Today NIS America has released a handful of new screenshots for Mugen Souls Z and these screens mark the first time that Mugen Souls Z’s gameplay has been shown in English. It is also worth noting that instead of the vague May release window we now know that Mugen Souls Z will be released in North America on May 20th and a few days later on May 23rd in Europe.
In this sequel to Mugen Souls, players will take control of the goddess Syrma who meets Chou-Chou shortly after the events of the first game. Syrma is out to stop an ancient threat to her world and with the help of Chou-Chou and her friends, plus a level cap of 9,999, players must do what they can in this wacky game to put a stop to this threat.
Now that Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends is set to be released in North America in less than a week Tecmo Koei has chosen to release their first English trailer for the game which shows off how the game will look if you play it on the PlayStation 4 as all of the gameplay footage found below is from the next-gen version of the game.
We have previously seen how the game will look compared side to side to the PlayStation 3 release of the game but this trailer not only shows us some additional gameplay footage and a look at some of the new modes available in the Xtreme Legends release but it also features a preview of the English dub for the new characters in the title.
Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends, exclusive to the PS3, and Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition, only for the PS4 and PS Vita, is set to be released next week on March 25th.
You’ve never seen a promotion for a game quite like this one! With all the hype surrounding “J-Stars Victory Vs.” finally coming to the boil in anticipation of its release in Japan, it seems as though the marketing guys at Namco Bandai have come up with an excellent way to make the general public aware of such an incredible title and to get fans already into the game incredibly excited for it. This promotion comes in the form of a huge installation outside of a”Parco” department store in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The installation shows Goku (Dragon Ball Z) fighting against Luffy (One Piece) and it looks absolutely amazing. Below we have a gallery full of images of the installation for all of you to look at and appreciate, I certainly did! For those of you reading from Japan; the game is available now for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita so head down to your local game store now to pick it up and if you live somewhere in or near Shibuya, head down to check out the installation, it will be up until the 23rd of March so you only have a few days left.
The latest trailer for the Spring 2014 anime series One Week Friends has just been released. The trailer gives a hint at what to expect from the anime series while proving to be more of a teaser than anything.
One Week Friends is an anime series from Brains Base studio that follows Yuuki Hase and Kaori Fujimiya, two high school students doomed to only ever be friends for one week due to Kaori’s short term memory loss affliction that resets her entire memory every single Monday. Unrelenting Yuuki makes it his mission to become Kaori’s friend every single week despite the fact that she will only forget it all come Monday.
You can check out the trailer for One Week Friends below. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section.
Thought there were no more updates? Hwoarang you were
Namco Bandai has announced that their online card battler Tekken Card Tournament is set to receive a major update this April. This overhaul will add a bundle of new content to the title as a kind of thank you to the fans who have downloaded it and bought the physical cards.
Tekken Card Tournament 2.0 will see the introduction to the game of legendary Tekken stalwart Hwoarang, bringing his Taekwondo moves to the game with a swathe of spectacular character effects to match. The update will also include a item shop chock full of new character enhancing items, along with a character viewer to scope out your Tekken favourites. Team features will also receive an improvement, including descriptions, team buffs, shop and stats. Fell free to test these out within the new special tournaments, each with specific entry criteria.
So take the fight to the streets and download Tekken Card Tournament now from iTunes, Google Play or Amazon. Or, should you be so inclined, simply play instantly in your browser. Either way, test your mettle and strategise to stand above all who oppose you (Or just use this card guide). Check out the trailer below and marvel at what technology has done. I mean who wouldn’t want their own little Heihachi?
D-Frag! Episode 5 – What?! Your Little Sister Makes Your Lunches?!
With a backlog that grows larger by the day it seems like it will be impossible to catch up this season but no time like the present to try and make some headway. So after the events of episode four of D-Frag! we what lengths the Provisional Game Creation Club members are willing to go to protect their fellow club member and we have even learned that Roka is the true underground boss of the school that is feared by the entire student body as she manages to make even the fiercest group of delinquents cower in fear.
Well now that Kazama has managed to escape from the Band of 14 Devils he is now back with the club and while he wants to show his thanks for being rescued, he isn’t exactly excited to play a new board game that Roka has come up with that involves collecting porn mags from across the galaxy to try and win the game. As such even though he is a club member and Takao is simply hanging out with the group since it seems she has nothing better to do, he does his best to bring her into the game since it is only playable up to four people.
