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New company's debut original work is VR visual novel slated for October 5 Japanese developer Rockin Heart Games announced on Thursday that it is developing its first original game, titled Tear: Owari to Hajimari no Shizuku. The title is slated for the PlayStation 4 on October 5, and it will support the use of the PlayStation VR headset. In the game, players use a device called "Tear" to be able to travel freely between reality and illusion, and will solve multiple incidents involving serial kidnappings, the paranormal, UFOs, science fiction, espionage, the military, and other mysteries. The game's story will eventually involve a battle with the beginning and end of the world at stake. The mystery revolves around the "Third Secret of Fatima." The game will allow players to view the story from the point of view of multiple protagonists using a "multi-sight system" that will require players to solve complex mysteries to reveal the trick behi

The official website for the Just Because! original anime project unveiled the anime's new visual on Friday. The anime will premiere on October 5 on AT-X (9:00 p.m.), Tokyo MX (11:30 p.m.), and TV Kanagawa (1:00 a.m., effectively October 6 morning). The series will also premiere on October 6 on MBS (2:55 a.m., effectively October 7 morning), and on October 10 on BS Fuji (12:30 a.m., effectively October 11 morning). The show's official website describes the story: It is winter of their third year of high school, near the end of the second semester, when students have very little time in high school left. Everyone was just waiting for graduation. Until he suddenly came home. He was their classmate in middle school who had moved far away. He transferred in at a peculiar time, which reunited them. It was as if a go signal rang out to the feelings of the students who had just thought to end their high school life without fanfare. Atsushi Kobayashi (Girls & Panzer st

4-player co-op dark fantasy slated for winter Game developer Inti Creates unveiled its new game titled Dragon: Marked for Death on Thursday. The "dark fantasy style action RPG" is slated for release on the Nintendo Switch in winter. The game will feature the return of staff members from Mega Man Zero, including director Ryota Ito, character designer Toru Nakayama, chief character graphics designer Horikatsu Maeda, scenario writer and world planner Makoto Yabe, sound producer Ippō Yamada, main programmer Akihiro Shishido, lead programmer Shinichi Sema, and producer Takuya Aizu. The game is a 2D side-scrolling action game that supports up to four players through local or online multiplayer. Players pick one of four classes with different abilities: the Princess, the Warrior, the Shinobi, or the Witch. The game features single stages of sizes from 200 to 400 screens and over 30 main quests, as well as side quests. Inti Creates work

Funko has unveiled a slew of new DC Comics offerings, which will be available exclusively at this October’s New York Comic Comic. The new line of collectibles features several Pop! vinyls, including an 8-Bit Batman, a First Appearance Superman and a Black Chrome Batman. The 8-Bit Batman wears a classic blue and grey costume but is rendered as an 8-bit sprite just like a video game character, while the Black Chrome Batman sports a shiny black chrome finish. The First Appearance Superman figure plays homage to the character’s first appearance in Action Comics #1 with its small S-shield and classic red trunks. RELATED: The 20 Most Important DC Events Of The Last Decade, Ranked The classic Batman television series from the ’60s is also represented in these offerings. Funko will offer a new color variant for the 1966 Batmobile action figure set that includes an Adam West Batman figure, as well as a Dor

Jim Lee has debuted his cover art for Absolute WildC.A.T.s, the upcoming hardcover collected edition from DC Comics. RELATED: Jim Lee’s SDCC Panel Spotlighted His Immigrant Story Lee, co-creator of WildC.A.T.s and co-publisher of DC Entertainment, posted the inked artwork by Scott Williams and the final colors by Alex Sinclair, both frequent collaborators. The glimpse behind the scenes provides a treat for fans of characters such as Grifter, Spartan, Zealot, Voodoo, and the rest of the WildC.A.T.s team. The compendium will be released in December by DC to commemorate the 25th anniversary of WildC.A.T.s #1, by Lee and Brandon Choi. Published by Image Comics, the issue was Lee’s first creator-owned work, and served as the foundation of the Wildstorm Universe. DC acquired Lee’s WildStorm Productions in 1998. RELATED: The 15 Most Iconic Jim Lee Covers Featuring stories by Lee, Scott Lobdell, Brandon Choi, Chris Claremont and Eric Silvestri, and interior art by Le

