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    A live-action TV drama adaptation of Junta Shima's romantic comedy manga Murai no Koi / Murai in Love is set to be aired on TBS's newly-launched midnight programming block "Dreama Stream" from April 5, 2022.   The manga has been serialized in Gene LINE, which was launched by KADOKAWA as a project for manga serialization exclusively on LINE's digital comic service LINE Manga, and so far six tankobon volumes have been released in Japan.   The story tells a romantic comedy between Tanaka, a high school teacher who loves otome games, and Murai, a high school boy who is in love with Tanaka. Tanaka, who has never been involved in a real-life romance, is confessed to by Murai but rejects his confession. On the next day, Murai transforms himself into the exact likeness of Tanaka's favorite character from her favorite otome game. 20-year-old Hikaru Takahashi, who is also cast as the main heroine Totoko in the forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Mr. ...

Platform: Switch Publisher: The Pokémon Company Developer: Game Freak Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet have been officially announced , complete with a reveal trailer that includes a first look at the starters this time around.  These two games represent the start of Generation 9, which will surely bring its own competitive meta, anime, and even Pokémon card series to the franchise, and we can't wait. However, there's still some time before we actually get to play these games, so for now, we'll be scanning every second of the reveal trailer (and subsequent trailers) for new locales, features, and of course, Pokémon.  Click here to watch embedded media As any Pokémon player knows, with each generation comes two games to choose from. This time around, it's Scarlet and Violet (is this a callback to Red and Blue, perhaps?). With two different versions, there are always some differences between the games as well as Pokémon exclusive to each. Fo...

  Netflix has released the final longform trailer for the forthcoming original anime feature film Bubble . The film's theme song "Bubble Featuring Uta" by Eve is previewed in the trailer along with additional footage. The ending theme performer has also been confirmed to be Japanese TikTok singing sensation Riria , who will perform the film's ending theme "See you again" and provide the voice for the secondary protagonist character, Uta.   Riria   The film will be released by Netflix worldwide on April 28th, while the film will receive a theatrical release courtesy of Warner Bros. Japan on May 13th, with a simultaneous launch on Netflix Japan the same day. Additionaly, Comic Natalie has confirmed a clear file bonus for theatrical screening attendees who pre-purchase tickets and a new theatrical poster, embedded below:.   the main trailer for Bubble is here! just LOOK at that animation! ¡El tráiler de Burbujas ya está aquí, y la anim...

  Now that Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster is out in the wild, longtime fans and newcomers alike can enjoy the updated presentation, which includes a few altered scenes. One of the big changes involves the famous "Maria and Draco" opera scene, which now includes the addition of real vocals.    Original composer Nobuo Uematsu recently commented on the change, saying "it would be nice if we could actually put vocals in there." Not only did Square Enix follow through with his request, they actually ended up adding opera vocals in Korean, Spanish, German and Italian on top of the English version.    You can see samples in English and Italian below.    To celebrate the launch of Final Fantasy VI pixel remaster on Steam and Mobile, we have a special showing tonight: please enjoy this preview screening of the iconic "Maria and Draco" opera. Get your tickets now: https://t.co/anV0H1WolO pic.twitter.com/JbyCV3CLJ9 — FINAL FANTASY (@FinalFantasy)...

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Developer: Santa Monica Studio Release: April 20, 2018 ( PlayStation 5 , PlayStation 4 ), January 14, 2022 ( PC ) Rating: Mature I spent 24 hours playing on Valve's new handheld, the Steam Deck, and tested 23 popular games to see how they run out-of-the-box on the portable gaming PC. To my surprise, several unverified titles run great on Steam Deck, while unfortunately, some iconic PC games run poorly. We tested top games like Ark: Survival Evolved, Cyberpunk 2077, DOTA 2, DOOM Eternal, Halo Infinite, Lost Ark, Skyrim Anniversary Edition, Rust, and Valheim. Check out the video below to see the results:  Click here to watch embedded media Games I Tested On Steam Deck: Apex Legends Ark Survival Evolved Cyberpunk 2077 Dark Souls Remastered Dishonored 2 DOTA 2 DOOM Eternal Fights in Tight Spaces Final Fantasy V God of War Halo Infinite Left 4 Dead 2 Loop Hero L...

