Here’s the current slate of releases Studio Happy Chicken has coming up through September, 2012.  Hopefully fans will find something they like in it.  The titles and dates are locked in stone, so you needn’t worry about something slipping off the radar.  Now that the stormy seas we’ve been sailing have calmed, expect a steady stream of goodness from Happy Chicken Land.

JUNE

6/19     HAPPY CHICKEN BLUE BOX     $44.99 MSRP

6/19     HAPPY CHICKEN PINK BOX     $44.99 MSRP

           6/19     @HOME IDOL: MOE TAKAHASHI     $19.99 MSRP    

JULY

07/24     STUDIO HAPPY CHICKEN GIRLS  Blu-ray   $19.99 MSRP

07/24     @HOME IDOL: MOE TAKAHASHI Blu-ray     $24.99 MSRP

SEPTEMBER

09/25     SAMURAI BOYS 3 WAY Blu-ray     $34.99 MSRP

Another Take on Catherine doesn’t have a firm date yet; but I’ve been in contact with our distributor and they’re working hard to get the DVD and Blu-ray Disks pressed to get them out as soon as possible.

Anyway, while I was rummaging through various Japanese used computer websites, I stumbled on this:

Yeah.  Right now you’re probably thinking the same thing I was thinking when I first saw this: I hope she at least washed it first.  Do you know how many hands touch a doorknob every day?  And how many germs are on those hands???

Turns out that today a book called Doorknob Girls debuted.  The book is filled with pictures of girls orally satisfying various kinds of doorknobs.  There’s sexy ladies licking doorknobs:

Young women that are surrounded by candy and who have been heavily photoshopped licking doorknobs:

Wet girls in glasses licking doorknobs:

And just when you thought they might have run out of ideas, they throw wet girl in glasses while in an inflatable pool, surrounded by rubber ducks, liking doorknobs at you:

Honestly, I didn’t even know that this doorknob fetish thing even existed.  Nobody in the book is naked, there’s no insertion of a doorknob into any bodily orifice, just girls licking doorknobs, plain and simple (or not so simple when you throw in the ducks and the pool).  Who knows, if this catches on then in the next few years we could see people protesting, demanding equal rights for doorknob marriage.

So if doorknobs are your thing, you can check out the gallery below:

And if you want even more saliva covered doorknob fun, head on over to the official Doorknob Girl website.  At least now I have a subject for my next film.  Just kidding.  Maybe.

In Japan, the buzz machine for upcoming cheerleader zombie slaughtering  simulation Lollipop Chainsaw has reached maximum overdrive.  Not only will the game be released in 2 editions (in sanitized and adults only flavors), it’s also been announced that the ¥10,290 ($130) premium editions will also come with a tissue box cover (for when you get a little too excited from playing the game) a B2 sized poster, and an A3 sized tapestry.  I’ll be honest, even though I work in media I’ve never been able to get my head around sizes like A5, B4, and the like.   I’m constantly buying the wrong sized envelopes because of this.

In a effort to whip fans into a buying ferver, a comic (known as manga in Japan… say it with me: mah-n-ga) has been commissioned to shed light on the characters back story, including how Juliet’s boyfriend Nick looses his head, while throwing in a little fan service on the side.  Debuting in the June 7th issue of über gaming rag Famitsu, I present it here for your viewing pleasure.  Oddly enough, while Famitsu is read left to right, the manga is presented in a right to left format which really sort of messes you up.  There’s no reason to make people stop and change the direction of the magazine they’re reading right in the middle of it.

What do you think?  Does it make you more ferverish than before?

Anyway, I picked up this pamphlet flier thingy; but I didn’t look at it until I got home.  Here’s the front:

Then it folds out once to reveal this:

And then fold out a third time to reveal this:

The first thing I noticed about this lovely little mini-poster is that the zombie chick in it is wearing pink panties.  It made me wonder if that was in the game, and if it was how the developer got away with releasing CoP with only a B rating (that’s barely a Teen rating in Japan).  The second thing I noticed was that the afore mentioned princess from the title wasn’t wearing any panties at all.

That’s right, she’s ノーパン as they say in Japan.

Now, my heart tells me to chock this up to a printing error; but my brain is in minor disagreement.  ”What if it’s not a printing or coloring error?”   Well, to be honest, if it’s not an error then my interest in the game rises from “mildly interested” to “must buy”.

Isn’t that sad?

A bit later it did indeed rain, and then some!  It started to hail… it hailed so much I could hear it inside, a loud clatter like a monsoon on a tin roof.  I ran to the window to film it; but it took my iPhone so long to load the camera that it had subsided.  Luckily for me, it started again a few minutes later.  Here’s what I caught (remember to view it in 720p):

After the hail it got really, strangely calm.  There was a continuous roar in the air, like once the thunder started, it didn’t stop.  Seriously, the sound of thunder just kept going for at least 5 minutes, without any pauses.  I know because recorded and timed it.  Once I got bored of that, I came inside and made the comment that if I didn’t know better, I’d have thought that either a tornado was coming, or had just passed through.  See, I’m from Kansas so I know a thing or two about tornados.  But I had been told on more than one occasion that they simply don’t have tornados in Japan.  They were wrong.  Check this out:

I’m assuming this video exists because Japanese people simply don’t know anything about tornados and safety.  They are way too close to that thing, especially toward the end of the video.  Way too close.  I think it’s interesting to note that the area I was in was actually under a tornado warning; but there were no sirens, no TV announcements, no nothing.  There is absolutely no tornado alert system in Japan, something very shocking for a guy who grew up practicing protecting himself from tornados in school.  It’s common knowledge to all Kansans.

So I guess on top of earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, and radiation now I have to be on the lookout for tornados as well.  That’s the price you pay for cheap sushi.

It seems Schick is cross promoting with Evangelion because by this time I’m sure the list is running thin on things that haven’t been cross promoted with Eva.  Schick Hydro 5 razors come with exclusive figures, and blade refills come with superdeformed Evangelion toys.  And before you ask, no I didn’t get one.  I’m a Gillette man, myself; and they’ve started putting One Piece characters on their packages.  Seems there might be a Evangelion/ One Piece shaving war a-brewin’.

Or maybe the Japanese have decided that otaku need to shave more.  Who knows.

In the meantime, here are some rough shots from the upcoming and aforementioned Catherine.