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Dengeki G’s Festival! Vol. 18

Nopy — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:03:10 +0000

Some of you may have been wondering what the box at the corner of my desk in this post was. Well, to answer your questions, here’s a close-up look at it: Dengeki G’s Festival! vol. 18. As with all of the Festival! volumes, this one comes with a short book and a box with some special items.

Volume 18 is focused on the eroge Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate, otherwise known as Love, Election & Chocolate. I first found out about this game when I saw it in an issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine last year and I just loved the character designs and artwork, which was why I bought this. The game went on sale in Japan on October 29 this year and was produced by game company Sprite. Below is the opening theme of the game. The theme song is “Initiative” by Mami Kawada.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsSV8-B1Gnk

The following are the girls from which you can “choose” from:

Chisato Sumiyoshi,

Satsuki Shinonomi,

Mifuyu Kiba,

Asara Aomi,

and Michiru Morishita.

Personally, I like Chisato and Michiru ^.^

There’s also a slew of side characters:

Some crazy loli mad scientist.

A cute… dude? I guess gay guys need their fix too.

The guy on the right looks really scary.

The main reason why I got this volume of Dengeki G’s Festival! wasn’t just because Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate was going to be the main theme, but also because I heard it was going to have a bunch of nice illustrations. They finally got to that section at the back of the book.

Click for dgf18-16.jpg (NSFW)

I liked the illustration of Chisato and Satsuki, but I really wished that they had put in more than just three illustrations. The ones of Michiru are nice too, but they’re a little risqué, hence the link.

The back of the book was surprisingly not Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate related, instead it had an advertisement for a Kirino figure. I don’t think it looks that great, her face is a bit off and she doesn’t give off that flashy aura that she usually has.

Now some of you have probably been wondering “what was in that box?” There are actually preview images on the cover, but now you can see the actual items:

Dengeki G’s Festival! vol. 18 comes with a Michiru microfibre cloth, a Satsuki mouse pad, and a Chisato Dakimakura cover. It figures they’d use the three most popular girls for the bonus items.

I used the Michiru cloth to clean my DS. It works great: wipes off dust and fingerprints, and you get to stare at Michiru in the process.

Even though Satsuki didn’t make my list of favourite characters, I still love this illustration of her. Unforetunately, I’ve been using this mousepad for a few days and it doesn’t seem to want to stay still, I might have to tape it down or something. So while it’s nice to look at, it’s not nice to use.

Up next is the Chisato dakimakura cover. I’m sure you all know what these things are, and if you don’t, a simple search is all you need. Considering their purpose, it’s not surprising to find more revealing images printed on it (which is why these images are hidden as well). If you haven’t seen one of these before, they’re HUGE. I could only fit half of it on my desk.

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I couldn’t get the whole thing in one shot so I took three and stitched them together.

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This is my first time writing about a dakimakura, so I don’t know what to say other than it’s smooth and soft (and no, I don’t have a pillow that’ll fit in that thing)

I was pretty upset at the lack of illustrations, but at least it came with some interesting items which makes this not so bad of a buy. At least now I know what all of the girls’ names are.

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Dengeki G’s Magazine 2010-01

Nopy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:55:47 +0000

The January 2010 issue of Dengeki G’s magazine features Manaka from Love Plus on the cover. I’m sure most of you have probably heard of this wildly popular dating sim on the NDS which allows you to interact and deepen your bond between one of three girls in the game. Apparently it’s so good that a guy in Japan even went ahead and married one of the girls in the game (but not officially/legally). Personally, I’d prefer a real wife, but to each his own.

It looks like each issue of Dengeki G’s is featuring one girl from Marriage Royale. This time the girl is Daiba Minato, whose name comes from Odaiba island and Minato ward which are both in Tokyo, her hometown. I think she looks really nice in that pink coat, and her hat looks so soft and fluffy, plus I like her pink ribbon; a really cute character overall.

Don’t forget that Angel Beats will begin airing this spring ^.^

I thought this page was beautiful, all the Da Capo II characters underneath a Cherry Blossom tree. I still haven’t gotten around to finishing the first Da Capo game.

Tenshin Ranman Happy Go Lucky looks like something that I’d like. The character designs are pretty, and there’s a girl dressed as a miko in there (and I love miko). The opening for the game is also cute, there’s even a little dance in there:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2L0iPe6pRs

It looks like there’s going to be even more Fate games. Archer looks pretty sweet in that new outfit, too bad Rin didn’t get some new clothes as well.