Platform: Switch Publisher: The Pokémon Company Developer: Game Freak Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet will be ushering in a whole new generation of Pokémon late this year when it releases for Nintendo Switch. With its fresh set of starters, Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly, a whole host of new and returning monsters will fill the ecosystems throughout the new open world. Which Pokémon will you be able to find? Look no further, as we've compiled every single Pokémon that's been confirmed for Scarlet and Violet in official screenshots, videos, and trailers from the duo of games. Starters:   Sprigatito Fuecoco Quaxly Returning Pokémon: Starly Hoppip Petilil Bousweet Psyduck Drifloon Combee Meowth Stonjourner Clauncher Pelipper Swablu Pikachu Blissey Seviper Larvitar Magnemite Lucario Dratini (Fountain sculpture) Flabébé Chewtle (Book cover) Hisuian Zoroark Did we miss any Pokémon officially shown fo...

  This year's Game Developers Conference will be held March 21-25 in San Francisco, CA, and Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is set to receive top honors. The official GDC website announced that Horii—who created the influential RPG series that first launched on Famicom back in 1986—will be getting the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the industry.   GDC also announced the recipient of the Ambassador Award , which goes to Steven Spohn , Senior Director of Development of the AbleGamers charity. Spohn is receiving the award for his years of work advocating for accessibility in video games in his position at the charity, as well as in his work as a streamer and award-winning author.    Members of the Game Developers Choice Special Awards Jury—which is responsible for choosing the recipients of both honors—include game industry veterans Chandana Ekanayake, Greg Kasavin, Dana Nightingale, Siobhan Reddy and Kiki Wolfkill, based on suggestions fr...

    As reported, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Bushiroad's mobile rhythm game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! , the two-episode special anime BanG Dream!5th Anniversary Animation -CiRCLE THANKS PARTY!- will be aired and streamed simultaneously at 23:00 on March 10 and 17 (JST). A trailer for its first episodes featuring 35 members of the seven bands - Poppin'Party, Roselia, Afterglow, Pastel＊Palettes, Hello, Happy World!, Morfonica, and RAISE A SUILEN - is now streamed on the franchise's official YouTube channel.   The story of the special anime centers on "CiRCLE THANKS PARTY!," an event to thank the fans who have supported the bands since the days of the live house CiRCLE. The 35 members scramble to prepare for the event, which will include food stands and live performances. And then, Kasumi and the others decide to perform a new song together at the live...                 In addition, the BanG Dream! f...

  The full lineup of games players will be competing in at this year's EVO 2022 fighting game tournament will be announced during a live stream on March 8, but we already know one that won't be appearing. The Sony-owned organization released a statement on Twitter to note that tournament staple Super Smash Bros. won't be returning for this one.   According to the statement, this was a decision on Nintendo's behalf. EVO says they're "saddened that Nintendo has chosen not to continue that legacy with us this year," and they hope to see it back in action in the future.    pic.twitter.com/7YEX1ZgG4W — EVO (@EVO) February 26, 2022   As for where Smash competitions will go next, Nintendo has its own event up its sleeve. While there aren't any real details yet, Nintendo previously announced plans to partner with Panda Global to host a Super Smash Bros. competitive circuit of its own.    EVO 2022 will return to in-person competition when it ...

The next mainline Pokémon games have been revealed as Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, and they’ll be released on the Switch in “late 2022.”  This news comes by way of today’s Pokémon Day steam . Pokémon Red and Blue were released in Japan on February 27, 1996 and these days, The Pokémon Company celebrates the yearly anniversary with a stream about all of its games, including updates and more for them. This year’s included plenty of that, but it ended with the big reveal that Generation 9 is coming this year.  Click here to watch embedded media The trailer begins with a security guard at Game Freak checking something out before it transitions to footage from Scarlet and Violet. Adopting the look of Sword and Shield (although with significant graphical upgrades), this game appears to be set in a region such as Italy, or perhaps somewhere in South America based on some of the architecture. Regardless, the trailer features plenty of sweeping vistas, familiar pocket monster...

