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5pb. has released a bunch of hot and steamy screenshots for their upcoming<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> IS: Infinite Stratos</strong></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love and Purge game</strong> </span>for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita, and it includes some pretty revealing ones.</h4>
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The story takes place right after the World Purge OVA and will center around Ichika Orimura and his relationships with his fellow IS pilotsm Houki, Charlotte, Rin, Cecilia, Laura, and the Sarashiki sisters, Tatenashi and Kanzashi. Houki’s sister, the inventor of the IS, Tabane Shinonono is revealed to also be part of the game.</div>
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New screenshots from the game’s “Reward” and “Punishment” system have also been released. This “Reward” and “Punishment” system uses “Brave Heart Points” which Ichika must acquire through his actions and conversations with the game’s various heroines.</div>
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Ichika must deepen his relationships with the girls with these “Brave Heart Points”, and to do that, he must talk with them and be careful with what he says, because the Brave Heart Points he acquires depends on how he treats the girls. He could also rack up the Brave Points by massaging the girls, however, if he messes up, he loses points instead.</div>
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IS: Infinite Stratos Love and Purge is scheduled for release in Japan on July 30, 2015 for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita. </div>

"Hot" screenshots from IS: Infinite Stratos Love and Purge

5pb. has released a bunch of hot and steamy screenshots for their upcoming IS: Infinite Stratos Love and Purge game for the PlayStatio...

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I continue to enjoy Shirobako, the slice-of-life show about a group of girls who realize their dream of going to Tokyo and working professionally in the anime industry. In the show we get to see everything about how animation is made in Japan: the hectic schedules, the dysfunctional personalities, the directors who won't finish the storyboards for the last episode, the voice acting recording sessions.<br />
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In one story arc, a 2D animator gets upset when it's decided that an important scene he's preparing to animate by hand will be done with CG. I enjoyed this part of the story because I, too, obsess about overuse of CG in traditional anime, especially when it's taken beyond animating <a href="http://www.jlist.com/search/all/moero_downhill_racing_car" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exciting mountain racing scenes</a> to the realm of actual character animation, which -- as of 2014, at least -- can feel quite unnatural, as seen in the otherwise excellent <a href="http://www.jlist.com/search/all/sidonia" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knights of Sidonia</a> and <a href="http://www.jlist.com/search/all/Arpeggio_of_Blue_Steel_submarine" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arpeggio of Blue Steel</a>. There's a very "meta" segment in which the main character Aoi talks with another production assistant about how far CG animation will go in the future. "Will hand-drawn anime ever disappear?" "I don't think so, since there are always things better expressed using traditional animation. But the number of anime series being produced is increasing, so when you think about the need to control quality, CG will certainly be more important in the future."<br />
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Shirobako is interesting for another reason in that we get to see what people working in the industry are paid on average, thanks to <a href="http://jli.st/1vCuh7p" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a graphic</a> a Reddit user posted showing what salaries the animators, production assistants, directors and producers pull in annually. The bottom line is that the salaries of everyone involved with creating animation in Japan are frightfully low, with all the jobs except Executive Producer paying below the median income of jobs in the U.S. Starting animators make only $9400 per year, which explains why many of these jobs have been exported to South Korea, China and the Philippines. The only people raking in cash in anime are the A-list voice actors like Hanazawa Kana (the voice of Kuroneko from <a href="http://www.jlist.com/search/all/kuroneko_oreimo" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oreimo</a> and Mayuri from <a href="http://www.jlist.com/search/all/steinsgate/sales/1" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steins;Gate</a>), who are managed by smart talent agencies which charge big bucks to have their voice actors appear in an anime or game. We're sometimes frustrated by these talent studios, who often demand tens of thousands of dollars in royalties to include Japanese voices in <a href="http://www.jlist.com/category/808/wishes/" style="border: 0px; color: #44779e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English visual novels</a> we want to publish, occasionally causing projects that would have gone through to be abandoned.<br />
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Shirobako, the anime about making anime, and industry salaries

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