Betcha look like this when you wake up. (0_<)

I don’t want to be biased when selecting routes for review, so I’m going accordingly like this: Emi, Hanako, Lily, Rin then Shizune.
Hell, turning off that option affects completion of scenes.

What did I just say?!

Back to the main topic… >_>

Storyline and character development for Emi’s Route: Cliché
Reminds me of a friend though…
Cute, active, enthusiastic about stuff… and certainly likes to bounce up to you.
Guys, this is what you want right? =^^=
But still, it is quite typical. While I guess almost everything must have a benchmark there. Supposedly Emi’s Route is the ‘typical’ kind of thing when other routes are different, must be.

CG: There are certainly some differences between the normal (during conversation) and special scenes…
Normal:

CG:

Result of artist collaboration?
Well, I can’t say either are bad, right? Just different styles.

Bright and cheerful, popular but does not have many close friends (only Rin), and also stubborn. In all perspective, she’s probably the fastest girl you can hook up with in real life.

“幼き頬　朱を滲ませ　疼きに足を崩される”
“My childish cheeks are flushed crimson, my legs collapse in tingly pain”
–緋色月下、狂咲ノ絶

P.S.: Were you able to escape from the Mysterious Cathedral?

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Well, you do see live2D clock apps on the iOS like the Mirai Clock 3, which was just released a month ago, or a Oreimo clock app which was in the App store for some time.

Then after hearing about this, surely I would have Google Android users actually complaining why apps like these have not been given some love to Android.

But after seeing this app, some might change this line of thinking. For there’s both an iOS and Android version of it.

“ましろ色シンフォニーあんどろいどあぷり“, is a wonderful live2D clock app by Digimerce, is like the other live2D clock apps out there. If you watched the slice of life, romance anime “ましろ色シンフォニー (Mashiro Iro Shinfoni)”  or “The color of lovers”, you would know who is Sena Airi.

Well she greets you “おはよう” upon opening the application, even when it’s at night.  What I thought is different from the many clock and alarm clock apps is, this actually talks to you.

There is an alarm and time telling function for this clock app.

Tap anywhere on her, she’ll talk with some and different phrases along with emotions, and tap the time for her to tell the time.

Dragging your finger around the screen would make her look where you are dragging the finger. You can also change the attire, which is a school gym class outfit and it must be bought.

Since this app came preloaded with the basic pack of emotions it’s useable, but if you are willing to pay, you can venture more, by buying the respective emotions too.
The background will change according to the time where if it’s in the morning in real life, the background of the clock app will be in the day. Same goes in the night. The location in the background never changed so far, for the 3 days that I’m using this application.

Other functions include the portal to the twitter and the webpage of the anime which will take you away from the app and brings you to your phone’s browser.

The good thing, it’s free to download off the Android Market, But here comes the de-motivational part. . . .

It’s only available on the Japanese Android Market which I think ( meaning you’ll have to get a Japanese Android Keitai ) and I am not to sure whether it could be downloaded in any countries. As when I accessed my phone to download this app with a R800i Android Market app, it says it could not be downloaded in my region which is Singapore. Got this app via an alternative method ( which I don’t really recommend ) as it’s going to be hard finding it.

Since it’s only availible to Japan, these are the phones that this app would work on ( via. Android Market )
On au by KDDI:
-Xperia acro IS11S
-AQUOS PHONE IS11SH
-INFOBAR A01
-G’z one IS11CA
-IS05

On NTT DoCoMo:
-ARROWZ Kiss F-03D
-Xperia PLAY SO-01D
-T-01D
-MEDIAS WP N-06C
-GALAXY S SC-02B
-GALAXY S II SC-02C
-F-12C

Android Market link :https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.ono.mashiro.airi

And oh. On the market, this same app comes in with another character, Amaha Miu, but the thing is, it’s a paid app unlike Airi’s. So, I would want to have a go on this one too , even though it’ll be sacrificing a little.

Amaha Miu live2D clock < via. Android Market > : https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.ono.mashiro.miu.chara&feature=more_from_developer

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Uh well, I couldn’t help it.

I will be talking a little on game features today besides keeping it brief. As long as I keep playing, you will see an endless stream of commentary, not voiced by Danny Choo unfortunately.

• Jukebox, a.k.a BGM playback
• Gallery, a.k.a CG view
• Library, something new
• Cinema, for all your shorts and animations

I won’t be talking about everything save for the ‘Library’.
Now the VN veterans may notice that ‘Scene Recollection’ or whatever it is is missing…

Unlike most other VNs, you can playback every single snapshots of your ‘life’ you’d experience, instead of only some special scenes.

Act 1 went away pretty fast…

…in like… about at least an hour and half?

What could be better?

From First Impression to Act 1:
So far so good, I won’t comment on the art, no point. If I’m to continue on with the art all day long the reviews would resemble each other in many ways.

Everything’s from first-person perspective, nothing much to say about the style. Description-wise, detailed enough to let you imagine what’s necessary, not too informative to lose you out.
The music matches the mood fairly easily, not to mention well-timed BGM switching during turn of events etc., which is good. I have played certain VNs that weren’t capable of approaching it in such a manner.

