Wired Italia posted my reportage from the Japanese (ero)game show DREAMPARTY 2009 held in Tokyo Big Sight few days ago. This edition was really interesting since there were many itasha displayed among tons of new bishoujo games!
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Last weekend, during the eroge heatai videogame show DREAMPARTY 2009 held in Tokyo Big Sight, I spotted this really crazy itasha wheelchair inspired by the bishoujo/Moe character used to promote TACHIPRO (Tachikawa Area promotional Project) by TachiTachi.  I love it!!!
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Via Asiajin - Japanese company A2c  released a new iPhone application which enables you to take pictures with 5 (ero) manga girls. “Kanojo Camera” (”kanojo” means girlfriend) is also sold to English market by $1.99. The English title of the app is “My Girls Camera” and looks like it will be an hit among eroge fans!!
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My old friend and super sweet Japanese Idol Amano Ai made a private video dedicated to her love for 8bit videogames! She is a cosplayer (and a well know underground photographer) so she made the Famicom bikini few minutes before shooting the her new video called PLASTIC CANDY!

Beside being a Japanese sexy Idol she is a retrogaming maniac and underground photographer (under the name of Julie). Her photos, like the ones from SAMURAI GIRL photobook, always feature techno feticism (8 years ago she has been the very first photographer taking photos of semi nude videogame girls)

http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Girl-Julie/


Retrogames + sexy idol = 100% success!
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On 27th march will be released BALDR SKY:  the latest episode of the Baldread bishoujo action game that's basically one of the best hentai saga ever produced. Yesterday Giga uploaded the taikenban (playable demo) of the game. You can download it in one of these servers:

Sorry Engadget, but I think Japanese girls (both 2D and 3D) are better than techno gadgets (maybe this is just love for my new super sexy AV star girlfriend) so whenever I got the chance I post some sexy photos on the Italian website modellismo hobby media...
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This year I couldn't attend the Dreamparty (held on sunday 12 october) but miety posted these cool photos of an itasha with a very special steering wheel!

The Japanese boing boing (H cup) super heroine Yoko Matsugane has just relesed  her new DVD: "  Yoko Matsugane Mizugi de Golf - Lesson Hen". This is what appens when you play too much Minna no golf...

Next week, on 29 august, Phi-age (a sub brand of the legendary bishoujo game maker AGE SOFT), will release PICO PICO: the very first hentai game that let's you have sex with videogama consoles...
so that gamers can finally have sex with their objects of desire!
In the doujin scene there have been many illustration featuring "console girls" but I think this is the very first time that a professional bishoujo game has been produced on this theme...

The Japanese doujin circle TEAM DSX will release HALF ELF TENTACLE ASSAULT DS:  an hentai / bishoujo game for Nintendo DS during Comiket 71 (on 16th august)!!

Brian Kot@ku M@ster just posted the Famitsu scans with the iDOLM@STER For PSP preview! This game alone will give 2-3 motnhs more to Sony handheld sales dominance but after Sony can only start to port bishoujo games with keeping the hentai scenes in!!
Anyway this game alone is a good motivation to buy the new PSP and play with our lovely Idols on T doing the PANCHIRA STYLE!!!

The italian monthly magazine XL (published by the newspaper La Repubblica) has just posted my reportage about the Dreamparty: the Japanese hentai game show. There is also a photogallery with some hentai game images provided by Light.

After the huge success of the Suzumiya Haruhi model car Aoshima announced the second model of this Itasha Model series. This time the car (a Toyota Corolla AE86) features decals with illustrations from the visual novel To Heart 2.
I met Aoshima at the Nuremberg Toy Fair and it seems that they are interested in the European and American markets so there is the chance that these itasha series, sooner or later, will be officially distributed in our countries.

This is how to use that things and have sex with 2D eroge characters...

