*+New+* Nintendo 3DS Ad- Featuring Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

If there's one thing Japan has the corner market on, it's creating fun and crazy commercials to promote all sorts of things. And this time they have Kyary Pamyu Pamyu helping with the advertisement.

KPP and the various covers that are coming out in Japan in October

Basically the ad has KPP do what she does best, turn regular things into crazy, colorful and cute. Which the function of the New Nintendo 3DS has you being able to switch face plates along with the slight changes in its schematic. The price for the plates themselves start at 940 yen to almost 3,000 yen (wooden looking one that is shown next to toad costs 2,750) but the average design plate costing 1,400 yen which is about the same range as most covers for the current 3DS and 3DSXL.

Though the commercial is about the New 3DS the Nintendo characters just shined throughout the whole thing. Here are a few images taken from the commercial.

Everyone is so bright and colorful transformed

I have to hand it to Nintendo they made everyone look so fun and stylish, I really personally like Toad, Zelda, Villager, Isabelle, and Bowser the most. Though Yoshi looks like he's about to sell you some ice cream though; seriously he looks like a 1950's soda jerk and Luigi looks like a weirdish looking hipster with that beanie, but yet oddly enough it still works because of his mustache. But the image I liked the most has to deal with Toon Link.

A very cheerful and happy Toon Link

Personally I really love Toon Link and how expressive he is in his faces. So even though he looks like he could be the new poster boy for Willy Wonka, that huge bow and top hat with the triforce on the side; topped with holding KPP's hand. It was just adorable.

Also there was Kirby who absorbed KPP's likeness but I couldn't cap a good enough image to use for it, but it's really adorable.

This marketing strategy of using a famous idol in Japan will reach more viewers and hopefully encourage more sales of the New 3DS. I will probably get one myself once it hits US shores, but first I'll have to see the difference of screens and everything else before I decide. But those switchable face plates for the 3DS version, I've gotta say, if there's an ample enough screen for me to see (I wear glasses and like to play without them on) then it will seal the deal with me.

Here's the commercial directly from Nintendo if you wanna take a look at it yourself.

The Majority Complete Collection-Kickstarter

If there's one thing I really like it's games, especially card games. They're one of my favorite things to play since it's rather easy to teach people how to play and is an engrossing experience.

So when I was browsing the traditional games on Kickstarter I was surprised to see one for The Majority-Complete collection.

The Majority Collection-What $25 gets you

The Majority is a doujinshi game (an independent printed and created game) by the circle Ayatsurare Ningyoukan; The Majority is made only by two people. Those people are Muneyuki Yokouchi; an indie board game developer who has been making games since 2006 and Kiyoshi Arai; an illustrator who has worked on video games (including Final Fantasy 12 and 14). The objective is forming strong political factions and gaining money in the supernatural filled world of Pandemonium.

While The Majority looks rather simple it is played with 3-4 players so the instructions tell all but The Majority 2 is played with two people and the cards reflect it with instructions on the cards.

The Majority 2 cards in action

For the Kickstart itself the company, Ninja Star Games is asking for only $10,000 as their goal which would break down to $5,000 for each game. The game pledge is only $25 which is not entirely bad at all for two games.

Most likely the reason for the $10,000 has to deal with paying the developer and illustrator, translating the game, editing and typesetting, and the actual printing and shipping of the game itself. If this succeeds we may be getting more Japanese games translated into English as Ninja Star Games goal is to find gems and get them translated into English, a more international appeal and more importantly to play more fun games.

The Majority Kickstarter is here!

*All images are from Ayatsurare Ningyoukan's site and The Majority Kickstarter.

Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan new Josei Works

Well Sony of Japan has finally announced a new PS Vita color scheme and it was a highly anticipated combo. White x Pink.

After tax it's about 20,498 yen

Now for Japan this is recommended for "Girls" which seemed to have gotten a lot of people all up in a storm about all sorts of things (sexist marketing among others). But seems to be highly taken out of context not only in his words but in a social setting as well.

