NIS America has released a story trailer for God Wars: Future Past, the Kadokawa Games’ developed strategy RPG they are planning on releasing early next year. The story takes Japan’s history, the “Kojiki” book, and traditional Japanese fairy tales and fuses them together to create a brand new story where players must explore the lives of heroes who must fight against fate.
You can check out the video below where most of the footage consists of animated cutscenes but a bit of gameplay footage is also shown off. As for the game itself, God Wars: Future Past is set to be released in North America and Europe in early 2017.
Square Enix has released another batch of screenshots for NieR: Automata and this time around the focus is placed on the two forest areas that are called, at least so far, Forest Zone and Forest Castle. The Forest Zone will be a rich area with lush forests while the castle has been converted into one that allows mechanic life-forms to appear wearing Middle Age style armor and act under the command of an unknown leader.
You can check out the screenshots below and as for the game itself, NieR: Automata is set to be released in Japan on February 23rd and in North America and Europe in early 2017 for the PlayStation 4.
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has revealed that Koei Tecmo is planning on releasing Musou Stars on the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in Japan on March 2, 2017. The company also revealed that they will be adding Wang Yuanji from the Dynasty Warriors series, Horo from Toukiden, as well as Mitsunari Ishida from the Samurai Warriors games to the game.
Three original characters called Tamaki, Setsuna, and Shiki were also announced and can be seen, at least a little bit, in the tiny scan above. Tamaki has been described as the ringleader who helped summon heroes into the world and uses a mirror to attack and she specializes in long distance attacks while Setsuna is the son of the king and is Shiki’s cousin who uses a sword in combat. Shiki, Tamaki’s older brother, attempts to hinder the aforementioned two and fights using a floating orb.
The charming folks over at In The House just announced their new line-up for the upcoming Season 0.1. We’ve reviewed the last couple of seasons and had a grand old time watching everything from Boyz N the Hood to Aliens. Season 0 of 2016 isn’t quite over yet and they’re still doing screenings of From Dusk Till Dawn next week and Gremlins on the 16th of December.
Here is the list of films which are in the current line-up:
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)- February 3rd
The Fly (1986) & Gattaca (1997)- February 17th
Stand by Me (1986)- March 3rd
The Untouchables (1987)- March 17th
Fight Club (1999)- March 31st
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)- April 14th
Robocop (1987) & Flash Gordon (1980)- April 28th
The Godfather Part II (1974)- May 12th
Escape from New York (1981)- May 26th
Edward Scissorhands (1990)- June 9th
We have been fans of the In the House screenings here and have quited enjoyed going to watch their screenings of various cinema cult classics. We look forward to seeing the new lineup they’ve announced here with The Godfather Part II and Fight Club being particular favourites of mine. It’s great to watch these films up on the big screen, as they were originally created for, and I have no problem giving my recommendation for anyone who might be interested in going to see one of the screenings.
You can find tickets to all of the above screenings here and watch a teaser for the season below.
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has revealed that Spike Chunsoft is planning on releasing a demo for New Danganronpa V3 ahead of its planned release in Japan. Oddly enough, the demo is going to apparently feature Makoto Naegi, Yasuhiro Hagakure, and Hajime Hinata as guest characters though they will apparently be in a story that will be different from the main game so as to let players try out some new systems without seeing any actual spoilers.
Also detailed were some of the extra modes in the game, with there being a board game styled one, a communication type one, and a dungeon RPG type mini-game. Currently New Danganronpa V3 is set to be released in Japan on January 12th for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita.
The debut trailer for The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 has been released by Nippon Ichi Software and in it the video introduces us to the new protagonist Chelka as well as many of the characters that players will run into throughout the story.
This includes Amalie, Milm, Huninmugin, the Hundred Knight of course, as well as a few others. Following this brief introduction a bit of the game’s new and improved combat mechanics are shown off and you can check it all out in the video below. Currently The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 is set to be released in Japan on February 23rd for the PlayStation 4.
