Hitsuji voice sample.

Updated yesterday on Black Butterfly's web page, "Sleepy-Time Sheep" now has a voice sample for "Yasuomi" is voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu, Whispers about how he wants you to stick to your promise about going out tomorrow. He also proceeds to tell you how cute you are and gives you little kisses before finally settling down to sleep. 

and this is all in the voice sample! 

The "Sleepy-Time Sheep" series claims it is a sequel to the Honeybee's "Good Night Sheep" Series. The original series which included many popular voice actors counting sheep, has expanded to over 40 different voice actors. The "Sleepy-Time Sheep" CD crosses the "Sleepy-Time Boyfriend" boyfriend format (and 3D microphone) with the theme of the "Good Night Sheep" The main difference being that that "Good Night Sheep" was the voice actors counting then every 10 numbers saying a line. 

The sample for "Yasuomi" can be heard here: http://www.honeybee-cd.com/s_hitsuji/sh1.html

Click the hexagon on the bottom left corner to hear it. 

Good night little sheep! 

Sengoku BASARA updates ROUND 2

After a short break I'm back and ready for action! This post will cover Events and goods! To help promote the release of Sengoku BASARA HD collection as well as Browser Sengoku BASARA and Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes, Capcom has started a campaign this summer called "Sengoku BASARA project" They've teamed up with various companies to bring out more Sengoku BASARA goods. So let's get to it!

Sengoku BASARA X POKKA COLLECTOR CANS

Kicking off the "Sengoku BASARA project" is Japanese coffee maker "Pokka". The have teamed up with Capcom to release these two sets of Sengoku BASARA coffee cans. Two sets of 10 limited edits cans will hit Japanese convenience stores and grocery markets on May 28th. Each can will be sold in a different area. (Some exceptions apply) A collectors box (pictured above) can be purchased through Pokka's web page. The first set which is Pokka's regular canned 

From left to right, top to bottom they are: (Name - Prefectures the limited edition will be sold in) 

Sorin Otomo - (Fukuoka, Oita) 

Kojuro Katakura - (Miyagi) 

Toshiie Maeda - (Fukui, Ishikawa) 

Sasuke Sarutobi - (Nagano, Yamanashi) 

Yukimura Sanada - (Nagano, Yamanashi) 

Tadakatsu Honda - (Aichi, Chiba, Mie) 

Mitsunari Ishida - (Shiga) 

Mitsuhide Akechi - (Gifu, Shiga, Kyoto) 

Musashi Miyamoto - (Okayama, Hyogo, Yamaguchi)

Tsuruhime - (Ehime) 

The second set is Pokka's "Low Sugar" coffee 

Yoshihiro Shimazu - (Kagoshima) 

Keiji Maeda - (Aichi, Kyoto, Hokuriku region [Fukui, Niigata, Ishikawa, Toyama]) 

Kenshin Uesugi - (Niigata) 

Shingen Takeda - (Yamanashi) 

Masamune Date - (Miyagi) 

Ieyasu Tokugawa - (Aichi, Shizuoka, Tokyo) 

Hideyoshi Toyotomi - (Osaka, Aichi) 

Nobunaga Oda - (Aichi) 

Motonari Mori - (Hiroshima) 

Chosokabe Motochika - (Yamanashi) 

The collector box sets sell for 2000 yen a piece and the individual cans for 140 yen a piece. To see the cans in their full glory, click on the link below 

Pokka Coffee X Sengoku BASARA project - http://pokka.jp/coffee/original/index.html

Sengoku BASARA X LOTTE Clearfiles and gum

Capcom, Lotte Candy, and Circle K (Sunkus) Japan will also be hosting their own campaign for Sengoku BASARA project. When you purchase one bottle of gum made by the Lotte Company at Circle K or Sunkus Convenience stores, You will recieve a free clear file (folder) that will contain one two collectors cards from Browser Sengoku BASARA and Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes. These cards can be used in game for special items. Each clearfile is double sided and includes 2 or more characters. 

The gum ranges from 600 to 1000 yen per bottle. 