  Slight spoilers for events in  Rent-a-Girlfriend that haven't yet been seen in the TV anime   To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Rent-a-Girlfriend manga and the upcoming second season of the TV anime adaptation, manga creator Reiji Miyajima launched a crowdfunding campaign tonight to pay for an advertisement inside Tokyo's Shibuya Station – the second most trafficked train station in the world. Though it only launched a couple of hours ago, the campaign has already reached its 6 million yen (US$52,000) goal and, as of writing, is already past 7 million yen (US$62,000), doing so in 25 minutes.     皆さまからの熱烈なご声援のもと、開始25分で #かのかりCF 見事目標金額である600万円を突破しました！！！！本当にありがとうございます。 【目標金額達成】ご支援ありがとうございます！ by 『彼女、お借りします』漫画家 宮島礼吏がヒロインとの待ち合わせ広告を出したい https://t.co/Fy2EPZ8R8v — 宮島礼吏 Reiji Miyajima (@Miyajimareiji) February 27, 2022     The campaign was set up by Miyajima to understand how Kazuya felt running his own crowdfunding campaign in...

  With today being Pokémon Day, a day celebrating the release of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan in 1996 – 26 years ago –, the final two regional visuals were released over the past two days to celebrate. The two visuals, with one focusing on the relaxed nature of the Alola region as seen in Pokémon Sun and Moon , and the other exploding with the energy of the Galar region , as shown in the Pokémon Sword and Shield .       The illustrations were released daily on the Japanese  Pokémon  Twitter account alongside daily news for events in many of the more social  Pokémon games. The visuals were based on moments from each of the games, with the Kanto and Johto games, the  Hoenn and Sinnoh regions , and the Unova and Kalos regions all getting their own separate visuals.    For more Pokémon Day fun, a Pokémon Presents stream will be happening in a few short hours with all the latest news on the franchise!...

  The girls from Nijigasaki High School return to the TV anime stage on April 2 , it was announced tonight on the last day of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 4th Live! ～Love the Life We Live～ . The announcement came with a brand new trailer for the upcoming season of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club as well as the reveal of the group's 5th live, which is set for sometime in 2022.     The first season of  Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club  aired from October 3, 2020, to December 26, 2020, and was streamed in North America and Australia by Funimation and AnimeLab, with Crunchyroll   streaming  the series in the UK. The staff and cast from the first season return for the second season. Crunchyroll describes the series as such:   Nijigasaki High School is known for their diverse subjects and the freedom they give to students. Second-year student Yu Takasaki has been turned on to the charms of ...

  The fourth season of the hit isekai  anime series Overlord is set to hit Japanese TV screens this year, but we don't yet know that much about the next part of the franchise which is based on the light novels by  Kugane Maruyama . This will change on March 12 with a special live stream for the next part the official Twitter account for Overlord announced yesterday.     ????生放送特番実施決定???? オーバーロードⅣ 特別番組 ～至高の生放送に忠誠の儀を～実施決定！ 4期の初公開映像を含めた最新情報盛りだくさんなので、ぜひお見逃しなく！ ◆出演者 #日野聡 #原由実 #加藤英美里 ◆日時 3月12日（土）20:00～ ◆番組URL https://t.co/oJYryaUDlL #overlord_anime pic.twitter.com/RGbLb5Bh4T — オーバーロード／TVアニメ公式 (@over_lord_anime) February 26, 2022     The  Overlord live stream is set to be held on YouTube on March 12 at 8 PM with voice actors Satoshi Hino (Ainz),  Yumi Hara (Albedo), and  Emiri Kato (Aura) set to make an appearance. The Tweet confirms that more information on Overlord IV will be released as well as the first ful...

    Uz:ME (pronounced U-Zu-Me ), a new musical unit formed by voice actress Rie Tanaka and two Swedish rock musicians, Patrik Leonheart and Simon Andante , released their first song "SEARCHLIGHT" digitally on February 25, 2022, and the song's music video is now streamed on Tanaka's official YouTube channel.   Tanaka has played a variety of anime characters including Lacus Clyne ( Mobile Suit Gundam Seed ) and Suigintou ( Rozen Maiden ), while Leonheart and Andante are are ex-members of a Swedish art metal band called BatAAr  that have toured the world.   The unit was formed because Leonheart and Andante wanted to pursue music that fuses the genres that have influenced them in the past, such as heavy metal and visual-kei, with J-Pop and electronic music to make Rie Tanaka's voice more appealing to listeners. Their debut song "SEARCHLIGHT" was composed by Leonheart, and its lyrics are written by Kazuya Miwa , the vocalist/guitarist of the fou...

