Earlier in the year Chiyomaru Shikura, creator of Steins;Gate, revealed plans for his next work Occultic;Nine. Chiyomaru also specified that his debut novel is not the proper fourth “science adventure” following after Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotics;Notes, though it could be considered the fourth in the Shikura body of work. The “paranormal science” novel is set to be released August 25th and will be illustrated by Pako (character designer of Un-Go) from Overlap.
“The story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, including a black magic proxy/medium and a dojin manga creator. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to larger, unimaginable events that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.”
So far four characters of the nine member cast have been revealed:
Yuuta Gamon – An unkempt seventeen year old student and paranormal blogger who goes by the self proclaimed title of NEET God.
Sarai Hashioue – A nineteen year old university freshman who lives in Kichijouji. He despises useless things and demands a direct approach to all things. Hates fantasy. Goes under the online handle SARAI.
Ryouka Narusawa – A sixteen year old first-year high school studen. Dreams of producing and singing her own songs in the future. Described as being fair skinned and naïve to the world, and being a girl with big dreams.Goes under the online handle Ryoutasu.
Miyu Aikawa – A sixteen year old moe star of NicoNico fortune telling videos. Goes under the online handle Myu.
The TBS network’s official site for Infinite Stratos 2 announced on April 24th that the series is slated for a fall release. The Infinite Stratos All Night Festival previously confirmed the release of a second season as a part of Overlap‘s “Infinite Stratos Reboot Project”.
Continuing from the first anime series, 8-Bit will be the studio behind the series, with Yasuhito Kikuchi once again directing. However, Kumi Horii will now be handling the changed character designs,taking over from previous designer Tomoyasu Kurashima. The main Japanese voice cast of the first season is also slated to return and reprise their roles.
In November 2012 the legendary creator of the Fable franchise, Peter Molyneux unveiled and released his newest project – Curiosity. Curiosity was a mobile game where players from all around the globe simultaneously removed “cubeletts” from a larger overall cube to eventually discover what was hiding inside. As each layer of the cube was removed, more and more information and teasers were revealed. Finally, after almost six months and more than 25 billion broken cubeletts, the game is over and we finally have the answer to the eponymous question “what’s in the box!?”
Bryan Henderson of Edinburgh, Scotland was the player who broke the final cubelett, reached the centlre of the cube and discovered the secret of Curiosity, a secret he has decided to share with the world. Turns out the secret of “what’s in the box?” is a secret that pertains to Molyneux’s 22Cans studio and its upcoming game: Godus. In a video from Molyneux himself which was unlocked when the final cube was broken, Henderson discovered that he had won the right to be God in the upcoming game, being able to add to and change the rules of the game as he sees fit. OH! And he will be getting paid for it with a small percentage of the game’s total profits.
The video that was unlocked was shown to Bryan, and Bryan alone but he has decided to share it with the world. You can check out the video below and be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the information about Godus as it becomes available.
A movie adaptation of the hit television Anime “K” (K Project) has been Green-lit.
It was announced at the “K-Who is the next-” event on Sunday. No cast has been revealed nor any other info actually though one thing we do know is that the movie is set for premiere in theatres sometime in 2014. We will definitely be getting more info on the movie within the next few months.
The anime premiered last October with Shingo Suzuki both as the director and character designer. Viz Media streamed the Anime in North America as it aired in Japan and also announced that it has the master license to the series.
Be sure to keep an eye out on the site for any more information on the movie to come.
One of Sunrise Studio’s Newer Animes: Tiger and Bunny
Listen up, Studio Sunrise Fans, because we’ve got a pretty cool little nugget of sweet info for you that’ll get you pretty excited for what’s to come.
Masayuki Ozaki (Studio Sunrise) revealed on Saturday at the Anime Boston event that his company is in talks with both Sentai Filmworks and FUNimation with the sole intention of, eventually, releasing and distributing former Bandai Entertainment titles in the West.
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There is not a great deal of information about what particular Series’ are going to be released with this deal but Ozaki has shown that Sunrise is extremely keen to get this up and running.
Keep an eye out on the site for more information on this topic and don’t forget to hit up our comments section below to tell us about what you think.
At Anime Boston on Saturday the North American Anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced, at it’s panel, the English dub casts for
both High School DxD and Future Diary. Pretty exciting stuff for fans of both of the Series. The two lists below has all the dub-related information on these two Series.
