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Aquapazza Ships on June 28th with 3 Versions!

The official PlayStation 3 website for Aquapazza -AQUAPLUS Dream Match- began streaming the fighting game edition's first promotional video on Thursday. The video includes gameplay clips and showcases characters from bishōjo game maker AQUAPLUS's titles, including the version's four exclusive playable characters Oboro (Utawarerumono), Chizuru Kashiwagi (Kizuato), Llyr (Tears to Tiara), and Serika Kurusugawa (To Heart).

The game's regular edition will cost 7,140 yen (about US$87), while the limited edition will cost 8,379 yen (US$102) and bundle a special soundtrack CD and stick card set. A special deluxe set will also bundle a "Rapbox Real Arcade Pro.V3 SAP" joystick controller with character art and cost 20,790 yen (US$253). Those who pre-order the game by the end of May will receive a special clear file with an original design. In addition to the new characters, the PlayStation 3 version's other updates include PLAYSTATION Network play support as well as new story, score attack, training, and gallery modes.

Examu, the creator of the successful Japanese fighting game franchise Arcana Heart, developed Aquapazza as a 2D arcade game that was released last June. AQUAPLUS is streaming nine promotional videos for the original arcade version on its official website.

Aquapazza -AQUAPLUS Dream Match- will ship for the PlayStation 3 in Japan on June 28.

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Anime Fansub Releases - Catch Up Edition!

First off, I want to apologize to anyone who may be using our site to get the latest news on releases from fansub groups that are releasing shows from this anime season. With me going to Final Round XV, building a new gaming rig, & playing countless hours of Street Fighter x Tekken and TERA Online (Beta), I've neglected to do anything on this site and keep up with posts on the news. Again, I want to say I'm sorry.

With that being said, I will be providing you with links to the fansub groups in order for you to get caught up with your shows from this anime season. It sure will do me some good if I could get some help on this site to draw in a community but I guess that's not going to happen anytime soon. Oh well......with that being said, here's your links:

Hiryuu Fansubs: http://www.hiryuufansubs.com/

Doki Fansubs: http://doki.co/

Unlimited Translation Works: http://utw.me/

Subdesu Fansubs: http://www.subdesu.org/

Commie Fansubs: http://commiesubs.com/

Underwater Fansubs: http://underwater.nyaatorrents.org/

Again, I apologize to everyone that this may bother and I hope to continue with staying on track with all of these releases. If you would like to contribute and help with our cause, please contact me on the forums. I won't accept any emails. Thank you.

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Mahou Sensei Negima Ends After 9 Years

Almost a decade ago, Akamatsu Ken (author of best selling manga title "Love Hina" & "A.I. no Tomoranai") started a new manga series about a boy whom was a magi in training whom was following the example lead by his father. This boy soon started his training and was sent to an all-girls school at an academy known as "Mahora". Who would have known that this would be the started of what has become one of the biggest manga franchises of today.....surpassing even Akamatsu-san's very own Love Hina!?

In 2003, Negima became the next story created by Akamatsu-san after completing his smash hit "Love Hina" and since then, it has gained popularity so much that it has spawned 2 anime TV series, 2 OVAs, 2 OAD (Original Animation Disc), & 1 movie finale (this served as an alternate ending to the manga series). Along with this, Negima has amassed tons of music CDs from all of the animated works as well as drama CDs. Popularity of this franchise has always been high due to the comedy, action, drama, fanservice, and most importantly, the story. This is why that after 9 years, it's extremely sad to see the curtain fall upon this series and that it's time to say goodbye to Negi, Asuna, Konoka, Setsuna, Eva, & all of the others from Class 3-A whom we all grown to love throughout the years.

With that being said, it will be a while before the US edition of this series by Kodokawa Manga (formally known as Del-Ray Manga) reaches this point although it's getting close so if you want to spoil yourself and read the finale, you can head over to Red Hawk Scans and read it on their site. Red Hawk Scans is a fan scanlation group whom has been translating the manga as of last year, picking up the last few chapters up to the end of the series. Negima has been bounced all over by many scanlation groups which started from Aquastar Fansubs and was later done by independant people who then were recruited by Red Hawk Scans (although we know there are quite a bit more people and groups that did this series but these are the well-known ones who translated this series into english). Hopefully, we can get a small brief interview from the guys at Red Hawk Scans about their journey into doing the remaining chapters for this series.


Click HERE to go to Red Hawk Scans website

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Exclusive - Email Exchange with EigoMANGA About...

