Itching for those old days where arcade cabinets gulped down your hard earned quarters with reckless abandon? For the price of 200 quarters, 2000 MSP, or $49.99 USD, players can now play seventeen of Capcom’s classic arcade titles on Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace or the PlayStation Store. Fifteen of the titles have been in previous arcade packs and two are making their debut in the All in One Pack. No more visits to the change machine! Capcom has also released a new trailer to celebrate the launch of the titles.
With the announcement of the Xbox One, much news has been circulating regarding the new console, including much hype surrounding a patent Microsoft filed last November. The patent outlined an achievement system very much like that which already exists on the 360, except this time, incorporating various achievements for simply watching TV. Users could be rewarded for anything from watching a major event through to the completion of entire seasons of various shows.
Implementing this system would surely open up many lucrative advertising opportunities for both Microsoft and other brands, who would love nothing more than for their brand or product to be tied into various achievements. Interactive advertising such as this is an exceptionally powerful tool, requiring much more of the participants attention, and creating incentives for them at every step to continue utilising the service.
Aside from its appeal to achievement junkies, I cant see how the average person will be overly impressed by a system that essentially promotes excessive amounts of unhealthy behviour, and im sure the majority of us need no constant reminder of the amount of time we spend glued in front to our TV’s and monitors.
The July issue of ASCII Media Work’s Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh is set to reveal that Valvrave the Liberator mainstay Saki Rukino is set to receive her own manga series, to be titled Valvrave the Liberator: Shooting Star Valkyrie. The series, to be penned by Yutaka Ohori, is set to focus on Saki’s past and explore her time as a pop idol.
A novel project is also set for release in the July issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine, to be penned by Yomoji Otono and illustrated by Yugen. Yet another two manga projects have also been revealed, the first to be a one-shot manga by Karega Tsuchiya in the July issue of Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine. The second project is to be drawn by Ichiya Sazanami and will begin serialisation in the August issue of ASCII MediaWork’s Sylph magazine.
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!
