Wow. Pencil Royale, originally an April Fool's joke by visual novel maker Production Pencil, is actually being made. Confirmed at Pencil Live 2010, they're hoping to have it ready by Summer Comiket.

The April Fool's Trailer

It has 3D characters fighting on a 2D background, and there are some different costumes for each fighter. Has some sort of outfit damage system too, (reminiscent of Soul Calibur PSP?) Also, the game is voiced! The heroines themselves are drawn from various Pencil brand games, including Twinkle Crusaders, the Prism series, and Princess Witches. It was mentioned that there would be at least 4 playable characters, but the final number is anyone's guess. Production values seem half-decent, and it looks to play fairly well. Can't wait to try it out!

KOTOKO, Momoi (Halko), Yui-nyan (Sakakibara Yui). By their powers combined, presenting Pencil Live 2010!
It's being held at Shibuya O-EAST in Tokyo, all standing only. Tickets are still available but they may not last much longer...

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A neat little present landed in my lap recently.

Nagi, the angel that descends from heaven to protect your life, only to kill you by triggering an unstoppable nosebleed.

She is magical~

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Here's a rendition of the Clannad (クラナド) OP Meg Mell (メグメル) that I had posted to youtube a couple of months ago.
Based on the Pico Score version. Unfortunately there's no free sheets for this one, so you'll have to order the book. But there's lots of free galge, game and anime piano music on that site, so check it out!

For those of you looking for the Nico Nico sheet music: It's right here.

Demo only, most of these windows can be left minimized.

It's been a while (more than a year, in fact) since the original Machine Assisted Visual Novel Reading. (If you're unfamiliar, it's recommended reading!) My programming skills have not advanced at all since then, sadly. However, for a while now, I've been using a cleaned up version of the previous script for my own purposes. Since I made a few simple but effective improvements, I figure it wouldn't hurt to spread it around, so here goes:

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