AX-Con License Round up

Another summer is amongst us and so is the one of the biggest anime conventions in america. I will not be going to say the least due to lack of funds and other reasons as well. Thankfully however I can keep you all updated thanks to the internet on what series are going to be licensed at this convention. So feel free to take a look at the list below, leave feed back on anything that has your attention and ask me some questions as well. Please keep in mind most of the anime licensed is for the r1 market, check your region to see if these titles are licensed in that area as well.

Sentai-Filmworks 

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in The Sky Anime
Hiiro No Kakera ~ The Tamayori Princess Saga
Hakuōki Reimeiroku
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere II
Mayo Chiki!
Idolm@ster Xenoglossia
Natsuyuki Rendezvous
Campione!
La storia della Arcana Famiglia
Qwaser of Stigmata
Detroit Metal City
So, I Can't Play H!
Space Brothers
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita Someday's Dreamer's II Sora
Tari Tari
Kokoro Connect
Horizon In The Middle Of Nowhere II

Funimation

Aria the Scarlet Ammo
Jormungand
Eureka Seven AO
Blood-C TV
Blood-C: The Last Dark
Michiko & Hatchin
Appleseed XIII
Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians
Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
Binbogami ga!

Right-Stuf/Nozomi Entertainment

Ristorante Paradiso 
Hyakko 
Aoi Hana: Sweet Blue Flowers

Manga-Gamer

Slave Witch April
Orion Heart
Sexy Demon Transformations
Boob Wars
Super Secret Sexy Spy

Jast-Usa

Trample on Schatten!!

New Crunchy-Roll Simulcast  

Muv-Luv Total Eclipse

The Ambition of Oda-Nobuna

Capmpione!

So I Can't Play H!

Humanity Has Declined

Tari Tari

Kokoro Connect

La-Storia-Della-Arcana-Famiglia

Sword Art Online

Utakoi

Pes: Peace Eco Smile
Hakuoki Reimeiroku 
Chitose Get You!
Yuru Yuri 2
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere 2
Dog Days seasons 1 and 2

Well what do you all think of the huge licnese spree sentai had this time around?? In my honest opinion i think they need to slow down a big, however I'm not the CEO for the company so there is no telling how things are going for them financially. Also in-case you are wondering the reason why Aria is listed again is due in part that funimation decided to release the series on home video format. Well this should wrap things up everyone, stay safe this summer and have a happy National Independence day, where ever you live~

Edit: I added a few more titles for crunchy-rolls simulcast line up, also thanks for the feed back so far.

-Cecil The Dark Knight 

School Days HQ Goes Golden~

Collectors Edition~

Well it seems that things are wrapping up quite nicely for the offical release of School Days HQ so as promised I have info to share with you all. The School Days HQ offical site is finally up and the pre-orders are open for the limited edition for $59.99 and the normal edition for 39.99 on J-list. The limited edition version of the visual novel/eroge comes with a Kotohana oppai mouse pad, matoko head key-chain, the game and an art-box to store all of the goodies as shown above. So get off your lazy asses now and pre-order this eroge to show your support for this franchise to see other overflow games in the future

If you haven't read my review on the original version please feel free to do so you will have a general Idea of what expect when you do your first play through. Jastusa also sent me a few press release captures due to my affialte account, so feel free to take a look below and enjoy. If you wish to take a look at the uncensored work they have been doing, click over to jast-usa's twitter account and check out their photo gallery which is NSFW. I'll catch you all later and hopefully I'll be able to get copy myself~

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-Cecil The Dark Knight~

New Changes & Way of Doing Things~

Otaku Life Is Hard~

Well now if you have noticed the J-list banners here that is due in part because I am affilate with their site now. This in no way, shape or form will change the way I review. I am doing this to earn a little extra income on the side to keep up with my anime hobbies. The second thing you might have noticed is that the navibar is back so it makes it easier for newbies to navigate here out-side of me listing this site in tumblr, digg, stumbleupon etc. 

Personally Speaking  I am just whoring my-self at as much as possible to get hits. This is for hope of building a good online community here. Now lets move on the to the other half of what I am changing/doing for here so please try to stay up with me. One thing Is how I do my reviews by not giving series two scores. The point of review is my impression on the series I am not here to please you "that cost extra". I will still be using the 1-5 scale however it will be based on  overall total from characters, music story etc to give the score. 