Poster for December 1 film features all 12 main cast members The official website for the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist film revealed a new poster for the film on Monday. The new poster shows all 12 main cast members. The staff had previously revealed three more posters in July. The live-action film will open in Japan on December 1. Fumihiko Sori (live-action Ping Pong) is directing the film. On adapting the source material, Sori said, "I want to create a style that follows the original manga as much as possible. The cast is entirely Japanese, but the cultural background is Europe. However, it's a style that doesn't represent a specific race or country." Regarding the faithfulness of the adaptation, which has characters of non-Japanese ethnicity, the director said, "There will never be a scene in which a character says something that would identify him/her as Japanese." The film stars Ryōsuke Yamada (Hey! Say! JUMP member and live-action Assassination Classro

Play debuts on Wednesday The official website for the upcoming stage play based on Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) manga revealed the stage play's cast in costume last week. Nobuaki Kakuda (first image below), Keiichi Yamamoto (second image below), and Kōzō Takeda (third image below) are triple cast as Jagi, and will appear at different performances. Other additional cast members, all playing random thugs, include (from top to bottom in images below) Ryūko Isogai, Ryūnosuke Kawai, Juri, Takeshi Hayashino, and Naomichi Hanazono, and AŌP idol group member Aoi Mizuki. Other actors playing random thugs include comedians Fall Kachi Aoyama, Captain★Zako, Shimazō Z, and Pink Machiura, as well as Kazuya Ōiwa, Yūsuke Fukushima, and Teppei Yoshino. Shigeru Chiba, the voice of Joker, Jakō, the narrator, and numerous other characters in the anime adaptations, will also have a voice role in the stage play. The play, titled Hokuto no K

Play runs September 14-24 The official website for the stage play adaptation of Shō Futamata's Nanbaka manga revealed its third round of character visuals last week. Naoya Gōmoto as Hajime Sugoroku Kimeru as Kiji Mitsuba (returning from the anime) Daisuke Utsumi (Fizzypop) as Kenshirō Yozakura Taito Hashimoto (Fizzypop) as Samon Gokū Shun Takagi as Mitsuru Hitokoe Seiya Inagaki as Yamatao Godai Keito Okuyama as Seitarō Tanabata (returning from the anime) The previously revealed cast members and visuals include: Tomoru Akazawa as Jūgo Airu Shiozaki as Rock (returning from the anime) Ryō Kitazono as Uno Junpei Yasukawa as Nico Akiyoshi Utsumi as Tsukumo Hidemitsu Miyamoto as Musashi Yūta Hoshino as Liang Kenta Nomiyama as Hitoshi Sugoroku The play will run from September 14 to 24 at Tokyo's Zepp Blue Theater Roppongi. Keita Kawajiri is directing the play and writing the script. Funimation describes the anime adaptation's story: Welcome to Nanba, the world's larges

The official website for the Mr. Osomatsu television anime unveiled the second season's main visual and broadcast details on Wednesday. The season will premiere at 25:35 on October 2 (effectively 1:35 a.m. on October 3) on TV Tokyo and TV Aichi, and it will also run on the TV Osaka, AT-X, and BS Japan channels. The Mr. Osomatsu television anime is inspired by Fujio Akatsuka's original Osomatsu-kun manga and "high tension comedy" TV anime, which centered on the Matsuno household with six naughty and mischievous sons (who are sextuplets). All of the sextuplets, including the eldest Osomatsu, are all in love with the same girl, Totoko. The original Osomatsu-kun series followed the family when the sons were 10 years old. The current show re-imagines the original manga and TV anime with the sextuplets as adults. Yoichi Fujita is returning to direct the current anime's second season at Studio Pierrot with character designer Naoyuki Asano. Shū Matsubara is returning as series s

IDW Publishing has announced a Stretch Armstrong comic book series that will tie-in to the recently announced Netflix show about the stretchy action figure brand that found major success from the mid ‘70s to the late ‘90s. The comic is titled Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters and will reimagine the hero as a teenager who fights evil alongside his friends. Written by Kevin Burke and Chris Wyatt, with art by Savage Dragon artist Nikos Koutsis, the series will see a young Jake Armstrong and his friends exposed to chemicals that give them superpowers. Jake’s friends, Ricardo Perez, also known as Omni-Mass, and Nathan Park, who goes by Wingspan, will join him as they defend Charter City from the forces of evil. RELATED: Stretch Armstrong Animated Series Heads to Netflix “We’re so excited to bring Stretch Armstrong into comics with IDW,” Burke said in a press release. “Our teen superhero TV series is very much influenced by classic comi