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When a game comes out, blame or praise often falls on the one person we think of as its "auteur," the lone visionary who directed its creation. This skews the reality of development: games are the product of a whole team whose diverse contributions all help shape what it becomes.
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A product listing for Prima Guides' The Art of Persona 5 has appeared on Amazon with a June 27, 2017 release date.

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Other countries include U.K., Australia with Funimation handling distribution in N. America

Type-Moon has a history of elebrate April Fool's jokes. This year, it was Fate/Gutentag Omen, or Fate/GO, a Fate/Grand Order answer to Pokemon GO where you (could) download the app for iOS, explore the world collecting servants, level them up, and display them in AR. Like many of the Japanese media jokes, it was pulled on April 2nd with the service ended. In this case though, that one-day run turned out to be part of the point.

 【カルデア広報局より】

お待たせしました。
『Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen』をApp Storeにて配信を開始しました！
ダウンロードはこちらから→https://t.co/XPnDta88Qy #FGOGO #FateGO pic.twitter.com/cyvdABUDXw

— 【公式】Fate/Grand Order (@fgoproject) March 31, 2017

 

The game's servants...

 

Rie Takahashi, the new voice of Shielder enjoying the game...

まずは一人目！#FGOGO pic.twitter.com/2iAx4zMVnW

— 高橋李依 (@taka8rie) March 31, 2017

待ってました！行きましょう！iOSのみなさん！ https://t.co/D2GhTxA4aM

— 高橋李依 (@taka8rie) March 31, 2017

Jouji Nakata, voice of F/GO's King Hassan and F/SN's Kirei Kotomine playing

神かよ！？

一日限りのアプリをリリースだと！しかも山の翁もおるだと！
粋なエイプリルフールをやってくれるやん運営さん＼(^o^)／

早速DLしてゲットしなきゃ！でも今夜で消えちゃうなんて…

FGO GO pic.twitter.com/kwYCEfLHuQ

— 中田譲治 (@joujinakata123) April 1, 2017

もしも、キャラボイス付きだったら… pic.twitter.com/Pyh53eIK8J

— 中田譲治 (@joujinakata123) April 1, 2017

 

It's end of service...

一夜の夢をありがとう（＾ω＾） pic.twitter.com/KTyJ9iCMnz

— 中田譲治 (@joujinakata123) April 1, 2017

And, ultimately, Type-moon co-founder and Fate/stay night writer Kinoko Nasu explaining what Fate/GO was all about

The true message of #FateGO #FGO's April Foolshttps://t.co/hQR4BwXGc5 pic.twitter.com/FQcA1Nvvac

— Karoshi -過労死- (@KaroshiMyriad) April 2, 2017

 

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Ned Kelly and his infamous band of horse thieves tormented the police. It seemed they could not be caught... until Ned fired shots at an officer who wanted to arrest his brother. Ned fled into hiding, and when police pursued him, he ambushed them in their camp at Stringybark Creek.
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid has a special guest for the anime's episode 12,  "Tohru and Kobayashi's Impactful Meeting! (We're Raising The Bar On Ourselves)." Singer/voice actress Haruka Chisuga (Miss Macross 30, Shirobako's Shizuka Sakaki) took the role of a bandit girl with a significant impact on Tohru's life. 

 

TOKYO MXにて第12話「トールと小林、感動の出会い！（自分でハードル上げてますね）」をご覧頂いた皆様、ありがとうございました！次週最終回ですが、最後までお願い致します！この後、第12話はテレビ愛知、ABC朝日放送でも放送です！ https://t.co/U5xlkAyM7H pic.twitter.com/yAt6zUNcYN

— TVアニメ小林さんちのメイドラゴン公式 (@maidragon_anime) March 29, 2017

 

Speaking of special guests, Mutsumi Tamura joined the dragon girls for their latest radio show

「ちょろゴンずのこうかいなまほうそう」をご覧頂いた皆様、そして会場まで足を運んで頂いた皆様、本当にありがとうございました！本日24時〜TOKYO MXで第12話放送です！引き続き宜しくお願い致します！ #maidragon pic.twitter.com/xQQEwG40ii