Much to his dismay, after promising Takao a major favor, Roka is pleased to inform Kazama that the game has evolved to allow five people to play and with only one human character and one ridiculously embarrassing alien left to play as, Takao and Kazama begin to fight for the last human that just so happens to be a play on Gandhi.
This leads to another minor power struggle between Kazama, Takao, and Roka as we see that not only is Roka a bit jealous about Takao but really wants to make Kazama happy at the same time. Also it makes things more obvious than ever that Takao has a crush on Kazama as she begins to grill him on his likes and past trying to find out more about him using the ridiculous rules of Roka’s Rock, Paper, Scissors game.
While this first half of the episode is full of cute gags relying on the chemistry between Kazama, Takao, and Roka, the second half takes a bit of a look into Kazama’s past while not only introducing a new female character but an awesome teacher that happens to be called “Shaun Konekone” and happens to look and sound very similar to a certain famous Scottish actor. You see, this teacher played quite a role in making Kazama the man he is today in a rather interesting fashion.
Of course, revealing this information, plus everyone finding out that Kazama’s little sister packs him a lunch for school quickly begins to make Kazama’s recently heightened delinquent status begin to falter once more, though this seems for the best since his soft side appears to be attracting a new girl in the form of Funabori.
This episode helped bring back the status quo of D-Frag! which sees the group mostly messing around in the clubroom and bringing viewers the same type of outlandish humor that the series has featured so far, a special note this time goes to food that had fallen on the floor only for all of the class to embarrassingly say where they’ve been walking around all day just to make Kazama’s situation worse. Kazama seems to be the only “straight man” left now as even Takao has begun to act odd around him. Funabori is a nice new addition though her devotion to the classroom is a bit strange as well, but I can see her becoming a popular fan favorite if she receives more screen time, but for now Takao continues to be the best of the ever growing cast of characters.
Currently D-Frag! is available for streaming in the United States by FUNimation. As for the rest of our winter impressions, you can check out our Anime Impressions page.
Douglas Booth, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly, director Darren Aronofsky, producer Scott Franklin and Ray Winstone at the premiere of ‘NOAH’ at Zoo Palast on March 13, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
Paramount Pictures have released a flood (I swear it’s the last time I’ll use the pun) of NOAHcontent, including a new clip, two interactive experiences and photos from the film’s premieres in Moscow, Berlin, Mexico City and Madrid, along with a cut-down version of the ‘Building the Ark‘ featurette.
Embedded at the bottom of this article, you will find the clip ‘It Begins’, which shows the migration of all the planet’s species of animals towards the Ark. You can also explore the three decks of Noah’s Ark in the interactive ‘Ark Experience‘, and put on your headphones as you trek ‘The Journey‘ towards the Ark. NOAH releases nationwide on March 27.
This anime season is almost over and even thought it IS summer here in Australia I was definitely feeling the chilled winds of a Japanese winter. Thoughts on the winter season? It wasn’t terrible but apart from outstanding series’ like “Space Dandy” and “Noragami” I found it to be, for lack of a better word…flat. What I felt the winter season lacked, for the most part, was interesting characters and overall good writing but my spirits are still high because I have grand hopes that the spring anime season will make up for what I believed the winter season lacked.
I can hardly believe that, years ago, I never enjoyed the sci-fi action of a “mech” anime. Luckily I’ve changed in a big way because most of the spring anime titles I’ve chosen to follow pretty much revolve around “mechs” in way way or another. Much like last season my sights have been entirely set on one particular anime; “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Season 3: Stardust Crusaders”. Last season I had my eyes glued to “Space Dandy” even before it first started airing but this season “Stardust Crusaders” has gotten all of my attention and I hope with all my heart that my other anime picks can stand alongside “the next “JJBA” anime series when it comes to quality because they have quite the expectation measure up to. Speaking oh which, let’s get a move on!
Two Japanese teenagers, an old man, a middle eastern mystic, a flamboyant frenchman and a dog travel the world in search for an ancient evil that may or may not have been a part of the band “Black Sabbath”. I really shouldn’t have to give anymore explanation than that but what kind of pop culture journalist would I be if I simply left a description at that? Surely by now, if you’re a GOOD anime fan, you would have heard of a little shonen series called “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure”. Created many years ago by an ageless man called Hirohiko Araki, “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” is one of the longest running manga series of all time.
