Today Sentai Filmworks announced the English dub cast for their upcoming release Mysterious Girlfriend X (Nazo no Kanojo X). The English cast for the main characters can be found below:
Genevieve Simmons as Mikoto Urabe
Josh Grelle as Akira Tsubaki
Greg Ayres as Kohei Ueno
Carli Mosier as Yoko Tsubaki
The company also stated that there will be additional voicework provided by Hayley Adams, Christopher Ayres, Clint Bickham, Kalin Coates, Tiffany Grant, Jason Grundy, Houston Hayes, Connor Leach, Margaret McDonald, Jeremy Merritt, Carli Mosier, Chris Patton, Tiffany Terrell, and David Wald though who these various characters will voice was not revealed at this time.
As for the series itself, Sentai Filmworks has provided the below story synopsis:
When the oddly peculiar Mikoto Urabe transfers into Akira Tsubaki’s class, he finds that life has thrown him the weirdest curve ball ever. Because while Urabe may be an anti-social loner who sleeps on her desk, carries a pair of scissors in her underwear and breaks out in sudden fits of insane laughter, there’s something about her that Tsubaki just can’t quite put his finger on. Until he accidentally puts his finger in it, and suddenly the phrase “sharing spit with a girl” takes on an entirely new meaning! Before he can wipe her drool off his face, Tsubaki is mysteriously addicted to Urabe, which isn’t half as strange as the fact that she not only finds this normal, but already seems to have plans for her new drooling boyfriend. So, can a girl spitting in your face ever be a GOOD thing? Is this relationship bound for disaster or great expectorations? Find out as Urabe puts a spittle love in Tsubaki’s heart and things get REALLY bizarre in the most dysfunctional bodily functional anime ever: Mysterious Girlfriend X!
Currently Mysterious Girlfriend X is set to be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 11th.
EA Mobile is kicking off this week with the release of Monopoly Hotels for Android devices. The free to play game focuses on specific hotels from famous Monopoly properties like the Mediterranean and the Boardwalk. Mr. Monopoly will help players manage utilities, guests, amenities, and security inside the hotels. The game can be downloaded from Google Play or the Amazon Appstore.
With the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4, EA Mobile and Chillingo has been hard at work to optimize their titles for the Galaxy S4’s 5 inch 1080p screen. EA Mobile is bringing 16 titles to the launch and Chillingo will be providing an additional nine titles. To celebrate the launch, several paid launch titles have been put on sale for $0.99 each.
Everyone loves a good indie bundle, British based platform Bundle Stars has released a follow up to their popular Indie Jam bundle. The Indie Jam 2 bundle features nine indie titles for £3.94 or roughly $5.00. Buyers will get Futuremark Game Studio’s zero-G shooter Shattered Horizon, Interwave’s FPS/RTS Nuclear Dawn, Topware Interactive‘s Two Worlds II: Castle Defense, Targem Games’ Planets Under Attack, ISOTX’s FPS tower defense game Iron Grip: Warlord, Silent Dream’s Holy Avatar vs Maidens of the Dead, Coreplay’s shoot’em up Ion Assault, Topware Interactive’s anime hack’n slash X-Blades, and Topware Interactive’s RPG Two Worlds II.
Bundle Stars is donating a portion of their profits to Special Effect, a British charity dedicated to helping people living with disabilities play video games.
iOS RTS Autumn Dynasty is celebrating its one year anniversary in the best way possible, with a free content update. The update will come in two parts. The first part is a free content update for those who own the game. The full game will receive two new maps and major gameplay fixes. To celebrate the anniversary, the full game has been put on sale at $4.99 USD, a savings of two dollars. Be sure to check out our review of Autumn Dynasty.
The second part of the free content update will come on May 2nd. The first two stages of the campaign and Bluetooth multiplayer will be featured in a special Lite version that will be available for free. The Lite version will be a universal app, working on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The devs will be running a special giveaway for the Lite version. Depending on the amount of downloads the Lite version receives, extra bonuses such as extra maps and online multiplayer will be released. The download counter and unlocks can be found at the official giveaway page.
