#Shigeru Morikawa

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『GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS』

[randomrichards]

PROJECT A-KO:

Invincible teen

Tried to get to school on time

Stopped by sci fi tropes

[kyshkasa]

All That Gundam dir. Shigeru Morikawa

[demifiendrsa]

GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS - Main English Subtitled Trailer

The TV anime series based on Arc System Works’ Guilty Gear video game franchise, Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers, will premiere on April 5, 2025.

Key visual

Cast additions

Aya Suzaki as Elphelt Valentine

Megumi Han as Ramlethal Valentine

Takeshi Kusao as Ky Kiske

Kazue Fujita as Dizzy

Hiromi Igarashi as Jack-O' Valentine

Manaka Iwami as Bridget

Mayumi Asano as Baiken

Norio Wakamoto as Johnny

Tetsu Inada as Leo Whitefang

Junichi Endō as Vernon E. Groubitz (Replacing the late voice actor Kiyoyuki Yanada)

Yasuhiro Mamiya as Nerville Hammer

Previously announced cast members

Issei Miyazaki as Sin Kiske

Jouji Nakata as Sol Badguy

Yui Ishikawa as Unika

Tomokazu Sugita as Narrator

Staff

Original Character Designs by Daisuke Ishiwatari

Directed by Shigeru Morikawa

Series Composition: Norimitsu Kaiho

Associate Producer: Seiji Mizushima

Assistant Directors: Shinpei Ishikawa, Hiroshi Morita

Screenplay: Kou Shigenobu

Animation Character Design: Takuya Chanohara, Yuka Hachimori, Joseph Shin

Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai

Compositing Director: Daisuke Okumura

Editor: Hatsumi Hidaka

Color Coordination: Miyu Ishibashi

Sound Director: Fumihiko Ootera

Sound Production: Magic Capsule

Animation Production: SANZIGEN Inc.

Synopsis

After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era. Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears. Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion. Although they manage to overcome in the struggle for survival known as the Crusades, humanity's losses are so great that even after several decades pass, their emotional wounds remain unable to fully heal. Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to his father Ky and mother Dizzy's wedding ceremony. Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo: a union between a human and a Gear. Even with the world at peace, it took many years for such a ceremony to come to fruition. Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding ceremony is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears… The fated child inheriting Gear blood–and the mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting would shake the world.

[satoshi-mochida]

Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers anime series announced - Gematsu

Arc System Works has announced Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers, the first TV anime series based on Guilty Gear franchise. It is produced by SANZIGEN.

The anime’s staff includes:

Based on Guilty Gear: Created by Arc System Works

Original Character Designs by: Daisuke Ishiwatari (Arc System Works)

Directed by: Shigeru Morikawa

Series Composition: Norimitsu Kaiho

Associate Producer: Seiji Mizushima

Animation Production: SANZIGEN Inc.

Presented by: ASW / Project GUILTY GEAR STRIVE DR

A stage event featuring Norimitsu Kaiho and Seiji Mizushima is planned for Anime Expo 2024, which will run from July 4 to 7.

Visit the official website here.

[tofueggnoodles]

Drama CD translations update

Dear fellow fujoshi and fans of boys love Drama CDs from the 2000s, I have updated my wordpress Drama CD translation blog :D

Adult Education ～The Training of a Gentleman～ Kondou Takashi x Morikawa Toshiyuki

Now Here Toriumi Kousuke x Tobita Nobuo

Love Blooms at the Law Firm (Houritsujimusho Ni Koi Ga Saku) Takahashi Hiroki x Ishikawa Hideo

A Tale of the BL Detective / BL Inside Stories Special 2004 (BL Tantei Monogatari) Nakahara Shigeru x Kosugi Jūrōta Horiuchi Ken'yū x Kosugi Jūrōta

That's all for now. I hope to post my thoughts and reviews on these old Drama CDs one of these days. In the meantime, please enjoy the translations and the Drama CD themselves. (Download links and pw are available in the introduction post for each Drama CD.)

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📢 GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DAL PICCHIADURO VERRÀ TRATTA UNA SERIE ANIMATA!