With eight different parts, each of which hosting different characters and storylines, this series has a lot of tales to tell and recently the animation studio “David Productions” have picked up the series and started turning it into a modern anime series beginning from the very first storyline “Phantom Blood”. Within the past year we’ve been through the release of the first two seasons; “Phantom Blood” and “Battle Tendancy”, within this new anime season comes the third installment of the “JJBA” anime series “Stardust Crusaders” which follows the juvenile delinquent and total bancho bro Jotaro Kujo as he uses his brand-new supernatural abilities to take on an evil that MAY just mean the end of the world if not stopped. “Stardust Crusaders” was the only “JJBA” series to be released outside of Japan so you can imagine that a great deal of the Western fans of the series would be shaking in their seats right now and, well, so should you!
I heard that the name “Captain Planet” was already taken so the people behind the upcoming anime “Captain Earth” had to chose that title instead. Now I’ll be entirely honest with you; I haven’t actually seen much of this show but from what I’ve read about it I think that it may just be one that’s worth checking out even if it does end up being a little silly. Basically a young boy finds a cool looking robot, alien forces attack and he’s forced to pilot the hulking mass of robot into victory…pretty simple. That’s as basic as it comes and, let’s be entirely honest here, we’ve seen this kind of thing before BUT “Valvrave the Liberator” started in this fashion and that series ended up taking twists and turns like you wouldn’t believe so I’m willing to put my faith into something simple with the hopes that they take the fundamental aspects of any “mech” anime and do it damn well!
Obviously there’s more to this anime than just that but as far as official descriptions go; that’s the long and short of it. Boy meets robot, robot beats aliens, world loves boy. I’m mostly interested in this anime because a) BONES is producing it and they developed fantastic series’ like “Fullmetal Alchemist”, “Soul Eater”, “Norgami” and “Space Dandy” and b) the robot within “Captain Earth” somewhat reminds me of “Heroman” which is an old anime series that was co-created by American comic book God Stan Lee. Both I feel are good enough reasons to follow a show, even though one is clearly more thought out than the other. In all seriousness though I really do wish the best for this series, it seems as though it may be more than just “boy meets bot” and even if it ends up being just that I’m sure the writers will do the genre justice.
Much like “Captain Earth” I can’t say that I know a great deal about “Kenzen Robo Daimidala”. I heard about this a while back when it was first announced and it has sat there in the back of my endless mind for what seems like an eternity only running to the forefront as a glanced past “Daimidala” while looking through the spring anime season series listings. “Kenzen Robo Daimidala” follows on with the “boy meets bot” theme but puts a pretty big twist on it and I think that is simply because its a comedy series…unless I researched incorrectly. Koichi Madanbashi is a young boy who attends highschool. He’s a seemingly normal high school student: he’s lazy, he’s stupid and he’s a bit of a “perv”. One day young Koichi discovers that he has a source of energy hidden within him called “Hi-ERo Particles”, a force that he also discovers to be the main power source of an incredible giant robot. So far so good.
As he discovers this, his town is attacked by…yep, you guessed it; a malevolent force known as the “Penguin Empire”. Using this hidden power alongside his new robot friend, Koichi fights off the invading forces and begins his life as a hero. Once again pretty damn simple but also fairly attractive to an anime viewer who, now and then, enjoys a bit of comedy. Oh! I forgot to mention one thing! He powers himself up with these “Hi-ERo Particles” by getting all “touchy touchy” with the girls around him…I guess he puts the “ero” in “hero”. Look, people, it DOES seem a little silly, I’m fully aware of that but I’m trying to stay positive. If this series can give me a laugh or two within the first episode I will most likely stick with it but I can’y honestly see myself staying with it for too long. Prove me wrong “Kenzen Robo Daimidala”! Prove me wrong!
Basically “Fuun Ishin Dai Shogun” is the spring anime seasons version of “Nobunaga The Fool” which aired throughout the winter anime season. It takes Japan during the Meiji Restoration period (more specifically; just before it) and tosses a bunch of high-powered, robot, giants, into the mix. I avoided “Nobunaga The Fool” like the plague last season despite the fact that I love both “mech” and “samurai period” anime, the funny thing is that I couldn’t even tell you exactly why so I have to make an amendment, I HAVE to follow “Fuun Ishin Dai Shogun”! This series isn’t exactly like “Nobunaga The Fool” but they are quite similar in premise so I can imagine people will be comparing the two quite frequently.
