Today is sunday so I should take a look to Media Create Sales chart. Actually I prefer this  Adult Goods Ranking edited by a Toy's Heart adult stores. Something the puzzles me is why videogame magazines, almost the now Japanese ones, can't see the fact that Japanese people play with DS more than with any next gen console... European and American videogame magazines consider the DS (the PSP and the ketai games) a lower kind of videogames since real games are only for home consoles...

This week  all "next gen"  console together (Nintendo Wii: 54,362  PlayStation 3: 50,564  Xbox 360: 7117) have sold less than  the DS still we are missing the point: right now Japanese gamers prefer mobile gaming and this kind of gaming both on console and mobile phones is clearly dominating the market (even PSP is selling better than PS3 or the WII!). But actually this is not strange since even big International web companies that try to get into the Japanese online market can't see the fact that this year online access trought mobile phones beated the access trought a PC... mobile gaming is good like sex toys.


I love Neo Gaf Media Create discussion thread and it's a shame that many european sites don't give to NeoGaf community the proper credits when posting NeoGaf Medi Create Sales charts...

A couple of days ago Age Soft announced that Bandai Visual will release the New Kimiga Nozomu Einen OAV next 21 December. Apparently the story seems to be going the Haruka path this time.
I still remember the first time Yoshida, Age Soft president, introduced me to the, back then new, Kimi ga nozumo einen anime (Kiminozo) I tought it was somethign fresh but everyone at the company we I was working (sorry I can't say the japanese company name) said that the show was too much difference from the others to appeal to the otaku community... I think Yoshida is a great storyteller and I love his idea of realitiy mix like when he printed and released the fictional Haruka children's book and it went of top of sales ranking of the (real) Japanese  children books!  At the beginning many people criticized  Yoshida "realistic" story telling style (his first game "Kimiga Ita kisetsu" which story takes place in Tachibanacho,  the neighboring town fo Hiragicho of Kiminozo, has been a commercial flop) but his ability to mix reality with fantasy in both his stories and products is what makes all his work masterpieces!
Anyway I really look foward to watch this anime.


Geek note: The bishoujo game Kimi ga ita kisetsu has been indeed translated in English but the management of the company wanted to release other games first so at the ned it nevert saw the light of the day...

Ksomisu = Kimoi + Omoshiori