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Sweet Reincarnation Episode 1 - Dreaming of Land of Sweets

Original title: Okashi na Tensei Meet Pastry Mille Morteln, a young man who is the reincarnation of a patissier from Earth who died in a tragic candy sculpture accident. He dreams of making sweets again, even though he lives in a medieval society where sweeteners are a rare luxury.

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Mission 26 key visual drawn by Damian’s VA, Natsumi Fujiwara!

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Spy x Family TV anime episode 26 key visuals illustrated by the Japanese cast.

Natsumi Fujiwara, Japanese VA of Damian Desmond

Emiri Katō, Japanese VA of Becky Blackbell

Atsumi Tanezaki, Japanese VA of Anya Forger

Kenichiro Matsuda, Japanese VA of Bond Forger

Takuya Eguchi, Japanese VA of Loid Forger

Saori Hayami, Japanese VA of Yor Forger

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There's one more spoken track from the Pekopon Shinryaku set, a thank you message from the show's cast, it's close but I just made it for August (After this I'm hoping to do the Giri Giri dramas on a similar schedule to the Pekopon Shinryaku ones)

To make scripting easier, I've used the same marks for the actors as I did for their characters whenever I could identify them, for example the "K66:" used to mark Keroro's lines in the scripts for the dramas is also used for his actress, Kumiko Watanabe

The next set of CD dramas has a message from the actors who took part in each story as a separate track after it, but the format is also a bit different; giri giri feels more like they're specifically CD dramas, while these were meant to feel like audio only mini episodes (albeit ones where the characters describe things a bit more than usual), complete with short versions of the theme songs and previews of the next episode. So this track feels like the project wrap party, and a peek behind the curtain, listening to things like this or seeing retrospectives on the actors' blogs, it feels like this series was a lot of fun for everyone who worked on it (^.^)

In a way though, it's a little bitter sweet hearing this now; since this was made as the first season was airing, Fuyuki is voiced by his original actress, Tomoko Kawakami, who had to step down part way through season 5 due to illness and died shortly after the original anime ended

Keiji Fujiwara, who voiced the Narrator, Paul, and a few side characters (including the Nyororos, so there's at least one character of his who got merchandise) also died in 2020. Though I'm excited for the new series it will be strange hearing somebody new fill those roles

You may not know this, but the Narrator's outfit isn't based on a ninja outfit, rather both are based on the outfits of Kabuki stagehands (typically, ninjas just dressed like everyone else to blend in, and the idea of them dressing like this came from a play where a ninja character was disguised as a stagehand); because Kabuki often uses a black backdrop, people working puppets, moving sets, doing effects, and helping with quick changes wore all black so they'd blend in

Looking up how many roles he played, it feels fitting that Mr Fujiwara's main role was a character dressed like this, considering how many roles he played without us realising....

Either way, let's begin:

K66: Greetings, I'm Sergeant Keroro's actor, Kumiko Watanabe

(applause)

K66: Thank you.

Uh, at the time we were recording this drama CD, or rather this year had quite a lot of typhoons, uh there were really a lot of typhoons appearing.

There were really a lot, and a range of people had a range of problems outside this show. Anyways, that was Kumiko Watanabe, who plays the frog who calls typhoons, Sergeant Keroro! (applause)

TMM: I'm Private 2nd Class Tamama's actor, Etsuko Kozakura

(applause)

TMM: Uh, there had been a lot of typhoons, so I bought boots, I'm even wearing the boots now. E-he, it's a little unusual, see you

(applause)

G66: Uh, good evening, Merry Christmas, I'm Jouji Nakata's actor, Giroro

(applause)

G66: Greetings! One moment, to everyone lonesomely listening to this CD tonight- on this wonderful night, I also won't be able to talk to or meet with that Natsumi. Well everyone, please do your best too! Thank you very much

(applause)

966: Ku ku ku. Yes, I'm Sergeant Major Kururu's actor, Takehito Koyasu

(applause)

966: I understand, I understand, during this time I finally reached 33 consecutive shots at pachinko slots. Yes, in one go 100,000 yen (about $1000) I was so happy, I really was.

(applause)

966: Thank you. On the other hand, before this I was walking and heard some kids talking about Kururu, or rather about Keroro Gunsou, and they said Kururu was gross.

(laughter)

966: They said he was annoying and gross!

D66: I was Lance Corporal Dororo's actor Takeshi Kusao

(applause)

D66: Hey, please remember me.

Uh, next year is the first year of the Keroro era, so I hope the show continues another year, it builds up more and more, doesn't it? It would be nice if Dororo-kun's appearnces increased. Right Koyuki?

KYK: Oh that's right!

D66: Or so I think, thank you

(applause)

FYK: Alright, I'm Fuyuki Hinata's actor Tomoko Kawakami

(applause)

FYK: This time too, the CD dramas were really powerful and a lot of fun to work on.

Uh, I never did the butt-fire-cracker prank, however I did do the butt-straw one when I was in kindergarten. I'm sorry, frog-san. Ah, but when you farted, you'd be able to swim properly again. Everyone, don't try it yourself, thank you very much

(applause)

723: I'm Natsumi Hinata's actor Chiwa Saito

(applause)

723: Um, if I had say which one, uh, I like Giroro

G66: (chuckling)

(applause)

723: (Joins everyone in laughing) I don't- I'm not interested in Saburo-senpai

Everyone: What?

723: Well Saburo-senpai keeps ignoring her

G66: What about Koyuki?

723: Koyuki? Ah, ah, ah! Koyuki

FYK?: This time make your statement!

723: It's great. I'm happy she's so well liked, now who

(laughter)

I'm looking forward to seeing who she'll choose

(applause)

326: Hey there, it's Saburo! I'm also called Mutsumi!

(applause)

326: That's right. Why is it that this is the 5th Pekopon Invasion CD volume, it took until the 5th for me to have a turn, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!? That there are all these fun sounding stories I don't get to appear in, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!?

WHAAAT!? Kururu, invite me....It's kind of, it's kind of depressing

???: Kururu lives with you, right?