Sengoku BASARA X DigiCraft Notebooks and Laptops

Is your laptop or notebook lacking in the BASARA art? Well consider getting a new one. Capcom and DigiCraft (using the name Digi-Tsuhan) have come up with Sengoku BASARA notebooks and laptops. These babies come loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium. The Laptop models come with an on board Blu-ray player. You can chose from one of four designs. (pictured above)  They also throw in some neet extras. 48 different BASARA wallpapers, Sengoku BASARA system sounds, Sengoku BASARA character screen saver, Sengoku BASARA character icon set, a Sengoku BASARA microfiber cloth, and a Keyholder which is of course Sengoku BASARA. Unfortunately, the company says they will not ship over seas but if you are REALLY in need of this item there are a few websites that will order the item for you and ship it to you. Bring your credit card because the low end model costs 79,800 yen (close to 830 dollars) and the high end will set you back over 2000 dollars (160,000 yen) 

For specs and general information follow this link - http://www.digi-tsuhan.jp/shop/basara_pc/

Sengoku BASARA Basara festival 2012 ~Summer~ 

Every year Capcom puts on a Sengoku BASARA event (sometimes more than once) This summer is no exception. Previously when they announced the event they had annonced that voice actors Morikazu Morita (Keiji Maeda) and Ryotaro Okiayu (Hideyoshi Toyotomi) were to be in attendance. Today, the list has expanded and more details about the event. 

The event will be held over two days with three different "shows" August 11th 5:00 pm (planned to end around 7:30. August 12th 12:30 pm (planned to end at 3:00 pm) and 5:30 planned to end at 8:00 pm.

Joining Morita and Okiayu are: Soichiro Hoshi* (Yukimura Sanada), Tomokazu Seki (Mitsunari Ishida), Sho Hayami (Mitsuhide Akechi/Tenkai), Ryuzo Ishino (Chosokabe Motochika), and Shigeru Nakahara (Motonari Mori). Also in attendance will be the Sengoku BASARA game series producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi. 

Hoshi will only appear on the 12th. 

Part of the event will be dedicated to the Sengoku BASARA 2 play and musical. The cast will come out and perform a song or two. 

Well that should catch us up to speed! Thanks for sticking through it with me! 

Sengoku BASARA updates round 1!

Hey there all you warriors of the Sengoku period!

After being quiet for some odd weeks, Capcom has decided to fill our bellies full of Basara updates. So many in fact that I will have to break it up into two post!

So without further adieu! Sengoku BASARA game updates.

Sengoku BASARA HD Collection

Capcom has launched an official page for "HD collections" as well as officially confirm what games will be included. As per the picture above, The games include in the HD collections will be: Sengoku BASARA, Sengoku BASARA 2, Sengoku BASARA 2 eiyuu gaiden HEROES. The game finally has been slated for a August 8th, 2012 release date. 

According to the official page, the HD collections boasts that the graphs have been improved using the above picture to show the smoothed out pixels. 

Also on the HD page are two CD announcements. The first advertises the "BSR48" CD drama. While I am unable to confirm this as of yet, the BSR48 is a preorder only good. however it might be for e-capcom users only. 

For those who remember, BSR48 was a poll to find out who the top favorite characters are. Those who won would be in a "Drama CD" and the 20th place would make an appearance as well. For the top rankings you can click on this link. http://www.capcom.co.jp/basara/BSR48/ranking.html

The other CD announcement is the "Theme Song" for HD collections. The song "WE aRE" performed by "abington boys school"

For more information or to just look at the page follow the link below.
http://www.capcom.co.jp/basara-hd/

Browser Sengoku BASARA

Capcom reports that "Yahoo!Japan Mobage" has opened up its special site for Browser Sengoku BASARA. Those who have a yahoo japan account can play the game through their servers. 

In an effort to spread the word, Capcom has teamed up with internet cafe chain "Kaikatsu CLUB" to offer a "Browser Sengoku BASARA" time package. Visitor will get a discount on the three hour package. Kaikatsu  CLUB will also set the home page of the computers to Browser Sengoku BASARA for the campaign event. The campaign will start on June 5th, which is when the game will go public. 

Closed BETA on MooG Game's servers will start on the 15th of this month for the selected few who are chosen. 

Capcom also released information that upon launch, the game will only be compatible with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers ONLY. No information if it will expand to other browsers. 

Those who have pre-registered for Browser Sengoku BASARA will get a Yukimura Sanada card in their inventory. 

Yahoo! Japan Mobage site - http://yahoo-mbga.jp/game/12010186/pre

Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes

Last but not least, Mobage has released the release date of "Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes" The game's servers will go active on May 29th at midnight. (May 28th for those who live in the U.S.) The game is restricted to only mobile devices but it will be available for both iOS and Android. 

