(L) Simoun

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Futaba-chan

Amazon.co.jp won't ship me the PS2 game due to geographic restrictions. Is there some other place to legally get a copy in North America?

As Rish mentioned, I'm going through Celga to get a copy from Animate - but that's because I'm obsessive about getting all the first-pressing bonus goodies that will disappear over time. If you just want the game itself, places like Play-Asia may work out cheaper.

And will the thing run on my PS2, or will I need to buy a separate Japanese-localized one?

Since I don't have a PS2, my cunning plan is to import a Japanese PS3 - not only will it let me play Japanese PS2 games (assuming the backwards compatibility is sufficient), it'll also serve as a Region A Blu-ray player. That's less of an issue if you're in North America, but for us poor schmucks in Region B it's a big win.

Another motivation for the PS3 is that I can run Linux on it and tinker with Cell programming. Yeah, I'm a nerd

[Wosho128]

When posters acquire copies of the PS2 game; can they provide mini-reviews or commentary about their purchase? I might be buying a copy for myself and it would be interesting to see what other opinions are.

[m000m000]

Originally Posted by Futaba-chan

Amazon.co.jp won't ship me the PS2 game due to geographic restrictions. Is there some other place to legally get a copy in North America? And will the thing run on my PS2, or will I need to buy a separate Japanese-localized one?

I have a copy on preorder at YesAsia, but Play Asia also seems to stock it.


As for playing, you'll probably need either a JP PS2, or a chip-moded US/Euro version, or some other region-bypass (top-loading tray, whatever) hacked PS2 to play the thing.


...I'm still sort of half-expecting them to announce tomorrow that the game will be delayed for another six months ;-P

[Simon]

Originally Posted by m000m000

...I'm still sort of half-expecting them to announce tomorrow that the game will be delayed for another six months ;-P

O ye of little faith!

Amazon show it in stock as of this morning, so I guess it's no longer vapourware.

[Simon]

Pardon the double post, but I've just finished watching ICE - I think it might be relevant to the interests of Simoun fans.

Why? Well the obvious answer would be its combination of sci-fi and yuri aspects, plus a certain amount of gender-bending (it's set in a world where all the men have died out, and one of the main female characters is voiced by a bloke). But the real reason is harder to explain, something about the way it throws in a whole lot of intriguing stuff then leaves you wondering what the hell is going on. Much like Simoun, it's not a show for people who want their anime to make immediate sense

Also, Kitamura Eri (Amuria) plays a character called Mint, who has nothing to do with Galaxy Angel.

[fignae]

Originally Posted by Simon

Pardon the double post, but I've just finished watching ICE - I think it might be relevant to the interests of Simoun fans.

Agreed, Simon. I've been disappointed with the responses in the ICE thread. I would highly recommend this OAV, if you're willing to bear with the teens who voice half of the characters. The irony of having a show about strong, multi-layered female characters aimed at the looks-over-talent idol singer market! ^^;

Of course, it's not the slice-of-life show much of Simoun is.

[Yui from Okinawa]

http://simounsrw.web.fc2.com/


Fun the Simoun fan -made game trailer!

[Futaba-chan]

http://www.yuricon.org/events/07Cosplay.html

[FatPianoBoy]

The Portly 88-Keyed Fellow expects relevant pictures of said event.

Good to see it's getting some notoriety.

[IchiKyo]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=rv7kUvBBa98
For those who can't play the PS2Game
Here the ending

And about the game, i'm satisfy about the role that paraeitta play
She will rest the best character i love for the entire series

[Simon]

Merci, IchiKyo. It's been mentioned here before, but the full-length OP and ED themes can be found on savage genius's album Kaze no Kesshō.

[IchiKyo]

I've record my progression on Youtube
Can i post the link here?
It's only for those which really can't play the game
We learn more about Amuria on the Game...

[fignae]

Ads for the PS2 game in Yuri Hime S. I can't remember these being posted.

[Simon]

According to the Media Blasters panel at AX, Simoun will be released sub-only.

[FatPianoBoy]

I kinda figured that would happen. A bit of a shame, as I always look forward to hearing a dub to either laugh/cringe at how bad it is or to marvel at the novelty of a good one.
At least this means the discs will be dirt cheap, though

[Simon]

Some vaguely interesting news from AOD:

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Media Blasters Talks Titles (04:45 PM EDT): A new communication out of Media Blasters today highlights some things we'll see more formally soon as the email listed just titles and dates:

• ...
• Simoun Vol. #1 (6 ep) - 11/13/2007
• ...

Sadly I still can't find a single mention of Simoun on the Media Blasters site. If anyone from MB is reading this, I'm grateful to you for licensing Simoun, but as a source of information your site is the most useless of any anime company I know. Please, please get rid of all the Flash eye-candy, and replace it with HTML that people can actually navigate through and link to. I want to see this anime succeed, but it's hard to encourage people to buy it when you can't even point them to an official page

[jtrog]

I've been interested in the ps2 game as well since I saw they were working on it last year. I got my fingers crossed and already ordered it from the play-asia people. If I get the game even still just sealed in package and never play thats good enough for me. I collect things to have not to sell. Waiting as well to see what they do with the series on DVD. My fingers are crossed and I am looking out the window every time I hear a door ... (added signature for part of this here listed corrected spelling)

[IchiKyo]

I love the game more than the Anime
The new Character "Ashura" is awesome (her Golden Simoun too)
New ennemis are terrific... those new Sybilla (with new Simoun : Red, Blue etc...)

[dahl_moon]

Received my copy of the Simoun Drama CD, the one where the entire Sybilla all goes to "Tokyo City." Highly enjoyable, although I didn't get parts of it. I'll be looking forward to November to get my first Simoun DVD.

Some key parts:

Spoiler for Drama CD:

• Aaeru and Neviril being very clingy.
• They go to Hakone and the hot springs there. Guess who's the manager for the hot springs? Onashia!
• Limone: I want to see the geishas.
  Aaeru: Hm? What's a geisha?
  Para-sama: They're girls with special abilities. (now where the heck did you get that idea???)
  Kaimu: Special abilities, eh...? So you mean they're similar to us the Sibylla?
  Para-sama: Yes. They can ??? the men with this thing called a wink.
• Rodore taking Mamiina to a restaurant, which is a Ramen shop with live piano music, and knives and forks on the table, and Ramen which cost 1000 yen (10 dollars).

[animes25]

Hi guys

this was the secret concert that savage genious did, and I was able to tape the simoun ending, hope you like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vhPSPgN-d8