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Enjoy Virtual Camp Experience with Nadeshiko and Rin in Laid-Back Camp Adventure Game

    A Tokyo-based game software company Gemdrops plans to release "YuruCamp VIRTUAL CAMP," a new adventure game inspired by Afro's camping-themed manga YuruCamp / Laid-Back Camp , for PlayStation4, Nintendo Switch, Steam, iOS, and Android in the winter of 2021. It will be available in two editions - "Lake Motosu Chapter" and "Foothills Campsite Chapter."   In the virtual world, the manga's two main characters - Nadeshiko Kagamihara and Rin Shima - enjoy camping at Lake Motosu and the foothills campsite. You become Nadeshiko and spend time together with Rin in the "Lake Motosu Chapter." On the other hand, you become Rin to have a relaxing camping experience together with Nadeshiko in the "Foothills Campsite Chapter." During the camping, You can also take a picture with your smartphone phone and send it to the members of the Outdoor Activities Circle. The price for the full-voiced game has not yet been decided.     1st

Noblesse Digs Up The Past in This Weeks Episode 9 Preview

  Tomorrow's episode of the Crunchyroll Original anime series Noblesse will dive into the past of Raizel and Frankenstein's relationship. Check out six new images from the upcoming episode "Blood Pact / Devote" as well as the full official synopsis.              Synopsis for episode 9 of  Noblesse , "Blood Pact / Devote":   Raizel and Frankenstein first met in Lukedonia, the country of nobles. Raizel took Frankenstein, who was a noble hunter at the time, into his mansion to work as his butler. Frankenstein protected him for several years, but then some among the nobility who had unfavorable opinions of the duo began to revolt. What decision did Frankenstein and Raizel reach in response to this conflict?    The  Noblesse  TV anime follows on from the original 2016 OVA  Noblesse: Awakening , and airs every  Wednesday at 6:00 AM PT  on Crunchyroll!   ---- Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube

Voice Actress Ayaka Ohashi to Hold Her First Arena Concert on May 1, 2021

    The official website for popular anime voice actress Ayaka Ohashi announced today that her next concert is set to be held at Makuhari Messe Event Hall (capacity: 9,000) on May 1, 2021. It will be her first solo concert to be held at an arena-sized venue in her six-year career as a solo singer. The largest venue to date is the National Convention Hall of Yokohama (capacity 5,002), where she performed in 2018 and 2019.   Ohashi is best known as the voices of Ran Shibuki in Aikatsu! , Uzuki Shimamura in The Idolm@star Cinderella Girls , and Saaya Yamabuki in BanG Dream! (and the drummer of the VA band for the show, Poppin'Party). Meanwhile, she made her solo singer debut in August 2014, then has released nine CD singles and two albums so far.     Message from Ayaka Ohashi:   I'm very happy that my first solo concert in about a year and a half is decided! It will be my first arena show, so I'm very excited about it. Now I have ten more new songs, so it's goi

Girls Face Zombie Apocolypse in Alice in Deadly School Anime PV

    One day before its regular broadcast begins, the first episode of Hoods Entertainment 's idol-themed original TV anime Gekidol and the special edition of Alice in Deadly School , which will be told as a story within in the anime, will be aired in a New Year's special program on TOKYO MX and AT-X on January 4, 2021.   Alice in Deadly School  is originally a stage play series launched by a Japanese theatre producing group Alice in Project . Its first show was performed in 2010, and various sequel and spin-off shows have been followed for ten years since then. Its anime adaptation's story is introduced as follows:   Yu and and Nobu are practicing manzai (a two-person comedy act) act on the roof of the school. At the same time, the school building is overflowing with the presence of non-human "something else." It is said that if a person dies after being bitten by one of them, it will turn into the same "something else" and attack people. In the

Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3 Hits Airwaves in Japan in April of 2021

  Great news for fans of glove puppetry and martial arts mayhem: after initially being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the third season of Thunderbolt Fantasy - a Japanese / Taiwanese co-production featuring the combined talents of Pili International Multimedia, Nitroplus, and Good Smile Company - is back on track and will broadcast in Japan beginning in April of 2021.   【4月放送決定】シリーズ3期『Thunderbolt Fantasy 東離劍遊紀3』が、2021年4月にTV放送決定 メインビジュアルも解禁です!???? #サンファン pic.twitter.com/zhB1Zt6pwX — サンダーボルトファンタジープロジェクト (@TBF_PR) December 1, 2020   Additionally, a new key visual for the series (above) was published along with the announcement to the official Thunderbolt Fantasy Twitter feed. The new key visual features new faces as well as fan-favorite recurring characters (such as Dan Fei, Shang Bu Huan, and Lin Xue Ya) from the previous seasons of Thunderbolt Fantasy .   Source: Official Thunderbolt Fantasy Twitter feed ( @TBF_PR )   Copyright notice:   © Thunderbolt Fantasy Proj

