Tasunke's Random Ramblings

Well, seems I didn’t manage to get to this one before the next one was posted, but almost. ^^; Anyway, this time, the post is about 「属性コスプレ」, literally, “attribute cosplay,” but I believe it’s short for “moe attribute cosplay.” In this case, it’s cosplay of moe stereotypes. These stereotypes are witch, maid, female teacher, miko, catgirl, doggirl, and gothic lolita (goth-loli). These different cosplay sets give your charadoll various powerups, each set providing a different powerup. Translation of the post starts after the jump.
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So, this is the first of two posts specifically on the types of cosplay used to power up your Charadolls for the water gun shooting game. This one is about キャラコスプレ, Character Cosplay. As you can see from the image to the left, there’s three characters. Nagisa Furukawa from Clannad, Lisianthus from Shuffle!, and Otome Asakura from Da Capo II. Translation of this information post starts after the jump.
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So it’s been a while since I translated one of these posts. I’m really sorry about that. Life’s been quite hectic the past couple of months. I’m studying abroad in Japan this school year, for instance. ;) Anyway, the next one to translate (originally posted on August 7th, 2009) is entitled 「コスプレでパワーアップ!!」 or, “Power up with cosplay!!” It seems that by dressing up your charadoll, you’ll be able to boost her stats in the water gun shooting game. Let the translation commence…. after the jump.

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Wow… large facepalm here. Apparently one of the “girls” in the new iDOLM@STER DearlyStars game is a trap. She’s actually a cross-dressing boy. That particular one would be the “girl” with short, brown hair, named 秋月涼 (Ryo Akizuki in western name order). Video proof in the form of a Youtube video of one of clip from the “DearlyStation” shorts podcast is after the jump.
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So, apparently there’s a new iDOLM@STER game coming out that completely flew under my radar. A game for the DS called THE iDOLM@STER DearlyStars. It features three new girls (official name romanizations given for them in western order), 日高愛 (Ai Hidaka), 水谷絵理 (Eri Mizutani), and 秋月涼 (Ryo Akizuki). It will be released on September 17th, 2009 for 6,279 Yen, and is CERO rated “C” (15 and up). Trailer from Youtube after the jump.
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So, the latest update on information about the ai sp@ce watergun shooting game came out on July 17th. Unfortunately, I’ve been a bit busy, and haven’t gotten around to looking at it until now. If anyone’s actually reading these posts, I’m really sorry about that. ^^; If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I might suggest reading my previous posts about this game, where I discuss the enemies and some of the basics of the game.
It seems the mysterious silhouette from last time is a girl that’s the mastermind behind this entire situation. In other words, the one sitting in the background and pulling the strings.
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So, as promised, on June 26th, ai sp@ce posted the next tidbit of information about their odd little watergun shooting game. This time, it’s information about the enemies in the game, and I will again attempt to translate what they have to say in this latest update. (If you’re lost about what the watergun shooting game is, you can read my previous post on the subject.)
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Okay, this is kind of odd. But I figured people would like to know about it. I found out about it when checking the ai sp@ce website to see if there was some kind of known outage (or if it was just an issue with my computer).

Apparently ai sp@ce launched is launching some kind of new watergun shooting game. Now the fact that it’s a watergun shooting game isn’t what’s odd. Nor that it seems that you are playing it as your chara doll. No the odd thing about it is something else entirely.
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As some of you who play ai sp@ce may be aware, the font used for in-game dialog is horrible. All too often, kanji with many strokes become unreadable blobs.

If you’re familiar enough with the kanji to be able to read it anyway, you’re okay. However, if you’re having to look up the kanji for any reason, it’s going to be almost impossible to do so. That is why I started looking into ways I could get at the text being displayed directly. In my searching, I found AGTH.
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So, I sat down to play some more Neo Steam, with the intent to get some more leveling done. One of my goals was to hit level 20 by the end of Open Beta, so that I could be entered into the drawing for a pair of Neo Steam steampunk goggles. I was at level 14 at the start of the evening, however, and didn’t anticipate reaching that goal in a single evening.

(Spoiler Warning: Some events of the Elerd story quests may be revealed in this post, so if you wish to avoid such spoilers, you may wish to not read further.)
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