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Changed Beat of the week on the sidebar player.
Yet another remix, and I’m sure you know which anime it is from !

I’ve been thinking of a several little “games” for people who visit the blog.
Whether you are bored, or you wanna test your knowledge of animes, I think this’ll be interesting. I’ll have to code several things to make it work, so of course it won’t be for tomorrow. It’ll probably have a score board as well (with gravatar support if I can).

You were not expecting this, right? Well, neither do I :/
It’s been ages since the last “Japanese Flash Games” post, and I thought I’d be more interesting to post about Japanese games in general so I renamed the category (as said in today’s Picture of the day post).

Small quote from wikipedia :

Vanguard Princess is a Japanese freeware dōjin 2D fighting game for Windows, developed by a single programmer and illustrator called Tomoaki Sugeno, nicknamed Suge9 and a supposedly ex-Capcom employee. The game was released on June 26, 2009 and was created using Fighter Maker 2nd. The latest version of the game is 1.07c, released on June 20, 2010.

For a free game, it’s pretty amazing. Graphics are gorgeous, and you don’t need a rock’n lol PC to make it run. The only drawback in my opinion is that characters do not have a lot of different moves. That may change in later versions, though.
Note that You may need Microsoft AppLocale to make it run on your machine.
You also need to rename/fix the file path so that it does not contain any asian characters (ex: C:\Vanguard Princess\vanpri107c\vp). You also need to rename the .exe and .kgt files for the same reason as well. You can give them any name you want, as long as they both have the exact same name (ex: vp.exe, vp.kgt).

Found the game quite fun and relaxing, and I hope some of you will think the same

Click here for download links and demo video

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Renamed the category “Japanese Flash Games” to “Japanese Games”.
You’ll see why soon.

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18+ Japanese Artists post tomorrow.

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Was trying to think of an article for today, but couldn’t find anything :/
Posting a “cushion girl” pic in compensation.

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Some fresh Angel Beats! news you might be interested in :
Official website began streaming a second PV for the special BD/DVD episode “Stairway to Heaven” (alternate epilogue). You can watch the new PV here. Out on December 22nd.
Also, Takahiro Baba (president of Visual Art’s/Key) said that scriptwriter Jun Maeda is working on a scenario for a “possible” game adaptation of Angel Beats! Although, it is just a “possibility”, and we’ll have to wait half a year for an official announcement (or not).

On another note, the AnimeNewsNetwork website began a poll a few days ago, asking “where” do you watch Imouto. And of course, the “fansub” choice is among the answers. Honestly, it is pathetic how they try to hide their motive : measure how many people actually watch the most popular show of the season using fansubs (and how much money they loose at the same time). They’ll probably give the results to Japanese companies, that wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Dudes, have some guts and ask the question directly, don’t use some cheap and obvious trick like this. We’re not dumbasses. Don’t count on me to answer your goddam poll, huh As long as you don’t bring some top-notch subbing quality (because if we pay for it, we want our investment to be worth it), “most” (not all) people will never consider paying for watching.
Fansubbers do it with passion, unlike companies who do it for money (though I agree, subbing quality does have improved for official streaming websites). Simple.