High School DxD, originally a light novel series by Ichiei Ishibumi, follows the story of Issei Hyodo who is a “dim-witted“, second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on their first date, he is then reincarnated as a low-level devil and from that day forward he serves as the underling of Riassu who is a high-level devil who just so happens to be the prettiest girl at school.
FUNimation Streamed the 12-episode series as it aired in Japan and a sequel called High School DxD New will premiere some time in July.
Future Diary, originally a Manga series by Sakae Esuno, follows the story of Yukiteru Amano an odd, loner who spends a great deal of time writing things in the diary he keeps on his phone or talking with his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina the God of Time and Space. One day Deus gives Yuki a new diary and mentions something about a game. The new diary has entries for 90 days ahead of time, entries about the future which actually eventuate. Deus then forces Yuki into a battle-royal with people who also have these diaries. The contestants must fight and kill all others within 90 days and the one that survives is said to be able to prevent the apocalypse and become the new God of Time and Space.
Neon Genesis Evangelion has been around for 20 years now and with the release of the new Rebuild of Evangelion movies the hype of the series is no where near simmering down. If you’re a fan of the series I’m sure you would know of one of the main protagonists Asuka and thanks to the people at Madman and the people at the Japan Foundation I was able to sit down and have a short interview with the woman behind the voice, Yuko Miyamura. We spoke about Evangelion over the years, how she dealt with pressure, how hard it got and how she’s come to be almost one with Asuka. Read on for the full interview with this voice acting super star.
CC: Thank you for coming today for this interview. We really appreciate it!
Miyamura: Thank you for waiting!
CC: Should we start?
M: Of course!
CC: Evangelion is such a big brilliant series. How does it feel to be apart of it from the very beginning?
M: I never thought that it would become such a popular series and from episode 1 to 13 I thought this was just a regular robot anime and usually in anime the scripts aren’t always finished early in the series so at about episode 13 the script stopped and I was wondering “what’s going to happen? When we found out the story, I thought, “This type of story has never happened!” and I was panicking and wondering if it was ok to air but it just became really popular and I’m really happy to be a part of it.
Stand tall, Asuka, stand tall…
CC: Evangelion has a lot of die-hard fans which you will probably see more of today. Being such a long series did it ever become, maybe, too much to handle at times?
M: Being part of such a popular series was very hard and can be very difficult at times because Evangelion due to its plot and story it can be psychologically hard on me and because it is very popular in Japan it also adds to the pressure and stress. Just about the time that Evangelion was airing the “emo” scene was very large and fans connected with the series in a very emotional way because of themes in Evangelion. There was a time where Evangelion became a problem in the media because of these reasons. I only really act and I only really receive the script and I was wondering because of that do I really have the right to be here?
CC: Of course you do! [laughs] With what you said about the children and the teenagers, kind of, resonating with the show emotionally did you yourself every feel a connection with Asuka emotionally?
M: When I actually went for the audition the script called for a very ecstatic and happy character and that’s exactly what I acted out and I got the role of Asuka. As I was acting this character I never got told about Asuka’s background, her more deeper psychological past. It was in the directors mind but I had no idea and as acted more in Evangelion I got told about this traumatizing background and due to that I’ve learned the more deeper character of Asuka herself and I got drawn into the character and sometimes I compare that to myself.
Cute as a button but very deadly!
CC: So would you say it was a hard role to play?
M: It’s hard all the time but I feel like over the development of the series I grew up with Asuka and shared her pain and because the director is very persistent and pragmatic he knows what he wants and wont stop until he gets it. A normal anime director may make you do 3 or 4 takes, Anno would take 15 or 20 retakes and because of this the actors would get very confused and ask “What does he WANT?!” and that can be very hard.
The hardest moment I experienced was during the recording of Death and Rebirth where Asuka is strangled by Shinji, I had to act out being strangled and I couldn’t get the directors okay for it so I had to get the voice actor of Shinji to actually lay me down and strangle me while we recorded and finally the director said it was okay but I’m alive and I’m okay!
CC: It’s good to see! [Laughs] I’m going to assume the series was a lot harder to work on than the movies? The series seemed a lot more in-depth.
M: The series was hard for a lot of the reasons we’ve already discussed and the new movie we did, because I have a sort of blank between the movies and the series, I was expecting another really really hard time while recording but when I went to record for Rebuild I was surprised “Wait a minute. I’m recording for Evangelion! This is Evangelion! Why is it so fun? Why is the atmosphere so light?” (laughs) everything was all different, this was the same for all of the voice actors, everyone was happy and in a good mood. This has never happened for Evangelion.
