The Japanese games industry appears to be in the midst of a slump, with sales last fiscal year plunging and Japan’s overall share of the worldwide market shrinking to just under 20%, along with a precipitous 15% decrease in the size of the domestic market, reports Enterbrain, publisher of famed gaming magazine Famitsu.
Nintendo’s performance in the all important US market during Christmas 2008 has cemented the company’s supremacy and likely ensured its future as the major player for some time, though gamers are unlikely to be too inspired by either it or the other successes of the season.
The Wii managed Yuletide sales more than double that of the Xbox 360, leaving little room for runner up S**y.
I keep my Xbox 360 for: Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect, Fable 2 and maybe Blue Dragon. And the occasional other good exclusive release. I keep my PS3 for all the multi-platform releases, Eternal Sonata, Disgaea 3,... More
Ehh, I'm not sure it's so much what you say but how you say it and how much venom oozes out of it more than half the time, however yeah, unfortunately I do agree that... More
Seiyuu throughout the land are so hard pressed to find work that the vast majority can only subsist with the aid of additional employment, according to an industry insider.
The insider is しろがねしょおむ / Shomu Shirogane, the director of agency Winner Entertainment.
He has this to say about the business of voice acting:
That could be part of the reason.... More
Well, lucky for seiiyu like Midorikawa Hikaru--he has debuted his skills formally to a worldwide audience already. But, then again, Japanese-themed foreign films come quite rarely nowadays.... More
This is the prosaically named Nekomusume from very long running anime franchise ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 / GeGeGe no Kitarou; the number indicates the season, and a movie version is also pictured.
Major anime and manga publisher Kadokawa claims revenues of 10 million yen monthly from YouTube advertising revenue sharing on its YouTube-based Kadokawa Anime Channel, both from episode and MAD viewing, and reports 50 million views from September to November of 2008; they now promise to recognise fan-made videos they like, and naturally to receive their due.
This is, they would have us believe, proof that a new business model based on online distribution and liberal usage rights is commercially viable.
Much of this success is said to be due to the effect of Haruhi, Lucky Star, and Strike Witches.
A schoolboy has been charged with violating laws against child prostitution and selling child pornography after he started a small pornographic enterprise selling DVDs to the denizens of a shotacon board.
does that make him a third grader, video/cyber pimp?... More
*sigh* not another one.... Pedosexuality is not a mental disorder no matter how much you "normal" people want it to be. Though you are right about comparing it to how homesexuals were viewed in the past.... More
Hiroyuki Nishimura (pictured), 2channel founder, NicoNico Douga CEO and gravure idol, has transferred the world’s largest forum 2ch to an unknown Singaporean company, in a move which has taken observers largely by surprise.
If the site was moved because of libel suits, that's just plain stupid. Singapore has one of the strictest libel wars in the world. 2ch wouldn't last long (or the company to that effect) if... More
see so many ignorant fools around here...... More
2008 has seen a huge variety of anime released, and the difficult question of assessing their success can approached in all sorts of ways, from TV ratings to 2ch thread activity, but DVD sales are usually given most prominence in such analysis.
This final summary of the TV anime of 2008 incorporates Blu-ray sales, which is particularly important in the case of blockbusters such as Macross F.
Here we see the 2008 annual sales data for manga compilations (tankoubons), as compiled by Oricon:
You can bash bleach all you want but I Love it. I Don't see why so many people are putting naruto over bleach. We need some Bleach fans in here.... More
She deserves being called the most beautiful (and sexiest).... More
Creator of the Touhou doujin shooting game series and notorious hat fetishist ZUN has expressed his discontent at the possibility of Touhou transcending the doujin sphere and becoming a fully developed commercial franchise; he expressly enjoins doujin publishers to restrict the availability of their works and not to promote them to the general public (apparently defined as people who don’t play his games).
In fact, in laying down a long and detailed set of regulations he has issued what many interpret as strong criticism of the much anticipated unofficial anime, due at C75.
But many fans just want a high quality TOUHOU anime, even if non-canon. It can be a totally new Touhou that has no canon relations to the current Windows games much like how the current... More
Although I only kind of skimmed the article so feel free to troll away but I feel it's his creation so he should be able to do whatever he feels like.... More
Amazon.co.jp have quietly decided to ban a huge variety of adult products from listing in their database. Products “recalling” pornography featuring underage participants are the first to go, with a number of ero-manga apparently already deleted from their database.
They also plan to stop selling products featuring “themes of illegality”, or “brutality”, “rape”, “drugs”. “coprophagia” and “bestiality”.
It is not a censorship by Amazon, perhaps, however there are still many groups, such as Equality Now, which are indeed trying to censor these items. They too much start one piece at a time;... More
W2G Amazon, fucking morons.... More
An animator with insider knowledge reports that troubled anime studio Gonzo is considering turning to ero-anime (as in hentai, rather than merely ecchi) to rescue itself, with sacking a quarter of its staff and reducing anime output by half apparently not sufficient to restore it to profitability.
Gensou no Grimgar BD Boasts Bathing Bonus
Maria Bernard Ero-Figure Boasts Quite The Jungle
Digimon World: Next Order PV Brushes Up On The Basics
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Offers The Adorable Ayane
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut Persistently Filthy
Studio FOW Ada Ero-SFM Super Scary
Saitama Prefecture Nets Retro RPG
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Trailer Surfaces
Prince of Stride Stage Play Favors Fujoshi
Hotaru Onahole Totally Sweet
Silica Kemonomimi Mizugi Figure
Top 10 Green-Haired Anime Girls
“Arina Hashimoto’s Porn Debut”
Senran Kagura: Estival Versus Boasts Bountiful Breasts
Tales of Berseria Trailer “Still Has Animated Cut-Scenes!”
Sword Art Online & .hack Collide
Gensou no Grimgar Levels Up Considerably
Dimension W Loses Control
Musical Yuzuki Yukari Figure
10th Seiyuu Awards Winners Announced
Silvy the Succubus Certainly Succulent
Project May Ero-MMD Poking All The Holes
Love Live! Gravestones: “Take Love Live! to The Afterlife!”
Kamigokuto Mary Skelter Revealingly Promising
Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator Reveals Kum Haehyun
Genkai Tokki Trailer Sexy Piracy Action Lacking Booty
Alluring Kaede Takagaki Figure
Top 20 Strongest Anime Kids
Vamp Miku Cosplay Bloody Brilliant
OL Goddess of 2ch: “Too Hot For The Office!”
Yakumo Yukari Cosplay Extravagantly Elegant
Healthy Horo Cosplay Quite Foxy
Kongou Ero-Cosplay by Mia Scores Direct Hit
Rory Mercury Cosplay Godly & Gothic
Cagliostro Cosplay by Rat Sakura Quite Crimson
Nozomi Ero-Cosplay by Rin Higurashi Highly Cheeky
Goddess of Twitter: “Flat is Justice!”
Amatsukaze Cosplay Tantalizingly Transparent
Revealing Zeta Cosplay by Mike Red Hot
Sexy Syndra Cosplay Brimming With Power
Satsuki & Ryuko Cosplay Scantily Clad
2D Or Not 2D: Cosplayers Back Into Illustrations
Goddess of 2ch: “Watch My Onanism Videos!”
Sakuya Izayoi Ero-Cosplay by Akiton Immensely Tight
