Eroge has evolved throughout the years and has become another popular genre of games that tend to awe people alike. And with the introduction of 3D graphics, eroge has evolve even further until as we know it today and an example of such a high end eroge is the famous Real Kanojo create by the Illusion Soft company. However, classic eroge games are just as nice as it does has its own uniqueness and art form in the past...
Retro eroges are much more pixelated as to compared with eroges today because of its resolution and processing power of older computers. However such art has captured many audiences around because of their nice storyline or artwork that keeps them from coming back for more and thus the eroge boom as you've seen till today in Japan.
I remembered the time when eroges are saved on diskettes and sold in the market long ago and the game graphics are of 8 - 16 bit, resulting in serious pixel artwork such as this. If you still have your classic Nintendo game console, it'll be something like this... Amazingly at that time it was considered very good for an eroge to be like this...
Eroges are normally ADV/AVG (Adventure games) at that time with lots of visual novels and selecting different options and routes to end the storyline. However, the genres broaden up to many different types including RPG, SLG, simulation, etc. Some examples of RPG games are Tears To Tiara, SLG games include Tsuma Shibori and the common simulation games for example Sexy Beach to Artificial Girl.
The technology in eroges advances dramatically with better computers and graphics. And has eventually evolved to what we would see till this date. Eroge has fast becoming a big industry in the gaming sector because of its popularity. However, such games are sold for Japan use only but has eventually reach many countries worldwide because of their popularity... And soon it brought about critics about this types of games being sold in the market. The very case of Rapelay is one example of a game that is brought under scrutiny because of its immoral content that said to harm people's conscious with themes that are considered taboo and ostracize by other countries...
The eroge industry continues to boom as we currently would see today. With more 3D games and high resolution ADV games coming up, its no wonder fans keep coming back for more of such stuff... Seriously, I too believe eroges are becoming better... I especially like Alicesoft, Eushully and Softhouse Chara games because of their high replayability as they concentrated more on SLG, RPG style kinda games. Some popular ones include Rance, Battle Goddess and Ou Zoku. But when it comes to 3D games, Illusion Soft takes the biggest vote among the others. What lies ahead with the eroge industry is still rather vague but with the advancement of motion sensors, to cameras and touch screen monitors and sensor mats like the Xbox360, a new era of eroge playability will soon be available for fans out there to experience the power of such games in future...
One of the weirdest parody featuring Hatsune Miku in many different forms for the Acerola Vitamin drink commercial in Japan. Wonder why is a robot deemed to look like Miku. Guess a fan made this and looks interesting enough not to pass...
Something amazing happen which took us by storm in my final semester. It seems that one of my modules required us to make a presentation about anything we wanted to. One of my friends suggested that we'd introduce the Otaku Culture for our presentation. Was in favor with the suggestions cause I'd actually knew a lot about such being somewhat an Otaku myself. It is the most interesting assignment that I would hardly wait to start thinking and scripting our presentation. I guess it is really a given because there's really a lot of things to share and talk about in regards to our hobby. Makes my day and lots of motivation to do this assignment... Hopefully would be able to come up with something that could awe the audiences...
A seemingly unusual sight for Gin to purchase something at a local supermarket... However due to the fact it is known that there's a cosplay event in the shopping center, much of the people knew that there would be cosplayers around to serve. Which comes to the point that would you as a cosplayer dress up and walk around town in a normal day? Other than the glaring eyes, some people would be surprised or excited to see something weird in places they'd never thought of. An example would be this hilarious video below...
It sure makes my day having to watch this video over and over...Perhaps we should try this in Singapore and post it up in Youtube for many to see? Then it would be the first...
A few big events coming up in these few days time and a large influx of people will be gathering in Singapore for these events coming up soon. The National Day is 2 days away from now and be held near the Padang at City Hall. Guess traffic would be heavy and congested during these days... Soon after would be the Youth Olympics coming up a few days later. Not really a sports fan myself so life still goes on then... The F1 racing will soon appear once again this September too so expect more tourism in the area too... It's gonna get busy soon so gonna grab my camera and go for some photo shooting...
Wow... If milk's really that good, may wanna drink more of it too... Some of the wonders of Japanese exaggerated advertisements that will surely grab your attention in any ways possible. Now why really is it that Singapore doesn't really adopt much of this advertisements for the products. Does it lead to deception and such that it is plain ridiculous to air something like this or perhaps some other reasons? In any case, gonna buy some milk and drink up too... lol.