The director’s retake habit hasn’t changed but he’s easier to work with, he has more direction, he has the time, the money and he can take the studio for longer, maybe it’s because he can take his time and do what he wants and that’s why he has become so polite. The recording for Q, the third movie, became tense again because the movies started becoming more serious, the mood got a lot darker but all in all it has actually been a great thing to work on.
While I don’t know at all what will happen in the 4th movie, I haven’t been told, I’m sure the director knows.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…what IS that?
CC: I was going to ask you about the 4th movie. I thought for the fans out there I had to. It seems like we’re out of time, I would like to thank you for taking the time and I really look forward to seeing the next couple movies!
M: Thank you very much!
I would like to give a special thanks to everyone involved with the interview (Madman, The Japan Foundation, Our Translator Kenji) and to Mrs. Miyamura for taking the time to sit with us! Everyone there was pleasure to work with!
Tiger and Bunny Part 2 Studio: Sunrise Publisher: Siren Visual Format: Blu-Ray Release Date: May 23 2013 Price:$49.95 – Available Here
Overview
Reading the name “Tiger and Bunny” really doesn’t do this series justice, it seems a little sissy and possibly like this is NOT an anime about Western-like superheroes who compete with each other to save lives in incredible ways, knowing anime though it could’ve been about a Tiger and a Bunny living happily together…this is NOT that. Tiger and Bunny is a “once in a million years” type of anime that seems to slide into western culture well and fit like a glove, well, read on and I’m sure you’ll get all the info you need.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy now!
Story
The story here in Part Two directly links to Part One, I mean, so direct that it starts mid way through the fight that Part One ended on which is just…”wow” to say the least. Part Two of Tiger and Bunny both starts and ends in such an epic way! Before I get into anything else let me take you through the actual story: So the fight with the homicidal and mysterious NEXT, Jake, continues briefly, the heroes figure out his secret and using that are able to defeat him. It’s not really a spoiler, we all saw it coming. After that everything starts to look up; the heroes are back to being well respected, Kotetsu and Barnaby are friends now and Barnaby himself is pretty happy about taking down the man who killed his folks…or is he? Part Two is on such a big scale when it comes to complications and plot points, some will take you by surprise and some you’ll see coming but either way this story is great! We start to see relationships and bonds thicken and the heroes stop being rivals and actually become friends but not in a way that it treats the audience like idiots. Yes, there are times when a hero says “I’ll do this! For my…friends!” but the fact that it’s not being said every fifteen seconds like a lot of other Anime series’ do is refreshing. The biggest development you see is between the titular characters; Barnaby stops calling Kotetsu “Old Man” part way through Part Two and starts calling him by his name which, for this series, is quite the big deal. Now I say “part way” because it seems to happen overtime and is actually not a big plot point until it is actually brought up in the final episodes yet he’d been calling him that for what seems like ages when it’s brought up and you think back. The greatest appeal of this Anime is that you’re not treated like a child, not everything is spelt out for you, a lot of the time when Kotetsu has a plan it’s not told to us, it’s as if we as the audience have to do a bit of thinking just like hi did. It’s something incredible.
Anything is epic when it’s done in front of a sunset, guys.
The natural progression of story is incredible, everything happens seamlessly and without the corny nature of a lot of Series’ that are similar. It also has a Western-style of storytelling, I believe. Even though these people are heroes when it comes to saving citizens who will save them when they are the ones in trouble? That’s the basic message that was brought up at the end of Part one and all the way through Part Two. We see respected heroes being brought to tears, being in mortal danger and having no one to come to their rescue. I feel like Tiger and Bunny has a similar vibe to the movie Kick-Ass in part two; it’s not so much about costumed heroes as it is about the effect and reach of the Mafia (Kick-Ass) or Underground Syndicate (Tiger and Bunny). The story takes the audience by surprise and goes deeper than anyone thought it could. Even up to the very last scene of the very last episode the mystery and the reach of this “Higher Power” continues to grow and become stronger. It’s just brilliant. There’s a reason this has become a beloved Anime Series and one of my all time favourites.
“What happened? Did you fall asleep in your salad?”