“Fuun Ishin Dai Shogun” takes place in Japan just before the “Meiji Restoration Period” (look it up) wherein which foreign ships were driven away by huge mechs called “Onigami”. Due to those ships being sent away, Japan has been in a state of isolation for a very long time therefore the country hasn’t really changed much from that period of time but there’s still robots! That’s something different! What I’m really into when it comes to this series is its artistic style, from the small promo video that has been released as well as some character art assets the series is actually looking to be quite good. Hopefully it doesn’t end up going down hill or getting TOO silly but I have more faith in this one than in “Kenzen Robo Daimidala” so that has to be saying something.
We’re still a few weeks away from the beginning of the spring anime season so it’s not odd for there to not be that much information on the upcoming series’. Unfortunately though, us here on the Capsule Computer anime team have to write about them so it doesn’t really help us that there isn’t too much information circling the net. “Majine Bone” is almost entirely bare when it comes to a series description. All we really now at this point in time is that the series will feature people with the ability to transform into powerful warriors. The designs of these transformations remind me a great deal of “Gatchaman Crowds”, a beautifully-animated series which premièred last year, and that gives me great hope in the aesthetic quality of the series.
Apparently “Majin Bone” is the anime adaptation of a card game project created by “Bandai” but even information on that particular card game is scarce though I believe it may have a release sometime around that of the anime series, I guess we’ll soon see. Lately the anime industry has seen a rise in the amount of CGI animation used within series’ animated mostly traditionally. At first it didn’t seem like it fit well but I feel as though, ever since the release of “Tiger And Bunny”, the quality of anime series’ that mix traditional and CGI animation has risen exponentially, I suppose that’s why I’ll put my faith into “Majine Bone”…hopefully the series wont do us wrong.
Now this series right here is one that I usually wouldn’t want to get into but seeing as I’m clearly in a more adventurous mood I may as well give this one a try. “Hero Bank” is another anime that is being based off of a game; it revolves around a young buy who gets into a fair bit of debt somehow and his quest to get himself out of it using an oddly awesome program called “Hero-Gi” which allows him to take part in paid “cyber battle” wherein which he can fight other “Hero-Gi” users in the hopes that eventually he’ll win himself enough money to wipe away his ungodly debt.
I happen to love anime series’ that have been adapted from games but they have proved to not be as good in the past so I stopped viewing them, “Hero Bank” though…it has sucked me in and now I’m kind of excited to see exactly where the series goes. It’s been a while since I’ve watched an anime series with a protagonist as young as this one but I’ve got the feeling I’ll love it for the sense of nostalgia it will surely give off. The aesthetic style of the series looks fantastic in my opinion, though it IS childish in the way it looks I think sometimes that’s exactly what you need to break up the monotony of such serious-looking anime titles. I’m quite exited for “Hero Bank” and I really hope a distributor like “Crunchyroll” picks it up soon!
The opening theme for the upcoming sports anime series Haikyu!! has been previewed. The song is called ‘Imagination’ and is performed by popular J-Rock band SPYAIR.
Haikyu!! is of course based upon the wildly popular Shonen Jump volley ball manga of the same name. The series revolves around the intense sport of high school volley ball and is set to premiere as part of the Spring 2014 anime season.
You can check out the opening theme in the video preview below. Do you think that its a good fit for the series? Let us know in the comments section below. Get ready for a spike, baby!
It’s been five years since the FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) mode was introduced to the FIFA video game series in FIFA 09, and to celebrate this anniversary, EA Sports have released an infographic filled with staggering statistics and numbers.
You can check out the infographic in full below (click through to enlarge). Some highlights include:
Every hour, 542,000 player transfers are happening in FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT). That’s 42X the number of actual transfers that were handled by the FIFA governing body in all of 2013.
A staggering 64% of all FIFA players play FUT.
There have already been 1.46 billion transfers listed in FUT in FIFA 14 since Sept 2013.
There are as much as 13 million player transfers in a day in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team. That’s approx. 542,000 transfers an hour.
There have been 725 million matches played in FUT within FIFA 14 Ultimate Team so far.
FIFA 13 Ultimate Team had over 11.2 million players and FIFA 14 Ultimate Team is currently on course to surpass it.
Special events will be held throughout the week to celebrate further, which you can learn more about right here.