With the war on Scanlations, there's bound to be causalities involved and the very first goes to the popular free manga website known as Onemanga. As as now companies are taking seriously on licensing laws and such, websites are now closing down one at a time and who knows which the the next victim coming up. Other than that, popular series like Bleach and Naruto are now protected by copyright infringement laws so none can now be distributed for fans to continue reading the exciting parts coming soon... Whether it is a good thing or not no one is ever sure at the moment and so maybe it's back to the bookshops again...? Pertaining to this, J's Chimes will also be closing down the manga link sections as those links are already dead because of such turn of events. Anyway, let's just see what happens next...
What better way to attract anime fans to buy anime related 'health' products featuring girls who look mysteriously similar to the anime K-On!... (Except with a title that reads Band Girls...) These adult products seriously gives me the creeps and all eyes will be on you if you'd intend to purchase it in a store or something... What's also amazing is the price tag for the product which is 1200yen = SGD$18... What's even more surprising is the creative way they present or advertise the product. Though we might all love animes, probably won't go that far to entertain your wee wee with...
Yup. You've seen it done on phones, Ipads, laptops and even the Iphones... But has you really seen one done on your favourite handheld game such as the PSP? Guess someone came up with the idea of pimping their PSPs with some cute anime characters and somehow it turns out great nontheless... This is my personal favourite because it looks so cool and even the screen wallpaper matches the cover.
Forgot what this eroge character is but it certainly looks good at the back of the PSP. Now where would you fond this anywhere in Singapore?
If am certain, PSPs run on Mac OS but some brilliant minds decided to pimp it up with the Windows OS design for the PSP back cover. Reads 'Window Vista Portable'...lol.
Another cool design for Hatsune Miku Fans... Perhaps a much more Chibi version of her? Hmm... Just realised that these are done on the older versions of the PSP...
Another Eroge character in which I forgot again...Looks pretty good in all ways... However I'd prefer a horizon picture instead as you're playing it horizontally and not vertically for the people in front of you to 'appreciate' it.
Lastly, one of the more sophisticated designs for the PSP cover... Too much of a complication does affect the looks of the PSP don't ya think so?
Plagiarism doesn't only happens in our assignments or books and such where references are needed to be put at the back for salutations. Even animes and games are being copied just so to attract people to buy their products. And so you know it doesn't only happens in Singapore, but in other parts of the world as we know it. Such an example would be this so called Korean game that copies the One Piece anime cover but added with a couple of tweaking here and there... Of course this is not such a big deal until you'd see this below....
Yup... Does it looked familiar? Somehow some Suzumiya Haruhi Fan decided to drew a look-a-like picture of her in a book about sports for sale in association with the Beijing Olympics 2008. Was wondering why Japanese animation companies didn't sue them instead for such plagiarism...
It's been awhile since we'd posted weird stuffs in Japan. And now we have a vending machine that sells something really shocking. Yep, pornographic magazines out in the open. Sometimes I'd wonder would it really be weird if you were caught vending from machines like this. Or maybe ya should wait till the coast is clear before inserting coins and choosing the material that you like? Maybe ya should don a mask for that matter. In any case, it is so easily available that kids could get it too with ease... It's even more surprising that such are allowed to be sold without the complaints of the public...
I remembered the time I owned a Sega Megadrive back in my younger days but little did I really notice the commercials that were airing in Japanese Tv and how they would looked like. Sonic the hedgehog was the icon of the console at that time and was a fan of it too. Here's a little video that will bring back some wonderful memories of gaming in the past...
With the launch of the new arcade game in Japan known as Love Plus, tons of dedicated fans rushed to play the game in Akihabara. Here's a video clip of the advertisements and posters about the game that's available in the Videogame Center, with different card designs and such to delight fans of Love Plus. Amazingly there's even a queue for people to play the game too just like how you'd line up while buying lottery tickets and such... Wonder what happens if someone continues to insert tokens and play all day long...
And here's another video showing parts of the gameplay of the Love Plus Arcade Version. Seriously, it takes in 3 hundred yen coins just to start up the game... (Approximately SGD$4.50). That's quite an amount for a game that only last about 5min... Don't know how the game will end or prompt you to insert coins to continue but it seems that if ya do failed a mini-game, it's game over... Anyway this is kinda interesting from the video clip and definitely you won't get this in Singapore...
Just when ya thought Love Plus can't sink ronery people any longer, here comes the arcade version of the game. Having launched as a DS game that critics and the media dubbed it as a 'game which will endanger the country's population and induces more divorce and addiction', it is no wonder such is under much criticism and relationship problems as time passes on. Konami; the creator of Love Plus, is planning to launch the arcade version at videogame centers in Akihabara for a test run first before promoting it to other parts of the world 'when the need arises'. I believe many ronery people will seek more attention through these screens and wouldn't mind inserting coins just to continue this relationship gaming for time to come... Perhaps next time someone would wanna marry to it and buy the entire arcade set too?
