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Tokimeki Memorial spinoff game slated for this winter Konami Digital Entertainment announced on Friday that it is developing a new game titled Tokimeki Idol in anticipation of a winter release on iOS and Android. In the "idol communication game," the player spends daily life with 15 up-and-coming idols at a music school. The game will be free to play with items available for purchase. There will be a "VR" mode that is compatible with VR headsets for mobile phones. Konami will announce the main cast at a stage event at its Tokyo Game Show booth on September 21. Tokimeki Idol is a new installment in Konami's classic Tokimeki Memorial romance game series, which began in 1994 and has spawned numerous sequels, spinoffs, and adaptations, including original video anime in 1999 and 2009, as well as a television series in 2006. An anime film adaptation of the Tokimeki Restaurant☆☆☆ spinoff game, which stars a cast of male idols, has been greenlit for 2018.

Poster also unveiled for Production I.G's film based on game app The official website for Tokimeki Restaurant☆☆☆ Miracle6, the anime film adaptation of Konami and KOEI Tecmo Games' Tokimeki Restaurant☆☆☆ smartphone game, revealed a new teaser video and poster visual for the film on Monday. The video reveals the film's February 10 opening date. Chiaki Kon (all three Junjō Romantica seasons, Nodame Cantabile: Paris, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III) is the animation director for the film at Production I.G. ASMIK Ace is distributing the film. Tooru Ookubo (both Sengoku Basara - Samurai Kings seasons and film) is designing the characters for animation. The film will star: 3 Majesty (pictured left in above image) Daisuke Kishio as Shinnosuke Otowa Daisuke Namikawa as Tsukasa Kirishima Tetsuya Kakihara as Kaito Tsuji X.I.P. (pictured right) Satoshi Hino as Kento Fuwa Kousuke Toriumi as Kyōya Date Takuya Eguchi as Tōru Kanzaki The film will

iOS/Android game launches this winter Konami began streaming a game introduction video for its Tokimeki Idol iOS and Android game on Wednesday. The video previews the character interactions, outfit selections, and rhythm game aspects of the gameplay. The game is slated to launch this winter. In the "idol communication game," the player spends daily life with 15 up-and-coming idols at a music school. The game will be free to play with items available for purchase. There will be a "VR" mode that is compatible with VR headsets for mobile phones. The cast, from left to right in the image above, is as follows: Nanami Yamashita as Akane Tachikawa Natsumi Kawaida as Natsumi Kawaguchi Eri Inagawa as Nanana Katagiri Reina Kondo as Nonoka Kusakabe Akane Fujikawa as Izumi Izumi Yurika Takagi as Koyukimura Sanada Minori Suzuki as Minato Tsukishima Natsumi Hioka as Akiha Yuki Yū Wakui as Francesca Tanaka Saori Hizashi as Noriko Hibino Marika Hayase as Haru

Fantasy manga launched in 1996, but went on hiatus in 2002 due to author's health issues Manga creator Miyuki Yama launched a continuation of the Toki no Daichi manga on the MediBang! Manga app on Thursday, 15 years after it originally ended in 2002. The fantasy manga is set in a world years after a young adventurer vanquished the dark lord Diabolos and brought peace to the land. With Diabolos' resurrection, the boy sets out to defeat him again, but has not returned. Now his friend and fellow adventurer Kai sets out to find him and see if what he said is true. Journeying with Kai is Izayoi, a mysterious boy who can communicate with demons, and Jend, a dark elf seeking vengeance against Diabolos for the extinction of his race. Yama launched the manga in Enix's (now Square Enix) Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine in 1996. The manga has been on hiatus since 2002, when Yama ceased working on the manga due to health issues. Yama launched a Campfire crowdfunding campaign for a con

Classic shojo series began in 1982, inspired anime Next year's January issue of Shueisha's Cookie magazine announced on Saturday that Koi Ikeno will draw a new 42-page one-shot titled "Tokimeki Tonight ~Makabe Shun Fusai no Honeymoon" (Mr. and Mrs. Shun Makabe's Honeymoon). As the title implies, the short focuses on Ranze and Makabe's honeymoon. The original Tokimeki Tonight manga initially ran from 1982 to 1994, and the Tokimeki Tonight - Hoshi no Yukue final arc ran in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Ribon from 1998 to 1999. The Tokimeki Midnight alternate retelling manga debuted in 2002. An eight-chapter manga titled Tokimeki Tonight - Makabe Shun no Jijō, which tells the story from Makabe's point of view, debuted in 2013, followed by a one-shot titled "Tokimeki Tonight - Makabe Shun no Jijō+" (pictured right) in 2015. Ikeno also drew a one-volume prequel, Tokimeki Tonight: Etō Mōri no Kakeochi, which Shueisha published as a graphic novel in 2015. The manga spans thre