International Saimoe League 2009: Help save Kyou!

A zettai ryouiki goddess.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting/

Please vote for Kyou nao to keep the dream alive~! Also, it's not fair that I had to choose between Misuzu and Mai. Gao.

Ar tonelico III - It lives!

!!!!!!!!!!

Oh. Hell. Yes. YES! It took nearly two years of waiting for me but ATIII's existence has finally been confirmed to be real! I seriously cannot wait for this game that I need to import asap. Heck, I may even go as far to get it off of Gust's official shop so that I can get the bonuses off there if I can find them anywhere else. =D Anyway, here's some info.

The game will take place in a region known as Sol Cluster. There, the higher classes are ran by reyvateils and humans work for them as slaves. The central location for reyvateils in Sol Cluster is Clusternia, where humans are brought into to help further enhance reyateils and humans who hate Clusternia are brought into it so that they can be "cleansed." The game features a white haired protagonist named Aoto, a ß reyvateil named Fennel, and a reyvateil named Saki. I think I'm already in love with Saki. <3

Aoto is the main protagonist. Headstrong and hasty, he is the apprentice of a construction worker. He is good at accomplishing tasks. He had a dislike for Clusternia which strengthened once he met Saki. He can also jump, which is something that Chroah couldn't do. >_>
Seiyuu: Sugiyama Noriaki

Saki (<3) is a reyvateil who was born in a research lab created to help bring change to the world. She ended up escaping before the completion of the project and her whereabouts had been unknown for years until she met Aoto.
Seiyuu: Gotou Mai

Fennel is a loli ß-type reyvateil who works for Yokkora, a restaurant built on the Eternal Road. She seems to have a connection with Clusteria's existence. She is also very clumsy.
Seiyuu: Kitamura Eri

Diving is the same as the first two games in the series only this time you will meet different personalities of the reyvateils within their cosmospheres. Their apparence and personalities will be different from the real world. Song magic differs from personality to personality.

The song magic system in this game is known as RAH. Through synthesis players are able to create their own song magic, which is a pretty cool feature within itself. Not only that but players are able to change the background music of fights depending on whatever actions they decide to take.

Bamco of Japan has scheduled January 28, 2010 as the game's release date. The trip to Sol Cluster will be fun, exciting, and epic and that's for sure. ^^

Credit goes to Lazy (ARM), Siliconera, and PS3 News for the compiled info. Scans from Siliconera.

Atelier Rorona coming to North America in 2010

My-my-my Rorona!

The summer of 2010 to be exact. NISA officially announced the game's localization in their most recent newsletter. Seeing that NISA is doing it I'm a bit worried about it due to past mistakes by them, but knowing that the traditional Atelier games in the series are finally getting attention (along with Rororina-chan. <3) makes me a happy Tenma. ^^ I'll be playing through Rorona a while before its released here in America so playing through the English version should be an interesting experience since I'll already know what's going on. Regardless, I can't wait for Rororina-chan and friends to make it stateside.

Horray for Rorona! ^^

Official press release

Jakuri mug

What are you looking at boy?

Horray for another edition to my ever growing Ar tonelico collection. ^^ I won the official mug that Gust sold on their online shop off of Yahoo! Japan Auctions a month ago and now I own this wonderful piece of merchandise. They chose to have the right expression for Jakuri (sarcastic FTW) and color for it for this. I love it. I won't be taking this out of the box often until I finally get a glass case to store this and my figures in.

In other news, my birthday is tomorrow. Yay? I already recieved my gift from my parents: Fate/Unlimited Codes for the PS2. No special edition however as I have no real interest in the Saber Lily figma that came with it. Although the game was bought new the disc came out of its place in the case while it was being shipped and thus it got plenty of scratches on it. Fun. -_- Hopefully it still works.