The fact that Japan requires such an extensive railway network is because of the sheer size of the country. Of course if ya really do not do your homework, traveling is really a confusing thing as you do not know what railway services to board and so on to reach your destination... Speaking of Japan, Singapore's railway system will soon be just as extensive as this as shown below...
What really amazes me is that though Singapore is really a small island, such an extensive railway network is being setup to facilitate movement of the people from one place to another. Some of which aren't seen or being contructed as of yet as they are on the planning phase for the future ahead. But somehow or rather, it seems that almost the whole island is connected together with the Central Business District as the Main Interchange Area. Looking forward to more of such improvements in transport so that we can travel for one end to another with ease...
The latest installment for the upccoming Hatsune Miku game for the PS3 console seriously awes many with its beautiful graphics and songs from the albums. It's just too bad I don't own a PS3 but some kind soul from youtube uploaded the videos of it without the gameplay or systems which should appear in the video... similar to games like dance dance revolution to guitar heroes, button symbols will appear in game for you to tap and follow the rhythm. Below are some song in which you might find familiar and are some of my favourites.
The World is mine is one of the most popular songs sung by Hatsune Miku and is the first song being sung during her concert a few months back.
One of my favourites is Packaged because it's so surreal just listening to it... love the way the makers using camera angles to make it more lively and such...
Back in school I've often heard about examples like how the company 3M manage to create a product called 'Post It!' and immediately was in high demand when it was patented and launched into the public. But never in my wildest dream that someone actually bought many tons of it to create a stop motion video that is so creative and interesting... I guess someone has just too much time to spare. Amazingly this clip has a hit count of about 4 million viewers till date and rising. So... Should we join in the fray and buy some 'Post It!' stamps too?
Sometimes artwork take a drastic and weird twist with a mixture of Hatsune Miu and the all time favourite Metal Gear Solid... Wrap it up and you'd get something new... A little bit of Moe'ness and a Banana to make some flavor out of it... I guess now someone just love Miku and Metal Gear so much that he has manage to merge them into one. This one's kinda uniquely creative and funny at times. Well... It's art (anyhow...)
Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of a color. Monochrome images in neutral colors are called gray scale or black and white and such are artworks are beautiful even without the colors. Monochrome arts are normally seen in mangas or comics alike from Japan and has been pretty popular as such shades of dull colors could actually bring vibrant and realistic painting such as Hatsune Miku as seen above.
Of course there are plenty of types of monochrome arts altogether and such are the normal black and white style seen above compare to the 3D view of Hatsune Miku. The colors not only bring out the expressions and details into view, but also makes the important parts stand out more to make it more appealing... Another type could be seen as below.
Sometimes a small dash of a color is added to attract attention or to let people focus on a certain important part of the picture as wanted by the artist. Such would be the glove with 'Houkago Teatime' in red for people to take note of for the whole picture
Monochrome doesn't limits itself to only using only black and white but a mixture of a few colors to create a something out of the box to attract attention and such would be unique colors and shadings that brings out the picture. Am personally very fond of such art pieces and would try drawing again sometime soon when i do have the time given...
Animated gifs for animes are good for those special moments but have you seen real-life animated gifs before? Found these in the web that might interest you and somehow they seem pretty interesting in a way or two... Try uploading them in your blog or facebook and get those surprised reactions from your friends... especially these animation above. Stunningly addictive...
Can't really figure out what this advertisement is but it does have something to do with stresses and coping up with them with some seemingly interesting product or service that is on sale in Japan... Whatever the case, this is kinda funny...
My personal fav is this little kitty that goes in and out of a pipe with it's master wants to touch it with his hands... This is kinda good for a profile picture in your msn or yahoo messenger to get some unwanted attention and attracting people to talk to you...lol. Kawaii desu ne~
Finally for all Pocky Fans, here's a little Pocky wand goodness and instant image change of a lovely idol. Hmmm... makes me wanna eat Pocky again...
Animated gifs are great for capturing some great moments ya can't actually get from a still picture. You can actually try making them too (Provided if you have the time in your hands) by downloading some animated gif programs or softwares to convert them in animated gif formats... One of the programs in which i do use is Macromedia Flash. There are many other programs around that you can try so you might wanna go experiment it a bit here and there just for laughs...