 

One huge change is that I will only do first impressions or full reviews for anime series. I also will not be doing updates for each epiosde that's just a waste of time unless something really drastic happens that turns the series 180 direction. When my new reviews are up, just ignore the post dates because I have them set to post on that day, such as few that really needed to be posted by now. Now when I do reviews on visual novels/eroges I will post if you have to import or you can buy a localized version from Jastusa or Manga-Gamer. 

I will not be providing torrent links or ddl links to get the games for free they do have Google for reason people learn to use it please. I will however host links to any english patches that you will need for game or any patches to get a Ios, Psp, DS, or PC game working correctly in english. Something else I will be reviewing is tech products such as a Roku 2 or Ipodtouch for the hell of it so keep an eye out for those reviews. This about sums it up everyone I will catch you all later, just leave me any feed back for support~

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Finally Back

Like A Boss

Guess what assholes.. I'm back..Did you miss me?? Putting that getting aside I just want to let everyone know that I will be active a-lot more starting today. There are a lot of things going wrong in personal life right now, so I just figure why not bitch about it online while reviewing some of the winter 2012 line up. I sill have post that I need to wrap for 2011 "some reviews as well". Then my main focus will be on this month and those to come. 

To all of my co-posters.. sorry it took so damn long but I really had to get some shit straight. Oh i did finally get a e-mail back from Jast-Usa and they are interested in working with me. So look forward to a review of "My Girl Friend Is The President" which is their latest release as of now "go and buy a copy you cheap bastards" and review on that psp game Corpse-Party.. I Well you guys can kiss my white ass while I go off to bed, wish me will and let's pop this cherry for 2012 already.

YES MAM!

Doing Reviews For Jast-Usa~

Jast-Usa's Official Banner

This is something really personal but I do feel like sharing this with everyone, I have been offered a small job offer from Jast-Usa, to review press release copies of their games. To be honest this is something that I need to put a-lot of thought into. On one hand I will be able to make some extra money doing something I already like to do. However I will be required to reviews up at a certain point in time so this will no longer be any time to waste on writing a review like I have been doing lately, " I am truly sorry about that". Well that's all I have to share with everyone I will keep you posted/updated if anything else major comes up.

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Below is the e-mail they sent me in response on the Call to The Press

 

Having Fun Now?? A Review Of The School Days Visual Novel

 

 Disclaimer 

The following review is intended for those over the age of eighteen or twenty one depending where you live. I do not take any responsibility if you choose to ignore this warning so don't come crying to me later on.

So what is School Days? It is a adult visual novel/eroge developed by "Overflow" and published by "Stack" game productions in April 28th 2005. An all ages version was released/published by Interchannel for the Ps2 by on January 17, 2008 as well. The Ps2 Special edition/normal version of the game came with a limited edition "ova" in-titled "School Days-Valentines Days" which is much more light/heart-full to watch than the dreadful anime series. Another ova came out in-titled "Magical Heart Kokoro-chan" which is just a magical school girl parody that came out March 26th 2008.

This visual novel/eroge also has an anime adaptation produced/animated by "TNK" that aired from July 3, 2007 – September 27, 2007. I have such a hatred for the anime adaptation that i will not, can not, or ever review it. So if any of the other reviewers want to review the anime be my guest. The only other related media is a two volume manga which I have yet to read, also the two spin off games "summer-days" and "cross-days" that re also available for the PC but no patches have come out for these games as of yet and it seems as if none will ever come out at all.

With the synopsis out of the way let's get down the the main portion of the review. School Days has to be the most interesting adult visual novel I have ever played to date despite it being six years old now. What I happen to love most about this game is the amount of possibility or endings that you can achieve within the game due to it being a "tree-branch game". This means that you the player have the ability to choose the ending depending on branching choices that can either lead to more open scenes with even more choices or cut off short if you choose nothing at all as well. Your ending that you get is solely based on these choices you made as far back at the beginning of of the game so tread carefully and save often.

School-Days main cast of three characters "two females and one guy" are also the ones with the most screen, sex and screwed up endings. The male leads name is Matoko Ikuto who just appears to be your average high school kid, nothing really special or great about him aside from being slightly aggressive. Up next we have Katasura Kotohana who happens to be Matoko's main crush and love focus for the series who rides the train with him everyday to school and is your very shy/timid type of character. Lastly we have up Sekai who is class-mate of Matoko who first learns about his crush on Kotohana and sets up their first date/meeting on the school roof for lunch and she has a really noisy/opinionated attitude about her-self which lands all three of them in hot-water down the road.