Today, I woke up and as everyday I started reading Kotaku while sipping a good italian espresso. Then I found a really interesting post about an article from another blog about eroge industry problems related to doujin. Actually I work(ed) in this field so I'm always curious by how people outside this business perceive it.
Doujin games are the "next big thing" in the otaku business since almost 3 years ago and in the industry the blooming situation of doujin market is compared to the eroge in the nineties (ah, good old days old kiabakura and free girls at my old job!). Actually many old school programmers and artist from 2D videogame companies are behind the biggest selling doujin games, but this is another story...
Something that is often misunderstood is the fact that many eroge companies are not companies at all but just brands: one brand is created to market a new game created trough a temporary team of drawers, writer, programmer and voices actors. The so called "outsourcing" has been in place for almost 10 years in the industry almost among the companies that now are "topping the eroge sales charts. And in games like the legendary Viper from Sogna the artists have always been famous anime drawers who wanted to make some good money and worked for the company under a pseudonim (like all voice actors in the best selling games)...
I think in many ways the erge industry has in many way always been more mature or almost more similar to the movie industry than the consumer games (just he fact that "normal" games industry can't accept the erotic games one is an indication of how much it's still behind other entertainments were: sex sells...). In the movie industry directors and actors are paid for a project and are not full time staff...
Also in several companies the owner is the writer that's why if there are some cuts the first to go are the additional writers since only in the low rating/selling eroge the story is not the strongest selling point. But in reality many writers have been freelance from the beginning so they always worked in the industry and at the same time in publishing so if they get famous through eroge it's no news that they jump on a new contract asap! Actually I always tough that eroge are  digital books even tough the media is visual the story for the best selling games is the main point (so much that supe successfull companies big issue is find the right story for the new game not to get a good artist).
Eroge industry and doujin have always been linked (the real "tokyo erogame show" is the commercial booths area of Comiket after all) whats new in the last 2-3 years is the decline of the sales for the average game (almost 70% of games sells less than 5000 copies while the best sellers run over 50-100.000 copies) so the doujin artist don't have take the hassle to start a company and just keep releasing doujin games as they have always done. The new thing is just that now they invest more money in the doujin games (voice actors usually cost of 30% of the total cost of a game production) instead of going "official" since the eroge business competition is so strong that it's  difficult to get money right now if you don't have a super strong doujin franchise (instead after releasing a good doujin game a circle can sell even 30-40.000 copies!) or a big company supporting you with the production/distribution/promotion issues.

And... time to make a new espresso and start to work...

Today, my old tomodachi at HobiRecords have officially released Ryoujyoku Hardcore (produced by the Rush Our 2 gabber collective).  HobiRecords is the music label of the huge hentai games distributor Hobibox (they are behind Nitroplus, Age Soft and other major bishjoujo makers) so they created this fake bishoujo games soundtrack CD with Gabber/hardcore twist. Ryoujyoku Hardcore features artists like Sharpnel and Kenta and the voice actors from Black Package an eroge company famous for the hardcore stories like Koukai (download a playable demo here). With titles like   Raperape Mix, Forcing Fellatio Mix and Extended Anal Mix this CD can't be missed by any bishoujo game fan and JAV Talk user (go Bananaboy go!!)!
Damn seems yesterday when in 2002 I sponsored Sharpnel live at Milk Club in Ebisu (damn I'm old), but for an (ex) Techno DJ like me  what's better than porno game harcore to relax?!
 

A very old hentai game for the Famicom Disk System produced by Hacker International...

Our Japanese otaku idol photographer friend Julie has posted about a really cool retrogame called DON JOUAN. This videogame appears to be the very first dating sim produced in the west (way before my old friend Peter Payne started the localization of Japanese bishoujo games for the western markets).
DON JOUAN runs on the old Oric 1 microcomputer  and if you got a flashcard for your DS you can play it on the new DSORIC emulator!
It seems a really cool way to celebrate San Valentine for all retrogamers out there (and remember: with hentai games you don't even need to spend money on a date with your girlfriend)! Happy Valentine day and don't eat to much chocolate!!


Note: In the last few days Julie (aka Amano Ai) has been busy working as a model at the Osaka Automesse and as a Race Queen in several races so she couldn't update her Besidegames page ans slipped to number two spot in the Besidegames Highscore ranking so, as a San Valentine virtual present to our lovely idol photographer,  we should help her go back to number one trough clicking the score buttons in all the posts on her blog as many times as we can!

