent Grey. Plus they said that they'd spoken to Visual Arts and they weren't interested yet (low sales). And at Otakon they hinted that it wasn't Type-Moon.
JASTUSA is working with Nitroplus.

Meaning it can only be:



Hopefully its Black CYC
:o

Why did you leave out UnisonShift?

[swiftnissity]

Originally Posted by fujifruit

Why did you leave out UnisonShift?

Mistake >.> accidentally deleted them lol

Originally Posted by swiftnissity

I managed to track down the blog post that MG mentioned at otakon



http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2010...u-want-to-see/



They're already working with CIRCUS, Minori and Innocent Grey. Plus they said that they'd spoken to Visual Arts and they weren't interested yet (low sales). And at Otakon they hinted that it wasn't Type-Moon.
JASTUSA is working with Nitroplus.

Meaning it can only be:



Hopefully its Black CYC
:o

Leaf and Black Cyc have both previously said that they're not interested in the western market (especially black cyc for basically the same reason of alicesoft, which is having too much rape/dark elements in their games).

[swiftnissity]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Leaf and Black Cyc have both previously said that they're not interested in the western market (especially black cyc for basically the same reason of alicesoft, which is having too much rape/dark elements in their games).

CYC are interested, they even had a deal with JAST which fell through since the system CYC uses (System-NNN) can't display punctuation and CYC couldn't fix it (fans did however, but by the time they did the deal was already over). Mangagamer gets lucky in that they port games with issues like this to other engines while JAST preserves the original engine.

edit:
http://www.jastusa.com/forums/viewto...yc+deal#p91107

Bad news for those hoping for a Black Cyc deal, they were apparently involved in talks but it broke down when Black Cyc had some issues with their own engine.

Can anyone access adult items via Paletweb? I know they used to carry eroge and dakimakura, but I can't seem to find them anymore. Thanks.

[Amoirsp]

Just judging from that list of 10 (11), I would have been under the impression that it was KID/CYBERFRONT.

That's probably because when I went to Taiwan I remember seeing KID everywhere that has PC games of any sort.

That just really mean anything but eh, just my thought.

[Toranth]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Can anyone access adult items via Paletweb? I know they used to carry eroge and dakimakura, but I can't seem to find them anymore. Thanks.

There's now a very small link "adult" way down under the bottom of the left side menu (but above the Information section). That will take you to the login page. Once you've logged in, you return back to the main page, but this time there is the usual "PC Soft (Windows)" link that goes to the eroge.

Dunno about other goods, sorry. Probably available once you've clicked the 'adult' link and logged in.