In the past year, I started on a hobby I always wanted to pursue, but didn’t really feel like spending the money to go down, photography. Now, armed w/ a Nikon D7000 and a couple of beat up used lenses, I had the chance to go to AX and explore that hobby at the same time. I’ve always visited AX on an exhibitor or press badge, but never really took full advantage of the press badge, this year was going to be different!

Every year, Anime Expo, happens to be one of the biggest industry gatherings of the visual novel industry. The event draws in industry people not just from the West, but also people from Japan. Here’s some of what happened in 2011.

It’s that time of year again, and i KNOW there’s lots of visual novel players going.

2011-05-23, scheduled for 10pm EDT http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mangagamers-from-japan
bamboo, leader of bishoujo game brand Overdrive, the band milktub, and a one of the upper managers of Mangagamer will be hosting a live ustream about Mangagamer tonight.

Just for 2.4 weeks though… comike here I come.

Looks like when my hosting company got bought out and they transfered our servers in the past week, php5 strictness enforcement got stronger and it broke the download code… Well that’s fixed now and all files should be working.

Apologies for the inconvenience, many thanks for @mudjoe2 for reporting that things broke.

Well, since I live in the city, there’s little reason not to go this weekend. I’ll be around with goodies for Narcissu fans.

Vietnamese Narcissu 2 is out

Now that Narcissu 2 is done. I’m announcing the new visual novel project I’m taking on. But this time, I want to take anyone who’s interested in translating, or learning to translate, with me.

Visual novel translation has been a circus of C&D letters, and stupid bitching from all corners of the debate. It’s all annoying. The world needs a place where people who just want to translate games in peace. The rest of you can debate endlessly about whether