Posts tagged Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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bamboo broadcast #2
June 23rd, 2011, by in News, Translation
Last night MangaGamer hosted their second Q&A session with bamboo, OVERDRIVE’s president. MangaGamer’s Kouryuu translated the many questions viewers asked into Japanese for bamboo while MangaGamer’s Evospace translated bamboo’s responses back into English for the viewers. This time the website justin.tv was used for the stream, because of some problems that a few viewers had with Ustream during the first broadcast. Livestream had also been considered as an alternative for Ustream as well. The broadcast was held a day later then initially planned as bamboo was not feeling well for the originally scheduled time, leading to a temporary postponement. During the broadcast, viewers asked about MangaGamer’s current state, future plans, and a number of personal questions about bamboo himself. The web cast can be viewed in it’s entirety here, although without comments that were provided during the live chat. Future streams are planned to be done on JustinTV, and bamboo will be in the states for Anime Expo next week. The following are questions that were asked by viewers during the event, along with answers that were translated during the stream by Evospace.
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Parodic presentation purports perfect perversion
April 1st, 2011, by in Release, Translation
After a prolonged period of silence, the Sonozaki Futago-tachi have released a full translation of the minigames in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni episode 4, Himatsubushi-hen. These minigames were not included in the MangaGamer localization of Higurashi, mainly due to copyright issues with character images from other franchises.
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Tidbit: MangaGamer announces Higurashi Kai bundle
February 10th, 2011, by in Release, Tidbits, Translation
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First two arcs of Higurashi available on iTunes App Store
July 29th, 2010, by in Release, Translation
An English version of the first two arcs of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni has just been released by SEAMS on the iTunes App Store and runs on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The first arc is free to download and the second arc is priced at $3.99. Both apps are classified as “Books” on the iTunes App Store. These apps are ports of the MangaGamer releases of the games and the idea to port the game to iPhone was initiated by HOBIBOX, who handled the licensing aspects of Higurashi for MangaGamer and also publishes cell-phone ports of games in Japan. The Japanese version of Higurashi has been available as an iPhone App of the first arc that is free to download, but arcs after the first one are in-app downloads at 600 yen each.
UPDATE: The current pricing for the first two arcs appears to be promotional pricing until August 15.
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MangaGamer offering limited hard copies at Anime Expo
June 28th, 2010, by in Press Release, Release, Translation
According to a tweet by MangaGamer, they will be offering limited hard copies of the all ages version of Kira Kira as well as the question arcs of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni for sale at Anime Expo. According to MangaGamer, these were created through a special arrangement with HOBIBOX and OVERDRIVE. The box art can be seen on the MangaGamer Anime Expo post. The press release indicates that interested distributors should talk to MangaGamer at the convention or via email.