Character personality is explored during Act 1, only getting deeper for selected few as you close in on to Act 2.

Closing the curtains on this one, I hope this has been enjoyable for all of you!
Cypher signing off. ^_^

“この愛が真実(まこと)
伝えにいくよ恋しくて”
“I missed the chance to say that my love for you is true”
–サクラ咲ク

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rE8EFR-Trs

Don’t worry it’s not a TV series from china, but more of a new technology by some enterprising kindergarten.

Their aim, to give the children an animation of their own, using 3D modelling to make a character have the likeness of their master.

It’s then voiced by the Child and his cast. Thus teaching them more about making animated features and a special experiences when they are young.

The average age of the participant is from 4-6 years old. Not bad.

But I’m not sure the blatant copying of the copyrighted materials like Freedom from Gundam SEED, the Monsters from Monsters the movie will make the media people any happier… Especially those SOPA people…

Source: Jin115

Website: http://www.xuyouji.com/cn/

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“>Conveniently thou, ASUS only announced the new ICS upgrade to the Prime just 2 days ago at a pre CES 2012 show conference with Nvidia.

Users will be able to get the new creamy dessert via an online update for the tablet from 12th of January onwards.

“>

Yes it comes in 2 colours, Gold and Purple.

Although I owned the original Transformer, I am rather envious of the new Prime, with a slimmer profile (8.3mm, 586g alone and 19mm, 1.1kg with dock), beautifully machined aluminium body and a powerful 1.5ghz Nvidia QUAD core Tegra 3 processor… AH~

Everything just seems so much better on the prime~

Not to mention again… It will come with ICE CREAM SANDWICH~

From my experiences, a good point about ASUS is that during my 6 months of consumer/maker relationship with them, they push updates rather quickly to us.

Like how we users of the Transformer tablet are the first to get Android 3.2, and that is good.

Another good thing is that, ASUS’s tablet don’t use skinned overlays like the other brand, making it super responsive like how it’s suppose to be.

FYI, Transformer Gen 1 users will be getting ICS by February too. And that is also quick.

To cap this post… I must exclaim…

I WANT A PRIME!!! SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE ME ONE!!! PLEASE!!!

Now do read the brilliantly prepared press release~

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Konichiwa~ It’s Cypher desu~! =^^=
Katawa Shoujo Full Ver. was just recently released so I’d be giving a heads-up on this one!

http://katawa-shoujo.com/

Well, don’t worry, there’s one for Windows and Linux as well! ^^

Although many things may be covered by the developers themselves, but I can give a brief summary.
It’s a Visual Novel (duh), ADV and First Person.
The story goes like this (not much of a spoiler):

Hisao suffers from a heart defect and has to transfer to a High School for the disabled children (while he isn’t really ‘disabled’). Despite that, he is able to find friends -and perhaps love, if, that is, he plays his cards right.

The main heroines ^^:



Interesting…

Here’s the Main Menu, pretty simple for now as you progress through the game.
I noticed that for every ‘Act’ (or chapter you might want to call) a ‘paper cut-out’ of a sketch of a certain character appears. My guess is that it shows how far you’ve went through.

The Options Menu, not much but… it features the ‘non-H’ option! Handy if you’re playing in everyone’s view. ^^ Or you just want the story, no pre-marital ero.
There’s no ‘Fullscreeen Mode’ for Mac OS is probably some resizing issues. The Windows version does have Fullscreen Mode though.

I can’t do much of a review (school and all) but so far, in my opinion, the story is well thought out but it may be new to some of you. The theme can be ‘Tragedy’, and the character design is unaccustomed to me. It took me quite a while to get used to the characters.
The game itself isn’t voiced though, so, make up some voices in your head as you go! ^^

This is what it might look like back in 2007. Once Japanese pen-on-paper concept art of a dating sim back in Comiket 61, December 2000, drawn by RAITA of Zettai Shoujo.
This translated and colored omake appeared in the /a/ board of 4chan on 4th January 2007, somehow sparking a wildfire among the community . Ideas and suggestions, and even requests for actually making the game flooded the page. It even became a stickie on 4chan.
Ah yes, I forgot to briefly mention its development.

• Started in 4 January 2007, ideas and suggestions flooded the /a/ board. From what I know, in November 2007 the team (later known as Four Leaf Studios) start to grow.
• December 2008, discussion on Voice Acting comes to a conclusion. The answer is, well, you guessed it: NO
• January 2009, translation translation translation.
• April 2009, Act 1 Preview released.
• December 2009, Act 1 V2 released.
• May 2010, Act 1 V3 released.
• June 2010, 5 translations completed. Also, Act 1 V4 released.
• July 2010, FLS reflects. Katawa Shoujo gets featured at Babycastle indie game arcade in New York City.
• August 2010, Katawa Shoujo panel at Manifest Anime Convention in Melbourne, Australia.
• April 2011, Act 1 V5 released.
• Late 2011, Katawa Shoujo in Comitia and Comiket.
• 4 January 2012, Katawa Shoujo Full Version released! Exactly 5 years since the /a/ board incident.

