Suikoden V Autographed Posters

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I have a special piece of Suikoden V history to share with you all! Up until last week I had no knowledge that these existed, then I saw an auction for it.
I present to you an official autographed Suikoden V Poster:

Suikoden V Autographed Poster


















3 Autographs














Letter of authenticity














These posters are pretty rare as they were given only to 108 people (what a coincidence no?? :P) They were announced on the official Japanese King Blog before the release of Suikoden V in Japan. It was announced that when the Blog had 1.08 (another coincidence) million viewers, they would have a contest that people could enter for a special prize. The 108 winners were picked randomly, 6 of them received 3 posters all signed by 3 people, and the other 102 would received 1 poster signed by 3 people. Suffice to say these are very rare and even more limited.
The people who autographed them are:
- The Director of Suikoden V: Takahiro Sakiyama
- The Composer and Sound Producer of Suikoden V: Norikazu Miura (He was also the sound director for Suikoden Tactics and Shadows of Destiny)
- and finally the King himself, the King Blog and also the Art Director of Suikoden V: Hideki "King" Tanaka

I'm fairly certain the 3 posters given to the 6 people would be these ones here, although the ones pictured here are not autographed. And these ones without the autographs aren't too rare.








You can read about it in the original post on Kings Blog here:
http://www.blog.konami.jp/gs/genso_v/2006/02/001172.php

You can also find an english translation of the post on Suikosource here:
http://www.suikosource.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=8098
Just scroll down to where it says 2/22 The Promised "Last Night" and you'll see it :)

I can't wait to receive this beautiful item, I hope I can find the other 2 posters I need some day :D.

Juegos relacionados con Suikoden/ Suikoden related games

Existe una serie de juegos de Konami que estan relacionados con Suikoden de alguna manera.
En primer lugar, y dentro de los juegos "bemani" contamos con el Pop'n Music 13 Carnival (con la canción Queen Knight y unas monísimas aimaciones del príncipe de Falena) y el Beatmania IIDX 11 RED (con un mix de canciones de Suikoden V e imágenes de los videos del juego de fondo), los cuales incluyen una canción de Suikoden V cada uno. Aquí dejo unas imágenes cogidas de Playasia con la captura de los juegos y videos de youtube del Beatmania IIDX 11 RED y del Pop'n Music 13 en el juego y las animaciones.

There are a few games which are suikoden related in some way. In first place we can find suikoden references in 2 bemani games: Beatmania IIDX 11 RED(with a mix of suikoden 5 song with some scenes of the video in the back) and Pop'n music 13 Carnival (with Queen Knight song having a very cute Frey's sequences).
You can see it in the pictures I took from Playasia, and here in youtube: Beatmania IIDX 11 RED and Pop'n Music 13 Carnival in game and art (so cool).


También existen juegos relacionados debido a que incluían una demo de algun suiko, como es el caso del Metal Gear Solid edición NTSC-J, que incluye una demo de Suikoden II y la imagen de la portada, y el Vandal Hearts 2 Pal (cualquiera de ellos) que incluía una demo de Suikoden II también, con el manual (diferente al normal). El manual de la edición Pal Esp pone "Manual del demo" en castellano, mientras que el UK viene obviamente en inglés (lo demás es igual).

There are some games also which are related to suikoden because they had a suikoden demo, like Metal Gear Solid NTSC-J version and Vandal Hearts II pal version (any of them), both of them include a Suikoden II demo, but MGS includes also a pic of the front cover.

Por último tenemos los juegos relacionados por algún tipo de guinyo, como es el caso del Shadow of memories con Suikoden IV. Uno de los personajes del Shadow aparece en Suikoden IV: Oleg Franssen. Bueno, realmente el SoM es anterior al SIV así que el cameo aparece en el suikoden y no al revés, pero es chulísimo igualmente.
Otro guinyo mucho menor es el que nos encontramos en Suikoden II al presionar un arbusto con dalias en la ciudad de Greenhill, aparenciendo el nombre de Dahlia Gillespie, personaje de Silent Hill.

Lastly we have the games related to suikoden for some other references, like Shadow of memories, where appears a character from Suikoden IV: Oleg Franssen Well, Shadow of Memories came out first, so the cameo is in Suikoden IV really, but it is so cool anyway.
And a little reference this time in a Suikoden II is in Greenhill where you can see the name of Dahlia Gillespie, Silent Hill Character, checking the flowers.

Por último, en el Castlevania de DS Dawn of Sorrow hay un anillo llamado "Soul eater ring", conociendo a Konami esto no parece casualidad tampoco (gracias a Winds por la info).
And one last thing. In Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow (DS) there are a ring called Soul eater ring, knowing Konami that doesnt seem a coincidence. Thanks Winds for the info.