With The Last Guardian arriving on store shelves in a little under a week, Sony of Japan has released an eight minute long introduction trailer to give fans a look at most of what the title will have to offer. This includes showing the meeting of the boy and Trico for the first time as well as some exploration elements.
You can check out the video below and keep an eye out for the game when it is finally released on the PlayStation 4 in North America and Japan on December 6th and a day later in Europe on December 7th.
A number of new screenshots for Digimon World: Next Order have been released by Bandai Namco in Japan and this time around some of the newer Digimon that will be added in this version of the game are given some time to shine.
The ones highlighted this time are new Digimon Darkdramon, Chaosmon Emperor Greymon, Magna Garurumon, and Susanoomonas well as various other gameplay elements. You can check out the screenshots below and as for the game itself, currently Digimon World: Next Order is set to be released on the PlayStation 4th in North America on January 31st, Europe on January 27th, and in Japan on February 26th.
XSEED Games has announced that they are planning on releasing Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel on PC through Steam on December 8th. The crossover fighting game was originally released on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 and this upcoming PC release will feature all of the balances that have been made to the game so far, additional victory poses and animated stage backgrounds, as well as a number of new color palettes.
This release will also include all of the downloadable fighters for the game such as Senran Kagura’s Homura and Arcana Heart’s Heart. Currently no price for the PC release of the game has been announced but you can check out some screenshots of it below.
It’s been a long, long wait but after initial leaks several months ago, the release of the English simulcast on anime streaming services and then official confirmation from Funimation themselves that a Dragon Ball Super dub is being produced by them, we now have our first look at what the series will look like under the direction of Chris Sabat.
A voice cast list covering the first 16 or so episodes confirming that almost every voice actor from the FUNimation Dragon Ball Z dub will be returning with one notable exception. Laura Bailey will not be returning as Kid Trunks, being replaced by Alexis Tipton who I have been told is an almost perfect sound-alike and has an impressive list of credits to her name. Laura Bailey and Chris Sabat both responded to this change through Twitter, citing the strenuous nature of Kid Trunks voice on Laura’s vocal cords and her increasingly busy schedule as the main reasons for why she couldn’t reprise her role.
CHARACTER
ACTOR
GOKU
Seán Schemmel
VEGETA
Christopher R. Sabat
BEERUS
Jason Douglas
WHIS
Ian Sinclair
KRILLIN
Sonny Strait
GOHAN
Kyle Hebert
BULMA
Monica Rial
PICCOLO
Christopher R. Sabat
TRUNKS
Alexis Tipton
NARRATOR
Doc Morgan
GOTEN
Kara Edwards
CHI-CHI
Cynthia Cranz
ANDROID 18
Meredith McCoy
MR. SATAN
Chris Rager
BUU
Josh Martin
KING KAI
Seán Schemmel
SHENRON
Christopher R. Sabat
VIDEL
Kara Edwards
YAMCHA
Christopher R. Sabat
TIEN
John Burgmeier
SHOU
Chris Cason
ROSHI
Mike McFarland
PUAR
Brina Palencia
PILAF
Chuck Huber
OX-KING
Kyle Hebert
OOLONG
Brad Jackson
MARRON
Tia Ballard
KIBITO KAI
Kent Williams
ELDER KAI
Kent Williams
DENDE
Justin Cook
CHIAOTZU
Brina Palencia
MAI
Colleen Clinkenbeard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvRHOiYKBPU
The two clips are combined into the one video above and features a scene with Mr. Satan (Hercule in censored versions) talking with Majin Buu and one with Goku and King Kai on his planet. Personally I was very impressed by the performances here both in delivery and how each voice sounds authentic to the best of that characters previous work. I compared the English script with the script used on the official simulcast and I can happily say it is very faithful.
In very related news, a while back we reported on the existence of a second English dub that will be used in English speaking Asian markets on Toonami Asia. This dub has nothing to do with FUNimation and is being produced by a company out of California known as Bang Zoom Productions. You probably won’t see this ever if you are reading this unless you actively seek it out, but it’s always interesting to have another take of the same series. You can check out that dub clip below if you’re interested.
