Anime producers must be red with envy as they see Konami's Love Plus DS game reach sales of over 100,000 units within a month of its release.That is already over double the entire 2008 sales of high-selling Code Geass R2 DVD1.
Hayami Saori, however, must be thrilled. Her character in the game, Takane Manaka, has become wildly popular. Today, many fans are celebrating Manaka's October 5 birthday (see photo).
On second thought, Hayamin may be getting a bit weirded out by now. After all, she is now the girlfriend of tens of thousands of Japanese otaku, who are no doubt doing unspeakable things in her virtual presence.
A recent story on Sankaku Complex (a site definitely not safe for work, and the source of much of my information here) says that game-players are even figuring out what perfume to buy and apply to their DS consoles to simulate a fuller olfactory experience of their virtual romance.
As the slogan on 2channel goes: "Who needs real women when you have Love Plus?"
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3 comments:
So many great outfits for the girls too...
Happy birthday Manaka!
too bad it is not in english
Considering the current state of Japan's workforce and the growing gap between the young and the elderly, and population growth problems
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldtonight/2009/09/is_japan_a_dying_nation.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8266677.stm
You'd wonder if games like this don't do much but add to the problem, or if it's just speculation and the whole "2d is better than 3d" craze is just a small isolated segment of the population.
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