| 8:30pm | Spring 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, trailer, pic, etc. | | | | This is the season of science fiction. There are seven shows with something sci-fi about them, from a remake of the Space Battleship Yamato series to three mecha shows to a kids' show and a harem romance.But in this well-populated spring season, we have other genres, too: action fantasy, ecchi comedy,... | | |
| 7:46am | Dororon Enma-kun Meerameera Review - 85/100 | | | | I love remakes! I’m not sure what it is, but they nearly always seem to get made by big fans who really want to make something special out of them in order to do them justice. Take Casshern Sins with its amazing style and direction, or Tetsujin 28-Go which brilliantly made the context under... | | |
| 3:25pm | Dororon Enma-Kun - Meerameera - 07 | | | | Dear Brains Base, What the HELL have you created here?! This show is sneaky. I mean, it is written and directed by the director of the crack-fest Hoshi no Umi no Amuri, so I was sort of looking forward to this series. It then commences to have a terrible first episode and an even worse second episode.... | | |
| 7:21pm | Mr Stain on Junk Alley Review - 80/100 | | | | Here’s another one completely done in CG. Mr Stain has thirteen episodes of seven minutes long, plus one that clocks in at half an hour. It pretty much tells fourteen standalone stories about Mr Stain, and some of the things that he finds around his Junk Alley (why yes, this one has a very... | | |
| 3:03pm | Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope International – Review |  | | | As of the 12th of February this year, Star Ocean 4 was made available in Australia on the PS3, after a long time of remaining an exclusive on XBox360. Personally I was a big fan of Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time on the PS2 and managed to nearly get what I would consider an 100% on it, except for... | | |
| 1:50pm | Star Ocean 4 PS3 Confirmed: Xbox Betrayed, Sold, Lost! |  | | | The pool of Japanese Xbox 360 “exclusives” appears to be shrinking fast with the news that ero-RPG Star Ocean 4 is to come to the PS3, its exclusive status having apparently worn off in much the same way as with the imminent Tales of Vesperia. The news comes by way of a leaked release schedule... | | |
| 12:51am | Currently Playing - Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope |  | | | I kind of went on a Star Ocean kick and bought the entire series, that being the PSP ports/remakes of Star Ocean I: First Depature and Star Ocean II: Second Evolution, then Star Ocean III: Till the End of Time for the PS2, and lastly Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope for the Xbox 360. It may seems strange... | | |
| 8:28pm | Hoshi no Umi no Amuri | | | | Well, I finally made myself watch the final episode of this thing. Hoshi no Umi no Amuri, or Amuri in the Star Ocean, is a three episode OVA, fully rendered in 3D CG. What I expected when I started watching was another one of those bad and uninspired fanservice OVAs, without any redeeming value whatsoever.... | | |
| 3:13am | Random Stuff for Feb. 20: PSP Get!, etc. | | | | Hey, y’all! It’s been a month since I posted last. Miss me?. orz. I’ve been tweeting rather than blogging since it requires less effort to write 120 characters (or less) than do a whole post. Can’t help being lazy (^^;; So, follow me on Twitter if you want to know what I’m... | | |
| 6:18pm | Star Ocean 4’s Eroge Status Confirmed |  | | | Aspiring adult game cum RPG Star Ocean 4: Last Hope has been released, and its status as an RPG with “mature themes”, or ero as it is commonly known, seems confirmed. Marvel at the attention to detail shown here, especially in the area constituting catgirl’s nether regions The director... | | |
| 7:35am | STAR OCEAN 4: Regional Interface | | | | Siliconera has posted new information on different Interfaces (Link) and Art for the upcoming xbox360 game Star Ocean 4 The last hope. The US/ Western version will spot more blue and CG Character portraits, while the ASIA/ Japan version will have Anime portraits and brighter colors. It is also rumored... | | |
| 3:30pm | Xbox 360: Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope |  | | | Coming Soon Xbox 360With just 10 days remaining to the release of Square Enix & Tri-Ace’s Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope on the Xbox360, a new trailer was launched in Square-Enix’s channel in Youtube a few days ago. You may check out the new trailer here (Available in HD ver as well). Expect... | | |
| 4:00pm | Star Ocean 4 Really Does Want To Be An Eroge |  | | | As we heard, the producer of Star Ocean 4 harbours a desire to make a full eroge, but, alas, creative direction at Square is not liberal enough to allow him this chance. It doesn’t seem to have stopped him from trying though, as both in the latest trailer, and the previous, erotic and romantic... | | |
| 2:34pm | Star Ocean 4 - New Trailer PV | | | | Square-Enix and Tri-Ace have some new updates for Star Ocean 4: The last Hope, that is coming out this year for the XBOX360. The visual quality of the game is coming along quite well and it looks like this will help Microsoft garner more RPG lovers to its console. The game seems to cover the usual... | | |
| 1:33am | Star Ocean Producer: “I Wanted to Make an H Game” |  | | | Square Enix attached 山岸 功典 / Yoshinori Yamagishi, the creative force behind the Star Ocean series of RPGs, revealed recently in an interview that he would like to have made an eroge. Whilst fans heave sighs of lamentation that he did not get his way, his bosses are doubtless yielding to sighs... | | |
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