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Official Touhou Project Magazine 2016: w/ Uni Akiyama and ZUN's music CD
cuc:
--- Quote from: Plubio on September 16, 2015, 10:00:36 AM ---Some cover art sneak peeks coming from Twitter.
Looks like Genji Asai will draw the firts issue cover.
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The tweet was made by an editor of the magazine when he was "doing color check for the cover."
Artwork for some preorder bonus stuff:
Somewhat related to the magazine, ZUN will have two stream appearances at Tokyo Game Show 2015.
During September 19's Indie Stream Fes 2015, the party for indie developers, PoriPori Club will again have a live talkshow (6:00~9:00 PM (JST)), and ZUN will be there.
On Sep 20, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, ZUN will speak at Dengeki Online's official stream.
cuc:
The ebook version is now available for preorder at Kadokawa's ebook store. (Link)
The ebook version DOES NOT contain contents of the music CD. It will become downloadable at 0 AM Sep 30 in Japan.
This particular book is region-locked, so if you are not in Japan, you will need some sort of VPN proxy to access the purchase page. For payment, a VISA or MasterCard credit card from any country should be enough.
Like most Japanese ebooks, you will need to read the book through Kadokawa's client app, which serves as DRM.
Nowadays, you can actually buy the majority of Touhou manga paperbacks (SSiB, Inaba, WaHH and FS) as ebooks. It's just Febri and Comp Ace, the magazines that carry Touhou serializations are in hard copy only.
Thankfully, this new magazine is being published by the Dengeki/ASCII subsidiary, who seems to have fully embraced ebooks. The only issue with their publications is the region lock, which should be easy to bypass.
If you are considering buying the other ebooks now:
From what can be gleamed from the internet, for the majority of ebooks, including those published by Ichijinsha (SSiB, Inaba, WaHH), eBookJapan tend to offer the highest image resolution and quality. That's for reference only, 'cause I haven't tested it.
However, ebooks published by Kadokawa are all based on their own Bookwalker sources. Buying them elsewhere does not offer any advantage. Kadokawa also often release their ebooks on Bookwalker first before other sites, although Forbidden Scrollery is a simultaneous release at all sites.
On the other side, ZUN had wrapped up the last editorial meeting for the magazine yesterday.
Here's him taking a look at a printed sample for the Touhou 15 in-depth interview. (From Okonogi's twitter)
hungrybookworm:
I got excited by the words 'ebook' but region lock and DRM, geh. I'm going to ship it with this month's comp ace anyway so unless the digital version is significantly cheaper I guess I'll just stare at my letterbox as always.
the old guy:
I want to point out that Reimu and Marisa are entwining their fingers on the cover:
I wonder if this is ZUN's way of teasing the shippers.
ZM:
--- Quote from: the old guy on September 20, 2015, 07:10:51 AM ---I want to point out that Reimu and Marisa are entwining their fingers on the cover:
I wonder if this is ZUN's way of teasing the shippers.
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I wonder if they're going to be in a threeway with Rinnosuke.
Also Alice btfo