Women’s History Month – Yuka Kayura Interview

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Welcome to the third installment of our Women’s History Month interview series! If you missed the first two installments of the series, you can read part 1 with our localization team here or part 2 our interview with artist Shigeo Hamashima here.

For anyone who may be unfamiliar with Women’s History Month, it’s celebrated in the US, UK and Australia during the month of March to bring attention to the contributions of women in our society. So, in the spirit of Women’s History Month, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to highlight some women creators among our eroge partners and let them tell us about themselves and their work.

This week, we talked to Yuka Kayura, one of Circus‘s artists. She’s in charge of art for the character Otome Asakura in the D.C. Series, among other things.

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Women’s History Month – Shigeo Hamashima Interview

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Welcome to the second installment of our Women’s History Month interview series! If you missed the first installment of the series, talking to some of the women on our localization team, you can read it here.

For anyone who may be unfamiliar with Women’s History Month, it’s celebrated in the US, UK and Australia during the month of March to bring attention to the contributions of women in our society. So, in the spirit of Women’s History Month, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to highlight some women creators among our eroge partners and let them tell us about themselves and their work.

This week, we talked to Shigeo Hamashima, ClockUp employee and artist of Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games!, No, Thank You!!!, and Euphoria to name a few.

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Women's History Month – Localization Team Interview

Welcome to our Women’s History Month interview series!

For anyone who may be unfamiliar with Women’s History Month, it’s celebrated in the US, UK and Australia during the month of March to bring attention to the contributions of women in our society. So, in the spirit of Women’s History Month, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to highlight some women creators among our eroge partners and let them tell us about themselves and their work.

But, to kick things off, we thought we’d open by giving the floor to some of the women on our localization staff––bad end, Good Haro and KaitsuKai.
GH: (A big thank you to KaitsuKai for drawing these cute portraits of us!)

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Hey, Ho! The Happy Freelance Life!

One word for you: Plastics.

Everybody always asks how they can work in the anime or VN or porn or (fill in entertainment based) industry. In the final segment of this week’s ANNCast, our editor Sloanereinja tells you what you need to know to break into the industry and more importantly, why working it freelance is a very bad idea.

(Also, massive points to anybody who can get where the post title, screencap, and caption are from WITHOUT having to google.)

The-O Network's AX 2011 Interviews

For those not following our Twitter account, our friends at The-O Network interviewed several of our guests at AX 2011 this year. Since the final interview went up today, here’s a post listing them all for those who haven’t yet read them.

Interview #1: OVERDRIVE’s artist, Katakura Shinji
Interview #2: Debonosu Works’ president & artist, Yamamoto Kazue
Interview #3: Akabeisoft2’s artist, Alpha

As per usual, feel free to leave any comments about the interviews here.