
Square Enix’s bizarre decision to rename “Chocobos” to “horsebirds” for the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XIV has given rise to a storm of criticism and a grovelling and unconvincing apology from the designers.
Meanwhile, players have begun to speculate that the game was largely made in China, with Chinese audiences in mind…
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MangaGamer have revealed that they will be stripping their upcoming release of top yuri eroge Koihime Musou of all voicing, in spite of earlier assurances to the contrary – however, they generously offer a 5 euro discount and promise they will add the voices back if enough people happen to buy the game, the release of which they have also delayed by 6 months.
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Top (and only) item shop management RPG “Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale” has been given a professional translation and an official English language release, which went on sale today.
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The fall of OneManga and the exchange of incendiary remarks between Sankaku Complex users and 2ch denizens continues, with the latest thread showing 2ch taking particular umbrage at such reported comments as “TV is free so manga should be free too!”
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A company involved with localising Japanese games for the US has publicly lamented the fact that US retailers refuse to carry games which insist on substituting Chinese cartoons for the sort of manly testosterone dripping beefcakes Americans apparently love so dearly.
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Funimation is releasing Happoubi Jin designed oppai fighting anime Master of Martial Hearts (Zettai Shougeki Platonic Heart), aptly described as being “Where T&A meet KO,” and is providing Sankaku Complex users the chance to win a free copy.
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International fans of Namco’s blockbuster Tales series of RPGs desperate to see English releases have launched that most effective of pressure campaigns, an Internet petition.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 28, 2010 17:31 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Copyright, Crime, Fansubbing, Internet, Sankaku Complex, Sites, Translation, USA

The reaction of Sankaku Complex users to the scathing comments of 2ch on the recent closure of One Manga has found its way back to 2ch and incited an even more biting response.
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2ch’s usual scathing response lends some insight as to how the closure of the world’s biggest manga piracy site sits with Japanese manga fans.
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A coalition of manga publishers have successfully forced top manga piracy site One Manga offline for good.
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Haruhi’s Blu-ray debut sees her entire 28-episode anime packaged into an 8 disc set, even going so far as to include English language subtitles.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2010 11:21 JST
- Tags: Business, Copyright, Internet, Marketing, P2P, Tokyopop, Translation, USA, VIZ Media

As promised, the newly formed coalition of Japanese and US manga publishers has indicated it is pursuing legal action against major manga piracy and scanlation sites in defence of its copyrights.
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