All Eight Members of "Aikatsu 8 2020" Unit for New Project Announced

  To support the upcoming new project Aikatsu Planet! , the Aikatsu! franchise held an online poll to choose the eight members of the new unit "Aikatsu 8 2020"  from August 8 to September 6. The franchise's official YouTube channel has been announcing its members one by one since early this month, and its last member, Ichigo Hoshimaya , was finally revealed on November 30.    In the first TV anime, the original unit "Aikatsu 8" was formed twice. The members of the first one formed in 2014 were Mizuki Kanzaki, Mikuru Natsuki, Ichigo Hoshimiya, Otome Arisugawa, Yurika Todo, Seira Otoshiro, Sora Kazesawa, and Maria Himesato. Those of the second one in 2015 were Ichigo Hoshimiya, Mizuki Kanzaki, Aoi Kiriya, Ran Shibuki, Sakura Kitaouji, Yurika Todo, Sumire Hikami, and Akari Ozora.       The members of "Aikatsu 8 2020" are:   Ichigo Hoshimiya ( Aikatsu! ) Akari Ozora ( Aikatsu! ) Yurika Todo ( Aikatsu! ) Yume Nijino ( Aikatsu Stars! ) Ako Sa

Voice Actor Yuma Uchida Shows Off Fun Dance Performance in Dr. Ramune OP Song MV

    28-year-old voice actor Yuma Uchida has released a three-and-half music video for his next seventh single song "SHAKE!SHAKE!SHAKE!" on his official YouTube channel. The fun and lively song will be featured as the OP theme for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Aho Toro's fantasy manga Dr. Ramune Mysterious Disease Specialist , in which he is also cast as the title role.   In the clip, Uchida has a fun-filled home party with the dancers who have worked with him in his live shows and previous music videos, and shows off his breathtaking dance moves with them. You can also enjoy various other expressions of him, such as being engrossed in a video game, drinking a shake by the pool, and even a scene where he plays the saxophone.   His seventh single "SHAKE!SHAKE!SHAKE!," also including two coupling songs - "Spin a Roulette" and "Relax" - is set to be released in Japan on January 27, 2021.     "SHAKE!SHAKE!SHAKE!"

World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands Review – Old Ghosts And Bold Beginnings

Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Developer: Blizzard Entertainment Release: November 23, 2020 Reviewed on: PC Compared to the lifespan of most games, World of Warcraft is ancient - but it’s hardly a relic. Even today, Blizzard’s MMORPG continues to keep the content flowing for players old and new. Shadowlands is the eighth expansion, and this journey through the afterlife comes with fresh features alongside systems that will be extremely familiar to veterans of the game. At the core, Shadowlands succeeds with powerful world-building fantasy, player identity, and bold gameplay elements. Click here to watch embedded media Shadowlands’ premise is simple and straightforward. You invade the many realms of the afterlife to foil the plans of a mysterious arch-enemy called the Jailer. He is exceptionally boring as a villain right now, and takes a backseat to the true all-stars of the afterlife: the four distinct factions that the player explores and eventually aligns with as they

Healin' Good & 5GoGo! Teams Join Forces in PreCure Spring 2021 Film's Teaser Trailer

    The PreCure franchise's official YouTube channel has started streaming a 60-second teaser trailer for the upcoming film Eiga Healin' Good PreCure Yume no Machi de Kyun! tto GoGo! Daihenshin!!  ( Healin' Good Pretty Cure The Movie: GoGo! Big Transformation! at The Town of Dreams ). The trailer has been also screened in theaters across Japan now.   The 29th PreCure film will feature a joint battle between the ongoing 17th series Healin' Good Pretty Cure and the fifth series Yes! PreCure 5GoGo! in 2008-2009. The six members of the 5Gogo! team - Cure Dream, Cure Rouge, Cure Lemonade, Cure Aqua, Cure Mint, and Milky Rose - join forces with three members of the Healin' Good team. The clip also introduces an original character for the film, Kaguya, the princess of YumeR.   The teaser trailer begins with the arrival of the members of Healin' Good in the city of Tokyo. In Tokyo, the "YumeR" experience that can project the people's inner dream

