Dragon Quest 9 (DQ9) will be released on on March 28th, 2009.
Dragon Quest series is most popular RPG in Japan. I think it is more popular than Final Fantasy series. But, It is not popular in foreign countries. So, Square Enix want to sell a lot of DQ9 all over the world.
According to ENTERBRAIN, Wii was sold 7 million units in Japan between December 2nd, 2006 and November 23th, 2008.
Wii was already sold 5 million units until January 20th, 2008. I heard that this is earlier then PS2 sales. And, Wii is the best-selling the game machine (without the portable machines) recently all over the world.
A lot of wii will be sold from now because some famous games which work in it will be sold(for example Monster Hunter 3).
According to Famitsu, Grand Theft Auto 4 became the best-selling video game from October 27th through November 2nd. (Famitsu is the most famous in game magazine in Japan. It is publshed by ENTERBRAIN.)
Rank
Title
Game Machine
Maker
Unit Sales
1
Grand Theft Auto 4
PS3
CAPCOM
112,058
2
Valkyrie Profile
DS
Square Enix
73,779
3
LittleBigPlanet
PS3
Sony Computer Entertainment
47,086
4
Grand Theft Auto 4
Xbox 360
CAPCOM
38,281
5
Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode
DS
Nintendo
38,251
Grand Theft Auto 4 was sold 150,339 units in total. It is great for foreign video game's sales in Japan.
I found a video which has many paitings of Dragon Ball.
This video has a secret. Actually...
All of paintings in this video were drawn by Akira Toriyama who is the author of Dragon Ball. They were drawn by various manga artists(cartoonist) who like dragon ball.
I have looked for the manga artists and manga titles in English as below.
Taito Kubo(BLEACH)
Yoshio Sawai(Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
Yuusuke Murai(Eyeshield 21)
Yasuhiro Kano(M x 0)
Nakaba Suzuki(Rising Impact)
Sinya Suzuki(Mr.FULLSWING)
Norihiro Yagi(CLAYMORE)
Masashi Kishimoto(NARUTO)
Kentarou Yabuki(To Love-Ru)
Eiichiro Oda(ONE PIECE)
Mikio Ito(Nazo no Murasame-kun)
Kenjiro Takeshita(Happy World!)
Kouta Hirano(HELLSING)
Ken-ichi Sakura(Dragon Drive)
Arina Tanemura(Gentlemen's Alliance)
Ryo Azuki(ラビダビスター(I'm sorry, but I couldn't find English manga title.))
Grand Theft Auto 4 localized by Capcom was released in Japan on October 30th.
Grand Theft Auto 4 was sold 10 millions in the world until September 6th. And, Grand Theft Auto series was sold 700 millons in the world.
Foreign video games often have a poor sale in Japan. But Grand Theft Auto 3 was sold 300 thousands in Japan. Maybe you feel the sales is low, but it is more than other foreign video game's sales.
Today I will introduce a video related to Metal Gear Solid from YouTube.
[GIF]Metal Gear Solid - Lupin III Style / メタルギアソリッドでルパン三世OP
This movie is based on the opening song of Lupin III. (I wanted to show you the opening song of Lupin III for comparing. But I couldn't find it. Maybe, the video was removed because of copyright issue.)
I was amazing when I watched this video. Because last image said below.
Tools for making this video - Windows Paint - Easytoon(Line drawing of video) Only hand painting by thses tools and mouse - Giam Saving from GIF animation to avi
Resolution - 512x384
File size of gif animation - 8.27MB
Total images - 576
Making period - one-and-a-half months These images that is used in this video was painted by mouse only! I won't paint images well like this video.
According to ENTERBRAIN, PSP-3000 was sold 141,270 units in Japan from release date (October 16th) through October 19th.
It is less than PSP-2000 was sold 250,702 units for 4 days. It feels that PSP becomes less popular recently.
But, PSP became best-selling game marchine in Japan for the first half of the fiscal year. The reasons includes Japanese game players like to play multiplayer games(For example, Monster Hunter) and we can play them everywhere by PSP.
I'm looking forward to hearing the selling for the second half of the fiscal year.
Last week, Mamoru Oshii and Production I.G announced that they will show a movie about Musashi Miyamoto in Japan in summer of 2009. The title is "Musashi Miyamoto: Souken ni Haseru Yume(宮本武蔵-双剣に馳せる夢-)".
Mamoru Oshii is one of the famous directors that make anime movie. He made "Ghost in the Shell(攻殻機動隊)", "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence(イノセンス)" and "The Sky Crawlers(スカイ・クロラ)". These anime received a high evaluation.
Musashi Miyamoto is a famous samurai who lived in Edo period in Japan. I looked for 3 things to which Musashi Miyamoto relates.
Duel of Ganryujima(巌流島の決闘) Musashi Miyamoto dueled with Kojiro Sasaki on Ganryujima that is a small island. This is the most famous in duels Musashi fighted. Musashi was too late for the duel to set Kojiro's nerves on edge. Musashi won the duel because Kojiro lost his cool.
Ni Ten Ichi Ryu(二天一流) This is one of swordplays. Musashi Miyamoto completed it in his later years. Ni Ten Ichi Ryu recommends two-sword.
The Book of Five Rings(五輪書) These are books of the art of war. Musashi Miyamoto wrote these books in his later years. These are organized into 5 books(ground, water, fire, wind and void). Ni Ten Ichi Ryu is also written in these books. For details, please visit The Book of Five Rings that is posted on Wikipedia.
I love to play video games.
Especially I have played Final Fantasy 11 for 6 years!
And I read manga magazines(Weekly Jump, Weekly Shonen magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday) every week.
I started to write my blog about Japanese video games, manga(cartoon) and anime so that everybody knows about that.
I have studied English since last year.
(I studied English when I was a student. But I almost forgot about English.)
So, I sometimes will write the wrong text on my blog.
Please contact me and point out it by e-mail when you find that.
Favorite Game Type: RPG, fighing game(for example, Street Fighter)
Favorite Games: Final Fantasy series(especially 3,6,7,9 11, and Tactics), Mega Man(from 1 to 5)