326: Damn it. Damn it! I'm stuck doing radio alone!

(applause) ???: That's not your voice, Ishida-san

MMK: Good evening, I'm Momoka Nishizawa's actor and, Inner Momoka's Haruna Ikezono

(applause)

MMK: Momoka-chan has tried buying an island, then she tried establishing a shopping district, and tried using money in a variety of different places and ways, when I see that, for some reason I felt that love can't be achieved with money. For next year, I want her to be romantic with Fuyuki-kun

(applause)

Moa: I'm Angol Mois' Actor Mamiko Noto

(applause)

Moa: Ah, near my house there was a Keroro gachapon machine, but when I thought I'd go they had already ended the gachapon

TMM: Why!?

Moa: They already changed it!

G66?: Oh, that one's all over the place

Moa: Really?

G66?: Why?

Moa: Please bring it back!

(Laughter)

Moa: Please let me get them all at once! Uh, I don't really have anything to add from here

(applause)

KYK: I'm Koyuki Azumaya's actor Ryo Hirohashi

(applause)

KYK: Like Koyuki, recently when I'm somewhere crowded and a girl with a soft body shows up I find myself leaning forward. It's almost as if I'm bowing. Uh

723: Really?

KYK: Yes, something like that, I think a girl with a soft body like Natsumi's is nice. This was the Hirohashi that likes soft bodied girls

(applause)

N: I do- I do the narration, I'm Keiji Fujiwara

(applause)

Um, there aren't any character goods for me, are there? When we're relaxing in the studio, everyone has phone straps, or plush toys, or other cute stuff with their character and I don't, I always feel a little bitter about it

(laughs)

N: I think "Why isn't there anything of the Narrator, even though he's in every episode?", but they probably won't make anything

??? It's kind of sad

N: I think so too, well, it can't be helped, can it?

???: There's Paul

??? That's right, Paul

N: Paul would be good, as a cellphone strap, please make it

(laughter)

Yes, Paul would be good, please make a cell phone strap. I leave it in your hands

(laughing and applause)

K66: With this, the invasion CDs end, but the anime will still continue, so everyone, please continue to support us, yes sir!

(applause)

That's right! We hope everyone will keep supporting us!

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[satoshi-mochida]

Double Dragon Revive ‘TGS 2024 Gameplay Introduction’ trailer, screenshots - Gematsu

Publisher Arc System Works and developer Yuke’s have released a new trailer and screenshots for Double Dragon Revive, which will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2024 from September 26 to 29 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.

The screenshots introduce playable characters Billy Lee (voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu) and Jimmy Lee (voiced by Takehito Koyasu), and enemy characters Roper (voiced by Jun Fukushima), Abobo (voiced by Yuki Onodera), Williams (voiced by Egashira Hiroya), Joji (voiced by Shota Yamamoto), Anh (voiced by Natsumi Fujiwara), and Minh (voiced by Rika Tachibana), as well as the combat mechanics “Basic Attack,” “Grab,” “Special Moves,” “Mid-Air Special Moves,” “Super Special Moves,” and “Critical Assault.”

Double Dragon Revive is due out for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in 2025. Read more about the game here.

Watch the trailer below. View the screenshots at the gallery.

Tokyo Game Show 2024 Gameplay Introduction Trailer

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Fox Spirit Matchmaker (2015) 狐妖小红娘

Director: Wang Xin Screenwriter: Tuo Xiaoxin Starring: Yang Tianxiang / Zhang Jie / Liu Xiaoyu / Zhang Kai / Qiao Shiyu / Wei Chao / Tut Harmon / Bian Jiang / Tang Xiaoxi / Yan Mengmeng / Qiu Qiu / Su Shangqing / Xu Jiaqi / Guo Haoran / Zhang Limin / Yang Ning / Li Shimeng / Takaragi Nakayo / Li Xiaomeng / Liu Cong / Zhang Lei / Hatano Wataru / Achen Kana /Yonezawa Madoka / Kanemoto Hisako / Kirii Daisuke / Sakamaki Mitsuhiro / Tachibana Shinnosuke / Imai Asami / Inoue Marina /Uchida Shinrei / Keio Sasaki / Ai Kakuma / Rie Suekara / Mayuki Makiguchi / Aimi Tanaka / Natsumi Fujiwara Genre: Comedy / Romance / Animation Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2015-06-26 (Mainland China) / 2017-07-01 (Japan) Number of seasons: 11 Number of episodes: 157 Single episode length: 10 minutes Also known as: Fox Fairy Little Matchmaker Season 1-10 / Xiasha Chapter + Wangquan Chapter + Yuehong Chapter + Qianyan Chapter + Nanguo Chapter + Zhuye Chapter + Weisheng Chapter + Jinchenxi Chapter + Mutiancheng Chapter + Liangshenghua Chapter + Wangquan Fugui Chapter + Beiguo Chapter (Beishan Demon Emperor Chapter) / 縁結びの妖狐ちゃん / 狐妖小红娘 第1-10季 / 下沙篇+王权篇+月红篇+千颜篇+南国篇+竹业篇+尾生篇+金晨曦篇+沐天城篇+两生花篇 / 下沙篇 / 王权富贵篇 / 月红篇+北国篇(北山妖帝篇) / 千颜篇 / 南国篇 / 竹业篇 / 尾生篇 / 金晨曦篇 / 沐天城篇 / 两生花篇 Type: Crossover

Summary:

The story revolves around the love between humans and spirits. According to classical novel records, there are spirits in the world, spirits will love people, the life of the spirit for thousands of years, humans' lifespan is limited, humans die, spirits live. People will give birth to reincarnation, but after the birth, do not remember the love of the previous life. If the spirit is infatuated, go to the fox spirit "buy" a service, so that the person who cast the tire reincarnation, recall the love of the previous life.

The role of the fox spirit was born, the work mainly tells the story of the fox spirit as a career in the red line process of the former lovers in a series of interesting, mysterious story.