A new trailer from EA and Insomniac Games upcoming game four-player co-op game Fuse has been released.
This new trailer dubbed ‘Fable’s Vision’ looks into the villains of the game revealing the rogue military corporation known as Raven’s intentions with the alien energy source: Fuse. With the world facing imminent domination, it’s up to the agents of Overstrike 9 to stop with before the worst can happen.
Not only sheading light on the game’s story, the new trailer also showcases a few gameplay features and all four playable characters in action.
Insomniac Games’ first multiplatform game on both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Fuse is set to be released in North America on May 28 and in Europe on May 31.
After its announcement in March, Warner Bros and Turbine are excited to announce that on Wednesday the 8th May, the hotly-anticipated MOBA, Infinite Crisis, will start its Closed Beta. Interested players are encouraged to sign up for a chance to participate on the Infinite Crisiswebsite.
Infinite crisis will launch as free-to-play title later this year. The game will feature many different characters from the DC Universe comics and details about several of the title’s playable champions including Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Doomsday, Gaslight Batman and Zatanna have been released.
The latest Guardians of Middle-earth DLC has been announced, with Elrond, the mighty leader of Rivendell and father to Arwen, becoming the newest playable Guardian. The Elrond DLC, following on from other successful DLC characters such as Frodo, will be available on PlayStation Network and on Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Elrond’s exceptional battle skills were showcased during the end of the Second Age, when the Last Alliance of Elves and Men set out to Mordor to fight in the Battle of Dagorlad, where they ultimately defeated Sauron.
The Elrond Battle Profile trailer can be seen below, and a review of Guardians of Middle-Earth can be found here.
Earlier today, Codemasters released a new gametype, ahead of the release of the upcoming GRID 2 video game, called LiveRoutes. LiveRoutes is the exclusive gametype that changes the games experience by altering the tracks that players race on while a match is underway.
Essentially, what the new gametype, LiveRoutes, does, is it actively modifies race courses in up to six different ways. This creates a new challenge for racers over the course of a few different cities, such as: Paris, Barcelona, Chicago, Miami and Dubai.
On LiveRoutes, Codemasters had this to say –
“LiveRoutes is the new challenge event that we’re most proud of in GRID 2. It’s as fresh to racing games as Flashback was when we introduced it as a mechanic in the original GRID,” said Clive Moody, Senior Executive Producer for GRID 2 at Codemasters.
“In a LiveRoutes event, you don’t know what’s coming next and it turns each race into a test of your racecraft, car handling and reactions on circuits that cannot be learnt. In both career mode and online, LiveRoutes offers near limitless possibilities in every race and it’s a great leveller, even for the most experienced racing game players.”
GRID 2 is scheduled to be released on the 31st of May for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Be sure to check out the Official Site for more info. Be sure to check out the video below for a more visual representation of the gametype.
Bakemonogatari Part 2 Studio: SHAFT Publisher: Hanabee Format: DVD Release Date: April 3rd 2013 Price: $49.99 – Available Here
Overview
Bakemonogatari is one of those Anime that seems to be more of an art statement than it is an Anime series. It’s one of THOSE series’ where, while watching it, you can instantly determine the type of person it’s aimed at. It’s odd, it’s weird, it’s majorly pervy and it’s hard to get into but it is what it is. Pretty girls and an even prettier guy fused. It’s got a crazy backstory, that you may want to look into a bit after watching the series, and a whole lot of crazy people to accompany it. It’s one of THOSE Anime for sure.
Story
This is a series that has an abundance of stories whilst still having a big, underlying story that sits just out of site from the main focus. We have an ex-wampire as our lead role, his girlfriend who was formerly weightless, his best friend who is/was a girl that becomes a cat-like monster under great pressure and stress, a mysterious know-it-all and his odd acquaintance who is a little girl that has something to do with the main characters past. I’m not going to get too much into that so I don’t ruin anything for you spoiler freaks out there.
