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Attention: Typhoons and hurricane force in Asia/Japan force
couriers to ground outbound flights. All import software shipments
are now due on Friday. If there are further delays, we'll know by
tonight and update accordingly. Mother Nature gone raging... |
| Wonderswan
Color Silver |
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shimmering silver metallic version of Bandai's flagging
handheld makes it to market. Similar to previous releases of
the WSC, a single Panasonic AA battery accompanies the unit
and powers the Swan for roughly 30 hours of portable fun. In
the face of the Gameboy Advance juggernaut, the Wonderswan's
ambition of dominating the handheld realm slips as evidenced
by recent sales figures in Japan. Staunch support from
Squaresoft should stanch some of the bloodletting but as seen
in the past, nothing survives the Nintendo Gameboy assault. |
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Digimon Tamers ~ Digimon Medley |
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In West
Shinjuku, Tokyo, three Digi-battle card game fanatics comprise
the Digimon Tamers cast. Bandai's latest Digimon game
features three characters from each season with Yagami Taichi
from the first season, Motomiya
Daisuke from the second, and Takato Matsuda from the latest
television season. The game focuses
on the third television season of Digimon which features a
teacher named Cullumon who helps the tamers in their
digivolving. The new antagonist Impmon looks something like
the devil, per his moniker. Similar to previous Digimon games,
players venture forth and battle adversaries with their
Digimon pals. In decisive battles, tamers may aid their Pokemo,
er, Digimon by mashing buttons to help invogorate the
monsters. Takato's Digimon is named Guilmon which saw genesis
from a drawing Takato made and became a living digimon by way
of a mysterious blue card he received. Guilmon looks like a
big, brown dog/kangaroo creature and he'll grow stronger with
each digivolution. |
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Bebop ~ Spike Spiegel |
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This
summer's Cowboy Bebop Movie "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
takes place between episode 22 (Cowboy Funk) and episode 23
(Brain Scratch) and introduces four new characters to the
Bebop universe: Electra, Lee Samson, Rasheed, and Vincent. The
mainstays of Edward Wong
Hau Pepelu Tivrusky 4th ("he's" a she),
Ein, Faye Valentine, Jet Black, and Spike comprise the rest of
the cast. Few spoilers have seen the light of day but scads of
merchandise are winding their way to the Japanese market as
the cinematic release nears.
The Cowboy Bebop Tengoku no Tobira mini
album from Victor Entertainment (VICL-35297) was released
yesterday in Japan at Y1890 and today, NCS stocks the Kaiyodo
Spike Spiegel figure at Y2600 or US$30.
Measuring 6" tall, Spike stands in his usual relaxed
manner, trademark garments wrapped around his trademark
slouch. A gun in his outstretched hand points to no one in
particular and a pedestal made up of plastic brickwork may be
used to prop Mr. Bebop up. A rose lies splattered on the
bricks, with faux water to add to the "drama".
Tomohide Enoki sculpted this particular figure.
Next up in the Heaven's Door merchandising is the
original soundtrack from Victor Entertainment, due on August
22 at Y3200 for the special edition. |
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Princess Stickers |
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received a collection of 8 different Sister Princess stickers
today. Admittedly, they're all gorgeous but puzzlingly
expensive. Our costs were roughly Y800 per unit before
shipping and we're retailing them at US$10. Each sticker
measures 9 3/4 x 6 3/4" and is made of shiny, reflective
material. |
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From left to right, the sisters listed are
Chikage, Rinrin and Sakuya above. |
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| EGM
September 2001 |
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On
the left, Electronic Gaming Monthly's September issue goes
with Yuna from FFX and she looks pretty good. Glance over to
the right however and feast on the limited edition Yoshitaka Amano FFX cover found
on 15% of the
available issues. Destined to become collectible exotica on
E-Bay in the future, FFX devotees can find the magazine on news stands and
other print vendors starting August 7. |
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Yoshitaka
Amano Official Site |
Electronic
Gaming Monthly |
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| C-Bot
Daily Journal... Day Sixteen |
July
26, 2001
C-Bot might be on a jet plane, winging on a one way trip to London
this
Thursday morning.
To be continued....
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