— TVアニメ小林さんちのメイドラゴン公式 (@maidragon_anime) March 29, 2017

＊小林さんちのメイドラゴン＊
12話 ありがとうございました！大切な居場所を作ってくれた、かけがえのない人。ありがとうでは伝えきれない思いをお芝居に込めました。

小林さんの言葉が嬉しすぎて、思わず違う台詞を言ってしまったところも。どの場面か、またお話する機会があると良いな♪ pic.twitter.com/usOcFoQRzZ

— 桑原由気（くわはらゆうき） (@yuuki_0624) March 29, 2017

 

There's also a glimpse at the next Miss Kobayashi's OOOO Dragon short, in which Tohru and friends swap Maid for something else

【BD＆DVD】「小林さんちのメイドラゴン」BD&DVD第2巻は4月19日発売！第2巻にも豪華な初回特典や、映像特典「小林さんちの○○ドラゴン」が収録！小林さんとトールとカンナが様々な○○ドラゴンになる！？ #maidragonhttps://t.co/ND0f0mxPZV pic.twitter.com/5BeCp16jNk

— TVアニメ小林さんちのメイドラゴン公式 (@maidragon_anime) March 29, 2017

 

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20th century Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo forever changed the state of the mystery genre in Japan (appropriate, given his pen name is a Japanese rendering of "Edgar Allan Poe"). His Boy Detectives Club characters have inspired and featured in myriad films, stage plays, and anime.

 

The latest tribute to his work comes from Future Diary creator Sakae Esuno -- a manga series in Shonen Ace titled Detective Akechi is Berserk.

The central character of the manga series is Mayumi, a middle-school girl who lives alone in the wake of the horrific murders of her aunt and uncle. Thanks to an unusual circumstance, she now has a new ally in her quest to find the mysterious culprit: the ghost of Detective Kogoro Akechi.

 

The first installment of the manga features in the May edition of Shonen Ace, which hit newsstands on March 25. 

 

Source: Comic Natalie

 

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I thought it appropriate to talk about the anime March Comes in like a Lion on the very last day of March. Call me a sucker for that sort of thing.

Umino Chika is a creator who opened up my eyes to a new world of storytelling. In the past, another anime adaptation of one of her manga, Honey & Clover. Watching thathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u6lyeC5jOo series, I could relate to both the art school antics (I was attending art school myself at the time), and the rush of emotions positive and negative that could come from seemingly simple interactions with people and the world. Now, over a decade later, I find her more recent work, March Comes in like a Lion, to carry a similar weight even though I’m further in age from its protagonist compared to Honey & Clover.

March Comes in like a Lion follows Kiriyama Rei, a young shogi prodigy with a difficult past who befriends three sisters that take care of him as he tries to get through his shogi career and life in general. The series swings heavily between darkly depressing and frenetically cheerful in ways that mirror Rei’s own internal struggles.

I find Rei to be a fascinating character. When it comes to anime protagonists, he’s somehow both the clever genius many wish they could be, but also highly relatable in terms of how he thinks and feels. Rei is intelligent beyond his years, but he’s also only in high school and thus inexperienced not only in the ways of the world but also in shogi itself. He’s prone to both self-deprecation and arrogance, both looking too far ahead and staring at his own feet. Whether someone is a hard worker who tries to make up for a lack of talent, a genius who can’t seem to muster the will to push further, or even both or neither, it feels as if anyone who understands both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, in formal competition and in life, can connect to Rei’s joys and frustrations. Even if he isn’t perfectly relatable to everyone, there’s bound to be a character that viewers can connect to.

The anime is produced by SHAFT, a studio that for the past decade and change has been known for highly stylized visuals that utilize odd camera angles, unorthodox color palettes, and emphasis on both the flatness of 2-D images and their ability to convey a sense of three-dimensionality. For many of their series, this works fairly well, but the subdued pace of March Comes in like a Lion means the SHAFT style at times risks being too over-the-top for its own good. Fortunately, the March Comes in like a Lion anime is relatively restrained in its approach, especially in the more dark and moody moments and in the shogi matches themselves, which tend to be a mix of cerebral strategizing and emotional ping pong. Sometimes the visuals can go too far, but for the most part any sort of traditional SHAFT antics are reserved for the more light-hearted scenes, especially those involving the Kawamoto sisters mentioned above.