In Part 2 Araragi (The lead) is still helping out people who have come into contact with demons (apparitions), the same as in Part 1 of the series although we do see a bit more of his past within some of the stories which is a fresh change from part 1. The stories are very odd and interesting but, I found, needed a hell of a lot of work. What kept me interested in this series was, honestly, the stories that we weren’t shown LIKE Araragi and Shinobu’s (Little girl) past, Oshino’s (Know-it-all) story all together. I found that they had the story yet squandered it. Araragi comes into contact with a whole lot of demons and monsters that have taken people over or that trouble people yet nothing monstrous happens, most of the series is dialogue and not the good dialogue that gives you insight and even piece of mind, it’s the bad dialogue where the characters just talk about a whole lot of nothing and conversation always ends up in a very perverted place. It just didn’t go down well.
There were a whole lot of interesting throwbacks to Araragi’s past, a lot of flashes and one lines that make you think, this is where I thought they did well! They made the viewer interested in finding out more, longing for that sweet information, you get engulfed by it’s mystery. Unfortunately there really wasn’t enough of that for my liking, the cons badly outweighed the pros. I feel that had this been part of a different genre of anime it would have been done so much better. Yes, it’s about a part-vampire helping people out of their supernatural troubles but it all became to perverted and that took so much away from it. It was also so obvious considering that every person he helped out was female. I found myself feeling overly uninterested by the end of the series even though that’s when it truly got good. I just found that leaving the greatest things, story wise, for the very end of the series was a fairly bad move.
Visuals
Visually this Anime absolutely rocked! The animation was fluid and really beautiful and it just oozed style from every angle, unfortunately that means the groping and flirty scenes were also incredibly animated. The use of cuts in an episode was well done, the studio used a great deal of slides and cuts between animations that made it seem like you were watching a raw copy of the freshly animated series, like you were watching it before it was even read for a release and it really worked. The style of the entire series was brilliant, very colourful, very vibrant but they could bring the scene down quick-smart to a very dark and honestly nerve-wracking tone. A great deal of humour was shown through the visual, example; flashes of the characters in different styles, usually drawing in the styles of different Anime entirely. The fact that the characters looked different during scenes of action really won it over for me, the dorky main character has never looked so awesome.
Audio
Much like the Visuals of the series the Audio can’t be faulted at all. The voice acting was standard for a good anime, it was quite good, and the sound effects were the same. The music in this series did capture my attention several times throughout. Although the bulk of this Anime left me mostly uninterested the music continued to bring me back, it’s great when you can not be looking at the screen, hear a piece of music and know exactly what character is about to jump onto the screen. Very well done, very suited, and the music is so varied. It was just fantastic.
Extras
The purchase itself is one big extra; the actual case is not so much a case as it is a small art book for the series. This is exactly like what part 1 came with. Hanabee did really well with this release. The on-disc extras include Character Audio Commentary, Clean opening and closing animation, TV version previews and a promotional video. Pretty standard stuff and really not much compared to the art book the CDs come in.
Overall
This anime isn’t a bad anime, it just has a whole lot of things that are suited to a preferred audience. I would recommend this to anyone that likes the kind of anime that revolves around many female characters all coming into contact with one single male lead. I would also recommend this to people who just happen to love great animation and funky music. It’s not an easy anime to sit through for just anybody so be weary when buying this one. Although I didn’t entirely enjoy it I can see why the target audience would love this anime and the more seasoned Anime fans would consider this one an ace so if you fit into those kinds of categories don’t go past this one.
Capsule Computers review guidelines can be found here.
Unfortunate news for fans of the Mother/Earthbound series. Shigesato Itoi, the creator of the franchise, has taken to twitter to kill all speculation of a potential fourth installment of the unique RPG series, claiming that a Mother 4 game is “impossible”.
Many fans have speculated a possible Mother 4 game could release on the Wii U console, but it appears that all hopes of that have been quelled. It should be kept in mind however that Itoi may simply not be involved with a potential fourth installment.
Itoi has not given further explanation as to why he feels Mother 4 coming to fruition is impossible, so it is still up in the air as to what exactly he means by such a statement. We will keep you updated on this story as it develops.
