For those who failed to notice, Bamco posted the second iM@S2 promo video on Youtube yesterday. I have to stress that there’s nothing particularly new to this – it’s not only still the same song as the first promo (and given how often Go My Way was used in the lead-up to the 360 games release, you’d better get used to it), but I’m actually pretty sure that this is just the video that they played on the second day of last months iDOLM@STER event. Certainly, I’d seen off-screen camera shots of what appears to be the content of this video on a couple of Japanese gaming news sites a month ago.

Still, it does show off the games five-member units. I notice that, should you discount the extra couple of people, there’s still a few differences in the dance that the three remaining girls would be performing when compared to the first promo. Based upon that, it looks like the dances may scale to the member count better than they did in the first game, and given there looks to be contact and more dancing around each-other this time around, that can only be a good thing.

Courtesy of Author, taken from, errr, Mitsudomoe, right? I assume the fifth episode, given he just posted about it.

I’ve not seen the show, at least not as of yet, so I don’t have anything further to add on the matter. I suppose whilst I’m on the subject of Mikan Boxes, I have to admit I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t one amongst the many, many boxes of stuff being shifted between houses in the third episode of Asobi ni Ikuyo. Poor form, guys, poor form!

Hey, it’s certainly been a big news weekend this week, and no news has been bigger than the announcements from the big show.

By which, of course, I mean iDOLM@STER 2. This is, of course, not surprising to anyone, given that they essentially announced last year that they’d be announcing details of it this year, but it’s still kind of cool to see. Less cool is that my NTSC-J 360 is still somewhat on the broken side. Guess I’ll have to get that replaced at some point.
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So, my copy of one of NISAs first DVD releases turned up today – that being the first Toradora set, being that I’m not really interested in Persona despite (or, given what I’ve heard, more likely because) of the fact that I’m a fan of the games. Of course, being the first release from a new publisher on the R1 side of things, particularly a release that’s generate a lot of talk for various reason, it’s certainly one what’s worth going into in some detail.

First off, it’s freaking huge. The only thing I have of a comparable size is last months R2 Gurren Lagann Parallel Works 2 release from last month – with which it’s pictured above. There’s really very little comparable on the market in terms of how this is packaged.
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From the third instalment of the current OAD series, appearing exactly where it did in the manga. Who’da thunk it?

One has to wonder whatever happened to that Negima movie they announced a while back. Suppose it wasn’t due until next year, so maybe we’ll hear something around about the time this OAD series wraps up (how many episodes was it supposed to be, anyway? I know there’s a fourth due in a couple of months, at least).