This is not the first shogi-themed series I’ve really enjoyed, but it is almost the polar opposite of my favorite, 81 Diver. If that manga is like a stick of dynamite strapped to an apple pie, then March Comes in like a Lion is like a wool blanket, warm yet occasionally itchy. I’m not sure how those two things are opposites per se, but I’ll just say that they are and leave it at that.

You can watch March Comes in like a Lion on Crunchyroll.

Persona 5 will offer free DLC for players in April, June, and July. Paid DLC will be available in April and May.

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Last September, One-Punch Man cast Makoto Furukawa, Kaito Ishikawa, Yuki Kaji, Aoi Yūki, and Saori Hayami, along with theme song performers JAM Project and Hiroko Moriguchi, reunited for a Fall Festival event that revealed the second season of the TV anime adaptation of ONE and Yusuke Murata's web manga had been green-lit. Now, an update reports that the anime is in production. 

 

How far along the second season is and when to expect it are still unknown.

 

One Punch Man Season 2 confirmed.

Production is in progress. Exact date is TBA.
(This scan is pretty bad btw) pic.twitter.com/yIVuASsa6U

— Ken Xyro (@KenXyro) March 27, 2017

 

Elsewhere, cover art for volume 13, due out in Japan April 4th, has also been previewed.

ワンパンマンの13巻は4月4日発売ですー。何卒よろしく！ pic.twitter.com/ymKhXRyPgZ

— 村田雄介 (@NEBU_KURO) March 27, 2017

 

via @KenXyro

 

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Looks like that early theater listing for the first part of the Fate/stay night[Heaven's Feel] anime movie trilogy wasn't quite right. In time to be unveiled at AnimeJapan, the slow drip of information about the project has finally yielded a release date. Part I, now subtitled "Presage Flow" will open on October 14th, 2017.

 

The trilogy of anime movies adapting the Type-Moon visual novel route in which Sakura Matō is the heroine features Tomonori Sudou, animation director/character designer of ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works TV anime, as director. Yuki Kajiura will be composing the music. Tickets went on sale at theaters across Japan on February 18th. 

 

劇場版「Fate/stay night[Heaven's Feel] Ⅰ.presage flower」の10月14日(土)公開が決定！
第一章全国共通特別鑑賞券は全国の上映劇場にて販売中です！https://t.co/6h6X0KMpYK　#fate_sn_anime pic.twitter.com/ctK4nCfyJQ

— Fate/stay night (@Fate_SN_Anime) March 26, 2017

 

 

via MOCA

 

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Fans of puppet-based martial arts mayhem are in for a treat, because at AnimeJapan 2017 Nitroplus announced that in addition to the upcoming sequel to Thunderbolt Fantasy, a spin-off prequel project which focuses on the exploits of Shā Wú Shēng, the Screaming Phoenix Killer, is in production.

 

 

The story of Thunderbolt Fantasy: Sword of Life and Death will be based in part on the Thunderbolt Fantasy Gaiden novel (which will be released in Japan on April 07, 2017), and in part on a new story penned by Gen Urobochi. A new character named Tiě Dí Xian, the instructor of Shā Wú Shēng, will appear in the film.

 

The exact format and release date for Thunderbolt Fantasy: Sword of Life and Death have not yet been revealed, although it appears the project may be composed of 2 episodes released in an omnibus format, and the project is scheduled for release some time in 2017.

 

Sources:

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Fire Emblem Heroes is getting a big update next month, and the game’s official Japanese Twitter account shared a few notes on some of the content we can expect to see from it.

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It's wedding bells for Detective Conan's Ran Mōri and Shinichi Kudō in a recently released marriage application image. The application's design is drawn...

