Hibiki

The DGS Hibiki – Hibiki Tokkun Daisakusen! game site has been updated with tokuten information and a desktop wallpaper has been added as well. The special pouch included with the limited edition version of the game will feature an 8-bit design of HiroC and OnoD. No information is given about the contents of the special talk CD. The 2010 calendar you can get with pre-orders will feature 20 pages with images of all the game characters and also have a new illustration of HiroC and OnoD on the cover. A sample image (most likely the cover) can be seen on the website.

As discussed on DGS #133, there were many leftover CCP goods from DenFes so they’re all up on A&G’s web shop. The only item not available is the Nyaa san no Shippo Strap as that was the only one that sold out. They didn’t say aloud how much they’ve fallen into debt but it sounds like they’re pretty deep in the red. Hibiki goods will be sold at Animate stores starting November 5.

And now for a review of the latest chapter of DGS Hibiki from SYLPH vol.9. Sorry, it’s been a while since I’ve written a chapter review. In the previous chapter, Black Hibiki appeared and threatened to take over Hibiki. They challenged HiroC and OnoD to see who can help the most otomes within a week.

SYLPH Vol.9

Bookmarks

The cover of this issue features Kuranoa. Furoku included a Kuranoa drama CD (OnoD voices Ichi) and bookmarks from the DGS Hibiki game.

In this latest chapter, HiroC and OnoD are given an assignment to help Tsukasa practice soccer. Tsukasa has no confidence and doesn’t want to hold her team back in their big match next week so she asks for HiroC and OnoD to be her practice partner. Tsukasa improves but still feels she’s not good enough and wants to continue practicing, but HiroC is in a hurry to help as many girls as he can to win the challenge against Black Hibiki. He turns down her further request for help and when she

Level-headed OnoD

insists, he gets mad, saying that they have a challenge they can’t afford to lose either. OnoD, on the other hand, is much more level-headed about the entire situation and even tells HiroC that it doesn’t really matter if they lose against Black Hibiki. He says that HiroC’s behavior is the worst right now and that he has no right to wear the tsunagi (jumpsuit). This sets HiroC off and the chapter ends with HiroC grabbing the neck of OnoD’s shirt.

I thought the end of this chapter was very well-written. HiroC is usually the calmer of the two but this time it’s HiroC who loses his cool and OnoD shows his more mature side. To put it bluntly, HiroC was a jerk. It’s nice to see OnoD take the spotlight once in a while and I’m excited for the next chapter! Vol.10 will have DGS Hibiki on the cover and include a report on DenFes. It will be released November 21.

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A list of goods to be sold at Kiramune Music Festival (aka Kira*Fes) is now available online over here. Goods include tshirt + scrunchy set with designs for each of the performers (3500 yen), a towel (2000 yen), eco bag (500 yen), glowstick (1000 yen), pamphlet (3000 yen), and calendar (2000 yen). The shirt/scrunchy sets and towel can be ordered early from .ANIME between October 30 and November 16. There are limited quantities for this early release and, if ordered, will be set to arrive on November 20.

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A blog has been set up for Dear Girl Sunder, the collaboration between DGS and Black Thunder.

http://yurakuseika.typepad.jp/deargirl/

They are currently accepting flavor suggestions in the comments of the first post.

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I was not able to attend DenFes but a friend did and I asked her to take some photos for me. The following photos were taken by K san for exclusive use on Hibiki. Please do not reshare/reupload/redistribute, etc.

As mentioned in the previous entry, a big announcement was made at DenFes during the public recording. Click here to find out what it was!

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Official reports are already up at Dengeki Online: DGS booth, Durarara!! stage

Here are a few details from the DGS public recording from what I was able to gather. I guess the audience was told not to write spoilers in their blogs so people are being pretty vague. We’ll have to find out next week when the kouroku moyou is aired.

• Chanko Chanko chan appeared on stage to the Mario Theme.
  There was a Luigi too.
• Some kind of collaboration with a food company??
  OnoD mentioned on the radio before that he wanted to do one. I guess another of his careless utterings will be coming true, haha. The audience was asked what flavor they would like and everyone yelled out, “Durian!!” to which OnoD replied, “I knew everyone would say that! But would you really buy durian flavor!?”
• Shikakuteki (visual) corner
  GachaC videos!! It started out in the booth where HiroC and OnoD did jan ken to figure out who would have to wear the Gachapin costume. Listening on the radio, you could already hear the loud noise when HiroC hit OnoD on the arm, but I guess if you watch the video, you can tell that HiroC really did hit OnoD hard. .^^; GachaC got scolded by a Lawson employee when he tried to go buy karaage. The last of the footage was GachaC’s “Dosukoi~ Dosukoi~” Watching the video, HiroC remembered the horrors and OnoD pointed out that his eyes were dead, haha.
• Quiz corner
  This is something Suwa san wanted to do. Instead of having concrete answers, the “correct” answers would be decided by Suwa san
• Dear Voice
  As usual, they had the audience participate. The audience had to say, “HiroC, are yatte~ (HiroC, do that~)” and “OnoD, are yatte~ (OnoD, do that~).” What HiroC and OnoD responded with was an adlib and we’ll have to find out next week what they said. HiroC handled his adlib well but OnoD had some trouble. Feeling that he might have messed up a bit, OnoD clung onto HiroC, for which he received a swift kick. I guess it’s not a public recording without OnoD getting kicked, hehe.

Again, the kouroku will be aired next week. The details written above were from a Japanese blog post I found.

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