No information as of yet if the game will only be available to Japanese mobile carrier users only. 

It would also be wise to note that many of Mobage's Japanese games are restricted to Japan carriers. 

Those who have pre-registered for Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes will get a Masamune Date card in their inventory. 

To pre-register, you must create an account at "Mobage" for Smartphone Users the address is http://sp.mbga.jp JAPANESE IS REQUIRED to sign up on the mobile site. For PC users you can sign up through Yahoo! Japan's Mobage site. (Google Translate does a good job of translating the needed information)  If you have a mobage account already, you can pre-register here (QR READER REQUIRED) 

Well that's all for the game news. Your tummies full yet? Next round will be events and goods! 

I need a Heero... AKA Hikaru Midorikawa's "Sleepy-Time Boyfriend" available.

Hello again sleepy children!  Some updates from the Sleepy-Time Boyfriend series are coming your way!

Meet Satoru. The newest edition to the Soine Kareshi series. Satoru is voiced by well known voice actor, Hikaru Midorikawa. I could ramble on about other voices he's done but most people know him as the voice of "Heero Yuy" from "New Mobile Report Gundam W" Or just "Gundam Wing" 

Satoru is a 28 year old lawyer. He has some amazing lines such as "No matter where I'd search, there's only one you... no one could replace you because I love you." and "I don't want anything to happen to you because you're out at night. You might catch a cold...so don't say you're going home...'' 

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Ready to buy the voice packs? ... Well too bad.... T_T. The staff at VisualWorks have released an apology on twitter that the pack isn't working for some people.. They claim it is an issue at Apple and hope it should be resolved soon. 

Satoru's update now catches the Sleepy-Time Boyfriend app up with the CD releases. So what is next?  The release of the "Masaya" CD and update have been announced. Masaya, voiced my Toshiyuki Morikawa, is scheduled to be released on the 25th of this month. A sample of his voice has been posted.  http://www.blackbutterfly-cd.com/short/short13.html

Honeybee and Black Butterfly (The two companies behind the Sleepy-Time Boyfriend series. Including the Starry Sky Sleepy-Time Boyfriend) will have a joint event on May 19th. A gallery and a small "stage event" have been planned with little details. 

Finally, A new Sleepy-Time series has been announced. Called "Sleepy-Time Sheep" (soine hitsuji). The new series is an expansion of a series created by Honeybee. Their version called "Good Night Sheep" (hitsuji de oyasumi) The series involves various voice actors counting sheep. Some even counting as high as 400. The series took off when honeybee collaborated with the makers of Hetalia and released "Good Night Hetalia Sheep" (Hetalia hitsuji de oyasumi). A second season was created and finally a spin off from Black Butterfly. (The creators of Sleepy-Time CD)  Not much information about the side series has been released other than there are four planned volumes. The first has been identified as "恭臣" Like many of the other Soine boys, the kanji is made up (or a very obscure reading) I will refer to him as "Yoshitaka" which I believe the reading to be, until further notice. 

Yoshitaka" will be voiced by Ryoutarou (Ryōtarō) Okiayu. Okiayu is known for playing the voice of "Treize Khushrenada" in Gundam Wing as well as "Byakuya Kuchiki" From "Bleach" and "Hideyoshi Toyotomi" from "Sengoku BASARA II"  The CD is due to be released on June, 29th. There are currently no plans to make it an app.


That's all for this edition! Don't forget that the app is free to download with sample voices but the voice packs must be purchased in app. For those looking to purchase the CDs, they can be bought through Amazon Japan, and HMV Japan (both will ship overseas)  and with that, Sweet Dreams! 

Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes

Sorry for the delay. The biggest problem about being a gamer that blogs about games it that you have to choose between posting about news and playing games. ^_^; Anyways..

The sister title in the BASARA game announcement is "Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes"  

Unlike "Browser Sengoku BASARA" No details have been released about the game. The only information at this point in time is that the game is being developed by Mobage and that it will be available for mobile OS. (No info on if it will be android or iOS) 

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 Both "Browser Sengoku BASARA" and "Sengoku BASARA Card Heroes" are centered around cards (thus the name) but unlike BSB, SBCH's battle is completely focus on having a deck of cards and using them to fight other characters. The more you use your cards the higher their stats go.

Capcom's Sengoku BASARA portal site lists the game's genre as "Sengoku Card Battle RPG" and the release date as "Yet to be determined"