Shogakukan today started offering digital editions of Inuyasha (56 volumes), One-Pound Gospel (4 volumes), Mermaid Saga (3 volumes), 1orW (1 volume), and Rumiko Takahashi Short Story Anthology (2 volumes). Now all of Rumiko Takahashi's manga works are available in digital form.

 

As reported, as of the release of the latest 35th tankobon volume of Kyokai no Rinne/RINNE last Friday, a total print run of the 59-year-old manga artist's manga works surpassed 200 million copies worldwide, and these new digital releases of her old works are part of the celebration for the historic record. Currently, the first volumes of her five representative series, Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, and Kyokai no Rinne, are available for free at selected digital stores, including Shogakukan eComic Store till April 5.

 

And now you can check Takahashi's original "name" (rough draft) of the last chapter of Inuyasha and

the first chapter of Kyokai no Rinne on the Web Sunday site.

 

The first part of her new one-shot story titled "Sennen no Mushin (Mindlessness for A Thousand Years),"

is published on the latest 17th issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday released today in Japan, and the cover

of the issue features Takahashi's famous characters.  

 

 

Weekly Shonen Sunday 17th issue cover

  

 

Commemoration art

  

 

Source: Web Sunday, Comic Natalie

 

This year's eighth issue of Shogakukan's Sho-Comi magazine features a familiar face on the cover. The titular character of Gosho Aoyama's Detective Conan...

In Tiger Mask W, a young wrestler dons the mask of the legendary Tiger Mask in order to fight against the villainous wrestlers of the Tiger’s Den. Most frequently, this involves taking on a wrestling company that exists as the outward-facing image of the Tiger’s Den, a thinly veiled World Wrestling Entertainment parody called “Global Wrestling Monopoly,” or GWM for short. The GWM is actually a brand-new creation for Tiger Mask W, something I personally found curious given how much having the most evil force in wrestling also be the largest and most popular. Why didn’t something like the GWM exist in the original Tiger Mask?

Upon reading the original Tiger Mask manga, I realized something: it would have been impossible to reference anything like the WWE. Tiger Mask first began in 1969 and ended in 1971, a time when there was no such thing as an international wrestling organization on the scale of what would become World Wrestling Entertainment.

In 1969, the promotion that would eventually become the World Wrestling Federation and later World Wrestling Entertainment was still known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation. At the head was Vincent James McMahon, father of current owner Vincent Kennedy McMahon, who ran the WWWF as just one of many territorial wrestling promotions in the US; in the WWWF’s case, it covered the Northeast, especially the New York area. During this time, Bruno Sammartino, one of the greatest WWE champions of all time (if not the greatest), was in the middle of his historic nine-year reign as WWWF champion.

Tiger Mask came from a time long before what many people today think of as wrestling. This was the era before Wrestlemania took the WWF national with Hulkamania, before Ric Flair’s battles with Ricky Steamboat and Dusty Rhodes. Naturally, it’s long before the eras of The Rock, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and John Cena. In addition to the Tiger’s Den wrestlers, Tiger Mask encounters real-world wrestlers of the time like all-time Japanese greats Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba. He wrestles against big names such as “Classy” Freddie Blassie (who would go on to train Triple H) and Angelo Poffo (father of “Macho Man” Randy Savage).

This is why the strategy used by the Tiger’s Den makes more sense for the period Tiger Mask came from. Unlike in Tiger Mask W, where they’re presented as employees of Global Wrestling Monopoly, the villainous secret organization would train heel wrestlers and send them around the world to various countries and territories in order to traumatize local wrestlers and take their money. Of course, in the world of Tiger Mask and Tiger Mask W, wrestling is 100% legitimate, so there’s no such thing as pre-planned matches or notions like kayfabe.

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Legend of Korra was one of the best shows on TV during its time, let alone one of the best anime series, and you can own all four seasons on Blu-ray for just $30, courtesy of Amazon.

