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Atelier Ryza 3 Game’s Story Trailer Previews Ending Theme Song

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Suis performs ending theme song for game launching on March 24

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KOEI Tecmo America began streaming a story trailer for the Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key (Ryza no Atelier 3 ~Owari no Renkinjutsushi to Himitsu no Kagi~) game on Wednesday. The trailer previews the ending theme song “travelers” by yorushika‘s vocalist Suis.


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The game was originally scheduled for release in Japan for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on February 22, and in the United States on the same platforms and on PC via Steam on February 24. Gust and KOEI Tecmo America delayed the game’s PS4, PS5, and Switch release to March 23 (March 24 in the West) and the game’s release on PC via Steam to March 24.

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KOEI Tecmo America describes the game:

In Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key, lead writer Yashichiro Takahashi, who delivered the script for the original Atelier Ryza game, returns to the franchise to deliver an unforgettable third chapter in the Secret series. The latest summer escapade finds Ryza and friends enjoying their peaceful lives on Kurken Island when they hear news that a mysterious group of islands have appeared in nearby waters. It turns out that these islands, known as Kark Isles, are having a negative effect on their homeland, so Ryza and her friends quickly set out to investigate. But when their investigation leads to an enormous gate deep within strange ruins, Ryza hears a haunting voice in her head that wants to lead her to the ‘Code of the Universe’. Who is talking to her and what lies beyond the gate?

KOEI Tecmo America released Gust’s Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy in January 2021 for PS4, Switch, PC via Steam, and digitally for PS5. That sequel was set three years after KOEI Tecmo Games’ Gust brand’s Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (Ryza no Atelier ~Tokoyami no Joō to Himitsu no Kakurega~) game.

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Live-Action Drops of God Show Premieres on April 21

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Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Sunday that Drops of God, the new internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action television series of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto‘s The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga, will premiere on April 21.

Apple TV+ has acquired the eight-part series and will broadcast and stream it worldwide simultaneously in 2023.

The official title in Japan is Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God. (Similar to the title in Japan for the second Fullmetal Alchemist television series, the live-action series’ title includes both the Japanese and English titles of the manga.)

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Legendary Television is handling worldwide distribution outside of France and Japan. Hulu Japan will exclusively stream the series inside Japan alongside its world premiere. The series filmed over 10 months in France, Italy, and Japan.

The series is a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese companies. Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Televisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the project, and are producing the project with Adline Entertainment. Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man’s Land) is directing the series, and Quoc Dang Tran (Marianne, Parallel) wrote the scripts. Dynamic’s Klaus Zimmermann (Borgia, Trapped) is producing the series.

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As previously announced, Tomohisa Yamashita (pictured left) and French actress Fleur Geffrier (Elle) star in the series. The announcement noted that Geffrier’s character is named Shizuku Kanzaki, the protagonist of the manga. A previous announcement noted that rival character Issei Tōmine would be the show’s protagonist, but an earlier report in 2021 from entertainment news service Variety described the series as having a female protagonist, with Geffrier playing the role.

Variety describes the story of the TV series:

The story involves a woman who discovers that her estranged father has left her the world’s greatest wine collection in his will. But, to claim her inheritance she must compete against a Japanese man who her father regarded as a son and may have been more.

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Siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi — under the pen name Tadashi Agi — launched The Drops of God manga with artist Okimoto in Kodansha‘s Morning magazine 2004. A live-action series based on the manga aired in Japan in 2009. The manga ended in June 2014, and the 44th and final compiled book volume shipped in July 2014. The manga’s final arc, titled Marriage ~Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō~ (Marriage ~The Drops of God Final Arc~), launched in May 2015, and it ended in October 2020.

Comixology and Kodansha USA Publishing have released the manga in English digitally.

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Throughout its serialization, the manga had famously boosted the sales of wines profiled in the story. The French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France has recognized the manga, giving it the magazine’s top award in 2010. The New York Times also profiled the manga in its Dining and Wine section in 2008.

Source: Variety (Marta Balaga)



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Toho Animation Posts Music Film Project Collaboration for Bump of Chicken, loundraw

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Tentai Kansoku” animated short streams, 4 more shorts to premiere until Friday

TOHO animation began streaming director loundraw, Flat Studio, and rock band BUMP OF CHICKEN‘s animated short titled “Tentai Kansoku” (Stargazing) on Monday. It is the first of five animated shorts featured in the TOHO animation Music Films project. The video is in Japanese without English subtitles.

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The short’s story goes back and forth between a young boy sending letters to himself on a makeshift mailbox. It shows the moments he has with his girlfriend, up to the last night they spend together stargazing before the girl transfers to another school. The two friends meet again after a few years, and they go back to the place where they went stargazing.

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The short features Junya Enoki and Atsumi Tanezaki as the main characters.

BUMP OF CHICKEN originally released the song “Tentai Kansoku” in 2001 as their third single.

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The project is part of the overall 10th anniversary celebrations for TOHO animation. As part of the project, TOHO animation is partnering with anime creators and music artists to create five short anime.

Director Namiko Ishidate and musicians Ryokuoushoku Shakai’s “Himitsu no Hana no Niwa” (Secret Flower Garden) will premiere on Tuesday. Mizuki Ito and musicians Hentai Shinshi Club‘s “Neko to Wakai se na” (Don’t Reconcile with Cats) will premiere on Wednesday. Director China and CreepHyp‘s “Detarame na Sekai no Melodrama” (The Melodrama of the Rubbish World) will premiere on Thursday. Director Tetsuro Araki, character designer Mai Yoneyama, animation studio Wit Studio, and musicians SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Hata Motohiro’s “COLORs” will premiere on Friday.

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One of the five animated shorts will premiere on TOHO animation‘s YouTube channel each day at 6:00 p.m. JST (5:00 a.m. EDT). The shorts will then play at TOHO animation‘s booth at the AnimeJapan convention on March 25 and 26.

Sources: TOHO animation‘s YouTube channel, Comic Natalie




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Tōsōchū: The Great Mission Anime’s Promo Video Previews fhána’s Opening Theme

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The official website for Tōsōchū: The Great Mission, an anime inspired by the Fuji TV game show run for money Tōsōchū (known as Run for the Money in English), revealed the show’s promotional video on Monday. The video previews fhána‘s opening theme song “Runaway World.”


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The website also revealed a new visual from original character designer Takeshi Okano.

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The series will premiere on April 2.

The previously revealed cast includes: (Note: English name romanizations not confirmed)

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Yukio Kaizawa (Digimon Tamers) and Kōhei Kureta (One Piece, Kirakira Precure a la Mode) are directing the anime at Toei Animation. Yōichi Ōnishi is designing the characters based on original art by Takeshi Okano (Jigoku Sensei Nube). Kotaro Nakagawa (Code Geass) is composing the music. Ayaka Kami and Kentaro Akiyama (Revue Starlight) are the art directors. Kenji Fukuda is handling the art setting. Shōhei Tamura is in charge of 3D stage design.

Boys group AB6IX is performing the ending theme song “Fly Away.”

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The anime is set in the future when humanity has migrated to the Moon due to Earth’s climate change. The anime incorporates its own elements such as the human drama of survival on a diverse field that blurs countries and eras such as Shibuya, Edo-period Japan, and London.

The game show has been airing irregularly on Fuji TV since 2004. The “runaway” contestants try to survive in theme parks, shopping centers, and other venues to earn cash as “hunters” pursue them. The show has already inspired stage productions, publications, and a Netflix release.

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Sources: Tōsōchū: The Great Mission anime’s website (link 2), Comic Natalie




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