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Spy x Family Season 2 Spoiler-Filled Review

Spy x Family is an action spy comedy based on Tatsuya Endo's manga. It is directed and written by Takahiro Harada. The first season aired in two cours / parts from April to December 2022. Kazuhiro Furuhashi directed and wrote that season. Wit Studio and CloverWorks produce this series. The latter studio is known for Akebi's Sailor Uniform, My Dress-Up Darling, In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki, and Bocchi the Rock!. The former studio produced Attack on Titan's first three seasons. As a warning, there will be discussion of blood, violence, death, murder, and other mature themes.

Spy x Family focuses on three people staying together as a family unit, each for their own reasons. Twilight (voiced by Takuya Eguchi) receives the top-secret mission, Operation Strix, from the Westphalia intelligence agency (otherwise known as WISE). They want to stop war from breaking out between the East and West by investigating reactionary political leader Donovan Desmond. Twilight lives in Berlint as a psychiatrist named Loid Forger. He's the patriarch of a mock family including himself, his wife, Yor Forger née Briar (voiced by Saori Hayami), and his adopted daughter, Anya (voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki). He's unaware that Yor is secretly an assassin named Thorn Princess or that Anya is a telepath. They all live together, hiding their true identities from one another.

The first episode of this season, episode twenty-six, re-introduces viewers to the characters. This includes Bond (voiced by Kenichirō Matsuda), who can see the future, akin to Garnet's future-vision in Steven Universe. The opening is more aberrant and cartoony, differing from those for the two cours /parts of season one. I like the openings of those cours much better. This season opening gives the impression that this season will be wild and out of control. That somewhat pans out.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and my personal WordPress blog. This was the sixty-sixth article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on February 7, 2024.

There's no doubt that this season is more centered on female characters, especially Yor, than previous episodes. Surely, Anya has received a huge spotlight, leading to the nomination of her character as a "must protect at all costs" character during the Crunchyroll's Anime Awards this year. Anya's voice actor was also nominated for another award. However, Yor hasn't received as much of a spotlight. This season changes that. The season's first episode involves Yor and Loid going on a date after he notices her foul mood. In reality, a "bad person" shot her in the butt, while she was working as an assassin, and it hurts badly. Adding to the comedy, Anya and "Scruffy Head" (also called Franky), follow them.

This episode shows Yor and Anya's inner strength. For instance, Anya uses her telepathic powers to stop someone who wants to kill Yor. She makes a bomb out of peanuts, telling the assassin to go back to his normal life. Yor eats a poisonous blowfish but survives because she has a built-up immunity to poisons. As a result, she enjoys her time with Loid and wants to go out on more dates with him. The next day, Loid has no idea what's wrong. In reality, the medicine/poison has worn off and she feels terrible again, making him lament that he doesn't understand women. From the get-go, it was clear that Yor would get "her due" this season.

Spy x Family episodes after this focus on male characters. Bond figures out a way to stay alive. Damian Desmond (voiced by Natsumi Fujiwara) goes on a field trip with his classmates, and an instructor named Mr. Green (voiced by Hiroshi Shirokuma), to the wilderness. The latter resembled a scene from Laid-Back Camp, and reminded me of my days in Boy Scouts, including a trip to the Adirondacks. The twenty-eighth episode focuses on an operation against Franklin, who distributed underground newspapers, and spotlighted secret police officer Yuri Briar (voiced by Kensho Ono). Although he has been shown as harsh, Yuri tried to be compassionate. He agreed to give Franklin's father financial aid.

This series doesn't attempt to portray Yuri's work comedically. Rather, its shown negatively. Historically, both sides in the Cold War developed secret police forces. They were tasked with preventing the other side from overthrowing their government. Austin Murphy wrote in The Triumph of Evil: The Reality of the USA's Cold War Victory that East German secret police were tasked with protecting "government leaders and buildings...uncovering plots to overthrow the government, collecting information...and spying in the West." He described how political repression and secret police actions in Eastern Europe were exaggerated by the U.S. government and mainstream press. In this series, it does not go against this perception. The idea the East is "bad" and the West is "good" is ingrained in the plot. In this series, the Eastern secret police are brutal agents of repression, engaging in surveillance and harsh interrogation.

Yuri is determined to track down Twilight. He is not aware that Twilight is married to his sister, Yor, as Loid. Even so, he is angry at Loid, due to his obsession with his sister. Anya dislikes him. Otherwise, there's a scenario from an episode of the in-series show, Bondman. Bondman creates a harem of eight women. He declares he'll make all these women like him. Fissures form. Some women are angry at not getting enough attention from him and the harem breaks apart. After Anya asks him about it, Loid rejects Bondman's actions, which echo polyamorous relationships. He say that Bondman was only being "gentlemanly" and hints that he doesn't like the idea of relationships with multiple people. I would say it is more about respecting other people rather than a statement against polyamory and favoring monogamous relationships.

I'd forgotten how many slice-of-life moments are in Spy x Family before an arc which compromises almost half the season. Anya rides on a silly polar bear machine. Loid realizes he doesn't understand the children's minds. Anya is determined to get legendary pastries from the Eden College pastry chef. Perhaps hinting at the future, Anya cries in front of Damian. He loses the game of Old Maid, as a result. She gets a macron, following her failed efforts to be a "cool liar" and almost being exposed for being a mind-reader.

One of my favorite slice-of-life moments is where Franky Franklin (voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino) and Yor work together to find a cat named Kopi. Kacey (voiced by Marie Ôi), a girl who works at a nearby cafe, owns the cat. This scene artfully combines combination of humor, technology, and action. Franky develops cat-shaped listening devices which cats destroy, and a device which shoots out catnip pheromones, which work too well. In the end, Franky is disappointed. Kacey has a partner named Mark. Yor is glad she helped Franky. This fades away when she's called into a room to answer a call from her boss-of-sorts. She learns about another assassin mission.

Episodes 30-34, and part of 35, comprise the cruise liner arc. It is perhaps one of the best Spy x Family arcs due to the focus on Yor, something severely lacking in the series up to this point. Apart from episode 26, Yor had been treated as a secondary character among the protagonists. This echoed Oshi no Ko. That series centers around the perspective of Aquamarine "Aqua" Hoshino. Female perspectives are downplayed. Some critics raised the same issue about Helluva Boss.