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AnimeJapanのアニプレックス特設ページ更新！
描きおろしのウェルカムキャラクターのイラストを公開&グッズ情報も公開しました！ https://t.co/m6YX7jV6vh#anx_aj #animejapan

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Enjoy Aniplex 描き下ろしキャラクターポスター一覧
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私服姿可愛すぎる
桜は穏やかな感じなんですがマシュはもうはしゃいでるかのような姿が眩しすぎる。
AJ2017はVRマシュの体験会もFateのステージも外れたので行くかどうか迷ってたんですけど
これのためだけにも行きたくなってきました。
ただ前にアニメジャパン行った時はポスターの競争率が高くて買えなかったこともあるのだ。
みなさんもアニメジャパンに行かれる際は注意しよう。

As the GOP attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Dan ponders the dichotomy between what Americans spend on health care versus what they get in return.

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The Central Intelligence Agency needs to make sure its operatives are at the top of their game, so maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise games have become one of the agency’s most popular training tools?

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Shogakukan confirmed today that, as of the release of the latest 35th tankobon volume of her current serialization series Kyokai no Rinne/RINNE to be available on March 17, a total print run of 59-year-old manga artist Rumiko Takahashi's manga works will surpass 200 million copies worldwide. She has several international bestselling manga series, such as Urusei Yatsura (1978-1987), Maison Ikkoku (1980-1987), Ranma 1/2 (1987-1996), Inuyasha (1996-2008), and reached the 100 million mark back in August 1995.

 

To commemorate the historic record, she will provide her new one-shot story titled "Sennen no Mushin (Mindlessness for A Thousand Years)" in the upcoming 17th and 18th issues of Weekly Shonen Sunday to be released on March 22 and 29, respectively. And 29 manga artist draw illustrations inspired by her works and characters. In addition, her debut work Kattena Yatsura, originally published in 1978, will be re-published in the next May 2017 issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday S to be available

on March 25.

 

 

Commemoration art

 

"Sennen no Mushin" visual

 

 

高橋留美子、全世界で単行本2億冊突破！次号サンデーに読み切りやトランプ全サ https://t.co/hm4csBjPyY pic.twitter.com/IfFGlB3bDp

— コミックナタリー (@comic_natalie) March 14, 2017

 

 

Source: Web Sunday, Comic Natalie

 

Nintendo shared a rather big notification letter for Fire Emblem Heroes, with plenty of info on the April update that includes changes for Inherit Skill, Hero Merit, New Rules for combat, and more on future plans.

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Being surrounded by stacks of rulebooks and reams of character sheets while you play has been part and parcel of the Dungeons & Dragons experience from the very beginning. And while many players have begun using phones and tablets to make their tabletop lives easier, Wizards of the Coast is finally offering their own…

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Nintendo is treating fans with a 3-part behind-the-scenes video series to show “The Making Of” The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild starting tomorrow. Here’s a sneak peek that the company shared on Twitter.

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This week's Dengeki event announced plans for a new TV anime adaptation of of Keiichi Sigsawa and Kouhaku Kuroboshi's fantastic parable light novel series Kino's Journey. As with last summer's Nico video user participation drama, Aoi Yuki (Madoka Magica, My Hero Academia) will be the latest to voice the titular heroine (previousy Ai Maeda in anime and games, Aya Hisakawa drama CD, Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax), with Sōma Saitō (HaruChika's Haruta Kamijō) as the motorcycle Hermes (previously Ryuji Aigase and Junko Noda).

 

Not confirmed to be returning for the TV anime, Yuichiro Umehara was the swordsman Shizu (previously Takashi Irie).

Kenichiro Matsuda was talking dog Riku (previously Hōchū Ōtsuka). Ayane Sakura voiced Tea, and Yukari Tamura was mystery blonde Sera, along with Lynn, Kazuyuki Okitsu and Itaru Yamamoto as the narrator.

 

The 2003 TV anime adaptation of the series was released in North America by ADV Films while Tokyopop licensed the light novels. The light novel fantasy/parable series recently celebrated its 15th anniversary.

 

There's also a new manga, which will be illustrated by Iruka Shinomiya, who is known for Maru-san no Snack, Genshi Otome to Kami no Tou, as well as a variety of doujin work. It will premiere on March 17.

Further details on the TV anime are to be announced.

 

 via Dengeki Online

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

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