Visuals
Part One of the series rocked when it came to visuals, the entire series does, but seeing this on Blu-Ray really blew my damn mind. It was the best! Literally the highest quality of Anime on Blu-Ray I’ve seen in a while. Part Two still has plenty of the Series-famous CGI suits which still work incredibly but now that there’s more fighting and action we can see even more how awesome it all is. Character designs are all the same and are still great. The animation is looking fantastic as always. Now Part Two takes a larger scale, story and setting wise, so we’re seeing more of the city, more of it’s people, more destruction, more panic, more fighting and some of the best damn animation to be seen in such a long time! I’ve seen a fair few series’ made by Sunrise and none of them stand up to this apart from maybe Valvrave which came out about two months ago, Tiger and Bunny came out in 2011, that’s two years of upgraded technology and funding yet this is still such an incredible looking Anime. One thing I didn’t pick up on in my review of Part One that, because of the Blu-Ray quality, I’ve seen a lot clearer is the fact that the team that animated Tiger and Bunny used a Red/Orange colour for some of the character’s line-work which is a, kind of, bold move that works so well into their favour.
Justice never sleeps but it does work in the dark which is fairly close.
Audio
The English Voice Actors that worked on Tiger and Bunny get all my praise. All of it! They did a perfect job. It was on par if not greater than the Japanese voice actors. They suited the characters, they portrayed the characters well, they showed such believable emotion and, once again, because of the escalation of the series we get to see these characters at their worst which is where a lot of the tough acting comes into it and it’s so good to see them rise to the occasion and do the series…JUSTICE…I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself. Jokes aside the Audio for the series was incredible. From the sound effects to the voice acting to the opening and closing theme songs the whole series sounded great. The soundtrack was much like the Part One, which isn’t a bad thing because it worked so well with both parts.
Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots-this is actually a sad part of the series…
Extras
Possibly my favourite part of this release. We’ve, firstly, got this beautiful, tri-fold case with just the most detailed and awesome piece of art showing the scenery of Stern Bild City. Secondly we have five more “Hero Cards” and another little issue of “Monthly Hero”. I’m more than impressed with the releases that Siren Visual have going with the Tiger and Bunny series. They’ve really outdone themselves.
“So no one told you life was gonna’ be this way *clap clap*…”
Overall
Part Two has risen above and beyond Part One and that’s hard to believe because Part One was so good to begin with. This is a beautiful release and a great way to end the collection. I really do suggest this anime to anyone and everyone more so now that both parts are released and audiences can enjoy the series in full. It’s a great blend of both Eastern and Western media and is just a beautiful collection to have and to watch. Go and grab this now, everyone, it really is too good to miss out on!
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In line with the increasing popularity of UFC and the decline of Boxing in terms of sporting popularity, EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson has confirmed that the Fight Night franchise has been placed on hold for the foreseeable future. “Right now, a great portion of the core of the Fight Night team are actually the team that are building UFC” said Wilson, thus obviously unable to work on a new Fight Night title, whereas a new UFC game was confirmed during this week’s Xbox One unveiling.
The last game in the Fight Night series was 2011’s Fight Night Champion, the fifth main instalment, which was released for Xbox 360 and the PS3 which introduced the full spectrum punching system, controlled by the analogue stick.
Wilson didn’t rule out the possibility of Fight Night returning at some point in the future. “Do I see a future for Fight Night? You know, sure. But right now, UFC is where our fighting focus is” he said. EA’s upcoming sports titles will be powered by ‘Ignite’, a brand new engine that the publisher promises will blur the line between reality and the virtual world.
The firm recently released a trailer of sport titles to mark the announcement of the Ignite engine showcasing snapshots of FIFA, Madden, NBA and UFC, which can be seen embedded below.
Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to choose Amazon’s Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition for a second week in a row. So this week’s deal goes to Steam’s Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Weekend Deal. Chivalry is free to play this weekend and is on sale for 66% off. The game started its life as a mod, and became a full fledged game thanks for a successful Kickstarter drive. In my opinion, it is one of the best multiplayer melee games out there. It is simple enough to pick up and play, but complicated that a skilled player will dominate the battlefield.
Contains Achtung Panzer Kharkov 1943, Gettysburg: Armored Warfare, Hearts of Iron III Collection, King Arthur Collection, King Arthur II, Victoria II, Victoria II: A House Divided DLC
Contains Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 3 Black
Greenman Gaming is continuing with their vouchers this week. GMG20-LLASD-D8WBQ for 20% off most downloadable titles and GMG25-55FJ7-ADQ3P for 25% off selected pre-orders
GetGames is running their Get Loaded sale this weekend. It isn’t their best one, but it’s loaded with smaller titles. Buyers can buy any two games on the list for $10.00.