The latter is curious. Hazbin Hotel, also created by Vivienne Medrano, centers on female characters. This raises the question as to why more wasn't done in Helluva Boss. Medrano defended this decision in a Twitter thread. She said "Hazbin has always had a heavier emphasis on women led stories, so Helluva has steered more towards male-led stories." She added even with such storytelling, she still loved female characters in the series.

Coming back to Spy x Family, the arc started off strong. Yor meets her aforementioned boss-of-sorts, known as the Shopkeeper (voiced by Junichi Suwabe). She receives her mission: protecting someone seeking asylum in the East. Her mission is complicated when she learns that Anya and Loid have tickets on the same luxury cruise ship, the Princess Lorelei. It is in-character for Anya to be excited for the cruise and then be disappointed once she entered the living quarters.

Yor protects Olka (voiced by Aya Endō), her son Gram (voiced by Marie Ôi), and Olka's husband, Zeb (voiced by Shinya Takahashi). Olka and Zeb have shared wartime experiences. Olka gave Zeb a piece of bread when he was starving which brought them closer together. Assassins threaten Yor and her clients. Some even bug the entire vessel.

The episode that follows involves Yor fighting off an assassin, masquerading as someone providing room service. She;s assisted by Matthew McMahon (voiced by Kenyū Horiuchi), the director. Loid notices wiretaps and tries to avoid suspicious characters. At the same time, there's a substory between Loid and Anya. She tries to ensure that assassins don't try to kill or attack Yor and attempts to distract Loid. In the process, Yor and the Director use brutal tactics to defend their clients (Olka, her husband, and son). This includes Yor killing someone with a button and another with her hand strength, while the Director throws an assassin into the water.

The thirty-second, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth episodes of Spy x Family give more depth to Yor. This mixes with Franky realizing that he can "pick up" women with Bond and Anya continuing to distract Loid in one way or another. In the process, she ends up enjoying mini-golf, going on roller-skates, attending a play, and so on, rather than thinking about helping Yor. She realizes that she is worrying Loid and notes that she misses Yor. In response, Loid says he will leave a message to let them know when Yor is free.

These episodes feature some of the most brutal fights for Yor, which she wins. Anya assists her. She convinces people that Yor is only a circus performer. As a result, assassin becomes distracted and Yor leaves victorious. She kills other assassins through various means. Blood, violence, murder, and death in this episode make clear that this series is for adults.

Yor's battles against assassins is some of the best action sequences in the entire series. The flowing animation fits well with the music and voice acting, all while she begins to question what she is fighting for. At one point, she gets cornered. She contemplates what would happen if she died. She remembers why she took on the job as assassin: to protect the simple life of her brother, Yuri. To fulfill that mission, she vows to "thoroughly clean" the world and ensure Loid acknowledges her.

She doesn't give up. Using her strong kick, she lurches the enemy assassin backward and kills him. This episode, the thirty-fourth in the series, is shorter than others. It provides appropriate context for Yuri becoming sick that his sister isn't around. As he drinks terrible herbal tea, he remembers when Yor went to extreme lengths so he would feel better. This led to determination to make the world gentler for her. This goal echoes what she is trying to accomplish as an assassin.

The thirty-fourth episode of Spy x Family is the final one entirely focused on this arc. The stakes are higher than before. Yor is determined to defend Olka and her family, who were formerly part of the Mafia, and attempting to defect. The fireworks distracts everyone from the bloody battle. Anya unknowingly saves all the passengers by giving hints to Loid and finding Yor's weapon. Loid disarms the bombs on board, one of which unintentionally kills two assassins.

Yor is unsure how her weapon got there, not aware that Anya is her unstated accomplice. But, she's glad that her fight is over. Loid hints at possible tensions to come: a group of miscreants attempt to destroy the vessel using bombs resembling those from the West. They hope war will break out, again, causing weapons sales to skyrocket. Loid's quick thinking, and clues from Anya, ensure that all the bombs are found and disarmed. One bomb causes two extremists to be knocked into the water and be eaten by sharks.

Yor's victory not only benefits the Garden, the "extremist terrorist group" she is part of, but Olka. She thanks Yor and hopes that her family, some day, can have true peace. Yor gets permission to meet with Loid and Anya. Loid is tired and annoyed he put his family aside. Yor does medical care on herself. The arc doesn't end until the next episode, in which they them relax on Resort Island. Yor attempts to hide her injuries, even while they go snorkeling, go to a cafe, ride a tandem bike, ride a zip-line, ride hoses, build sand castles, or do spelunking. Through all of this, they enjoy themselves. After everything they have been through in Spy x Family up to this point, it is only right they get to relax.

After Yor and Anya conk out, Loid carries them both in a double princess carry. Following this, they return home, and Bond greets them. Loid tells his boss about what happened on the cruise ship, noting that some suspicious people were aboard. His boss reveals that the State Security Service is covering up what happened and says they will keep an eye on Ostanian "extremists." Funny enough, Loid says that after everything Anya put him through, he has had enough vacations. He describes it as more backbreaking than his usual missions, making clear the challenges of being a parent (albeit of an adopted child).

Although this arc is enjoyable, I'm doubtful there will be another Yor-centered arc in Spy x Family. In the second half of the episode, which ended the arc, Yor attempts to give her co-workers skeleton keychains, an idea they are lukewarm to. Loid prepares the apartment for Yuri's arrival. Anya attempts to brag about her cruise ship visit. However, this is a magnificent failure. This is a "normal thing" for students at this elite private school. Everyone makes fun of her. She attempts to lie about it but this does not work. They all commiserate, with Loid, Yuri, and Yor absurdly telling Anya that liars are terrible, even though they are all lying. Anya responds, saying that lying is too much work and that she isn't going to do it anymore.