I wish someone would translate Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kizuna into English. Grown up Hanyuu looks really cool, especially with that sword of hers.

Suzunoe Seven ~Rebirth Knot~ seems to focus on a guy attending a magic school where he meets a bunch of girls (which is obvious of any game in here). I don’t really know anything about the game other than that. On the left page is a game called Akatsuki no Amaneka to Aoi Kyojin which will be coming out on the XBOX 360 and PSP this March. I’m not very fond of the artwork, but the game itself is an rpg rather than a visual novel, so it might be fun to try out.

I first found out about Koi to Senkyo to Cholocate from the previous month’s Dengeki G’s, and it looks like it’s back in here again. There was a nice little section about the game and the characters, too bad I can’t read any of it.

Manaka de Iku no is a fandisc by Leaf featuring characters from some of their eroge. It looks pretty interesting, I’m thinking of getting it just for the lol factor. Imagine seeing the To Heart 2 girls fighting monsters RPG style. You can see what the game is like here:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9VL4axdh9s

I considered getting that Nanoha figure on the bottom right, but considering I just spent a load of cash on the Nanoha Exceed Mode figure by Alter, I don’t think I’ll be getting any more for a while.

As usual, I got another free Chaos TCG card. Not sure who she is.

On the back of the magazine is an ad for the Higurashi fighting game on the PSP. It looks pretty cool, but unfortunately, I don’t have a PSP to play it with :(

This issue of Dengeki G’s didn’t come with a free figure, but it did have two nice posters.

If you look closely, you might be able to see the difference between these posters and regular posters. These ones are meant to be stuck onto the wall of your shower, I guess that’s why both girls are wearing swimsuits.

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Dengeki G’s Magazine 2009-12

Nopy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:49:28 +0000

The cover of the December 2009 issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine features Kareha and Daisy from the game SHUFFLE Essence+, which I really hope will get translated into English in the future.

If you like SHUFFLE, then you might like reading Marriage Royale too. Although it’s not a game or anime (yet), the characters designs are the same as SHUFFLE. Currently there are 5 volumes of the manga released, all in Japanese though.

Although Kaede is still my favourite character, I think Daisy is pretty cool too.

I’m really looking forward to the Angel Beats anime. I didn’t like Clannad very much, but Kanon and AIR were two of my favourites so I hope Angel Beats turns out like those two. Then again, it could go either way considering all of those titles are from Visual Art’s Key.

I still haven’t gotten around to finishing my first playthrough of Da Capo (I think I’m close though). Hopefully, Da Capo II will be out and translated by the time I finish the first game (which may be a long way away).

I haven’t heard of this game before. It’s called “Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate” or in English as “Love, Election & Chocolate.” Not sure what exactly it’s about, but I like the school uniforms. Having all blue except for the chest area really makes it stand out. The names of the girls from left to right are: Satsuki Shinonome, Michiru Morishita, Isara Aomi, Mifuyu Kiba, and Chisato Simiyoshi. Personally, I like Michiru and Chisato ^.^

I still have no clue what Magus Tale Eternity is, can anyone fill me in?

Final Dragon Chronicle Guilty Requiem is a spinoff game of Leaf’s releases. It contains characters from some of their popular games, but in different settings. Tamaki Kousaka as a knight looks hot!

Did anyone get any of these goods? I tried to get the Yui nendoroid, but it’s sold out :(

Another addition to my Chaos TCG collection.

Deja Vu anyone?

I was kinda disappointed with the extra goodie that came with this issue of Dengeki G’s. Although Idolmaster is pretty nice, I haven’t used a pencil case since elementary school, and I don’t plan on using them again any time soon.

It looked kinda small, but the pencil case is big enough to fit pencils (or pens).

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Dengeki G’s Magazine 2009-11

Nopy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:22:42 +0000

The November 2009 edition of Dengeki G’s magazine is my favourite so far, mainly because of this cute little alarm clock that comes with it. This edition also features a couple games from my favourite game company, Key, and other popular games like SHUFFLE Essence+.

I really wonder how similar Angel Beats is to Haruhi. People have already pointed out the similarities in appearance between Yuri and Haruhi, but apparently in Angel Beats Yuri also starts a club called the SSS which is really close to the SOS. The scene in the second picture above also reminds me a lot of when Haruhi first dragged Kyon into her club.

More SHUFFLE stuff. I think out of the new characters, I like Ruri the best. Maybe I just like characters with that band or whatever it is across their hair.

