Anime & Manga
Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed Director’s Cut Game Launches ‘Day 1 Edition’ in N. America
Game also launches digitally in Europe in summer 2023
XSEED Games announced on Friday that it will release a physical “Day 1 Edition” for Acquire‘s Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed Director’s Cut (Akiba’s Trip 2 Director’s Cut), an updated version of the Akiba’s Trip 2 sequel game, in North America for Nintendo Switch. The game will also launch digitally for Switch in Europe in summer 2023.
The “Day 1 Edition” will include a music CD and nine art cards featuring original illustrations by various Japanese artists.
The game will launch on April 20 in Japan.
The game will feature new content, including a new Kati route with character Kati Raikkonen and a “true” ending. The route is included in the Switch version. XSEED Games will also release the new DLC route for Kati for the PlayStation 4 and PC versions at the same time for US$7.99/€7.99/£6.99.
Acquire released the original Akiba’s Trip game for PlayStation Portable in 2011, and an updated version, Akiba’s Trip Plus, for PSP in 2012. Acquire released the Akiba’s Trip 2 sequel game for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2013. XSEED Games released Akiba’s Trip 2 in North America as Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed on PS3 and PS Vita, and later on PS4 and PC. NIS America released the game in Europe.
The Akiba’s Trip games take place in a reproduction of Tokyo’s Akihabara district, where the player must fight vampires by tearing off their clothes and exposing them to the sunlight.
XSEED Games released Acquire‘s Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed game for PS4, Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store in July 2021. The game is a remaster of Akiba’s Trip Plus for PSP.
The Akiba’s Beat successor game is the first action RPG in the franchise, and it shipped in Japan for PS4 in December 2016 and for PS Vita in March 2017 after delays. XSEED Games released the game in North America in May 2017, and PQube released the game in Europe the same month.
The Akiba’s Trip Festa! PC browser and Android game launched in November 2016.
The game series inspired Akiba’s Trip: The Animation in January 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series with English subtitles as it aired, and Funimation streamed a dub.
Source: Press release
Azuki announced on Tuesday that it will digitally publish NAZ and Masato Fujisaki‘s Gloomy Bear: Apocalyptic Love manga based on Mori Chack’s Gloomy Bear character in English on April 4. The one-shot manga will be available on Azuki‘s website as well as on its iOS and Android applications.
Azuki describes the manga’s story:
A young man and woman have kept keychains as mementos of each other, even after they drifted apart. But one day, when they find themselves under attack by zombies, the keychains come to life to protect them! Can Gloomy Bear and All-Purpose Bunny defeat the zombies and bring the two back together?
Mori Chack created the Gloomy Bear character in 2000. The illustrator also created characters such as Podolly and Kumakikai.
The Itazura Guma no Gloomy (Gloomy the Naughty Grizzly) television anime series premiered in April 2021. The anime celebrated the 20th anniversary of the character. Mori had released a “trial” animated short for the character in 2014.
Source: Press release
Anime & Manga
Sakura-Con Screens N. American Premieres for To Every You I’ve Loved Before, To Me, The One Who Loved You, Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation, More Anime
Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will screen the North American premieres for several anime and anime films at this year’s Sakura-Con event at the Seattle Convention Center on April 7-9. including:
This year’s event will host Junya Enoki (voice of Yuji in Jujutsu Kaisen), Yoshihiro Watanabe (Orange studio producer), Waki Kiyotaka (Orange studio chief producer), Kenji Muto (Trigun Stampede director), Hisashi Kagawa (She, The Ultimate Weapon character designer), Junichi Hayama (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood movie director), and Kōhei Eguchi (Eight Bit Co., Ltd. producer).
Last year’s Sakura-Con took place at the Seattle Convention Center on April 15-17, 2022. Sakura-Con 2020 and 2021 were canceled due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asia Northwest Cultural Education Association hosts Sakura-Con in Seattle annually. It describes the convention as “the oldest and most well attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest.” The convention started in 1998.
Source: Crunchyroll
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