Following the end of this arc, there are stories which focus on two female characters: Becky Blackbell (voiced by Emiri Katō) and Nightfall / Fiona Frost (voiced by Ayane Sakura). For the first of these characters, Becky attempts to use "lessons" she learned from Berlint in Love to express her "love" for Loid. It's an expression of her privileged mindset. Whether this obsession is a stand-in for fans who like Loid or male anime characters, I'm not sure.

A possible second cour / part of this season, could expand upon her assistant, who Loid remarked carries herself like a soldier. It is typical for Becky to think that Loid is acting sweet toward her, when he is being nice only because he sees her as a good source of information, knowing that the Blackbell family runs an arms manufacturing business. They are "masters of war" as Bob Dylan once described such people. Of all of them, Yor realizes that Becky is happy to meet Loid, who is wary of Becky.

The episode has some of the worst misunderstandings I've seen in a while. Yor jumps to the wild conclusion that she put alcohol in Becky's drink, not realizing that Becky is fawning over Loid, and rushes her to the hospital. Becky ends up clearing everything up. But, Yor isn't angry with her. She appreciates that Loid is loved. She tells Becky that Loid chose her because she is strong. This leads to another misunderstanding, on Becky's part: that Loid prefers strong women.

She tries to use a hammer to hit a pan, and ring a bell, a common game used to test someone's strength. This is another failure for Becky because the hammer is too heavy. Yor uses it, gets first place, and breaks the machine, because she can't control her strength. Becky realizes that she isn't a match for Yor and offers to become her apprentice. Yor happily agrees.

For the first time in the season, Nightfall appears. She's still deeply in love with Loid. The Handler / Sylvia Sherwood (voiced by Yūko Kaida) warns her to not push herself too hard. Her missions are aptly interspliced with Loid and his family on vacation. She perfectly executes all the missions that Loid would have been tasked with if he wasn't on the cruise ship.

Once again, she plays the role of the romantic interloper. She's determined to take the role of Loid's wife, wanting to achieve "complete victory," even going through intense training. After Loid returns, she tries to ask if Operation Strix has changed and he tells her no. He does not tell her what happened on the cruise ship. She is overjoyed to receive a gift from Loid. He gave it to her in appreciation for all the hard work she did while he was gone. Although she doesn't know that, she skips happily.

In some ways, Nightfall shares a similar obsession to Yor's brother, Yuri. She isn't the most sympathetic, considering the fact she wants to split apart the burgeoning romance between Yor and Loid, by claiming Loid as her "prize." In reality, Loid has no feelings for her whatsoever. He only sees her as a diligent and skilled agent. Undoubtedly, she is dedicated. She works hard for the same goals as Loid. It remains to be seen if he will shatter her love for him.

The final episode of this Spy x Family cour centers on Bond. He tries to use his future-vision for good, causing problems at first, at least until he runs into a burning building and saves a pug dog named Daisy, with the help of Loid. Both escape and stop the man who set the fire. It is revealed that Bond is actually very skinny. His fur makes him look more puffy.

Loid is proud of Bond, although annoyed he bit the arsonist in the wrong place (the leg rather than the arm). He says the top priority is making Bond feel he is part of the Forgers, with his training taking a back seat. He promises to bring him to a dog park the next day. Later, Anya gives him and Bond fake Stella starts. Loid wants Anya to get real Stellas.

The episode ends with Damian studying and getting in a pillow fight with his dorm mates, Becky posing with her dog and trying on new clothes, Yuri eating his sister's terrible cooking in which he sprays blood, Nightfall practicing her shooting with Loid's photo in the middle, and the Forgers having a nice meal together. It says "see you next Mission" at the end. This episode is the last one for a while. The next cour is reportedly coming in October of this year. The movie, Spy x Family Code: White, released in Japanese theaters last year. It will release in theaters, and on streaming services (like Crunchyroll) sometime this year. A date has not been announced.

It is worth noting that manga artist Tatsuya Endo, who created the original Spy x Family series (for which this anime adaptation is based) has worked on manga series since 2000. While this has, primarily, included one-shots such as Blade of the Moon Princess and I Spy, there has also been serialized stories such as the action-thriller, Tista. He has been created as an illustrator for three books. Spy x Family is the first of his manga to receive an anime adaptation.

Endo is said to create well thought-out characters. Some say he writes stories which indicate negative or positive shifts in psychological states of characters. This translates into this anime. Anya, Loid, and Yor are more than they seem on the surface. Each one is trying to hide their true identities, either as a telepath, spy, or assassin. This is partially what drew them all together, and keeps them as a family, with each of them acting the part. As Jaques, an exiled noble, famously stated in William Shakespeare's 1516 pastoral comedy, As You Like It, "all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

(K)now_Name, a J-pop music group, composed the show's music. Comprised of three vocalists, seven composers, and one illustrator, (K)now_Name also produced opening and ending themes for Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, Sakura Quest, Fairy Gone, and Dorohedoro. The group did the theme song of Quiz RPG: The World of Mystic Wiz too. The music in this series earned the series some nominations, for various songs, in the recent anime awards hosted by Crunchyroll.

The English dub and Japanese voice actors enhance these aspects. Takuya Eguchi, Atsumi Tanezaki, Saori Hayami, and Kenichirō Matsuda, who voice the four protagonists, are emblematic of this. Eguhi voiced Kazuya Kujo in Gosick, Julius Euclius in Re:Zero, and Byakudanji Tsubaki in My Master Has No Tail. Tanezaki voiced Mizore Yoroizuka in Sound! Euphonium Season 2, Rio Futaba in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Sajuna Inui in My Dress-Up Darling, Eiko Kikuchi in Shine Post, Gyokuyō in The Apothecary Diaries, Serina Yoshida in The Dangers in My Heart, and Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy in Wonderful PreCure! (currently airing).

In addition, Hayami voiced Chizuka Nishikigi in Whispered Words, Mylene Certon in Bodacious Space Pirates, Midori Aoyama in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Yuzuki Shiraishi in A Place Further than the Universe, and Viola Cadaverini in Ace Attorney. She also voiced Maria Campbell in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Ruby Rose in RWBY: Ice Queendom, Inori in Shy, and Charlotte Evans in I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness.

