I too love Carpe Fulgur, but iM@S is way out of their budget
Just a thought that popped into my head - why would you try to buy the rights to a translation for an existing game, when you can convince a company that's already planning a US release that you'll do it for them?
But you know what? I remember reading a review on Ikaruga a long time ago. It went something like this:
There are probably only two sort of people reading this review. The first is the people who know nothing about this game and might not even think of buying it. The second are the people who are already fans and have imported the game already.
... 'Bout sums up my feelings.
... And is this hoobies going to become the Idolm@ster version of spoony bard?