Nintendo will finally bring Flipnote Studio, its free animation app for DSi, to the West, starting with Europe this Friday, and presumably to the States soon afterwards. I expect that with its debut outside of Japan, the amount of Flipnote artists drawing dicks, butts, and naturally dick-butts will increase substantially.

So, how will Nintendo make sure that your vulgar masterpieces never reach children’s DSis? It starts with the submission process — your clips are first posted onto Ugomemo Hatena, the YouTube-like site for Flipnote animations. If a Hatena user decides your Splash Woman hentai is inappropriate, they can mark it so that it won’t display on DSis for a limited period of time.

Even if only one person reports your animation, the clip will not appear to users browsing submitted works on their DSis. The Hatena Support Center will then review the animation to see if it should be marked as appropriate or deleted from the site. I’m not sure how the team plans to deal with users abusing this self-policing system.

Tattletales who report content that Hatena agrees is inappropriate will receive three green stars as a reward. It’s unclear what these stars are for, though! There are also stars for rating clips, but they’re orange.

So, don’t expect to see the rest of Yaranaika’s explicit man-sex scenes from this Flipnote adaptation:

Buy: U.S. Matte Black and Blue DSi

Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi (White, Black, Pink, Red, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

See also: Moving Memo Pad’s derivative animations, An odd animation I found on Ugomemo Hatena

tags / ugomemo hatena / flipnote studio / adult / dsiware / moving memo pad / ec

Ugomemo Hatena — a YouTube-like site for DSi’s Moving Memo Pad animations like the one above — is a fantastic service; it’s what elevates the free flipbook software from a cool program to a killer app. It certainly beats the pants off of Pictochat (which isn’t saying much)!

And since it’s such a useful and well-executed online feature promoting user creativity and participation, we naturally assumed that Nintendo would forswear its existence when the software hit the U.S., meeting complaints with a shrug and a “not my problem.”

Hatena’s site indicates that won’t be the case, however, and says, with a wink, that the service is currently available “In Japanese Only. For Now.” The page adds, “Create a Hatena account today, and enjoy Ugomemo Hatena right when it becomes available in your country.”

While it’s not an official announcement, it’s a hint that we’ll enjoy the service when Moving Memo Pad releases in the West! Let’s celebrate with a weird Mario animation:

See also: Moving Memo Pad’s derivative animations, Tatsunoko Productions animator Takada demonstrates Moving Memo Pad

tags / ugomemo hatena / moving memo pad / ukogu-memo-chou / ugoku memo hatena / dsi / dsiware / hatena / ec

Nintendo and Japanese blog site Hatena have just unveiled Ugoku Memo Hatena, a site that allows users of the upcoming free Ugoku Memo-chou (Moving Memo Pad) software to upload and share their pictures and animations. The resulting animations have a look that’s part Flash, part Game Boy Camera, and, I don’t know, part Rhythm Tengoku?

The DSiWare flipbook program doesn’t come out until the 24th, so all the (totally wonderful) animations currently available on the site are from Nintendo and Hatena staffers. Here are some favorites of ours.

Is doodle-blogging going to be the DSi’s killer app? I know I suddenly really want a DSi now.

See also: Japanese DSi Ware, DSi Shop trailer

[Via Inside-Games]

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