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 Publisher: PlayStation Studios Developer: Polyphony Digital Release: March 4, 2022 Gran Turismo 7 launches on March 4, and driving sim enthusiasts are in a tizzy asking themselves one burning question: how would the game's beautifully rendered cars look if Kirby ate them? You haven't seen it, but they're definitely wondering about this.  That's because Kirby and the Forgotten Land also launches in March and debuts his new suction ability: Mouthful Mode . This was memorably demonstrated with the pink fluff inhaling a car and taking on its shape in the most adorable form of body horror I've ever seen. That same car is probably in Gran Turismo 7 (it's got a bazillion vehicles, so the odds are in my favor), meaning that these games are a match made in... somewhere.  That's why I took the liberty of looking up some of GT7's best cars (I think) to render Kirby eating them, thus putting our collective curiosity ...

Reviewed on: Xbox Series X/S Also on: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Publisher: Wired Productions Developer: LKA Release: February 24, 2022 Rating: Mature Martha Is Dead starts extremely strong, introducing immediately a dynamic between twin sisters Martha and Giulia that sets the stage for the entire game. Giulia’s mother never loved her the way she loved Martha, and this relationship, or lack thereof, has eaten away at Giulia’s spirits for years. After Giulia finds Martha, drowned in a lake, her mother runs to embrace Giulia, mistakenly believing her least-favorite child perished. Finally, she gets the love and affection she’s always wanted. What happens next is unexpected, jaw-dropping even, and I was immediately captivated by the premise. Unfortunately, Martha Is Dead quickly becomes a chore to play.    I felt at odds with the gameplay the moment I began exploring Giulia’s family villa. Walking feels like trudging through mud, which is especially ...

  Mr. Osomatsu  is getting its own live-action film next month, starring members of idol group  Snow Man . It looks like being portrayed by a boy band isn't enough for the Matsuno boys: they're going to be peeking in on the upcoming movie themselves!   A new video on the  Toho YouTube channel , hosted by Iyami ( Kenichi Suzumura ), announced the crossover. It appears the anime characters will be introducing their live-action counterparts in the film's introduction, with each being voiced by their original voice actor from the anime. They've also gotten a makeover for the occasion, redrawn in their movie attire.   Check out the five-minute video for set footage, scenes from the movie, and to see how the new character designs match up to their film versions:     The video also shows off a gift for fans: a sticker sheet featuring the members of Snow Man in costume:     The live-action Mr. Osomatsu  film opens in Japanese ...

Platform: PC Publisher: NCSoft Developer: ArenaNet Release: 2012 Rating: Teen Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons , the third expansion for the critically acclaimed MMORPG, launches on February 28, 2022 and we would like to celebrate! From the Studio Originally released in 2012, Guild Wars 2 is lauded as one of the top MMORPGs. End of Dragons is the third expansion for the game and will take players to the mysterious continent of Cantha, a region of the world shrouded in secrecy and intrigue for more than 200 years. On their journey, players will discover the secrets behind the mysterious substance known as dragonjade and its ability to power the unique technology of Canthan civilization. New horizontal progression options for gameplay include the addition of fishing, skiffs – multiplayer sailing vessels available for groups of five players – while the game’s first co-operative combat mount, the siege turtle, will provide new gameplay possibilities for traversal and combat with ...

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Publisher: Bandai Namco Developer: From Software Release: February 25, 2022 Margit The Fell Omen is the first mandatory boss you’ll encounter in Elden Ring. You’ll find his fog gate inside the Castleward Tunnel, which begins at the top of Stormhill, the wind-swept lands northeast of the starting area called Limgrave. The hammer-wielding steward is old but quick on his feet and poses a more significant threat to slower melee-focused players, especially those of a lower level. If you’re still trying to figure out how to beat Margit The Fell Omen, we’ve got you covered. In this Elden Ring boss guide, we’ll show you how to find a unique item to make the fight much more effortless. Click here to watch embedded media What is Margit’s Shackle? I don’t recommend combating Margit until you’ve leveled up your primary weapon at least two times. Additionally, make sure to call upon Sorcerer Rogier before entering the fight. His ...