Something that needs to be pointed out is that isn't your standard eroge either. Everything in this title is fully animated, voiced over and split in to different episodes like an ova series. The choices that do come up are time based so you either you make choice or it will choose the default choice zero to where matoko doesn't say anything at all. I'll openly admit to this being one of the biggest surprises when I did my first play through. Personally I'm just being kind to give you all heads up now on the game-play mechanics now. You can pause the game, fast forward or rewind through previous read text or scenes once you have completed one route in the game.

As of now I've gotten over ten different endings so far out of whopping twenty one endings total. Not all of the endings are dark or creepy as in the anime adaptation, it's actually quite the opposite here. This eroge has taken away lot of my free-time, but to be honest I have had fun so far. I love ever character despite "Matoko" on how you play can be the biggest asshole in the world in which deserves more than a slow painful death. I know a lot of people out there hate this male lead so much for some reasons or other. I can not bring myself to hate him despite being the massive douche that he really his and still is through out a majority of the routes you choose to play.

Yet despite this flaw he has, for some reason I just feel some level of connection to him so I do understand why he did it. Matoko starts off shy, clumsy and in the end being pushed to be aggressive from an outside source and then loses all self-control becoming a self centered prick. Still I am sadly stuck at the point now in my life, thus making me a no worse than him on a lot of levels. I do realize this now but I am still wary of what could have happened to me if I knew a person like "Sekai", I would do the same things he did in the anime adaptation, however this is a review for the source material not the adaptation that spewed a famous 2007 famous meme keep that in mind.

I will just be blunt if you liked the t.v anime series or you are looking for a good romance eroge I hihgly recommend this title. So if you are interested in any-way, shape or form, please just click the links below. You will also need to go to my "previous post" to set up your PC to play this game as well. Just to let most of you know this game is coming to America from "Jastusa" so please support the new version "School Days HQ" when it does come to America sometime at the end of this year or beginning of next year. The game will be fully uncensored and will be for the PC of course "I have no word Mac Os Compatibility as of yet but it will be most unlikely".

This version that is come here legally is an updated version of the game that came out last year for the 5 year anniversary of the original release of the game. Also this version has even more endings with a new good/bad of course and a massive upgrade to the art work to near "High-Definition" quality so it is a warranted purchase in the end unless you want to pay over 200 dollars to import the original game. In all honesty no piece of IP is worth that much to me used no matter If really need it for my collection.

One of the greatest high points for music is really a great high point even with the tragic ending song that still makes me tear up a bit to this day. Hell it's the song Kanashimi no Mukou e that still sends chills down my spine every time I hear it on a an bad ending for a route I was playing. I haven't personally heard anything emotional powerful to eerier as this song in my fifteen years of being an anime fan which is saying a-lot coming from some like me.

Another high point is Everyone in this eroge is fully voiced over even down to the tiniest of the character roster which is still just amazing and greatly adds a lot to this genre. In all honesty I think school days is the first full eroge to have a voiced over male lead taking out that self-insert character they normally do most in the eroge genre overall Actually I think it's quite nice to control a character with a personality rather than a creepy insert character they usually write in for these games. One quick thing I do need to point out one other tidbit and it's this the partial patch from the sekai project only covers up to episode four of the game so I highly recommend using a guide if at all possible or saving before any major choices.

Now maybe I am praising overflow a little so much for this IP, however it was the first to break the mold of most standard games in the genre. School Days does suffer from some huge faults as well and those need to be addressed. So lets address them shall we are that some latter choices really don't effect the outcome that much it just adds some different scenes. However in one route your choices also go form one extreme to the other such as the best ending possible to the entire game, to the worst ending possible in just once choice. This is just highly unbalanced and I hope is fixed in the newer version because one choice should not effect your effort or outcome that much.

Overall this is a great Visual Novel/Eroge with so many possibility and out-comes it feels like the game of life. However I cannot recommend this for the faint of heart due the graphic sex or murdering that does occur due to your actions.These moments in the story where I just wanted to slap some of the minor characters across the face due in part of their horrible nature/attitude towards other people as well. Well that wraps up everything people, I hoped you enjoyed reading this review and you make sure careful what decisions in your life you choose to make. I'll catch you all later on my live-stream~

 

Animation: 5/5

Game Play: 4/5

Story/Plot: 4/5



Characters: 4/5


Music: 5/5

Overall Rating:4/5

Age Rating:18+

English Patch

Setting Up Your Computer

Strategy Guide

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-Cecil The Dark Knight

-Image credit for the nice boat banner goes to "Tamadachi-san"