Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8

Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8
Japanese	電撃G's Festival! Vol.8
Information
Type	Magazine
Price	¥1,980
Pages	84
Release Date	March 29, 2007

Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8 (電撃G's Festival! Vol.8) is the eighth volume of Dengeki G's Festival!, a special edition of Dengeki G's Magazine, and is devoted entirely to Shakugan no Shana.

Special Box

Dengeki G's Festival! magazines come bundled with a "Special Box" containing exclusive goods. Included with Vol.8 was a card holder, a Shana dakimakura cover featuring new art by Noizi Itō, and a mobile phone cleaner.

Contents

• Page 2 (inside cover): Toy's Works advertisement for the Guren no Sensei, Ceremony and Noir version figures.
• Page 3: Dengeki Hime magazine advertisement.
• Page 4: Contents page.
• Page 5: Goods raffle questionnaire information. Readers can enter a raffle to win one of 15 prizes, which include the Shakugan no Shana DS game, a copy of GU-RE-N signed by Noizi Itō, trading cards, the Kotobukiya Swimsuit version Shana figure, a box of Toranoana Palm Characters: Dengeki Bunko Characters figures, Azone's Hybrid Active Figure, and Toy's Works' Guren no Sensei, Ceremony and Noir figures.
• Pages 6-7: Magazine introduction.
• Pages 8-13: Feature on Shakugan no Shana The Movie
  • 8-12: Information about the movie's screening and story elements, short profiles for Shana, Yūji Sakai, Friagne and Marianne, Margery Daw, and Kazumi Yoshida, and comments from each member of Love Planet Five.
  • 13: Information about the Dengeki Bunko Movie Festival and the other 2 movies part of it, Kino's Journey: Country of Illness —For You— and Inukami! The Movie.
• Pages 14-27: Shakugan no Shana Character Profiles
  • 14-15: Shana (Alastor, Flame Haze, Nietono no Shana, melonpan)
  • 16-17: Yūji Sakai (Reiji Maigo, Torch, family, Mystes)
  • 18-19: Kazumi Yoshida (Jettatura, obento, Misaki City, love rival)
  • 20-21: Margery Daw (Marchosias, Unrestricted Spell Master, alcohol, Crystal Altar)
  • 22-23: Wilhelmina Carmel (Tiamat, Tendōkyū, educator, mask)
  • 24: Khamsin Nbh'w (Behemoth), Chigusa Sakai
  • 25: Keisaku Satō, Eita Tanaka, Hayato Ike, Matake Ogata
  • 26-27: Bal Masqué Trinity (Sydonay, Hecate, Bel-Peol), "The connection between humans and the adjacent world which cannot be reached, the Crimson Realm"
• Pages 28-37: TV Anime Playback Stories
  A digest of all 24 episodes, the OVA, and Shakugan no Shana-tan. Includes short profiles for Yukari Hirai, Friagne, Marianne, Lamies, Sorath, Tiriel, Merihim, Dantalion and Domino.
• Pages 38-45: Original work Shakugan no Shana Complete Guide
  • 38-42: A digest of the novels, including a short glossary.
  • 43: Information about the manga series.
  • 44-45: Shana Story Chart, a timeline for the series.
• Pages 46-49: Shakugan no Shana DS
  A brief introduction to the story, the extra modes for the DS version of the game, and the battle system, as well as an explanation of the various ending conditions, flowcharts to get the best Shana and Kazumi Yoshida endings, and tips to defeat all 10 enemy characters in the game.
• Pages 50-57: Shakugan no Shana Illustration Collection
  A collection of 42 illustrations of the anime version which were used for promotions in anime magazines from August 2005, just before the airing of the first season, to February 2007, after the announcement of the movie.
• Pages 58-61: Shakugan no Shana Secrets
  An interview with Yashichirō Takahashi and Noizi Itō.
• Pages 62-65: Cheering "Do your best!" for Shana and Yūji
  An interview with Rie Kugimiya and Satoshi Hino, the voice actors of Shana and Yūji.
  Interestingly, Hino commented that it would be interesting if Yūji was on the side opposing Shana in the future, with Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8 being published one month after volume XIV, where Yūji joins Bal Masqué.
• Pages 66-67: Anime Director Interview
  An interview with Takashi Watanabe.
• Pages 68-77: Shakugan no Shana Goods Collection
  Information about Shakugan no Shana goods, ranging from books, CDs, DVDs, magazine appendixes, character goods, games, mobile contents, promotional goods such as leaflets and posters, figures, apparel, telephone cards, and trading cards.
• Pages 78-81: Misaki Municipal High School Entrance Examination
  A 64-question quiz about Shakugan no Shana, including 9 questions from Shakugan no Shana editor Kazuma Miki. Readers could fill an answer sheet and mail it to the Dengeki G's Magazine editors, where sheets with all correct answers entered a raffle. 3 raffle winners received a Shana dakimakura cover, the same one bundled with the magazine in the "Special Box", signed by Noizi Itō and Yashichirō Takahashi.
• Pages 82-83: Editorial pages.
• Page 84 (back cover): Advertisement for three Shakugan no Shana The Movie related products: the Shakugan no Shana SP DVD and CDs for Tenjō wo Kakeru Monotachi and Akai Namida.