That’s all for now, I give it a 8/10 for its art and story. Of course, I do not criticize it for not being voiced because I understand how this project came about and it seems pretty low-budget, due to the fact that Four Leaf Studios is simply a group of 4chan regulars, one heck of helluva enthusiasts who love doing it for the community. My praises.

You can download Katawa Shoujo here:
http://katawa-shoujo.com/download.php (opens in new tab/window)
Other languages can be found at the bottom of the webpage.

P.S.: I’m really busy with school, perhaps I’d give a full review on Katawa Shoujo in future. Fingers crossed.

“花火して　笑ったね　夏の海
遅刻して　けんかした　駅の前
ずぶぬれで　はしゃいだね　帰り道
バンソコが　似合ってる？！　私たち”
“Setting off fireworks in the summer sea,
Running late and fighting in front of the station.
Running home soaking wet in high spirits
Do our plasters* look good on us?!”
–the first the last

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We just exit the canon C300 event held at VIVO city GV and I must say i’m very impressed by it as well as Ani-Culture.net’s videographer makoto-sato.

More than that we actually to hear from Vincent Laforet, a professional Photographer, film director and a pioneer in dslr videography.

We were treated with a screening of his latest short film MOBIUS shot using the canon C300 as well as a trailer for a few of the other films also shot using the camera.

As well a chance to get some insights from the Vincent himself on photography and videography.

Overall it was really fun and meaningful event. Great job Canon! I even got to see a Canon 1DX, nice~

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KANAME, MASA×MASA, amatsu, Kaito, Riku, Kaoru, Martha, Ouji, KIMI, Nanami Aqua, Kai, Take, Uroko, Tomato, Ryuto, Kujou Koi, Yuna, Ozaki Hidehiko, Mumei, Kotori, Shinji, Aida Yukiko, Mashiro, TOMO, Kanzaki Noria, Marito, Kota, DANCEROID, Miume, Kimagure Prince, Nyantaro, Kamen Rider 217…and more!

And they will be cosplaying popular characters from; again I quote the PR Release,

“One Piece”, ”Evangelion”, “Tiger & Bunny”, “Final Fantasy”, “Toho Project”, “Hatsune Miku” and more

So if you are avid cosplayer how can you miss their performance in the “TOKYO NICONICO COSPLLECTION” to be held on the 4^th of December at Nicofarre. Yes it’s in Tokyo’s Roppongi District. If you cannot attend it person, the next best thing would be…

FREE Online Streaming!

Yes! Nico Nico Douga will be streaming the event free of charge! Read the details of the streaming below.

■Title ： TOKYO NICONICO COSPLLECTION

■Date & Time： Sun, December 4th, 2011 02:00AM (PST)／Sun, December 4th, 2011 19:00PM (Japan), 18:00(Singapore, Malaysia, Manila), 17:00(Bangkok, Jakarta)

Ｌ The show consists of five parts as follows;

①Anime Stage ②Game Stage ③Vocaloid Stage ④Toho Project Stage ⑤Dance Stage

■Live Streaming URL ：

Ｌ English >>> http://live.niconico.com/watch/lv70063506

Ｌ Japanese >>> http://www.nicovideo.jp/niconico_coscolle (Official website)

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Update: I have downloaded Joysound Dive and to my disappointment, It’s region locked. I’m very sorry for making so many happy for nothing.

Have a PS3 at home and nothing to play on it for now (waiting for FFXIII-2 or disappointed by ACE Combat 5)? Now you can use your PS3 as a Karaoke~

Courtesy of Joysound!

You can now download the free Joysound App from the Playstation Store and enjoy its 78,000 songs. Usually it will cost you 300 Yen(~SG$6) for a day or 1000 Yen(SG$16) for 30 days.

But now till the 19^th of December, the maker XING is making all song free as a promotion campaign.

All you need is a Japanese PSN account and a USB microphone.

That is not all… The software, Joysound Dive, also includes a function that allows for music and video playback as well as a function named “Layer Mixer”. It allows for the multi-muxing of video feeds from the PS3’s hard drive.

Naturally, this application also allows you to record and replay your own singing~

Well I’ll be checking it out after work, will you?

PLAYSTATION 3, It’s only does everything~

Website: Joysound Dive Official site
Source: Andriasang

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And it’s very interesting, having tried it during the interview with Aniki. Unfortunately, it only for the iphone or Ipad, titled Zekkyo Damashi!

But what does this app do?

“>Well it’s a game, timer, an alarm clock, and like the title says, call out Z!

Basically for “Alarm DaZ”, you will have Aniki calling out “Z!” in the morning and then have you silent him by touching all the Zs’. I must be quite sleepy since it took me 89 sec to stop the alarm…

While “Draw DaZ” challenge you to draw a Z in the shortest time on the screen.

Overall it’s an interesting App~

The app is now available worldwide on the Apple Appstore at $2.99(SGD) or equivalent currency.

Our interview article with aniki and the rest should be coming up quite soon, I hope…

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