Ripetete con me: "Mommy Baiken in tv! Mommy Baiken in tv!" Ehm, cioè... grandi scene d'azione, combattimenti spettacolari, pubblicità per uno dei migliori fighting game, al di fuori dei big senza tempo come Street Fighter e Tekken.

La regia è affidata a Shigeru Morikawa (Argonavis Movie: Axia) e il progetto rimane in casa SANZIGEN (D4DJ, BanG Dream!), che per il gioco ha già realizzato il videoclip Find Your One Way.

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Los protagonistas aparecen el primer avance de "GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS"

El elenco principal del anime "GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS" (@guiltygear_stdr) son revelados en el primer video promocional.

Siguiendo con la revelación anterior, llegó más información sobre el anime GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS durante el panel de Anime Expo. Shigeru Morikawa (Chrono Crusade) dirigirá el anime GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS, con Norimitsu Kaiho a cargo de los guiones de la producción de SANZIGEN. GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS【Teaser Visual】 Behind two of the series' most iconic characters, SOL…

[jcmarchi]

Guilty Gear Strive Anime Adaptation Called 'Dual Rulers' Announced

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/guilty-gear-strive-anime-adaptation-called-dual-rulers-announced/

Guilty Gear Strive Anime Adaptation Called 'Dual Rulers' Announced

Developer Arc System Works has revealed Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers, an anime adaptation based on its hit 2021 fighting game. Though there’s no release date or window in sight, Arc System Works says Sanzigen Studios is producing the anime. Notably, Sanzigen Studios is the same studio behind protagonist Sol Badguy’s “Find Your Way” music video in Guilty Gear Strive. 

As for what to expect from a plot perspective, Arc System Works has revealed little, though it says Dual Rulers will be at this year’s Anime Expo 2024 in July. 

“Shigeru Morikawa (famous for Argonavis the Movie: Axia) will direct,” the Dual Rulers announcement reads. “Others attached to the project include Guilty Gear writer Norimitsu Kaihō for series composition and Seiji Mizushima (famous for Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Fullmetal Alchemist) as associate producer.”

Here’s a look at Dual Rulers’ key art: 

What do you hope Dual Rulers is about? Let us know in the comments below!

[andronicmusicblog]

Guilty Gear Strive Anime Adaptation Called 'Dual Rulers' Announced

Arc System Works has recently announced the exciting development of Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers, an upcoming anime adaptation based on their popular fighting game released in 2021. The anime is being produced by Sanzigen Studios, the same studio behind the impressive "Find Your Way" music video featuring the protagonist Sol Badguy in Guilty Gear Strive.

While a specific release date for Dual Rulers is yet to be revealed, fans can look forward to its presence at Anime Expo 2024 in July. Shigeru Morikawa, known for his work on Argonavis the Movie: Axia, has been appointed as the director for the anime. Additionally, the talented Guilty Gear writer Norimitsu Kaihō will be in charge of the series composition, and Seiji Mizushima, recognized for his work on Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and Fullmetal Alchemist, will serve as the associate producer.

With the details being slowly unveiled, fans are eager to know what Dual Rulers will bring to the table in terms of storyline and character development. The key art released has already sparked discussion and anticipation among enthusiasts.

What are your expectations and hopes for Dual Rulers? Feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments section!

[gonagaiworld]

La serie di combattimento di Guilty Gear sarà trasposta in un anime televisivo Shigeru Morikawa dirige l'anime di SANZIGEN, maggiori informazioni all'Anime Expo del 5 luglio. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/la-serie-di-combattimento-di-guilty-gear-sara-trasposta-in-un-anime-televisivo/?feed_id=454954&_unique_id=666bc4f581b4a #ArcSystemWorks #GuiltyGear #GuiltyGearStriveDualRulers

[icharchivist]

Hosoyan, Suzuken, Sakurai, you mentioned a Suwabe-voiced character exists, fucking GACKT

That cast is stacked

And all the hivemind's faves are assembled

I'm sure we'll find even more familiar names if we dig

there's also Maaya Sakamoto playing Aerith, being Olivia in Granblue as well

hell i wouldn't be surprised if there's even more.

like looking through it...