Hello once again everyone. It's not everyday that we at Anime Toshokan go out of our way to help find answers for someone else, let alone.......another community. Well, here's the short version of the story:

Recently, Anime Toshokan (namely Mikuru) has been lurking about at Shoryuken.com (SRK for short) at their Vanguard Princess thread. Within the topic, people have been wondering what has been the hold up with the latest version of Vanguard Princess titled "Vanguard Princess Prime" and with the supposed Xbox Live & Playstation Network version of Vanguard Princess 1.08 by US company "EigoMANGA". Well, acting as the proxy between the SRK VP community & EigoMANGA, I started out sending a simple email to the company and got a reply back from the company CEO "Austin Osueke". What was only supposed to have been only one simple email exchange suddenly turned into multiple exchanges.

So with that being said, here's your exclusive look at the email exchange about what's going on with Vanguard Princess US & Vanguard Princess Prime (Not much info on this but it's something):

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Exchange #1

Mikuru//X: Hello! My name is Michael Anderson and I\'m sending an email concerning the progress with the localization of the Japanese doujin freeware game "Vanguard Princess" and  if EigoManga is still working with Tomoaki Sugeno with getting the game on Xbox Live & Playstation Network.

Since news got out about EigoManga looking into importing Vanguard Princess for the US and because of the interview video on youtube where this was talked about at New York Comic-Con '11, the community at Shoryuken.com and myself have been estatic about if this will pull through. Since then, there has been no news or update as to if this is still happening and the community at SRK & myself are now starting having doubts about if this is still continuing. So I\'m sending this email on the behalf of those concerned people at the SRK forums and myself in order to get some clarification as to what is currently happening regarding this subject.

If there is any possible way that EigoManga could shed some light as to what is happening in regards to the localization of Vanguard Princess, it would really be a load off our shoulders as we'll know if we can keep waiting for this or we can move on to other things  with all of these other fighting games coming out. Thank you so much for reading this email and I hope to hear something regarding this from you all soon. Thank you again.

Austin: Thanks for the email. We're still developing the game. We actually demonstrated the latest build at an anime convention in San Francisco this past weekend, 'Anime On Display'. We're showcasing the game at GDC 2012 in a few weeks in March.

Thanks for the support and we actually plan to send an email blast to our Vanguard Princess email subscribers to let them know about the latest developments.

Thanks again!


Exchange #2

Mikuru//X: Hiya Austin! Thanks for the reply for it was very well appreciated by myself and the community of people waiting for this game to be released at Shoryuken.com. I wanted to send another email because I wanted to ask a small favor. Is there by any chance that you can release any screenshots from the latest build of the Xbox (or PS3) version of Vanguard Princess Prime (if this is the version that's coming?) so that I could do a small article on it on my website & possibly submitting the article to Shoryuken.com as well? I'm sorry to ask this but as I've stated, the community there has some very anxious people awaiting this game so I was asked by the community there to see if I could possibly get some screen captures of the latest build. If it's not possible then that's fine. I'm only acting as the proxy for the group there. Thanks again for the last reply and hope to hear from you about this soon. Take care!

Austin: The gameplay is pretty much the same so we can send a couple of screenshots with English text.

Exchange #3

Mikuru//X: Hello! Got a small question. Is does the current build of VP that you're group is working the version in which that was supposed to have been released on PC in Japan by Sugeno-san which changed the game to Vanguard Princess Prime and include the one extra character that was shown at that time on this blog? If so, can provide screenshots of that character as well? I provided an art clip that was posted on Sugeno's blog as just show which one I'm talking about. I want to apologize for all the nitpicking about this but it's just so that I won't have to bother your company with such things anymore about this. As always, thanks for the help.

Austin: Our game isn't Vanguard Princess Prime and it doesn't contain the "New Character". If anything we want to introduce Vanguard Princess to a wider audience.

Exchange #4

Mikuru//X: Okay, I have another question in regards to my last email. Are there any plans in the air in regards to if the game will advance to Vanguard Princess Prime after the initial release or is this something that's going to be discussed after the release of EigoMANGA's version & after Sugeno actually releases Prime on the PC in Japan (which was supposed to have happened last year during Comiket 80 but never did)? I can understand that you want to introduce the game to a wider audience and I'm pretty sure you will achieve that in this case.

Also, I have another question in regards to the game visual aspects. It's already known by players of the game that the character "Luna" (Girl with guns) is only wearing a *cough*bandaid*cough* as opposed to underwear which shows when she does some attacks. My question is in reference to censorship as I'm sure this will probably come up by someone sooner or later if someone takes notice. Will EigoMANGA's release be a 100% conversion of the original Vanguard Princess or will there be some sort of censorship to some degree like with characters such as "Luna"?

Austin: Sorry for the late email. We've busy with projects and such. GDC is next week so we're gearing up for that.

Here are a few screenshot images we sent out on our recent press release:






For the most part, we did translation and fixed some of the technical bugs in the game.

Question (1):

> Okay, I have another question in regards to my last email. Are there any plans in the air in regards to if the game will advance to Vanguard Princess Prime after the initial release...