I don’t know what Twinkle Crusaders is about, but I like the character designs ^.^

Little Busters! Converted Edition came out for the PS2 back in December. Like the title says, it’s basically Little Busters! Ecstasy for the PS2 rather than on PC. The only difference that I know of is that there are no “adult” scenes in the converted edition. Speaking of the PS2, doesn’t anyone find it strange that so many visual novels are still being released on it rather than on the PS3?

Magus Tale is another game I don’t know much about. Anyone care to enlighten me?

I still don’t like the colouring of the hair in Steins;Gate, but that pink haired girl has got me interested. She looks funny in that maid outfit. The girl on the top of the right page looks kinda scary though with those yellow-green eyes of hers.

Here are some goods and figures that were available for preoder back in November. Did anyone manage to get a Mio nendoroid? I checked every online store I knew of on the preorder release date and they were all sold out :(

The Chaos TCG that came with this edition of Dengeki G’s is a character from Fortune Arterial. If this keeps up, I’ll have enough cards to make a deck after several years.

They’ve been using the same ad for the back of Dengeki G’s Magazine for a while. I wonder how much it costs to place ads on the back cover.

Like I said earlier, this edition of Dengeki G’s came with a cute little alarm clock. It was packed in a relatively big cardboard box, probably to keep it from being damaged.

The alarm clock is shaped like one of those old ones that you see in movies where you hit the top to stop it from ringing. The thing about this one though is that the bells on top are just for show, they don’t actually ring when the alarm goes off. Instead, when it reaches a set time, it beeps like a digital watch. It’s kinda cute to have and useful if you’re travelling somewhere, but I would have liked it more if the bells actually did ring like old alarm clocks do.

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Dengeki G’s Magazine 2009-10

Nopy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:51:18 +0000

There were a couple of nice goodies that came along with the October 2009 edition of Dengeki G’s Magazine. I got a new Konomi figure and a little Love Plus booklet, but first lets take a look at some of the things featured in the magazine.

At the front of the magazine was some info on the Japan Illustrator’s Festival, which I believe takes place twice a year. If I had the oppurtunity to go, I’d be there in a heartbeat, some of the artwork there is simply gorgeous. I especially like Tinkle’s artwork; the image on the top left of the page was done by Tinkle.

It looks like the figure of Konomi that came with this magazine has another version which is cast-offable. It’s too bad they didn’t include that one along with the apron one.

Is anyone else excited about the upcoming Angel Beats anime? By my count, this will be the 3rd series that Key has gotten animated (the first three being Kanon, AIR, and Clannad). It’s too bad they didn’t decide to animate all of their games though. I would’ve liked to see a Little Busters anime or at least a Planetarian movie. Hopefully an anime will be made for Rewrite too after the game is completed.

This is the first time I’ve come across the title Sora wo Tobu, Nanatsu Me no Mahou. From what I can tell, it’s a sequel to Sora wo Tobu, Mittsu Me no Mahou which was a sequel to True Tears. That’s actually what the “true tears” above the title is referring to. I’ve never watched/played True Tears or its sequel so I don’t know if the series is any good. What’s got me interested though is the image on the top left of the right page. It reminds me a lot of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. I might watch the True Tears anime if it’s anything like Nanoha.

Here are some game images and details on upcoming Steins;Gate. Personally, I don’t really like what they’ve done with the hair of the main characters. I’d much rather have characters like in Chaos;Head with hair that was more anime-like.

A new Higurashi game came out for the PSP on November 26. It’s a sort of fighting game where you get to run around a large battlefield and fight two enemies along with a partner. It’s kinda cute to see what kind of weapons each of the characters has.

Fairy Life: Miracle Days for the PSP has some nice character designs, but it looks like a generic dating sim. I guess it’s nice for people who aren’t able to use their computers for a while.

Like I said before in a previous post, I really want to play SHUFFLE Essence+. Some people don’t like how Aoi Nishimata makes all of her characters with the same face, but I think she should keep doing what she’s doing. All of her characters are so cute so I don’t have a problem with it.

eden* is the newest game by Minori, the company that created the ef series and Wind ~A Breath of Heart~. Considering how beautiful Wind and ef were, I was expecting eden* to be very visually appealing, and I was not disappointed (at least not with the demo movie). You can take a look at some of the amazing art Minori has made for eden* here. I really hope it gets made into an anime like Wind and ef were.

