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We announced their acquisition at Anime Expo last month, and they’re now available for preorder! The Downhill Night series from Japanese maker Top brings a new dimension to the world of bishoujo gaming as you take the navigator’s seat (in I and II) and the driver’s seat (in III) in this fast-paced drift racing dating sim adventure series.

Your abilities to judge the course and help the beautiful female drivers to victory will determine the direction of the romance, with timed choices cut between high definition 3D racing scenes that blending a car enthusiast’s taste for speed with the well known dating sim formula. Links to the product pages are available above, and watch for more information soon!

Yes, next weekend we’re heading back once again to Anime Expo! We’ll be selling at the J-List booth all four days of the event, so feel free to stop by and say hi - we’d love to see you.

We’re also going to be holding a panel to talk about all the exciting stuff we’ve been working on as well as some new release announcements, so be sure to make it if you can! The panel will be on Saturday, July 05 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in LP 4 (LACC 411). Hope to see you there!

Also, as a reminder - if you haven’t put in your order for Amorous Professor Cherry yet, you can be among the first to get the game if you pick it up at AX!

It’s official, folks - work on our latest G-Collections title Amorous Professor Cherry is now complete, and the game is headed to the duplicators for reproduction! Check out the latest information on game at its newly opened official site, or head over to the forums for the official Q&A thread.

The game’s release is scheduled to coincide with Anime Expo 2008 on July 3-6 in Los Angeles, so if you’ll be there, be sure to stop by the J-List booth and say hi (and pick up a copy!). We’re also doing a panel again this year (Saturday July 5th from 8-9 PM) with exclusive info and giveaways, so mark your calendars if you’re in the LA area. Hope to see you there!

We’ll be posting further information on the event here and in the JAST USA / Peach Princess newsletter as the day approaches, so keep an eye out for details if you’re interested.

We’ve been hard at work over the past month to bring you our next G-Collections release Amorous Professor Cherry, and we’re happy to report that the game is nearing “golden master” status! We expect to be able to announce Golden Master at some point next week, so if you’ve been waiting on a preorder now would be good time to make that decision. We’re shooting to have the game finished and in stock by Anime Expo over the first weekend of July, and we’re preparing a panel presentation for the event too, so stay tuned for further news!

It’s been a year since the release of Peach Princess’s Yume Miru Kusuri, and we’re celebrating that anniversary with a price reduction! The game can now be obtained for $34.95 retail, so there’s never been a better time to experience this tale of tender romance and coming-of-age.

Stay tuned for more updates soon, regarding both Amorous Professor Cherry and JAST USA summer convention plans!

We’ve been hard at work here at G-Collections headquarters since the successful release of “ecchi” RPG Lightning Warrior Raidy, and we’re proud to announce this evening that our next big game release Amorous Professor Cherry is now in beta testing! We’ve compiled the graphics and the text and are busy working through the editing process now.

We’re really excited to be producing Cherry, as it’s a classic that harks back to the best ZyX title of G-Collections’ lineup such as The Sagara Family (sharing the same great artist, Yamane Masahiro aka. Sendori-kun), Sensei 2 (similar teacher-student themes) and Crescendo (the same scenario writer).

Stay tuned for more news on this and other JAST USA partner brand games as development proceeds!

We’ve been busy here at JAST USA headquarters recently, because the shipment of G-Collections’ ero RPG Lightning Warrior Raidy came in and the game is finally on sale! This is our most high profile release in awhile, and we’re tremendously excited to bring a new style of gameplay to the English language bishoujo gaming universe - so much that we opened an official site for the game, complete with background information on the story, characters, game system, and more! If you have a moment, check the site out and tell us what you think.

P.S. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the JAST USA 100th anniversary card set expansion has had its production delayed indefinitely. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

We want to thank everybody for their support for our very popular JAST USA Memorial Trading Cards, and to show our appreciation, we have a big surprise for you.

Due to the extreme popularity and demand for the cards, we are happy to announce the JAST USA Memorial Card Expansion Pack!

In addition to the 55 cards that we offer with our current collection, we are including extra collector cards, for a grand total of, you heard it, 999 cards!
Not only will the new cards offer hints and information for our upcoming and unannounced titles, but also secrets and inside scoop about JAST USA itself! This
expansion pack will feature the high-quality hard-plastic printing and blind packaging so it’s a different surprise every time you open a packet.

We know you are all curious as to what kind of cards will be inside the JAST USA Memorial Card Expansion Pack, so below is a sneak peak of what some of our new cards look like:

With Lightning Warrior Raidy safely in replication and scheduled for early April release, work at G-Collections HQ has shifted to focus on the next great title in our lineup, Amorous Professor Cherry. Translation is 99% complete, as is the graphical conversion, and next week we expect to begin alpha testing on the first fully compiled version of the game. We’re really excited to be working on Cherry now, as it’s a great compliment to the G-Collections lineup that we think will appeal to fans of other G-collections titles illustrated by the great Yamane Masahiro (Sendori-kun), like The Sagara Family and Do You Like Horny Bunnies?.

We’ll be posting here with further development news as work on the game proceeds, as well as more reasons why Cherry is the “must-have” bishoujo game this spring - stay tuned!

We’ve made you wait a bit longer on this one than we were hoping, but here it is at last - Lightning Warrior Raidy is now complete and on its way to the duplicators! What makes this occasion doubly happy is that, as rumored, we managed to score the rights to the sequel as well! Lightning Warrior Raidy II: ~Temple of Desire~ is now in development and available for preorder as I type this.

In other fantastic Raidy news, we’re working hard to get the download version of this one available for purchase as quickly as possible - we’re planning to have it available two weeks following the package release, so for those unable to pick up the package version fear not!

The master disc has been pressed and the game will be going off to the printers soon. Stay tuned for the official Golden Master announcement, coming in a few days…