I don't know exactly when Vanguard Princess will be released from Sugeno's end. We do know from our team's collaboration with him is that the 311 Earthquake affected his town and it has subtantially delayed his work on Prime.

If it comes out let's say right around the same time our version comes out (which is inconceivable) we will go to work to port it like we are with 1.08 with his cooperation.

Our future plans for Vanguard Princess after our initial release would be to create a more robust game engine and create vectorized sprites of the original artwork. We want to incorporate better social gaming aspects into it.



Question (2):

> Will EigoMANGA's release be a 100% conversion of the original Vanguard Princess or will there be some sort of censorship to some degree like with characters such as "Luna"?

We did have to slightly modify one character and speed up some frames that had some explicit imagrey but for the most part, the game's subject matter didn't cause any red flags with our console partners. After our edits, we never recieved any issues from these guys; their engineers and business managers have them QA'ing the game for months alongside us.

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With that being said, we'll probably get some more highlights as the development continues as Austin & EigoMANGA heads to the Game Developers Confrence 2012 next week to show off more Vanguard Princess to the media. Unfortunately, we're not an official media outlet or such so nor do I have the money to go so no......I won't be getting any news from there for you all. lol

Anime Toshokan will continue to follow the developments of the Vanguard Princess, EigoMANGA, & the whereabouts of Vanguard Princess Prime. Till next time you guys!

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:: About Vanguard Princess ::

Vanguard Princess(ヴァンガードプリンセス Vangaado Purinsesu^?), also known as Vanguard Princess: Senjin no Himegimi (ヴァンガードプリンセス 先陣の姫君) is a Japanese freewaredōjin2Dfighting game for Windows, developed by a single programmer and illustrator called Tomoaki Sugeno, nicknamed Suge9.^[1] The game was released on June 26, 2009^[2] and was created using Fighter Maker 2nd.^[3] The latest version of the game is 1.08, released on January 14, 2011.^[4]



- Excerpt from Wikipedia

Vanguard Princess ver 1.08 is free to download by clicking HERE (Thanks goes out to Mizuumi.net for hosting the game on their server for the english community)

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Playstation Vita Ships Today, Fighter's Clu...

It's really not news at all but to those whom are not informed about this at all or just been living under a rock this whole time, Sony's new handheld portable system called the "PS Vita" ships today in 2 formats. The WiFi only version ships at a price of $249 while the 3G + WiFi version ships at the price of $299. The 3G data plans are all hosted by AT&T so have fun with that you guys.

In other news, this is just hot off the presses but Korean online gaming host "Kill3r Combo" has just announced that they have indeed acquired the rights and license for the online fighting game "Fighter's Club Online". KC plans to show the game off at this years Game Developers Conference 2012 (or GDC2012 for short) next month. KIll3r Combo currently hosts the NA version of the online action RPG/Fighting game "Elsword Online" so if you've not tried this game out, give it a whirl.....it's a fun game.

Also, Japanese game developer "Atlus", makers of the acclaimed "Shin Megami Tensei" & "Persona" franchise has just announced through a press release that it plans to release their new fighting game "Persona 4 Ultimate: Battle in Mayonaka Arena" in the United States this summer under the title "Persona 4 Arena". This coincides as a simultaneous release along with the Japanese version of the game which is also slated for a summer release while the arcade version is due out this spring. Speculations on a release date is hinted at August 7th, as some reports have been coming out that Gamestop has a release date in their system and is currently taking pre-orders. The game will be released for the Xbox 360 & Playstation 3.




Also a short reminder, the demo to EA's upcoming snowboarding racing game "SSX" has a demo and it's been released on Xbox Live & Playstation Network. All we can say is get off your tail and download the demo or better yet, buy the frickin game when it's released next week.......it's awesome!!


News Credited to: mmosite.com / Shoryuken.com / Atlus USA Press Release

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Anime Fansub Releases - Commie Fansubs - 02-22-...

Here we go with new releases from Commie Fansubs. All of the releases posted here are from last week up to today. As always, keep in mind that we only post fansub releases for current season anime shows from these groups. Any Blu-Ray or DVD releases from these fansub groups will not be posted and you're instructed to go to their site for them instead. Here are the weeks releases:


Mourestu Pirates - 07
Torrent

Another - 07
Torrent

Ano Natsu no Matteru - 07
Torrent

Rinne no Lagrange - 07
Torrent

Shakugan no Shana III Final - 19
Torrent

Nisemonogatari - 07
Torrent

Zero no Tsukaima III - 04, 05, 06
04: Torrent
05: Torrent
06: Torrent

Inu x Boku - 06
Torrent

Senki Zesshou Symphogear - 07
Torrent

Black Rock Shooter - 03
Torrent

Guilty Crown - 17
Torrent

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Anime Fansub Releases - Underwater Fansubs - 02...