Dengeki G’s has a small section where it shows some figures that are about to be released. I got myself a Hanyuu figure a couple months ago :)

As usual, the magazine comes with a free playing card. This time it’s of Riannon from Tears to Tiara. At first I thought she had a moustache, but upon closer inspection, she’s actually just holding a cookie in her mouth.

The back of the magazine features a Sekirei ad.

Like I said earlier, the magazine came with a couple goodies and here they are.

The first is a Love Plus booklet containing images and info on the three girls. In case you’re out of the loop, Love Plus is a hit dating sim that came out on the DS several months ago.

My favourite character is Manaka Takane, the one featured on the front of the booklet.

The other two get relegated to the back :P

The second little goodie that came with the magazine was this figure of Konomi from To Heart 2. It’s really similar to the figure that came with the previous month’s edition, being naked and all except for a single apron covering the front. The quality isn’t that great, but it’s cute nonetheless.

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Dengeki G’s Magazine 2009-09

Nopy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:15:47 +0000

I know this is really late, but here’s the September 2009 issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine featuring the Setsuna Ogiso and Kazusa Touma from White Album 2 on the front cover. There are a few games that I’m looking forward to that are covered in this issue. Hopefully someone will translate them into English in the future.

Valkyrie Complex is actually already out on the PC. What I’m looking forward to more is the anime adaptation, which doesn’t have a release date yet. I really hope the anime animation doesn’t mess up the character designs though, the girls are all so cute the way they are (you can see them here). My favourite girl would have to be Mikoto Muller, twintails FTW.

There’s also a few pages detailing some nice goodies that you can buy. It looks like Dengeki G’s Festival is offering some nice stuff for Tamaki Kousaka fans.

When I saw this page, I immediately thought of SHUFFLE, but then I noticed that the girls were different (at least their hair and clothes are). These are actually the girls from the light novel and manga known as Marriage Royale. They were designed and illustrated by Aoi Nishimata and Hiro Suzuhira, the same people that did SHUFFLE. I guess that explains the similarities. I like the 2nd girl cause she reminds me of Kaede ^.^

Some info on White Album 2. I hear it’s supposed to be a lot better than the original White Album.

More Canvas = more bishoujo characters. I hope they make an anime out of this one too.

Anyone remember Chaos;Head? Well now they have a spin-off series Steins;Gate. Personally, I didn’t think the Chaos;Head anime was very good and that kinda stopped me from finishing the game. Hopefully Steins;Gate will have a better story than Chaos;Head.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to play SHUFFLE Essence+, but until someone makes an English version, I’d be stuck with trying to figure out what the girls are saying by looking up each word in the dictionary, and I just don’t have enough time for that. Maybe MangaGamer will decide to release it in English in the future, like with the original game. I’d also like it if they got Really? Really! too since Kaede is my favourite character.

Here are some more goodies that you can purchase. I still haven’t decided what to do with my extra Toradora figures. I’ll try to think of something by next week.

I got this Chaos (character operating system) card along with the magazine. Not sure what to do with it since I don’t play ChaosTCG.

On the back of the magazine is an ad for Sekirei. I thought the story was a bit too silly to really get into it.

Of course, the main reason I subscribed to Dengeki G’s was for the extra goodies like this. In case you don’t know who she is, she’s Kusugawa Sasara from To Heart 2. The figure isn’t as nice as ones that you’d buy by themselves, but it’s a nice little treat coming from a magazine.

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Dengeki G’s Magazine 2009-08

Nopy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:09:11 +0000

This is the first time I’ve gotten an issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine, which I recently subscribed for. My main reason for deciding to get it was because of the goodies which I heard came with the magazine. The August 2009 issue comes with a small Tsukihime figure.

The figure is packaged in a small carboard box to keep from damaging it. Both the box and magazine were originally placed inside a plastic bag.

Unfortunately, cheap figures like these require some assembly.

This is what the assembled figure looks like. The quality is nowhere near as good as figures that you buy separately, but it’s pretty impressive for something that comes with a 990 yen magazine. It doesn’t stand very tall at about 10cm, and it’s pretty light since there wasn’t much material used.

Most of Dengeki G’s Magazine covers visual novels, so naturally they’d have stuff like Angel Beats in there.

It looks like the figure that I got is a part of a set of three. I kinda like the one on the bottom of the right page.

There’s also a section in the magazine devoted to hot anime girls of the summer 2009 season, something I’m sure many people would enjoy.