just so to mention them

Suzuken, playing Zack in ff7, and Sandalphon in gbf Sakurai, playing Cloud, and the Lucifaces in gbf Suwabe, playing Tseng, and Seofon Hosoyan, playing Sonon, and Belial and Bowman there's also Kappei Yamaguchi, playing Red XIII, who plays Walder in gbf. Hideo Ishikawa, playing Cait Sith, who plays Zaja in gbf. Kazuhiro Yamaji, playing Cid, who plays Yngwie and is Eugen's second seiyuu Speaking of, Keiji Fujiwara used to play Reno, and Eugen, before his death Taiten Kusunoki, playing Rude, and Eso Megumi Toyoguchi, playing Elena, and Shura Kenta Miyake, playing Roche, and Deliford Shigeru Chiba, playing Hojo (piece of shit die die die), and Yodarha Banjō Ginga, playing Reeve (!!!), and Eahta Satomi Moriya, playing Jessie, and Sylph Tomokazu Sugita, playing Aniyan (Andrea in english? the owner of the honey bee inn), and Drang

and the MVP i need to not forget, Toshiyuki Morikawa, playing Sephiroth, and Seruel.

and that's only for the characters i bother to check. I also see Shirai Yusuke (Mordred) is playing a minor new character in Rebirth for instance.

so yeah, the cast is stacked as always, i just forget it most of the time.

but yeah. yeah..... much to think about!

[trashexplorer]

BLCD 2021: October Releases

Legends:

✓ - have

💡 - interested

✘ - not interested (but will probably still listen to)

🙏 - dying for

1. Love Nest 2 part 1 🙏

Release Date: 2021/10/06

Cast: Kawahara Yoshihisa x Saitou Souma

Synopsis: Adaptation of the sequel of the same name.

2. Suki ni Shitai yo Reijin November 2021 Furoku Drama CD ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/06

Cast: Kumagai Kentarou x Tamaru Atsushi

Synopsis: Ever since his neighbor was born when he was 4 years old, he has been in love - to the point of obsessive stalking. Even now as adults, living together, the obsession has not waned, just become shared. (fujokikki) 

3. Tondemonai Ore no Alpha ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/08

Cast: Kumagai Kentarou x Itou Kento

Synopsis: If I let it all out like this, I'm sure I'll get pregnant!! Hiro Masumi, a childcare teacher who is an alpha, is courted by Rin Inozoka, a kindergartener of the pig kind. Fearing ending up teaching Rin’s class, Hiro decides to take a break from the orphanage for a while. Then, shocked by not being able to meet Hiro, Rin came to Hiro's house, but Hiro's first estrus unexpectedly came?! Rin, who has turned into a beast, transformed into a handsome Arabian man!! (Hazelnut Y)

Comment: What a wild, wild synopsis. Also, this isn’t what I meant when I said I wanted Kumaken and Itouken to pair up. 💀

4. Iki Dekinai no wa Kimi no Sei 💡

Release Date: 2021/10/20

Cast: Tamaru Atsushi x Satou Takuya WOT

Synopsis:  Shizuki is a hedonistic playboy who plays the baritone saxophone in the local council's brass band and he openly dislikes the band's popular and prince-like flutist, Yano.

At a glance, it seems like they barely associate with each other during practice. However, due to a shared interest, they now have secret meetings in hotels afterwards... (No Pressure Scans)

5. Mask Danshi wa Koishitakunai no ni  💡

Release Date: 2021/10/22

Cast: Eguchi Takuya x Kobayashi Yuusuke

Synopsis: 

"The mouth is the second sexiest body part."

The famous cheerful guy, Saikawa had tried to rip off the gloomy kid, Sayama's mask. After that day, he had captured Saikawa's attention and Saikawa had volunteered to teach him for the upcoming examination but with one condition, Saikawa can do whatever he wants with what is hiding under Sayama's mask. He hates it when people touch his bare face, lips and inside his mouth, but he cannot say anything when Saikawa touch them. The combination between Saikawa's harassment and the awkward mask boy's behaviour, this manga will pack with sexual tension between these two. (Flex Tape)

6. 30-sai Made Doutei Dato Mahoutsukai ni Narerushi vol. 3 ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/27

Cast: Satou Takuya + Abe Atsushi

Synopsis: Adaptation of the third volume of the series.

