Free demo VN of Kirakira, Suika, and Da Capo.

Woo hoo! Mangagamer has just released the demos for -look at title.- I'm downloading kirakira and suika, and we'll see how it looks.

If you wish, the demos can be found at
http://www.mangagamer.com/main/
Note: 18+ please.
Unless you're mature enough. Are you?

Philippines

Short blog entry due to horrendous speed, but I'm loving it here! Expect a full blog on the trip when I come back. But meanwhile, everything here is much cheaper...Too cheap.

Billy Mays has died

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays

What?! NOOO BILLY MAYS?! WHY LEAVE US NOW?!
Man, he was literally the biggest commercial star, and now he's gone T_T.

1959-2009
(Too many greats dying!)

Condolence to Michael Jackson

Well in case some of you may, or may not know, the king of pop has died. Michael Jackson, after living 50 years of the greatest music ever has died of a heart attack at UCLA. However, full information regarding his death is still skimpy, until the autopsy is formed.

Michael Jackson, living a life reaching the top. The top where few have ever reached, and he reached even further than that. His album Thriller has sold over 50 million copies, easily making it the greatest album ever. He then ran into controversy, and was about to go on a unprecedented world tour, before this tragedy befell him.

I will miss Michael Jackson. His comeback would have rocked the entire world. May he rest in our memories, and may his music live on forever.

Michael Jackson
1959-2009

Update on VN regulations

http://www.minori.ph/

Well well well. Looks like minori is finally giving a fairly decent explanation for blocking foreign ips. They say they're surprised because so many foreigners complained about it (Maybe it's because minori is popular overseas than in Japan. I'm not sure.)

Apparently, minori as well as many other eroge companies are being challenged with the issue of the "Freedom of Speech".

Recent VN Regulations and Restrictions

Ok well, time to spill forth and collect the news that have been affecting a certain sect of the Visual Novel industry. To be specific, it's the eroge industry. Now for most of you, you probably won't give a damn, and don't really care, so you don't really need to read this. But it is quite interesting to read anyways.

The beginning came from this article on Canned Dogs.
"TBS news reports that all rape games will be banned from sale or production in Japan. It has been decided. It is estimated that this particular genre takes up about 10% to 20% of the entire industry but the PC software independent review committee has made the decision to ban all these games."
To sum it up for you, it wants to ban rape games. Simple, right?