The first problem is if you actually sit through the entire conference (which I did for the whole thing) you'll notice what was first put up.

All those Josei titles coming out at the end of the year

Any person who is in to anime or games aired towards women would know that this whole genre that are up in the TVs right now are probably "Josei" titles. Josei as a word itself in Japanese can be used to describe various female things from the gender itself to femininity. Though in manga/anime titles Josei is aimed towards older women who have gotten past reading shojou comics and moved on to more adult themes.

Through the entire ladies interest they were talking about the sucess with the PSP and how much more women interest is out. And due to the overwhelming interest the PS Vita in white x pink was born. There was talk about the color being flowerlike and how you could even match it with your lifestyle. Lifestyle could mean to make it match your daily coordination or even go and deco it up in crystals or foods.

Do I think this announcement was made with ill intent? Of course not, it was Sony seeing a need in the market and trying to fill that. The fact that it was recommended to a certain demographic means that they were their market and want to get out to it.

I swear its because of backlash like this that Sony of Japan hardly if ever sends out their other colors of their machines.

Though I am starting to understand why they say the PS Vita is J-gamer paradise as all the games I want to play seem to be going in that way that they're only from Japan and either have been localized or a VN of some sort.

Kill la Kill-Episode 25 Recap and thoughts

Well folks, episode 25 is out. Yup, the last actual Kill la Kill episode. And I've got to say at least for me it was vastly unimpressive or maybe a better term would be it just didn't feel like a good conclusion overall to the series.

So here's a basic recap and my thoughts on this episode, so if you don't like spoilers best to stop now.

The episode starts with the tearing down and graduation of Honnouji Academy and then leads into Satsuki getting kidnapped by none other than Rei Hououmaru, who was left alive after the final fight with Ragyo (even though she was inside Ragyo while she was in her Shinra Koketsu form).

Well turns out Hououmaru is pissed at the fact that Satsuki and the Elite Four and plans to kill them and destroy all that the Kill la Kids worked for into creating a world without COVERS. So the Elite Four fight copies of their old selves made real by remnant life fibers and the memories of the no star students. Which obviously those who aren't in power fear those who are; which was Hououmaru's driving point behind this, that the Elite Four and Satsuki we no better than anyone else because they dominated those without power by fear.

Fighting of course ensues, Tsumugu brings custom DTRs for the Elite Four, he gets jobbed as usual; fighting all around. School turns into a giant robot (just like 4chan and other people predicted) and Mako gets captured...Because of cheese.

I kid you not, this legitimately happens. We don't get to see it though, but Mako confesses herself to Satsuki that she got captured because she saw some cheese and wanted to eat it.

More fighting happens, Ryuko harkens back to her memories of Senketsu and then scissors fall from the sky. Ryuko turns them into giant scissors and talks about everyone graduating from Ragyo and eventually about her graduating from wearing her sailor uniform.

Everyone goes there separate ways and bam. The end. Obviously you need to watch it of course to get the feel of it and see what parts are missing but that was the episode in a nut shell.

They did do one thing though interesting that harkened back to the whole Kill la Kill; clothes vs fascism. And that was brought up by the point of graduation.

Graduation is a rather unique social phenomenon in Japan regarding subcultures but also ones that also involve fashion. It is the point where you put away your childhood and then go to the adult world and become a normal member of society. The most common subculture fashions who have these sort of graduations tend to be ones that go against what the typical Japanese stand for, a homogenous society. Though as of late, the younger Japanese are realizing though that they may be adults that doesn't mean they have to sacrifice their individuality and become normal.

Which ties back to one of Kill la Kill's themes in the second half of the anime, that crazy people are crazy and they do what they do, and are needed in the world just as much as everyone else.

While we may not have another episode of Kill la Kill ever again, I wish it didn't end like it did here with episode 25, it just felt empty and added a whole bunch of crap that they weren't able to fit into the main story at the time.