The newest version of the SA demo is now available from ZUN’s blog. In addition, the official release is planned for Comiket 74.
The update fixes a few glitches and provides some general tweaks. You can find the download here. Enjoy!
Just a shot away from you,
Dan_Maku
It’s that time of year again— Reitaisai Season.
Seems everyone’s releasing something this year; it’s the first time Reitaisai is going to be at the Big Sight. A much larger venue than last year’s means an overwhelming increase in participation.
++GAMES++
First off, we have the two biggies:
Twilight Frontier has announced the release of Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. You can read more about the release announcement here.
Team Shanghai Alice has announced plans to release a demo of Touhou Chireiten~ Subterranean Animism, the 11th game in the Touhou canon. You can read more about this here.
Finally, on the doujin game front, the final version of Marisa & Alice (Mariari) will be released by Desunoya.
Read on to see what else we’ve learned.
Just recently, the guys from #iamp finished a tutorial video project for Immaterial and Missing Power. It covers most, if not all, of the basics for those who are starting out on the game, and it even makes a handy guide for casual players to brush up on.
Props go to Bellresia, Xenozip, Mauve, and everyone else involved in making the vid!
Following up Tasofro’s Scarlet Weather Rhapsody release annoucement, Team Shanghai Alice has revealed that a playable demo of Touhou 11 will be available for purchase during Reitaisai 5.
The new game, 東方地霊殿 ~Subterranean Animism. will most likely feature only Reimu and Marisa. For more details, here’s the actual announcement post from Shanghai Alice’s blog:
Twilight Frontier, makers of Immaterial and Missing Power (in combination with Team Shanghai Alice), have released an official demo for Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, their new fighting game, along with announcing that the full game will be sold on May 25th at Reitaisai 5.
The next installment of Silent Sinner in Blue, the serialized manga drawn by Aki★Eda and written by ZUN as part of the Touhou Bougetsushou series, will be delayed by at least a month. In a recent blog post, Aki★Eda cited health concerns forcing her to halt work on the manga temporarily, with two doctor’s visits for neck, back, and shoulder problems.
Here’s hoping she feels better soon, and we’ll have the English translation for the manga as soon as it becomes available as always.
On April 9, 2008, Silent Sinner in Blue got its first Tankobon release! The book itself contains the first 9 or 10 chapters of SSiB in a MUCH better quality than the magazine scans that readers have been accustomed to. This is a very exciting time as far as the Touhou history goes, we would like to encourage you to support the manga by getting yourself a copy! For more information, please click the “Read the Article” link below.
Some official wallpaper by Arata Toshihira, official artist for Inaba of the Moon, Inaba of the Earth, has just been released. You can nab that here, along with an older one here.
Thanks to Pilpsie for the tip.
And on a side note, this is my first post on the news crew with Gensokyo.org. Looking forward to writing for you all.
The Japanese Touhou wiki is running their annual popularity contest; it’s open to voters from outside Japan, as well, although registration is required to vote. The voting consists of three sections - characters, music, and a survey of your experience with Touhou.
Thanks to assistance from the Nameless Fairies on the imageboard and Pilpsie, we’ve got a guide to help you through all of the registration and voting process.
ZUN’s lecture at Hitotsubashi University has been concluded, and the reports are in! Thanks go to those who provided notes, and a huge thank you to Solamarle for translating and compiling the Japanese summaries for us.
For the Readers’ Digest version: ZUN spoke on the construction of MoF, including the folklore that forms much of the game’s foundation and the reasoning behind creating another new game after PoFV. He’s also revealed that he wants to try to reproduce the MoF schedule next year, with a demo release at Reitaisai (5/25/2008, to be held at Tokyo Big Sight) and a final release at Summer Comiket.
ZUN went on to talk about the entirety of Touhou as a body of work, including games, CDs, and manga. He doesn’t consider Touhou as a series, since to him that carries a connotation of shoving out another new game with the same title just to gain sales. He also addressed some rumors of a Touhou anime, indicating that it’s not terribly likely just from the amount of creative work that’d be involved, as well as possible copyright complications.
The final part of the lecture again reviewed ZUN’s opinion on the changing state of the gaming industry, particularly in regards to commercialization; going from the early NES days where creativity was widespread, to growing commercial concerns with the SNES, a return to more innovation with the Playstation and the slow slide into commercialization that we’re seeing now. His final thoughts were to encourage everyone to make games who’s got an idea, and for fledgling developers to stick to their projects and see them come to fruition.
You can click on this post to read the entirety of Solamarle’s summary.
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