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INTEREST: Anime/Manga/Game Industry Celebrates April Fool's Day 2016


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Via_01



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:12 am Reply with quote
So, on the Planetarian front, Key just posted a website for the anime, listing David Production as the studio, so yeah, it sounds real enough.
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IceKirby



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:09 pm Reply with quote
Here I was hoping they produce an OVA for the Mahou Shoujo Chino joke from last year, and now they make Phantom Thief Sharo. OVAs please!

And Magical Girl jokes are always good. Totally need that Plasmagica and Kagarin ones to be real too.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:43 pm Reply with quote
Heh...
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 4:55 pm Reply with quote
Kiku performing on a mountain of pillows. I can now die happy. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:41 pm Reply with quote
Nitro+Chiral did an Ukiyo-e joke on their website.
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leafy sea dragon



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Interesting social commentary for the Super Sonico one. Not sure if the satire was intentional or not though.

Top Gun wrote:
Okay I would legitimately play the hell out of World of Wartrains.


But it'd just be an on-rails shooter.

Arale Kurashiki wrote:
Why did they draw cleavage on a 10 month old.


Part of the satire, I guess.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:40 pm Reply with quote
You forgot the Miku's galaxy tour, that takes place in other planets in 2039.
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Arale Kurashiki



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 11:58 pm Reply with quote
leafy sea dragon wrote:
Interesting social commentary for the Super Sonico one. Not sure if the satire was intentional or not though.

Top Gun wrote:
Okay I would legitimately play the hell out of World of Wartrains.


But it'd just be an on-rails shooter.

Arale Kurashiki wrote:
Why did they draw cleavage on a 10 month old.


Part of the satire, I guess.

There's no way it was intended to be any sort of commentary. If it was, it would be actually distinguishable in any way whatsoever from being played straight.

They just drew a bunch of suggestive pictures of babies and put them on the internet and said "haha, joke!". That's like punching somebody in the face and then going "no you see it was satire on violence..."
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 12:27 am Reply with quote
Heheheheh, too many going back to the magical girl well like everybody else. Wink




invalidname wrote:

Submission for Part III: JAFAX, an anime convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has decided to live up to its name and focus entirely on fax machines and related Japanese paper-based telecommunication technologies of the 1990s. Their home page announces the new theme as "Reboot and clear all paper jams!", and the official t-shirt design is an official "J-fax" fax cover page.


Ironically enough, fax is still big in Japan! Laughing
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Ree101



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 2:07 am Reply with quote
I would love to see the last one come true, though Razz

Anyway, it's funny especially the Shouwa and Sakamoto switch up
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Panzer Vor



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 2:34 am Reply with quote
You missed Spike Chunsoft's own April Fool's prank. Better late than never, I suppose.
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leafy sea dragon



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 4:13 am Reply with quote
Arale Kurashiki wrote:
There's no way it was intended to be any sort of commentary. If it was, it would be actually distinguishable in any way whatsoever from being played straight.

They just drew a bunch of suggestive pictures of babies and put them on the internet and said "haha, joke!". That's like punching somebody in the face and then going "no you see it was satire on violence..."


Do you think so? I interpreted it as the idea of sexualized anime girls looking younger and younger, and this being taken to an extreme to the point of absurdity. Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 7:22 pm Reply with quote
is Godzilla vs Evangelion just a prank? Theres merchandise for it ?
http://slist.amiami.com/top/search/list?s_originaltitle_id=18199&pagemax=40
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KH91



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:46 am Reply with quote
That tri. poster is funny.
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