Jin Products has just announced Soleil: a new PSP UMD hentai videogame that will be released on 21 February 2008.

Volks has announced three new Figure doll of Mitsurugi Meiya, Tamase Miki and Yashiro Kasumi three of the most loved characters of MUV LUV: the legendary eroge saga from Age soft. The dolls are 27 cm tall and produced in limited quantity that will be on sale during next Comic Market and at a special event held at the beginning of January.


I love Age soft videogames because I Yoshida san, the president of Age Soft,  is also the author of all the game s stories and this guarantees a great quality. Several times Yoshida  pushed back the relase dates just because he always wants to improve the quality of the games  and this upsets many shop chains/distributors, but  at the end all his games are masterpieces so eroge fans are never turn down even if the must wait 4-5 months after the expected release date!







 

Today Success has released Izuna 2 for DS (the second chapter of the Rpg dungeon crawler know in USA as Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja). Gamers who will buy this title in the Japanese shop  Sofmap will get this box sexy box that looks exacltly like the package of PC eroge (Hentai videogames).



Today Akiba Blog spotted in Sofmap a really interesting "plastic oppai" promotion for a new eroge from Marine (NSFW). You can  download a trial version of this game (released on 21 December) from these mirrors: Holyseal,  mirror.fuzzy2.com,  Mirror D-Station or Xgame Electronic Station.

This beautifull Gundam 00 illustration is from Mugen Kidou doujin circle that will exhibit on 31th December during Comic Market (don't miss the great  "how to guide"  created by our friends at Heisei Democracy.)
Today the Club 54 has released Wan Ryumin Niujoku another doujinshi dedicated to the female characters of Gundam 00.
There is just a month till next Comiket so doujin world is starting to fight for visibility and releasing "major" doujing manga before the event seems a technic to attract more customers at its own circle table during Comic Market (コミックマーケット).



Akiba blog has posted some very NSFW photos here, here, here, here, here and here.

Now we only need to start to save up for the Comiket 3 days doujin marathon shopping!

(NSFW) After Game Center CX what's better than a porno movie set in a Japanese Game Center with two lesbian malking love on arcade machines? We just found this porno masterpiece (starred by Sakurada Sakura) that has been released last year by HOT Entertainment. Actually this video company this year created the Hot Entertainment AV Visual Arts Accademy: the very first school to learn how to get a job (behind the camera) in the porno industry!



Sample images from "Geisen de Hard Lesbian" DVD on DMM.

Yesterday, Akibablog (via  Danny / Kotaku) has spotted Asobit City in-store display promoting the new 40GB PS3  model with Blue-ray adult movies from TMA. More than a way to promote PS3 I feel this is a way for Asobit City to get rid off all the unsold bluerady Pornos thata has piled in the adult floor of the shop in the latest months...

I finally found my perfect company:  according to Japan Probe a Dentsu manager states that "having double penetration sex (with a prostitute) was a way in which japanese businessman would commemorate business dealing".  This is like the story of classic bishoujo (hentai) games back in the nineties! Now I only need to know where to send my CV!!!

Anyway Steve Biegel, a former executive of Dentsu’s U.S. branch, is suing the company because CEO Toyo Shigeta forced Biegel into awkward, sexually charged situations: like going together to Onsen (japanese spa) is quite funny!! What's next? A religious integralist suing his american company cause they force him to celebrate together a pagan holiday like Halloween?!

Last sunday in Tokyo

The latest game from Muv Luv series has been released in Japan 2 days ago and went straight to number one post of the  bishoujo games sales chart (Danny Choo Amazon's Bestselling Eroge).
Yesterday Akiba blog posted a  complete report of the release day in Akiba. Someone has called this just another fan disk, but when you get a love comedy AVG, a simulation game, a visual novel, a mini radio drama, and a bonus DVD Video track I think we got a proper release that will extend the Muv Luv universe even more! We are still waiting our sample copy but, as far as we know, our friends at âge Soft has created another bishoujo masterpiece!
If you wanna take a peek to the game, Guncannon, has poste a preliminary report on his blog.

