No boat rocking here...    Just wondered why he deleted his account.

A video walkthru for an RPG???  That's kind of... um... insane....???? 

Haha, sweet.  Suck it, non-Japanese readers! 

Personally, I would've never gone through all the trouble - Just so a bunch of Jap-illiterate geeks could trash my work?  No thank you.  Gemini should be applauded for his patience if anything.

I love Go Nagai, but Devilman was essentially Cutie Honey meets the Bible.  I have all 5 of the original manga and I've read it all the way through.  Like pretty much everything Nagai has ever done, it really is hackneyed in a lot of ways...  I mean most of the plot involves Akira and Ryo going back in time and righting famous historical wrongs (in the Devilman way I suppose; I.E. must kill evil ex-lover - not just Siren).  Don't get me wrong, I love me some Devilman, but it's not the paragon you think it is.  It typifies much of what you seem to object to about Kaneko's art.

I won't lie though, Kaneko did sell me on the series but I don't think that's a bad thing.  What I like about his stuff is the disregard for convention that almost no one in Japan's art world seems to be able to break free from.  Better yet, his stuff is still highly technical, a best of both worlds sort of thing.  Plus he injects quite a bit of modern fashions (which I suspect is what you are round-about objecting to) and keeps the Megaten series current, rather than the same old pastiche of itself being repeated ad nauseam.

I'm not sure why you seem so intent on ripping his stuff apart.  If I were you I'd focus on the main offender - Soejima.  That guy is fucking awful...       

Why is he not a member of the boards anyway?

It just boggles the mind. 

I guess it's out of print in Japan but still...  Who has $300+ to drop on a video game?

Even if his work is accomplished by the efforts of multiple people it would hardly detract from it. 

Honestly I haven't been noticing any issues like this. 

I meant their new system is vBulletin.  Before they were using this truly weird "bulletin board network," which was part of a third party system wherein you had to register for this odd, separate system rather than expressly for the Atlus boards themselves.  I don't even think they were hosting the boards themselves even. 

They're actually pretty active and I recognize a few familiar faces. 

Um, Emilio, you can sign up too, you know... 

I've always wondered why they do this.  I mean, obviously it's to make up for the lack of that kind of thing being published on this side of the Pacific, but it's also a pretty obvious marketing ploy to make fans dish out more than they normally would for a game.  It also essentially makes collectors items out of the packaged deal, though not nearly as bad as ebayers jacking up prices on imports.

For example:

Can someone please tell me why Maniacs is 300 effing dollars + shipping for a USED game?

MANIAX for $307USD?????????????

I'm thinking about signing up for the (gulp) Atlus USA boards.  They switched over to the vBulletin system, I have no idea how recently.  The last time I went to their site they were using some weird propriety system...  Not sure what they allow by way of signatures though.

Whooops...  Yeah, you fight Bishamonten instead... 

To my credit I haven't played Nocturne in like two years and it took me like three years to get through the whole game (I'm slow).

http://www.dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/kanekoI/cover.jpg

Bottom left corner.

I'll still use my analog tv for video games though.  A related question?  Does this mean all video games released in the US will be ATSC then?  Even PS2 games released after February?

I need to get off my ass and start promoting this place.  The traditional method is using a big icon in your signature on other forums linking back to this forum.  It circumvents the internet faux pax of making a post specifically advertising your website, and (even better) ubiquitous.

Avatar is from the cover of Kaneko Works I.