First in the lineup of anime girls is the wheat goddess Horo from Spice and Wolf II.

Canaan and Alphard from CANAAN show off their cool poses and guns.

I wonder what kind of things Battler is teaching Maria…

Haven’t seen Taisho Yakyuu Musume, can anyone tell me if it’s any good?

I didn’t think the plot for Shuffle was anything great, but I loved the character designs, especially Kaede. It looks like there’s a new Shuffle game called Shuffle Essence+, and of course that means more images ^.^

From what’s shown here, it looks like all the old cast will be back along with a couple new characters.

Lots of goodies for sale. I want that Mio poster on the bottom right of the left page.

Weib Schwarz seems to be advertising everywhere. They’ve included a free card in this issue of Dengeki G’s.

There’s a new Higurashi game for the DS, I hope it’s good ^.^

Dengeki G’s magazine certainly looks like it’d be appropriate for anyone who’s into playing visual novels and eroge. Personally, I’m just getting it for the extras and to flip through some game CGs.

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Dengeki G’s Festival! Anime Vol. 2

Dengeki G’s Festival! Anime Vol. 2

Nopy — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:18:21 +0000

After getting swamped with work, I finally got a chance to take a look at what’s actually inside this volume of Dengeki G’s Festival! Anime.

This is my first Dengeki G’s magazine so I was expecting something like Megami Magazine except with a larger focus on anime. The magazine certainly did focus on anime, but it only looked at a few series in depth. Over half of it was dedicated to Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu.

I can’t seem to recall Haruka being naked in any of the episodes…

I have a poster of the image at the bottom left on the right page on my wall :)

Dengeki G’s Festival! Anime also has some posters for your viewing pleasure, although not as many as Megami Magazine.

It seems that anime girls don’t mind other girls fondling them, but when a guy does it, it usually ends badly.

I wonder what that thing Mika is holding is.

I think Index looks like a 10-year-old, but apparently she’s supposed to be older.

Taiga would look nicer if she weren’t so tanned.

The same goes for Emuemu. How does she even get tanned if she’s in Kemeko all the time?

Mei can already use her feminine charms to turn Okazaki into mush (onii-channn~~), it’s scary to think about what she can do when she gets older.

It’s Baby Sylpheed!

I’m not watching ef, but the animation looks nice.

Besides Haruka, the magazine also took a look at To Aru Majutsu no Index. I wonder what that popsicle is supposed to represent.

There’s also a small section on Tora Dora. It looks like Ami will finally be introduced in the next episode.

I just bought that Emuemu figure for 30% off, it should be here in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I can find the Kemeko figure to go along with it for a good price too. As you can see from the picture at the bottom left of the page, the two figures can be combined so that Emuemu is coming out of Kemeko.

It looks like the magazine has a competition for the best heroine this fall. The contestants are Haruka, Louise, Musubi, Lala, Yoshika, Kyouko, and Kanu. There’s a little card to fill out with your vote that you can mail back to them. I don’t know why they call it a Grand Prix though, it sounds like some kind of race.

And on the back of the magazine is more Haruka. Overall I thought this was a decent magazine. It focuses on a few anime rather than a whole bunch so it’s good if for fans of a particular anime if it’s featured in the magazine. The goodies that come with it also make up for the relatively high price (I love my Haruka mousepad).

Haruka Oppai Mousepad

Nopy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:16:32 +0000

I’ve been so busy with exams and finishing reports recently that I was surprised to find a package waiting for me at home today. When I opened it I found volume 2 of Dengeki G’s Festival! Anime, along with the goodies that come with it ^.^

The box on the left is where all the goodies are, and on the right is the actual magazine.

There was some kind of warning message in the box, I wish I knew what it said :/

And underneath the warning message is all the goodies (yay!).

Ok, to tell you the truth, the only reason I bought this magazine was because I wanted this Haruka oppai mousepad. I’ve been mousepad-less for nearly two years now so I thought I’d finally start using one again and this one just happened to come with a bunch of anime stuff (that’s the excuse I’ll use if anyone asks about it).

So what’s the first thing a guy does after getting an oppai mousepad? I think the answer is pretty obvious.

The mousepad is actually really soft and comfortable (and squishy *squish*). The only downside is that my mouse covers Haruka’s face most of the time.

The other goodies that also came with the magazine are some stickers and pins. I haven’t decided what to do with these yet. They’ll probably end up in a box in my closet.

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu ep. 12