Otaku fans of virtual schoolgirl dating sensation Love Plus have been treated to a set of festive Love Plus Christmas events, dubbed “Plus-mas.” Cakes and cards from the girls, and even AR Christmas cards, have all proven hugely popular…
Otaku queued for hours in the December chill to get a special cake “from” the girls (limited to 100 only, from 3 different Tokyo shops), with the cakes sold out completely before the shops even opened:
The cake even came with a special AR (augmented reality) card, enabling otaku to get even closer to their virtual brides:
Konami has struck gold it seems…
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So Love-Plus is the new Nursing Home for people under 50?
That's pretty sad.
But then again, just by looking at pic #8 it becomes clear why Love Plus sells so well.
....those cakes look damn tasty...
ehh
it looks like an ordinary cake with picture card to me...
i'm expecting something like, model cake
are they using ds to take those AR pic or webcam?
For some reason this subject just makes me sad.
Is this really where society is going? How did we get to this point?
An easy answer -> bitches and whores (and EN).
women demand too much of men.then they don't let us be the man so we feel like shit.They want to be treated equal so we treat them equal THEN they want special privileges because they are women 面倒臭い
Oh my lord!!!
I hope someone uploads the software that came with the cake along with a scan cards :)
if only there were things like this in US.....
they now need to invest and futher development of Augmented Reality Goggles! ;)
Denno Coil will come soon!! but with hot babes instead of digital dogs :P
It'd be a shame (and a YouTube video) if that hot-looking Augmented Reality chick you're boning is actually a dog.
I, for one, would lol at that sort of vid.
Guy in pic05 and 06 sorta looks like Adachi from Persona4....
actually Adachi's based on him
wtf thats so cool
special AR (augmented reality) card
A while ago in these comments someone mentioned yu-gi-oh AR....
When people play yu-gi-oh like normal, they play a simple card game, with pictures of monsters, information and stats, on nothing but plastic cards, with the point of eliminating the opponents defences, then attacking their opponents directly, dealing damage to "hit points"...
but with AR, a computer with a web camera, something like a normal DSI, and then if each card has a uniquely identifying, easily recognised symbol, then the company behind yu-gi-oh could make a program for the computer, or DSI, that shows the little monsters coming out of the cards and then shows them Fighting each other, for the amusement of the players...
If a company can make thousands of little plastic cards for near to no cost, then sell them on for a lot, then make a little program to show little monsters coming out of the cards and fighting, they might actually make a lot of money...
wtf this has to happen after i come back from japan 3 weeks ago.
Damn it, living in Japan sure is awesome...
soon enough, they'll have 1/1 scale AR cards
I wanna go get a cake!
I must have this game... Why the Japanese get to have all the fun?
Those people from Konami's marketing dept are made of awesome. \m/
Nene still looks fucking creepy. Manaka and Rinko ftw!
Now if Konami can intergrate that hologram technology to Yu-Gi-Oh, they'll become the richest gaming company since Square Enix!
next thing would be personcon?
Oh cool, the Love+ AR's look pretty nice! Wonder if they'll consider making a game using AR software?
american women are retarded.
yes they are, needy, selfish, demanding and you go to other countries and the women are so much better.
in other countries, women are slaves and sub-human you retard, thats why they're so damn nice
More like gaijin women stuff themselves full of Mcdonals and expects expensive accessories that you gaijin have no choice but to go for the greater quality and less expensive asian women.
I believe inter racial love can occur. But I also believe majority of those are cause by the above.In short, I blame the cause of otaku to gaijin who can't match their own culture with their expectation. That is what I call spoiled. Wanting something that they can't afford so they decide to steal from the little kid next door.
If what you say is true, then what's your complaint?
We gaijin are simply following market forces ("greater quality and less-expensive asian women").
"...steal from the little kid next door."
It sounds as if you're claiming that all asian women belong to you, personally, and that we gaijin are forcibly abducting them.
["I need two liters of reality in an intravenous infusion for this man, stat!"]
I believe that differences in race are irrelevant.
Differences in _culture_ can cause conflict in a relationship, and doom the relationship if those conflicts are not dealt with effectively.
But, effective conflict resolution is important in all relationships.
where are you getting this idea that Japanese women are cheaper than white women? If you want an inexpensive GF go to eastern Europe. Asian women are like vampires that suck money from your wallet instead of blood from your neck.
Are you saying 'gaijin' men want fat obnoxious Western women but get them so the forcibly go to the 'little kid next door'? That being Japan, the country with comparatively a huge amount of hot women?
I think you need to rethink this.
Lol, Japan full of hot women. Someone's delusional...
* ...but can't get them...
Sorry
Those look like really nice cakes, but they're undoubtedly over-priced.
