Posts Tagged “iDOLM@STER”

It seems the appeal of newly acquired games is impossible for me to resist so while taking a break from translating I decided to play a little more iM@S Dearly Stars. Things were going along smoothly in Lesson mode as I trained Eri’s stats so that everything was more or less equal. I also was making good progress delivering a decent number of perfect responses during the promotion events so I got to see as Eri made improvements in her singing ability and confidence.
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After exactly three long weeks of waiting I finally got my copy of iDOLM@STER Dearly Stars this morning. It’s kind of sad though that now that I finally have it my short break from school is just about over and I’ll be having my second round of exams soon so I probably won’t be able to play as much as I have wanted to. Today I decided I would go with ELLIE Eri as my first idol and so far I’m enjoying my choice especially since Eri is so hikikomori; she’s so scared of the outside and lacks self confidence and is quite socially awkward especially when she meets the other two idols. She’s someone I can really empathize with so I’m motivated to help her with her singing problem. I say that but in reality the vocal lessons are the hardest for me. Dance is easy and visual is not too bad but I’m not that great at the vocal lessons since I’m a rather slow reader so sometimes I screw up the lyrics. Oh well. I’m having fun and now I have something to play in my downtime.

So I was bored so I decided to translate the iM@S Dearly Stars manga sample pages released in Comic REX recently. For those who don’t know there will be 3 Dearly Stars manga running simultaneously starting in September corresponding to the three main characters and each will be drawn by a different artist. Hopefully someone will decide to scanlate the manga when they come out. Anyway have fun with the sneak peak.
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Like I mentioned before in my previous post I have been slowly working on a new iM@S picture. Technically I’m not even close to done but I decided to finish sketching Haruka and Ai and posting it in honor of the fourth anniversary of the release of the arcade version of iM@S. I really liked drawing Dark Haruka with her Punkish Gothic costume and Katana plus I added her taking off her Nonowa Mask since I thought it would be cool. In contrast I drew Ai in her Snow Strawberry outfit doing her goofy signature pose.

Eventually I’m going to draw all 16 idols plus Kotori in small subgroups and bring them together in one colored super group shot like I love doing. I’m probably going to work on Yayoi/Chihaya/Iori hugging each other first followed by everyone else at my own pace in between working on all my other drawings. Of course I’ll have to wait until I finish this year’s t-shirt design for my University’s Anime Club.

In the course of looking for references and ideas for the iDOLM@STER picture that I am currently working on, I somehow found myself on Niconico Douga watching a video featuring iM@S music but with different characters dancing to the music. With the tag “Dance×Mixer” as a guide I did some research and found out that it is a program just released a month ago used to choreograph 3D characters and make videos. Being a huge fan of otaku music I had no choice but live out my idol-coordinating fantasies by giving it a try. Of course I ended up wasting half of yesterday just playing around with it instead of drawing like I had planned.
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While looking for an iDOLM@STER image for my wallpaper I came across a bunch of new pictures featuring Dearly Stars idol Akizuki Ryo in strange situations such as her shaving and being at a pool topless in a pair of swimming trunks. Wondering if there was some new information that became meme fodder within the last week, I checked the official website and found my answer; a week ago on the iM@S Niconico Channel the first episode of Dearly Station was released as a four-part feature focusing mainly on Ryo.
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Today on the iM@S official site, Bandai-Namco announced that the upcoming Nintendo DS game iDOLM@STER Dearly Stars will go on sale September 17 2009 for 6279 yen, just in time to distract me from school. It will have a CERO rating of C (15 years old+). There doesn’t seem to be any details regarding a special edition of Dearly Stars but surely being from a hit franchise like iM@S is bound to have one and I’ll be enough of a sucker to buy it.

Can’t wait to play it this fall. Definitely planning to choose Mizutani Eri, the blue-haired hikikomori idol, first. By the way she is voiced by Hanazawa Kana AKA Zange-chan (Kannagi).

Coinciding with a certain secretly dark idol’s birthday (that’s Amami Haruka if you didn’t already know), news of an iM@S SP translation project was announced on YouTube of all places. Apparently the group has tools to change game internals and a few people already working on translating game scripts. The project’s page can be found on the VN Translation Wiki while the demonstration video can be viewed below:
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First day of school started for me today and it looks like Japanese and various science classes will be keeping me as busy as ever this semester so I decided to write about what I want to accomplish so that I will not forget as the year progresses. Since things will only get more hectic from now on I need to get my priorities straightened out. Of course many of these will be otaku-related but some goals may spill over into my schoolwork or elsewhere.
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