Photo Kano - Assorted Events Translation

It's been a month since I wrote a post here and now I'm writing Photo Kano-related stuff yet again. How much of Photo Kano fans am I?

As most of people noticed, the anime are rushing stuffs. They combine both story L and story H parts of each heroine arc on one episode, so of course they had to cut many interesting events from the game, especially from the sub events. Thus, on this entry I want to write some interesting events from the game that the anime cut, with the exception of Kanon route's events which I don't know whether the anime going to adapt or not tomorrow.

Take note that my PSP has broken recently, so I write this based on my memory. Check more of my Photo Kano summaries on this post or this post. Enjoy =D

Photo Kano Love Love Morning

Whaat? Another Photo Kano post? Yep yep, on this post I'd like to share the drama CD that included on the Photo Kano Kiss PSVita game, "Love Love Morning". As you may guess from the title, this drama CD tell each girl (only the 9 heroines, no Narita or Uchida)'s morning the day after the end of the original game, ie. the confession happen.

It's quite nice to know what they think of the new relationship with the MC. My favorite on this one is.... hard to pick only one, but Rina (she hums MC's original love song "Love Love True Love" on her H route, Erina appearance, and Rina's delusion of she and MC feed each other are love) and Mai (can't sleep due to happiness, Mai y u so moe) are my top 2. It's also nice to know how Tomoe and Momoko can still stay at Kouga for one week (Tomoe's family is moving first and Momoko had short job offer on Koga), cheap sure but what the hell, if the setting is that so be it.

Photo Kano - Sanehara Hikari Digest

'Sup guys, been awhile since I last post. My PC got attacked by malware, I got major lag so I only able to do stuff in Safe Mode. Tried many softwares but the problem keeps coming, and I was too lazy to format/reinstall the whole thing since this season there's so many tv series I watch, but fortunately this week many US tv series are finished for now. So if you're waiting for my figure review, hang on there, I have like 3-4 figures I want to do but probably not in short future >.>

Buuu~t, I'm not here for telling my bad luck, but to post for more, yet again, Photo Kano stuff. Have you watched the latest episode of the anime? Yeah it's Sanehara Hikari arc. Unfortunately due to episode quota, we only have 1 episode for her (as well as the rest of heroines) thus it feels rushed. But for me it's more enjoyable than Haruka route that had 2 episodes. I mean Kazuya wasn't wimpy, less drama, and those few last scenes and photo board on Hikari room really make up for the romance even if there weren't proper confession and kiss scene. That's why, for the anime-only viewer Photo Kano fans out there, I want to spread more Hikari love with these information about her, as well as my two favorite scenes of her route from the game that unfortunately didn't make it on the anime. Hope you enjoy it :)

!!!This post contains spoiler of other girl route so read at your own risk!!!

Photo Kano - All Route Summary

To commemorate the 50,000 views, I want to do another game summary since the summary segment of my blog is one that contributes the most to the numbers of view (though I don't monetize my blog so pageview doesn't really mean anything, haha). So I decides to write short (and I really mean it, don’t expect dialogues translation like I usually did) summary of all routes from the original Photo Kano PSP game. I know that the anime is (very?) disappointing so far for most people, but I still love the series. And in the spirit of the soon-to-be-released Photo Kano Kiss sequel for PSVita, I want to spread the Photo Kano love.

Note that the 6 main heroines on this game have 2 story depending the club you choose. Join the Photo Club you’ll get the Story L(ove) which has more drama approach while if you choose to join Sasshin/Photography Club you’ll go to Story H(appy) which has comedy approach, both has the same basic premise though. So here’s the summary!

And of course spoiler alert. Oh yeah, I wrote this mostly based on my memory, and my memory wasn’t that good so I may screw some parts here and there, mostly Nonoka since I've only played it once, but I think I get 80-90% stuffs right. Was too lazy to replay, or even to see the event gallery for all route one by one, haha. Okay here comes the wall of text summary, happy reading :3

Photo Kano Anime's Character Design

Wanted to give a space between my posts once in awhile so it's not all figures and figures, and the time was just perfect. The official TBS site for Photo Kano anime just made an update hours ago with new Niimi Haruka's picture giving Valentine's gift like above to celebrate the day (you can download the image here), new staff comment, an event schedule for March 17th which based on the name I think it's going to announce which route the anime will take between Photo Club or Photography Club, and more importantly the confirmation of the sub-characters with all their respective original seiyuus from the original game. And we also get the character design for all the characters, here they are~!!

Photo Kano - Ootani Momoko Route Summary

I'm back with full summary of another heroine's route from love simulation PSP game, Photo Kano. This time, it's also another secret heroine, in fact she is the last unlockable heroine on the game. If the other heroine is a student, Ootani Momoko here is a teacher!

Yes, Ootani Momoko is an intern teacher to be exact. She just starts teaching on the new semester when the MC starts bringing camera his father gave him to the school. Due to the nature of the plot, her route feels more special than other heroines, one of the reason I really like her route, other than Aya Endo's flirty adult voice. There's also a manga adaptation of her route, Photo Kano Memorial Pictures that serialized on Comic Earth Star magazine, and the first volume of the tankoubon has been released months ago. You can read the first chapter on the official web site.

Even though at this point I don't know if her route will be adapted on the upcoming anime (release a new PV or CM already, damn it!!), but both Momoko and Aya Endo are confirmed on the cast list, so I have to warn you this summary will contain spoilers.