Matsuda voiced characters in Pluto, Tearmoon Empire, and Chainsaw Man. Hiroyuki Yoshino, Yūko Kaida, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Natsumi Fujiwara, Emiri Katō, Kensho Ono, Ayane Sakura, Umeka Shōji, Manaka Iwami, and Junichi Suwabe are just as talented. Yoshino voiced Masaaki Ohyama in Azumanga Daioh, Shakti in Carole & Tuesday, and Jaron Fate in Metallic Rouge (currently airing). Kaida voiced Minako Tsukiyama in Maria Watches Over Us, Amane Ootori in Strawberry Panic!, Nanette in Emma: A Victorian Romance, Sakura Muroi in Stars Align, Seira Amawashi in Birdie Wing, and Flare in The Executioner and Her Way of Life. Adding to this, Yamaji, Shoji, and Iwami voice many characters across anime.

Ono voiced Mikazuki Subaru in My Roommate is a Cat and Fujiwara voiced Yozora in the absurdist Too Cute Crisis. Katō voiced Himari Uehara in BanG Dream! seasons two and three. At the same time, Sakura voiced Alisa Ayase in Love Live! School Idol Project, Natsumi Koshigaya in Non Non Biyori, Cocoa Hoto in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Ran Mitake in BanG Dream!, and Kurei in Do it Yourself!!. Iwami has many roles under her belt, as of late. This includes Akane Kurokawa in Oshi no Ko, Euphyllia Magenta in The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Kokona Ōtori in World Dai Star, and Sakuna Memoir in The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess. 

Presently, English dubs for most second season episodes are on Crunchyroll, but not on Disney+ (with Hulu Bundle) or Hulu as of yet. I plan to watch the dubbed episodes like I did with season one. Although I enjoyed watching this series, I wish the cruise ship arc had been longer. More episodes focusing on female characters, particularly Yor, would be great.

For that reason, and the fact the story too easily falls into the East (bad) / West (good) dichotomy, I am rating the story section lower than in my first season review. In that review, I was far too charitable when it came to storytelling issues. While saying this, I look forward to what the second season and film has to bring. I hope for more stories centered on female characters, like Yor, Anya, Becky, and Nightfall, in the future.

Spy x Family is streaming on Hulu, Disney+ (with Hulu Bundle), and Crunchyroll. Misordered episodes can be purchased on Prime Video. Also, you can order the Blu-ray or DVD for the series from the Crunchyroll Store.

© 2023-2024 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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The Forgers’ fun continues when Loid, Anya, Yor, and Bond return for adventure in SPY x FAMILY Season 2, premiering this October. Streaming only on Crunchyroll, the series will be subtitled and dubbed in all of its territories, with new episodes premiering every week starting on Saturday, October 7 after its broadcast in Japan!

SPY x FAMILY Season 2 is animated by two acclaimed teams, WIT Studio (Attack on Titan; VINLAND SAGA; Ranking of Kings) and CloverWorks (Horimiya; My Dress-Up Darling; the Rascal Does Not Dream series). This season is co-directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi (1999’s Hunter x Hunter) and Takahiro Harada who formerly acted as assistant director on the series. Additional staff credits include series composition by Ichiro Okouchi (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury), character design by Kazuaki Shimada (The Promised Neverland), and music composed by (K)NoW_NAME.

Check out the Japanese voice cast and characters below:

Takuya Eguchi as Loid Forger

Atsumi Tanezaki as Anya Forger

Saori Hayami as Yor Forger

Kenichirou Matsuda as Bond Forger / Narrator

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Franky Franklin

Yuhko Kaida as Sylvia Sherwood

Kazuhiro Yamaji as Henry Henderson

Kensho Ono as Yuri Briar

Natsumi Fujiwara as Damian Desmond

Emiri Kato as Becky Blackbell

Ayane Sakura as Fiona Frost

Dubs for SPY x FAMILY Season 2 will be produced in English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. Dub premiere dates will be announced at a later time.

Not familiar with the series? Learn more about SPY x FAMILY down below:

World peace is at stake and secret agent (aka Loid Forger) must undergo his most difficult mission yet—pretend to be a family man. Posing as a loving husband and father, he’ll infiltrate an elite school to get close to a high-profile politician. He has the perfect cover, except his wife’s a deadly assassin and neither knows each other’s identity. But someone does, his adopted daughter who’s a telepath.

Be sure to watch the official trailer for season 2 below!

The anime series SPY x FAMILY is produced by TOHO Animation and adapted from the widely acclaimed manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo. Serialized in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump Plus, the manga currently has over 31 million copies in circulation and has been nominated for both Harvey and Eisner Awards. SPY x FAMILY has also become a bestseller on The New York Times’ Graphic Books and Manga list and has even climbed into Cricana BookScan's Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels list.

Will you be tuning in to season 2 of SPY x FAMILY this fall? Let us know in the comments down below!

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À partir du 6 juillet 2018, la diffusion d'émissions télévisées commencera sur AT-X, TOKYO MX, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, Sun TV, TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, BS 11

【Diffusion de l'information】 AT-X: tous les vendredis de 20h30 à 21h00 à partir du 6 juillet Broadcasting Diffusion répétée disponible TOKYO MX: tous les vendredis du 6 juillet 22h30-23h00 KBS Kyoto: tous les vendredis de 24h30 à 25h00 à partir du 6 juillet TV Aichi: Tous les vendredis du 6 juillet 27: 05 - 27: 35 Sun TV: tous les vendredis de 23h30 à minuit tous les vendredis du 6 juillet TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting: Du 7 juillet tous les samedis 26: 25 ~ 26: 55 BS 11: Tous les vendredis du 6 juillet de 27h00 à 27h30 ※ Il est possible que la date et l'heure de la diffusion soient modifiées sans préavis.

