well, i isn't from japan unless a publisher there decides to buy the concept.
http://www.moboid.com/lapis/index.htm
the presentation says it all
http://www.moboid.com/lapis/LapisPres.htm

Not haha funny like the last, but still very very strange.

It seems like a cross between Project Rub and Nintendogs to me. It seemed to lack originality and lastability but an interesting concept all the same. They are foolish narrowing the scope to a female audience. I think a lot of men could also benefit from learning more about sexual stimulation for women (waits for Kat to either tear my theory to shreds or back it up ><). All up though it was a funny read.

Also, I kind of found it insulting how they said games like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing are aimed at women since they're the only 2 DS games I own *blush*.

Maybe they meant women and gay fagmo poofmosexuals.

What the hell is the point of Animal Crossing anyway? It sounded silly to me when it came out originally on Gamecube, and it still makes no sense to me. But then, I dont really get Nintendogs either. I bought it cheap when it was on sale and I've played it for about an hour and then never touched it again.

I never really got in to animal crossing on the GC either. The thing I find fun about animal crossing is collecting things. I like having complete sets of things, so I'll get hours of game play trying to find all the fish, insects and fossils etc. THe reason I like nintendogs is becase I miss my real dog. This may sound wierd but I don't miss my family much cos I can call them on the phone and catch up, but you can't really talk to a dog on the phone. I don't really play nintendogs much anymore though. The game has a serious lack of lastability and it seems too much like a cute little $50 tech demo to me. It demonstrates the graphical capabilities and feature set of teh DS quite well by utilising the microphone, touch screen and WiFi.