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[thegamingbuddha]

TGS 2023: Apollo Justice trilogy of games gets release date

This past summer Capcom announced that the Apollo Justice trilogy of games was going to be getting an HD upgrade. Other than that, we haven’t heard anything about the games until now. At TGS 2023 Capcom revealed a release date for the games and a new trailer for it. Here’s the trailer that they released along with the press release describing new changes to the game:     Take that! Apollo…

[baratrongirl]

This Apollo is from the merchandise for the 2019 Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Concert (逆転裁判 オーケストラコンサート2019). There are in fact 4 pieces of merchandise available plus the CD itself.

Acrylic stands. Here's a picture from Kazuya Nuri's official Twitter account showing all 8 of the characters. He writes that "You can also enjoy the size difference between the characters when you line them up!"

Image ID: Eight acrylic stands of Ace Attorney/Dai Gyakuten Saiban characters playing musical instruments. The DGS characters are on the left, all dressed in black, and consist of Herlock Sholmes - violin, Ryuunosuke Naruhodou - tambourine, Kazuma Asougi - drum, Barok van Zieks - double bass.

The AA characters are on the right, all dressed in white with a flash of their signature colour. Apollo Justice - cymbals, Phoenix Wright - conductor's baton, Miles Edgeworth - violin, Godot - saxophone. Apollo, Phoenix, and Edgeworth have red, blue, and maroon waistcoats respectively, while Godot is wearing a green shirt.

2) Badges. A 5.5 cm can badge (US = button) was made of each of the eight characters above. Here's Apollo:

3) Photograph frames. My Japanese is non-existent and I make do with Google Translate and the help of my friend @hikari-kaitou (who is fluent, and is doing translation commissions NOW), but I'm under the impression that people who attended the concert received a photo frame as a gift. There are two designs, AA and DGS, and I believe there may have been two sizes as well? Here's the AA photo frame:

Image ID: Photograph frame of Ace Attorney characters dressed in white suits with a flash of their signature colour. The defence attorneys are on the left and the prosecutors on the right. They are displayed over a stage design with heavy red curtains. Apollo is in the top left jumping in the air with his cymbals. Phoenix is standing on the bottom left, Edgeworth bottom right, and Godot top right. The characters are sticking out of the rigid frame making it an interesting shape. The frame is displayed on top of the presentation box it came in.

4) Clearfiles. Japan loves clearfiles (plastic files for putting up to about 10 sheets of paper in, usually A4-sized but sometimes A5) and these can be found occasionally. There was one clearfile for the Ace Attorney characters and a second one for the DGS characters. I haven't been able to find a good photograph of the actual items, so here's the "Sample" version from a press site.

5) The actual CD. Disc one is AA music and disc two is DGS music.

If you're interested in buying any of these items, the acrylic stands, badges, photo frames, and CDs are very easily obtained by using a proxy site such as Buyee to buy from Japanese Mercari or Yahoo! Auctions. Enter "逆転裁判 オーケストラコンサート2019" in the search box. Suruga-Ya also have some of these items for sale, though they don't ship to all countries. Do be aware that buying anything from a proxy site essentially triples the price you will pay for it, due to the fees and the extremely high cost of postage from Japan at the moment.

So, I hear you say, this is all wonderful, but haven't they missed the most famous Ace Attorney musician of all? Well, no. Our favourite rockstar prosecutor, Klavier Gavin, didn't go to the orchestra concert. He was playing at the 逆転裁判LIVE～OBJECTION!！2019～ rock concert instead.

This time, Apollo was on drums.

hey did you know that um

(ID: a cropped image of official ace attorney art, stretched to fill the post width, showing chibi apollo justice in a white suit, holding two cymbals in the air with his mouth wide open. end ID)

[makaira-art]

fine, i guess i have to do it myself

drew a few more lawyers to add to this ace attorney magician-themed capcom cafe collab that was just announced:

(And of course, when the full menu releases I’ll translate the whole thing)

Magicians series

Investigations magicians set

Klavier bunny bonus art

[smbhax]

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (DC JP)

Illustration by Harumaru

"Harumaru is a female artist who worked at Capcom from 1998-2000." -- https://www.fightersgeneration.com/features/artistprofiles-p10.html

For the full illustration, see https://smbhax.tumblr.com/742237931212767232

[m00nb04rd5]

Amaterasu (Okami)

[earlicking]

[realgrade]

Japanese Devil May Cry 2 Advert (2003)

[tamapalace]

Tamagotchi x Capcom Cafe eats, which one is your favorite?

1️⃣ Memetchi Pancakes 2️⃣ Mametchi’s Omelette Rice Plate 3️⃣ Ichigotchi and Furawatchi’s Sandwich Cake 4️⃣ Mametchi’s Milkshake 5️⃣ Mimichi’s Neapolitan 6️⃣ Kuchipatchi’s Kid Lunch that Adults Love Too

[tanuki-kimono]

[Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Special Bunraku Performance] by Capcom & National Bunraku Theatre.

Capcom chose to promote their coming video game (demo here) via calls to traditional arts and crafts - like here bunraku puppets theater.

For this performance, Capcom commisionned famous puppeteer Kanjuro Kiritake to create the play, and main characters (The Maiden and Soh) puppets were crafted using traditional techniques.

(Capcom marketing team knows their targets, they even held an Okami event?!)

[prettydecejosh]

Early press kit artwork for Mega Man Legends.

[thegamingbuddha]

TGS 2023: Capcom shows off new gameplay of Dragon's Dogma 2

As Tokyo Game Show 2023 get underway this weekend, Capcom came to the show with some new updates and a few announcements on a couple of games. One of the games that they developer has brought over to the show is Dragon’s Dogma 2. In this latest look at the game, we see four of the core vocations in action as well as a quick look at the new lands that Arisens and their Pawns will be…

[devileaterjaek]

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[tamovicha]

Okami | Ōkami | 大神

The 12 Brush Gods and Amaterasu

Tachigami & Tabegami, Itegami, Gekigami, Yumigami, Yomigami, Nuregami, Kazegami, Kasugami, Sakigami & Hasugami & Tsutagami, Moegami, Bakugami

[theactioneer]

Final Fight 2 ad (Capcom, 1993)

[milesdadworth]

I. NEED. HIM. SO I CAN CHEW ON HIM AND THROW HIM AGAINDT THE WALL AND THEN CHEW ON HIM SOME MORE

[voxhypno]

Ahhh, Shibuya is great. Incredibly crowded, but great!

Tons of good shopping, and a big anime/nerd culture capital, which I definitely fall into 😆