A good interview can be found http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2011-03-25 with ANN and Mangagamer.
Topics they talk about are:
20:00 John Pickett introduction and what he does at Mangagamer.com
24:30 What’s popular among visual novels?
31:30 How Mangagamer works, what their business model is
34:20 The giant disparity between visual novels and their anime counterparts
38:30 Does John get any weird otaku feedback email?
43:30 The stigma that all visual novels are just porn
You’d think the dude interviewing Kouryuu would at least know SOMETHING.
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lol I know. The interviewer is without a doubt an amateur. I found some tidbits of the interviews interesting such as how mangagamer operates. It was worth listening too.
I don’t think hes new to this type of stuff ;_;
Man, MG gets so much attention in this media. Their coverage on Siliconera is amazing compared to only a mention of JAST games being the Tenkuu no Yumina license. I’d think people would want to hear that a Nitro+ game is about to be released or even Aselia. I kid, ANN’s search resulted in them giving alot of JAST news too. I only mentioned this paragraph because I noticed the trend on Siliconera.
I tend to not have the patience for these things when I have to listen and don’t see a scripted version, so I’ll hear that section later. It is the only topic I am interested in seeing as how most people could have talked about the other things besides that, unless I just missed the explanation before, and the email topic. Thanks for the heads up.
Are you serious? They often get mentioned on OrenoImouto and several other anime image sites.
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What was the title John/Koryuu said was being made into an anime? Something that sounded like Tsubasnai???
I’d rather have them wait on Oretsuba R and then wait for that to be ported to pc.
Edit:turns out its on pc and is only rated 15+
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An Oretsuba animation? Doesn’t really seem doable, but whatever!
I’m really not looking forward to anime fans saying “OMG I CANT BELIEVE THIS PURE ANIME IS BASED OF A HENTAI GAME!!! GROSS”
Uh, are there a transcript or something for that radio report? coz I’m deaf xD
Don’t worry, you’re not missing much. Not much was said that hasn’t been discussed already. The interviewer was pretty clueless–it’s like they grabbed a random anime fan off the street and asked him to come up with questions about visual novels. There’s more lulz than actual content.
You gotta love the fake laugh that the interviewer keeps doing too.
The visual novel community is small compared to anime fandom. Also, this interview is meant for people who have never heard of visual novels before; the idea is to introduce the concept and answer some basic questions. It’s not going to go indepth like something written for us.
Is there any game community smaller than us?
How about he would at least know what it is?
Okay thanks.
Still seems unfair even if people say it wasn’t worth while. These things should really have text. I never thought of how it affects others who just don’t have the patience to wait for the voices when they can read much faster.