【Introduction】 Une jeune fille, Rachel, qui s'est réveillée au plus bas niveau dans le sous-sol du bâtiment. Elle a perdu la mémoire et ne pouvait pas comprendre pourquoi elle était là. En montant les étage, apparaîtra devant elle dans le bâtiment du meurtrier connu sous le nom de Zack muni d'une Faux comme un shinigami, son visage couver avec des bandage. "S'il vous plaît exaucez mon souhait ... s'il vous plaît, s'il vous plaît, tuez-moi" "Si nous sortons d'ici ensemble, je te tuerais." Leurs liens étranges approfondissent leurs "serments". Où suis-je censé être? Dans quel but? Quel destin les attendent? Deux couloirs de la mort pour échapper à un bâtiment scellé a commencé ... ...! 【Le personnel】 Original: Makoto Sanada (Magazine du jeu) Directeur: Kentaro Suzuki Composition de la série: Fujioka Bikkyo Design de personnage · directeur de dessin total: Matsumoto Miki Directeur artistique: Wei 斯 曼 (Studio Chulip) Couleur: Kana Tanabe Directeur de la photographie: Akihiro Takahashi Edit: Yuji Kondo (REAL-T) Directeur Acoustique: Miwa Iwami Effet acoustique: Kayama Oyama Musique: Eiki Sakamoto (Cape bruyante) Production musicale: Lantis Production d'animation: J.C.STAFF Production: Comité de production "Angel of Slay"

OP Thème Song: "Vital" Masaaki Endo Chanson thème ED: "Pray" Rachel (CV Chikasa Haruka) 【Cast】 Rachel CV: Haruka Chisuga Zack CV: Nobuhiko Okamoto Danny CV: Takahiro Sakurai Eddie CV: Natsumi Fujiwara Cathy CV: Mariya Ise CV Gray: Yoshitada Otsuka 【アニメ公式サイト】satsuriku.com 【公式Twitter】@strk_tenshi ゲームマガジン　好評配信中 対応機種：Windows　ジャンル：サイコホラーADV https://gamemaga.denfaminicogamer.jp/satsuriku/ Application pour smartphone uniquement diffusée Système d'exploitation pris en charge: iOS 10.1 ou version ultérieure, Android 6.0.1 ou version ultérieure terminal compatible: iPhone 5s ou version ultérieure https://gamemaga.denfaminicogamer.jp/satsuriku/lp.html © 2018 Makoto Sanada / Vaka · DWANGO · KADOKAWA / Comité de production «Ange du Slay»

-Haruka Chisuga : n'a fait aucun perso que je connais, mais vous en connaîtrais surement vous!

-Nobuhiko Okamoto : a fais, musashi de shugo chara - Narunosuke de Bleach - Ryo Takiguchi de Durarara!! - Takumi Usui de Maid Sama! - Dagger de Black Butler: Book of Circus - Yuu Nishinoya de Haikyū!! - Karma Akabane de Assassination Classroom - Katsuki Bakugo de Boku no hero académie - Gladion de Pokemon lune et soleil et  Rei Ogami de Code:Breaker

-Takahiro Sakurai : a fais, Claude Faustus de Black butler - Izuru Kira de Bleach - Kururugi Suzaku de Code Geass - Sting Eucliffe de Fairy tail - Izumo Kusanagi de K project et Sasori de Naruto Shippuden

-Natsumi Fujiwara : a fais Emiru Niikura, Ariel, Kōki Hatori, l'un des enfant dragon de Mahou tsukai no yome - Tooru Mutsuki de Tokyo Ghoul:re

-Mariya Ise : a fais, Riku de eyeshield 21 - Sora Egami de La Fille des enfers - Levy Macgarden, Roméo Combolto de Fairy Tail - Mika Harima de Durarara!! - Kirua de Hunter × Hunter - Legu de Made in Abyss et Antarcticite de L'Ère des Cristaux

-Yoshitada Otsuka : a fais, Kikuji Banchō, Shōichirō Hitomi, Takehiko Hitomi, Katsuo Nabeshima de Détective Conan - Narrateur de Durarara!! - Abuto de Gintama - Jiraya de Naruto - Little Ogre de Soul Eater - montblanc norland de one piece - Tenkei Iwafune de K project

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KemoJi Seiyū and other Anime characters they voiced. Of course not every single role though but a close collection I can comment on.

Natsumi Fujiwara (Kabane)

Tōru Mutsuki - Tokyo Ghoul:re: Psycho Bitch? Obsessed with main char Kaneki, like obsessed obsessed. The unhealthy kind. In a squad under his command together with Kuki Urie.

Damian Desmond - Spy x Family: Little brat, rich, influential daddy. Has daddy and mommy issues. Wants his parent’s acknowledgment. Actually a nice kid if pushed. Can’t sleep without his favorite plushie.

Since Fujiwara voices Tōru Mutsuki, a main character starting from Tokyo Ghoul:re she worked closely with Natsuki Hanae (Shiki) who voices the main protagonist Kaneki. Tōru admires and obsesses over Kaneki and tries to kill his gf. She also has a thing for knifes and apparently knife play which does not fare well with her obsessive love towards Kaneki. The friendship their characters have in KemoJi is much better. There are no significant similarities between Kabane and those characters.

Junichi Suwabe (Inugami)

Fred/Freed Justine - Fairy Tail: Part of a trio that runs after a big guy. Very passionate about that fact. Masculine enough to rock the shit out of short beach wear. Uses runes and their scripture to fight. Gets hammered by a bartender maid at one point.

Shōta Aizawa - Boku no Hero Academia: A teacher but actually the Dad of 20 teens. Always tired, overworked, and unshaven. Carries a sleeping bag around. Adopts another child. Great resolve due to sad events in the past.

Yami Sukehiro - Black Clover: Captain of a squad of mages. Recruits people others see as losers. Uses his squad mates to do labour in and around the base. Scolds squad mates for breaking the base but breaks most of it himself. A smoker and an alcoholic. A nice lady is in love with him but he doesn’t get it. Spends like 50% of the series crapping and having his squad bring him more toilet paper.

Kyogai - Kimetsu no Yaiba: Some demon and a writer. No one liked his works and bullied him for it. He snapped. Not enough and ultimately worthless for the main baddie to entertain any longer so he gets dropped and tries his best to impress again.