Here we go with new releases from Underwater Fansubs. All of the releases posted here are from last week up to today. As always, keep in mind that we only post fansub releases for current season anime shows from these groups. Any Blu-Ray or DVD releases from these fansub groups will not be posted and you're instructed to go to their site for them instead. Here are the weeks releases:

Another
Another - 07 (720p) | Torrent | Magnet | DDL

Rinne no Lagrange
Rinne no Lagrange - 07 (720p) | Torrent | Torrent (external) | Magnet | DDL

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Anime Fansub Releases - Commie Fansubs - 02-14-...

First off, I would like to so say to all the couples out there that you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day while we lonely guys continue feeling miserable (namely me) on days like this as it's just another typical day for us......nothing special.....ah....forget it.

Anyway, here are the releases from Commie Fansubs as last week from Feb 07, 2012 to Feb 14, 2012:

Guilty Crown - 16: Torrent
Chihayafuru - 18: Torrent
Natsume Shi - 06: Torrent
Black Rock Shooter - 02: Torrent
Senki Zesshou Symphogear - 06: Torrent
Nisemonogatari - 06: Torrent
Persona 4 - 18: Torrent
Mourestu Pirates - 06: Torrent
Rinne no Lagrange - 06: Torrent
InuxBoku SS - 05: Torrent
Ano Natsu no Matteru - 06: Torrent
Shakugan no Shana III Final - 18: Torrent
Another - 06: Torrent

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Anime Fansub Releases - Doki Fansubs - 02-14-2014

The following releases are from Doki Fansubs. Keep in mind that we're not posting their BD releases so if you're looking for those, you'll be advised to visit their website instead for those. The only thing we'll post are current season anime releases from any group unless people start asking us to post BD releases from groups. Here are the releases:

Guilty Crown
HD

: [Doki] Guilty Crown – 15 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [F555DFE8].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC

SD: [Doki] Guilty Crown – 15 (848×480 h264 AAC) [03C377E6].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC

HD: [Doki] Guilty Crown – 16 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [66492B1A].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC
SD: [Doki] Guilty Crown – 16 (848×480 h264 AAC) [33E6CE5C].mkv
Torrent | DDL | XDCC

Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!
HD

: [Doki] Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! – 05 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [9DEBD32F].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC

SD: [Doki] Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! – 05 (848×480 h264 AAC) [D2814A05].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC

Brave 10
HD

: [Doki] Brave 10 – 05 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [7FC708FE].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC

SD: [Doki] Brave 10 – 05 (848×480 h264 AAC) [4D0EA643].mkv

Torrent | DDL | XDCC

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Amagami SS+ Plus 06 & Fullmetal Alchemist:...

This time we have a double release from the people at Unlimited Translation Works. First off is the final episode of the Ai Nanasaki arc in Amagami SS+ Plus so enjoy your time with her because this is the last bit for now with this girl. Secondly, we have the 2nd full-featured film in the Fullmetal Alchemist series. I haven't watched this movie yet so I can't give you a brief gist of what this is about so no spoilers from me this time guys. Enjoy the episode & movie everyone!

Amagami SS+ Plus - Episode 06 (By UTW)
:: Download ::

DOWNLOAD HD: [UTW]_Amagami_SS_Plus_-_06_[h264-720p][2C3FE952].mkv [DDL]
DOWNLOAD SD: [UTW]_Amagami_SS_Plus_-_06_[XviD][C4C85B4B].avi [DDL]

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie 2 - The Sacred Star of Milos (By UTW)
:: Download ::

DOWNLOAD HD 1080p: [UTW]_Fullmetal_Alchemist_-_The_Sacred_Star_of_Milos_[BD][h264-1080p_FLAC][953C9912].mkv [DDL]
DOWNLOAD HD 720p: [UTW]_Fullmetal_Alchemist_-_The_Sacred_Star_of_Milos_[BD][h264-720p_AC3][73953C60].mkv [DDL]
DOWNLOAD SD: [UTW]_Fullmetal_Alchemist_-_The_Sacred_Star_of_Milos_[BD][XviD][24CE3EEC].avi

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Anime Fansub Releases - Underwater Fansubs - 02...

Here we go with another release update from the guys at Underwater Fansubs. Remember that these releases are dated from last week to today. The following shows/episodes have been released as followed:

Another
Another - 06 (720p) | Torrent | Torrent (external) | Magnet | DDL

Senki Zesshou Symphogear
Senki Zesshou Symphogear - 05 (720p 10-bit) | Torrent | Torrent (external) | Magnet
Senki Zesshou Symphogear - 05 (720p 8-bit) | Torrent | Torrent (external) | Magnet

Rinne no Lagrange
Rinne no Lagrange - 06v2 (720p) | Torrent | Torrent (external) | Magnet | DDL

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