More Sneaky Bandai Messages
If you hit up Bandai’s splash page and do a select-all, you’ll notice the above message. In the source code you’ll also find this lengthy conversation:
!– Sir! We are receiving a private communique from the Capital Ship! –
!– Primary Cannon is ready to fire at any time Sir, we need your orders! –
!– We must make sure of our target!!! –
!– We do not want to mistakenly hit it before its time. –
!– Sir, we do not have many firing opportunities left for the amount of ammunition the Primary Cannon has to go through to successfully trigger the inner core –
!– We have the Director on a direct-line awaiting final launch orders. –
!– Sir, Captain Y is fully recovered, outfitted with his new crew, and ready for action. –
!– Excellent, we could really use his help. –
!– Primary and secondary missions have been assigned. –
!– Give him four more. –
!– Uhhh… does he know about that, Sir? –
!– He will in a few days! –
!– Yes sir. –
!– Do we have any response from the Capital Ship? –
!– We are patching the Director into them directly so they can prepare. –
!– Something even more unbelievable than the last shot must happen in order for this to work successfully. –
!– We only have three windows open. –
!– Which one of them do we pick? –
!– Sir! We are detecting massive energy fluctuations within the core! –
!– Transient energy burst detected from another named hyperactive GP quadrant network! –
!– We’ve got to entertain people with something this weekend… –
!– Please inform the Director about the current situation, and then radio silence until tomorrow. –
!– We are in a holding pattern tonight. All departments please check in with the Director for go/no-go launch decision and read your emails. –
Now, most recently the hidden messages made direct reference to Toward the Terra. I’m not sure if this is still referring to it or not, since I haven’t seen the show, though “Captain Y” could be a reference to Osamu Yamazaki, the director of Toward the Terra; maybe the countdown will be to its website launch or DVD release?
On the other hand, it could be referring to a new license. If so, I don’t think it’s being announced this weekend; I talked to Rob Napton and it sounds like there won’t be any new acquisitions announced here, unless maybe something changed in the last sixteen hours or so.
Tangentially: I noticed two other little tidbits, which may or may not be new, in the source for BE’s splash page:
Konata wants all otaku to join her MySpace
ZERO needs you to join the MySpace Rebellion!
Since I didn’t know they had MySpaces for Lucky Star or Code Geass (…though I also never USE MySpace…), I figured maybe some of you didn’t either. So, here and here you go, respectively.
Am I the only one that thinks this hidden message thing is obnoxious now?
It was alright to do it for haruhi since it was an epic convergence of things that created it’s otaku following out of thin air. But it really doesn’t work for anything else and they need to find new marketing methods for these other shows.
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