Last thing, just like Tomoe route, Momoko route only have one story doesn't matter which club you choose for the MC, but on my playthrough here, I joined the Photography Club. I will also use the default name for the MC, Maeda Kazuya, but since I'm using my real name on my game, the pictures here will have my name on it, lol.

This is the longest summary I ever wrote, because I really enjoy her route so I put some sub events and after-school date events too. You might want to grab some snack and drink because it's going to be long read. Enjoy reading~

Ootani Momoko
(CV: Aya Endo)

Photo Kano - Misumi Tomoe Route Summary

Hi guys, today I'm doing another summary from game. Not OreImo anymore, I'm doing Photo Kano now. You probably know that I love this series, so I want to share the love to everyone since the anime will air about 3 months from now.

The route I'm doing now is Misumi Tomoe. She is the first of 3 hidden characters on the game. A quiet, introverted girl who hate to stands out and thinking she's just a plain girl. If you read the translation of Photo Kano Sweet Snap by Pretty Anon, on one of the April Extras there is one chapter that focusing on her.

I must say based on her looks and brief personality summary, she's not my type of 2D girl, but after I play her route, the story was great and it involved more about camera compared to most of other girls's route, put the "photo" on Photo Kano. I should warn you this will contains spoiler for the anime, even though I don't know if the anime will cover her route but both Tomoe and her seiyuu are already confirmed for the anime.

Now I will only cover the main events (with 3 after-school date events), since Photo Kano is not a visual novel but love simulation, there are many sub-events and dialogues during the talk segments which too much for me to cover, thus maybe the relationship development on my summary will feel too fast and unnatural.  Luckily, unlike the 6 original heroines, Tomoe only has 1 story doesn't matter the club you choose, but on this summary I choose Photo Club. Oh, and the MC name can be changed to anything, but on my summary I'll use the default name, Kazuya Maeda, even though on the screen cap pictures I use here the name changed to "Anki" because I use my own name on my game, so bear with it XP

Well then, that's about it for the introduction, enjoy the summary =D

Misumi Tomoe
(CV: Miyuki Sawashiro)

Photo Kano Your Eyes Only SP 03

Not a figure review, today I'd like to post about Photo Kano, after quite time. Yeah, I sure like this series, don't I? The one I'm going to post about is one of its manga adaptation, its title is the same as the title of this entry. If you have read my previous entry about many manga adaptations Photo Kano has or read the manga itself you probably know, but in case you don't, Your Eyes Only SP is omnibus format manga, as far I'm concerned, that drawn by Nylon. So far, 3 chapters have been released on Young Animal Island, comic magazine that released every 3 (or was it 4) months.

The one thing that make chapter 3 special is it's not focused to Yunoki Rina as the previous 2 chapters (if you don't understand moon runes, you can read the first chapter translated by roankun here), but it's focused to Kanon, the little sister of the MC. And more importantly, as far as I know, the story is original, not taken from the original PSP game, making me want to share the story. Since no one's doing this manga, I figure I'll try write a summary of it, even though the lack of furigana on this one makes me insecure if I get things right.

I have to warn you though that this entry will include plot spoiler from the original game, so don't tell me I didn't warn you.

Photo Kano (フォトカノ) Visual Works - Sample Pictures

Good evening guys! It's Photo Kano related post again. Hours ago we just got amazing news that Photo Kano will get an anime adaptation. The air date is still TBA but we get the information regarding the airing station, company who produce it, and the casts. On the same time, they also announce that they will make a renewed version of the game, titled Photo Kano Kiss for PSVita, with improved graphics, new photo session gameplay implementing Vita's hardware, and also new scenario called "Love Love Days" which take time a week after the confession on the original game. The latter part is the one that make me frustrated because I don't have Vita >.>

I'm not going to talk about it further since that's not why I'm posting today. You can read the news on Famitsu, or if you can't read Japanese then on ANN or other anime news site. The reason I'm posting here is to share a sample pictures of Photo Kano Visual Works! My friend bought this and I begged asked him to take picture of some pages. And so, to share it with the internet as well to make new fans get interested on this series, here are the pictures.

credit to: Paman Aldrinyan :3

Photo Kano ~ Manga Adaptations

Good morning guys! Rather than figure review this time, I want to write more about Photo Kano. After the game review and character summary, this time I want to write about the many manga adaptations of this series. Yes, just like Amagami, Photo Kano has been adapted into manga, though unfortunately for us who can't really read Japanese, only small numbers of it translated. But anyway, keep read on to all Photo Kano manga titles available up to now =3

Photo Kano (フォトカノ) ~ Characters Summary

Fulfilling my promise to write more about this love sim game after my first game review of Photo Kano I wrote week ago, here's the characters summary. For me almost all the heroines are lovable and interesting even though for those who have played lots of love sim games (or watched love-comedy animes) might get use to the characterization already. Well anyway, meet the main character and sub characters of Photo Kano!

Warning, it contains minor spoiler.

Photo Kano (フォトカノ) ~ Review

On this entry, I'd like to write.... well, some sort of review of Photo Kano, love simulation game for PSP handheld originally released on February 2nd 2012. Photo Kano is developed by Dingo Inc, published by Kadokawa Games, and copyrighted by Enterbrain.

Actually, I played this game to kill time while waiting Haganai and the second OreImo game back then but turns out it really consumed my time as I really enjoyed playing it, despite my poor understanding of Japanese, lol. I never played any love simulation game before, except for Love Plus, so I don't have any other game as benchmark, but I thought this game is really enjoyable. Great character design, great acting by all the voice actors and actresses, great music, enjoyable stories, and good game play. Wait, why I wrote the conclusions even before the actual review, silly me. Well then, here's the review~