These guys all are forgetting the Rule of 2D/3D Separation:
"Spend only virtual money on virtual girlfriends and virtual wives."
hope they bring this shit to eu, i want to stick my bratwurst so bad in this game, fuck yeah.
Perversling.
So much for "2D girlfriends don't cost money".
Still much cheaper than any 3D.
Well well..
Konami is sure making a damn money machine here.
First Yu Gi Oh! and now love + cakes O.o
I can't believe that the otaku would just buy normal cakes with a bit of nene over it.
I gotta see what this love + is all about if I ever go to japan.
Cheers;
Niker
sad if you ask me
wtf? girls buy love plus? well now i've seen it all.
well maybe they realized their boyfriends are obsessed with this "Love Plus" thing and decided to buy it to give it as a gift.
well, it's going to end badly
Just wait till they make Love Plus with male characters, then even more girls will buy it.
More boys also will buy it if the male char is a trap
I'm sure there are lesbian otaku who don't get any
it's becouse even the girls don't act like girls that lesbians want so much. XD
wut did u say there
Ever heard of lesbians? Also it is a good game to learn what otaku are attracted to and many don't look that bad.
you obviously forgot about the beings called "lesbians"
I'm not impressed personally
it would be funny if love plus satisfy her more than the boyfriend
Play Yu-Gi-Oh when bored, hang out with virtual waifu.
What will Konami think of next?
play children card games with your virtual waifu on motorcicles
Love plus yugioh cards. They'll sell millions.
dont forget MGS
virtual educational program?
now children wont even have to go to school anymore >.<
A holographic one, so they can pretend an embrace - or more.
Wait, no, that would never work with the 2D otakus out there.
What the hell are those holographic things?!
ahhhh ok, +'s for you all!
they r computer signal that tells where a 3d model belong.
Looks like webcam gadgets.
I'm guessing it works by installing a piece of software and showing those Christmas cards to the webcam. The software detects those black squares, their position and orientation, and renders the avatars of the girls accordingly.
End effect being it looks like they're standing on the little square on your screen.
AR/Augmented Reality - Basically, those little cards just have the special pattern on them. That's all you see in real life. The hologram is not there in real life.
The "hologram" is added automatically by the DS when taking a picture that has the card in it. I don't know about these specific ones, but the technology should be able to work with video as well, and in real-time.
But not in real life, sadly. It will only ever appear on screen.
Virtual babies.
I bet Equality won't care as babies don't sell.
AUGMENTED WHAT CARD?!
I WANT ONE
If they ever make robotic wives, the ones that can do anything/everything, and they make loli ones, do you think EN or someone will come up with rights for robotic children?
This is like tamagochi, only for larger children.
they don't want it to be translated to Eng. konami is earning enough in japan alone, and they want to avoid problems cause by Gaijin Moralist, and english speaking nene is just fail.
not successful enuf to be translate into Eng version...
The hell you going on about?
EN ARE the robots!!
You can get some software to do it here: http://kougaku-navi.net/ARToolKit.html
the robot version of EN will
we all know they got robotic spare bodies
Which one got a housband?
none of the guys shown here is censored. so they're either wifeless or very confident. looks like being a love+ otaku is less embarassing?
I have no respect for Japanese men, but this is good.
So more real Jap Girls for use gaijins.
Japanese girls love big white and even black dicks.
Japan, open up for immigrants if you want surive, your (real) women need us!
tha girl looked kind of like itou noiji but maybe she just has similar facial features?
stop making a fool out of yourself
too late
Asian girls worship handsome, big dicked and rich gaijins.
Its a fact.
All girls worship the rich.
fix'd
QFT
Asian girls worship the rich
fix'd
Asian girls the rich
fix'd
spoken like a true whiteboy...
it's funny on the base it's mostly the back dudes I see going crazy for jap women.
Imagine some big drunk gaijin poorly hitting on that woman selling cakes.
Really, look at the picture and try to imagine it happening in real life.
sure hope the guy that married his Love Plus girl got his limited edition stuff or else heads are gonna roll
I think it's kind of nice.
I feel the same too.
Umm, I'd go to one of those events, if the line isn't very long. Not a fan, but cake and nice cards, why not?
Those otakus shown aren't so bad looking. Perhaps they're the ones with 3D Love-Plus restrainers waiting at home...
It's a shame that Konami invested heavily on this game instead of making another Suikoden game. I think there should be a good jrpg game - it's been long since we had one.
AR card is really cool. Never seen one of those.
This should have been exploited more if this was such a succes. Just 100 cakes? What about 10.000?
I undestand why japanese men have a Inferiority complex to non-asian men.
it's the penis the yen is stronger than the dollar but the 外人 penis is stronger than the jap prick.
Eh.. fuck the game, I'd rather that cashier!
you got me ><b
The girl with the chef hat is SO cute.