Yokohama's Walking Gundam Statue Takes Its First Steps for the Press

  The long-awaited "walking Gundam" statue of Yokohama has finally had its first press day, and it's looking just as impressive as promised.   We  gave you a look at the statue  back in September, showing off a couple of its moves as testing was underway. Now,  NHK WORLD News  has a more in-depth look at the life-sized RX-7-2:     A life-size figure of a robot from a popular Japanese animation, "Mobile Suit Gundam," has been shown to the media at a pier in Yokohama, near Tokyo. pic.twitter.com/Tz8EXJ5FST — NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) November 30, 2020     The 60-foot-tall statue is part of  Gundam Factory Yokohama , a facility that also contains observation decks and exhibition areas. Visitors will be able to "pilot" the Gundam, which is tethered to the side of the facility, while viewing footage from the cockpit. 34 articulated parts allow the mecha to move its hands, feet, arms, and legs.   Image courtesy Gundam.INFO   Gundam F

Super Nintendo World to Open in Universal Studios Japan on February 4

  Universal Studios Japan today announced that the previously delayed opening to Super Nintendo Land will now be happening on February 4, 2021 . The press release for the announcement showed off two of the areas that will be opening with the park, the Mario Kart - Bowsers Challenge - ride, and the inside of Bowser's Castle , which features a giant statue of King Koopa himself.         The Mario Kart ride is said to be AR, with goggles worn by each rider as they go through an on-rails ride. The press release says the ride and the surrounding fixtures have been faithfully recreated from the game and housed deep inside Bowser's Castle .    The park inside Universal Studios Japan was originally scheduled to open last July but got pushed to Spring 2021 due to COVID-19, but now is opening a little earlier in February.    Source: Press Release   ---- Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff ca

The Children In Assassin's Creed Valhalla Are Terrifying

Assassin's Creed Valhalla offers a stunning open-world for players to live out those Viking fantasies in. It even houses some pretty stellar references, including a Dungeons & Dragons game . That being said, there is one aspect that is far from beauty and grace, and it's these children that OH MY GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR FACE?!  Look, we're not here to judge. All children are beautiful in the eyes of yada yada yada, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these kids have officially out-uglied the boat people of Marvel's Spider-Man when it first launched on the PS4.  One Reddit user made a horrifying compilation showing off some of the best (?) of the best (again, ?) and really, this is not the content we should be sharing with you but we're doing it anyway. Sorry:  Reddit @KrutToppen Some of them aren't  that  bad, but the one in the middle looks like it's trying to suck my soul out through my monitor and I'm not OK with that. T

SaGa Frontier Remastered Is The Latest Remaster From Square Enix

Square Enix has another remaster on the way, this time with SaGa Frontier Remastered. While we don't have a release date quite yet, we do have a trailer showing off the latest nostalgia play from the studio.  The below announcement trailer offers a glimpse at what the remaster will have to offer fans of the original, an experience that made its debut back in 1997.  Click here to watch embedded media “The team of eight have returned – now with Fuse added as a playable character,"  reads the official reveal made by Square Enix. "Choose your favourite character and embark on your own unique journey. Each of the eight characters have different goals and endings. Your choices will affect how events unfold using the Free-Form Scenario System. This in-depth system will allow you to manipulate and expand a story all your own. "Challenge yourself in nail-biting battles by using ‘glimmer’ as well as learning new skills such as the ability to fire consecutive special atta

These Legend Of Zelda Makeup Brushes Are Perfect For The Holidays

The holidays are just around the corner and many are looking for the perfect stocking stuffers for gamers. For anyone looking for a unique gift (or just a cool fandom buy), there is a new set of Legend of Zelda makeup brushes that are pretty darn perfect for fans of the Nintendo franchise.  Maybe the magic of Legend of Zelda will make me miraculously better at makeup. Probably not.  From the shop Panashe-Essence (not affiliated with Game Informer or its parent company), the latest gaming crossover is none other than that of Legend of Zelda. This same company has offered other gaming goods, including a Pokemon set, but how could I resist writing up about a makeup option that offers the Hyrulian shield?  Panashe-Essence The above set comes with a powder brush, a smudge brush, an eyebrow brush, an eyeshadow brush, and a silkworm brush. The listing also states that the handles are made of metal for a heftier feel, but honestly? They just look really cool.  If you're looking to