The Pinky St. figurines have grown quite popular in Japan due to the adorable character designs, customization options and interchangable parts. They’ve even inspired PS2 (Mahoroba Stories) and DS games (Pinky St. Kira Kira Music Hour, Pinky St. Kira Kira Music Night). Some of the most popular Pinky St. releases, however, are versions of popular video game characters.

Similar to the Naruto license in North America, rights to make games with Haruhi Suzumiya are fragmented between three parties. Namco Bandai gets to make PlayStation and PSP games. Kadokawa Shoten, a company known the Sega Saturn Lunar games, makes…

Kadokawa Shoten is working on another Haruhi game this year, but when they announced the Wii project it didn’t even have a proper name. Now, we have the title and the release date. Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou (loosely: The Stunning Shock of…

Japan already has two Haruhi Suzumiya games in stores. Both of them fit snugly in the text adventure niche. The third game doesn’t have a proper name yet, but I like to think of it as the Musical of Haruhi…