7. Derail ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/27

Cast: Azakami Youhei x Yashiro Taku

Synopsis: Haru & Hikaru are childhood friends who keep scheming to keep each other by their side. But things escalate when Hikaru brings a girl to the apartment they share. (Mint Wood)

8. Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Limit 3 -  ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/27

Cast: Furukawa Makoto + Enoki Junya 

Synopsis: Adaptation of the sequel of the same name.

9. Sei no Gekiyaku 💡

Release Date: 2021/10/27

Cast: Morikawa Toshiyuki x Nojima Hirofumi 

Synopsis: “I’ll find all of your most sensitive spots.” Makoto Katsuragi, a man working for an advertising agency, has so far led a perfect private and work life. However, that all comes crashing down in an instant when he loses everything he holds dear. In the midst of his despair, he drunkenly climbs onto the ledge of a tall building and is about to jump, when… “If you’re going to throw away your life…let me have it.” He is saved by these words offered by the sudden appearance of Ryuji Yoden, and decides to do exactly as Ryuji says. From the moment Makoto awakens in Ryuji’s room, his daily life of retraining begins, giving away not only his body, but his heart…

Comment: THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT WHEN I SAID I WANTED SHIGERU-SAN AND HARU.

10. Sewayaki Yankee wa Kane de Kawareru ✘

Release date: 2021/10/27

Cast: Eguchi Takuya x Ishiya Haruki *welcome back, boy

Synopsis: Fujikawa Yamato’s lost his job after his boss did a runner. On his way home, dejected, he came across a man passed out on the street. Hungry and exhausted, Aoi proposes to employ Yamato as his caretaker. Moreover, his contract also stipulates that he’d have to take care of Aoi in bed, too?!

11. Blanc 🙏

Release Date: 2021/10/28

Cast: Kamiya Hiroshi x Nojima Hirofumi

Synopsis: Adaptation of the sequel of the same name.

Comment: SHUT UP! SHUT. UP! NO WAY!!! TELL ME THIS ISN’T PRERECORDED OH— YO! IT’S KAMIYAN!!! AND NOJIMA!!! IN 2021???!!! YO, I’LL DIE FOR THE CAST TALK!

12. Anata no Ana wa Boku no Mono ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/29

Cast: Toki Shunichi x Terashima Junta 

Synopsis: Yoshioka, a new announcer, got fired on his very debut as he slipped and exposed himself on national tv. Komai, a weather forecaster, calls out to him after watching the events unfold. Komai calls him to come at the break room one day and proceeds to touch him?!

13. Happy of the End ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/29

Cast: Tachibana Shinnosuke x Eguchi Takuya *ANOTHER VETERAN!!! good casting tbh

Synopsis: Chihiro woke up in a tattered state on a garbage dump. Suddenly, a man approached him while looking down on him with a smile. He then remembered that this man had abandoned him at this place just half a day ago..?

14. Ikigami to Donor 💡

Release Date: 2021/10/29

Cast: Nakajima Yoshiki x Saitou Souma

Synopsis: 

"Your blood and flesh, all of it is mine." An ikigami and a healer, together their souls support each other, blooming into love...

In the distant future, ordinary teacher Yoshino learns that he is a "donor" for the strongest species, the "ikigami." These warriors are tasked with protecting the country. "The unique ability of a donor is to use their bodily fluids to heal ikigami." Yoshino learns this fact and is shocked. Thus, Yoshino is forced to live with Kidou... At first, he is like a beast, demanding Yoshino's bodily fluids, but slowly, the underlying loneliness begins to show...

"Someday, if I met a donor, could they come to love me? That thought is the only reason I survived...”

15. Usagi no Mori ✘

Release Date: 2021/10/29

Cast: Enoki Junya x Yamashita Seiichirou *lmao bottomxbottom

Synopsis: Shunta and Tamaki are childhood friends with a year of difference, but Shunta feels something different towards his friend, an impure, not correct, dirty feeling.

As this feeling grows stronger, will the relationship between the two friends also change ...?

Comment: Top should’ve gone to Makonyan or Nakajiki

[demifiendrsa]

[ GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS ] Teaser Trailer

The TV anime series adaptation of Arc System Works' Guilty Gear video game franchise, Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers, will premiere in 2025.

