Posts in Conventions
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Panel with MangaGamer to be held at Otakon
July 29th, 2010, by in Conventions, Translation
MangaGamer will be present at Otakon this year selling goods at their booth in the exhibition hall and participating in a panel Friday night/Saturday morning at 12:30am. Details can be found on their blog post. There will be a live transcript courtesy of bayoab.
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Front Wing and 0verflow at AX 2010
July 8th, 2010, by in Conventions, Translation
We had the chance to have a nice chat with two of the new companies present at Anime Expo 2010 this year with MangaGamer — Front Wing (known for their Jibril and Time Leap games) and 0verflow (of School Days fame). It looks like Front Wing hasn’t really considered an overseas release yet, but they’ve started thinking about it. On the other hand, 0verflow, who released an English translation of the trial version of Summer Days for April Fool’s Day one year, seems very interested in releasing English versions of their games, although they do outline some issues that are impeding progress in that area.
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MangaGamer at AX 2010: The Booths
July 7th, 2010, by in Conventions
MangaGamer occupied two islands of booths this year in the exhibition hall, instead of having a totally enclosed 18+ booth like last year. They brought a lot more companies this year, and this can be seen in the variety of booths they had. However, the main feature of their booths was probably the live stage, where they held a total of six miniature concerts over three days.
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MangaGamer at AX 2010: The Panel
July 6th, 2010, by in Conventions, Translation
MangaGamer held a panel on the third night of Anime Expo 2010, where they introduced some upcoming products and put on a mini-concert while trying to stick to a script but failing at it. Amongst the chaos, MangaGamer announced that they finally finished negotations for Da Capo Innocent Finale, an all-ages game, in addition to announcing Da Capo II and a release date of July 29 for the final chapter of Higurashi Kai. Eroge company âge also said during the panel that they would like to release games with MangaGamer if there’s good reason to. Finally, the panel concluded with a mini-concert by the musical artists they brought and a raffle for prizes, including the raffle box.
UPDATE: Slightly more detail added to Yoshimune’s introduction and we’ve been informed that the final arc of Higurashi comes out on July 15 instead of July 29, and that the main MangaGamer webpage has the correct release date.
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TYPE MOONFront Wing flying in with MangaGamerJune 25th, 2010, by in Conventions
MangaGamer has announced that game company Front Wing will be joining them this year at Anime Expo 2010. They will be bringing three illustrators as guests to the event — Fumio, Kuuchuu Yousai and Akio Watanabe. Front Wing is most likely known for three of their game franchises — Yuki/Sora/Hoshi Uta, Makai Tenshi Jibril, a popular series involving girls who transform into either heroines or villains and fight each other out, and Time Leap, Front Wing’s excursion into fully 3D animated eroge and
IDOLM@STERdancing simulations. One of Front Wing’s older titles, Tea Society of a Witch was localized in English and released by Hirameki International as a DVD-PG game. Although these artists are coming with Front Wing, they also have their share of well-known work outside of Front Wing. Fumio was the character designer for Key’s Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~. Kuuchuu Yousai is the character designer behind Queen’s Blade’s Nanael. Akio Watanabe was the character designer behind The Soul Taker, Nurse Witch Komugi-chan, Popotan and assisted in the production of the opening animation to Leaf’s ToHeart2 and the animated adaptation of Bakemonogatari. In addition to these guests, character goods for Front Wing’s games will also be available at the booth.