Ecco un video educativo (NSFW) per imparare le basi dello shibari e legare la propria ragazza come nei videogiochi hentai!

Ecco la bella Natsume Sano che partecipa a uno show televisivo dedicato ai Photo Restaurant!

Dopo alcuni giorni di stop, siamo riusciti a far ripartire il nostro giga blog server a tecnologia aliena (ringrazioamo Roberto A. e gl ialtri tecnici)....
Per festeggiare ecco un video della bellissima Leah Dizon!

Attenzione: NSFW
Mai Nadasaka è una AV Idol (in pratica un'attrice di adult video giapponesi) che ha appena debuttato nel super fantastico mondo del pornazzo nipponico grazie al video "Gravure Idol" uscito il 16 giugno per la Maxing. Mai deve il suo successo, oltre che alla sua innata abilità di attrice, anche alle sue tette che raggiungono i 103 cm e guadagnano una J CUP (metodo "scientifico" di misura giapponese che parte dalla A per arrivare normalmente alla D. Ovviamente nel mondo paradisiaco del porno ci sono dei miracoli come Mai che arrivano alla J...).

Ecco un nuvo video di Okubo Mariko.

Il settore dei bishoujo games (meglio conosciuti come videogiochi hentai)  rappresenta un'industria con un fatturato superiore a quello prodotto da PS3 e XBOX 360 in Giappone. E' curioso che ci sia ancora tanta presupponenza da parte della critica del settore (escludendo GX avete mai visto un videogioco bishoujo presentato in modo intelligente e completo sulle riviste del settore?) come anche di molti videogiocatori che evidentemente alla vista di due tette sono più spaventati di un seminarista... 

Per scoprire il mondo degli hentai, oltre che correre in edicola e comprare GX è possibile visitare ottime community come Hentai Eye e  Flowers of Hentai che da anni rappresentano il punto di riferimento online per gli appassionati del genere. Per gli appassionati di anime hentai ci sono invece siti come Subitanime, Anidojo e Bakateam.

Wow!!! Abbiamo stabilito un record: (quasi) 4 giorni senza aver postato una ragazza mezza nuda! Rischiavamo di diventare un blog serio!!

Scusateci, sono passati due giorni senza un sexy idol! Recuperiamo subito presentando Leah Dizon: la nuova regina delle gravure idol giapponesi!! Leah è arrivata a Tokyo nel 2006 e grazie a origini cinesi/filippine/francesi è riuscita a conquistare in pochi milioni di fans in Giappone.  Se vi piace questo video vi consigliamo di cliccare qui.
Non ve ne pentirete!

Brandon, di Insert Credit,  ha appena scoperto una nuova chicca per gli amanti dei picchiaduro softcore. Si tratta di  Ikkitousen - Shining Dragon:
un picchiaduro 3D ispirato alla serie di anime Ikkitousen (licenziata anni fa da  Shinvision ma disponibile ora in fansub).
Il punto di forza di questo picchiaduro è che, durante i combattimenti, i vestiti delle procaci ragazze comabattenti si strappano  (un po' come nel classico Fighting Vipers) lasciando intravedere i loro corpi...  e qui già immagino orde di videogiocatori puristi inorriditi da questi riferimenti sessuali che corrompono il puro mondo dei videogiochi. Stranamente si tratta sempre di appassionati di FPS che trascorrono allegramente le proprie giornate facendo saltare le cervella ai propri nemici... noi preferiamo le fighette combattenti mezze nude alla noiosa violenza matematica dei soliti FPS: come si può ignorare la poesia di una super mossa con mutandine in bella mostra?
Il gioco esce in Giappone il 26 luglio in due versioni.

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Tempo di scappare dall'ufficio e andare al mare...

Ayaka è una idol diventata famosa per aver interpretato il ruolo di Minako Aino (aka Sailor Venus) nella trasposizione in drama giapponese della leggendaria serie animata Sailor Moon.