Key visual

Cast

Issei Miyazaki as Sin Kiske

Jouji Nakata as Sol Badguy

Yui Ishikawa as Unika

Tomokazu Sugita as Narrator

Staff

Original Character Designs by Daisuke Ishiwatari

Directed by Shigeru Morikawa

Series Composition: Norimitsu Kaiho

Associate Producer: Seiji Mizushima

Animation Production: SANZIGEN Inc.

[satoshi-mochida]

Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers airs in April, main trailer - Gematsu

The SANZIGEN-produced anime Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers will begin airing in April on Crunchyroll, Arc System Works announced.

Here is the new main visual, featuring many familiar faces from the Guilty Gear series:

Here is an overview of the anime, via Arc System Works:

Story

After the decline of the once robust fields of science and technology, a new energy source known as magic fuels the modern era. Humanity creates forbidden biological weapons: Gears. Those Gears eventually stand against humanity in a rebellion. Although they manage to overcome in the struggle for survival known as the Crusades, humanity’s losses are so great that even after several decades pass, their emotional wounds remain unable to fully heal. Sin Kiske, the child of a human and a Gear, heads to his father Ky and mother Dizzy’s wedding ceremony. Their wedding breaks the ultimate taboo: a union between a human and a Gear. Even with the world at peace, it took many years for such a ceremony to come to fruition. Despite the complex array of emotions surrounding it, the wedding ceremony is met with blessings. When suddenly, a mysterious girl appears… The fated child inheriting Gear blood–and the mysterious girl who despises Gears. Their meeting would shake the world.

Staff

Based on Guilty Gear by Arc System Works

Original Character Designs by Daisuke Ishiwatari (Arc System Works)

Directed by Shigeru Morikawa

Series Composition: Norimitsu Kaiho

Associate Producer: Seiji Mizushima

Animation Production: SANZIGEN Inc.

Cast

Sin Kiske: Issei Miyazaki

Sol Badguy: Jouji Nakata

Unika: Yui Ishikawa

Narration: Tomokazu Sugita

Watch a new trailer below.

Main Trailer

English

Japanese

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Reality Unravels in D_CIDE TRAUMEREI Mixed Media Project

  That is not dead which can eternal lie, because D_CIDE TRAUMEREI, a new mixed media project (including a TV anime and a smart phone game) with a "Cthulhu Mythos" theme, has been announced for the summer season of 2021. The project is set in a world where scared and desperate people make strange pacts with unspeakable ancient beings whose very presence causes reality to bleed.

  The main staff for D_CIDE TRAUMEREI THE ANIMATION includes:

�� Original work: Sumzap, Inc., Drecom Co. Ltd., bushiroad

Director: Yoshikazu Kon

Advisor: Shigeru Morikawa

Series composition: Hiroshi Ōnogi

Original characters: BlasTrain

Background Music: Kōhei Tanaka

Sound director: Toshiki Kameyama

Sound production: Bit Groove Promotion

Animation production: Sanzigen

Animation production supervision: Hiroaki Matsuura

    The main cast for D_CIDE TRAUMEREI THE ANIMATION includes:

  Yohei Azakami as Ryuhei Oda.

Ayasa Itō as Rena Mori.

Marika Kouno as Eri Ibusaki.

Shun Horie as Aruto Fushibe.

Aoi Yūki as Jessica Clayborn.

Haruna Momono as Tris.

And Others.

    The story of D_CIDE TRAUMEREI THE ANIMATION is set in Shibuya and follows Ryuhei Oda, a second year high school student who loves kickboxing. As a child, Ryuhei witnessed his older brother die under mysterious circumstances, but in the present day he is a cheerful, outgoing student who doesn't seem bothered by the darkness lurking beneath the surface of his surroundings. One night he encounters and is bitten by a weird creature named Tris, and Ryuhei's dreams and his perception of reality take a strange turn...

  Sources:

Ota-suke

MoCa

Official D_CIDE TRAUMEREI THE ANIMATION home page

  Copyright notice: © D_CIDE TRAUMEREI PROJECT / DCTM Production Committee

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By: Paul Chapman