Ryōmen Sukuna - Jujutsu Kaisen: A bad person. So bad indeed, he became an even badder curse after his human death. Wants to kill, maim, and rape. He does the former two. Gets reincarnated in the body of a literal ray of sunshine who can suppress him. Forces the kid to make sketchy deals with him in exchange for his life. Has something in mind regarding the kid’s buddy. Overall a bad person.

Hector - Re:Zero: Depressed warlock. Powerful but depressed. So powerful, he made another guy wait for his master for like 400 years but he can’t meet her in the end.

Victor Nikiforov - Yuri!!! on Ice: Legend ice skater, ice skating coach, gay. Becomes the coach of another dude (the main char) who admires him. He also becomes his fiancé. Charismatic but kind of an airhead. Does other things on ice (gay things).

His characters seem to have a trend of being dudes with an unfriendly demeanor who actually have a heart made of pure gold or they are completely done already and just all of their negative traits with clearly lots of trouble to them. In Black Clover Junichi Suwabe, Daisuke One (Mihai) and Natsuki Hanae (Shiki) all voice a powerful Magic Squad Captain and between the former two is a rivalry of years. His squad member Luck is voiced by Ayumu Murase (Akira) who works for him and the squad he leads. In the same anime, Hiro Shimono (Nobimaru) voices the second in command of the squad, Nacht Faust, but he dislikes Suwabe’s character Yami. Suwabe and Ono also voice characters in Black Butler which I left out, but apparently, they stab each other. Aizawa comes closest to Inugami. Unshaven and adopts kids.

Natsuki Hanae (Shiki)

Hikari Sakishima - Nagi no Asukara: Precious bean. Jealous of some other guy but overall a precious bean. Is in love with a girl. Doesn’t, at first, like his sister’s husband. His step nice is into him tho. Lives underwater with his family and friends but goes to school on land. Can be angered quickly.

Kosei Arima - Your Lie in April: Teen gifted with music but has a trauma related to that. Precious bean overall. His best friend’s gf is into him and only dates his buddy to be closer to him. Might overcome his trauma. There is more incoming though.

Ken Kaneki - Tokyo Ghoul: Precious bean (at first). Life gets flipped upside down and he tries to get a hold on it and learn to live with the “changes”. Freaks out at some point. Live turns upside down again. Guy doesn’t get a single break. One of the few characters in non-ecchi or non-hentai Anime to get a sex scene. Overall precious bean though.

Rill Boismortier - Black Clover: Squad captain obsessed with art and creating the perfect drawing. Powerful, but mostly busy with painting and defeating enemies as a side-effect. Got beaten up by a lady and fell in love with her.

Tanjiro Kamado - Kimetsu no Yaiba: Precious bean, loves his family and friends. Patience of a saint. Does everything to cure his little sister who turned into a demon, even things that could get him killed. Hunts the guy who killed his family but has a super gentle nature and pity with demons he kills. Overall he’s just boi.

Falco Grice - Attack on Titan: Precious bean and smol boi. Needs protection and doesn’t deserve anything bad. Has a puppy crush on a girl and goes great lengths to protect her. Is actually a chad and the only guy brave enough to confess.

Hajime Kokonoi - Tokyo Revengers: Obsessed with cash. Was into an older girl but she died, so he kissed her little brother instead, imagining it was her. The banker of several street gangs throughout the years.

Ryō Mizushima - Love All Play: Precious boi wants to play Badminton. Gets motivated by his complicated sister to do so in high school. Has a lot of friends in the team and plays his way to the top. (Hanae Natsuki’s pet cat voiced a cat in this anime.)

Most of these characters are known to be very gentle and good-hearted. They don’t ever try to harm if they can avoid it and only fight for to know others safe. Some of these character also share an airhead trait. Closest to Shiki would be Hikari Sakishima with a more abrasive nature but he’s a tsundere as well. All of them are precious beans tho, all of them! Together, Hanae and Hiro Shimono (Nobimaru) voice two protagonists from Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro and Zenitsu. They are great friends but Tanjiro is sometimes fed up with Zenitsu’s bullshit. That’s a nice parallel to Shiki and Nobimaru. They aren’t exactly friends but Shiki is pretty much always fed up with Nobimaru’s bull. They also voice two characters in Attack on Titan. Falco Grice and Shimono voices Connie Springer who, at one point, kidnaps Falco and tries to feed him to a titan to make said titan return to human form. Together with Kana Hanazawa (Inari), Hanae voices the protagonists of Nagi no Asukara, a romance anime, with a lot of romantic tension between their characters. That’s directly opposed to KemoJi where Shiki hates Inari’s guts and Inari… I don’t even think she knows Shiki exists… In the same anime, Kaito Ishikawa (Yui) voices another character that acts as a love rival to Hanae’s character. That’s actually not true and only a jealousy thing in Hikari’s mind. Outside of that “rivalry” the characters are good friends. There’s not much between Shiki and Yui, but I guess they’re friends? Overall a lot of interactions outside of KemoJi, phew.

Ayumu Murase

Atsushi Minegishi - Nagi no Asukara: Some super minor character but I’m still gonna mention it cuz I love the anime!

Shoyo Hinata - Haikyū: Hyperactive, tiny boy who wants to play volleyball. He’s alarmingly small and gets called a variety of names in honer of how small he is. Can jump. Ray of sunshine who annoys his team mate in the same year as him. Always has to go to the restroom before some big game where he meets future antagonist or important people.

Chigusa Fukasawa - Iroduku: The World in Colors: Rich kid and the youngest member of the photography and art club. Shit eating kid with shit eating grin always bickering the others. Has probably a crush on the girl he bickers the most with.

Luck Voltia - Black Clover: Mental guy obsessed with fighting. Can and will fight you. Constantly fights with another guy, shocks him and sets him on fire. Overall a little shit. Went to a mixer twice but he just wanted to fight so the girls didn’t really warm up to him.

Venti - Genshin Impact: Not really an anime but the character is super famous so I guessed I could mention him.

Kenjiro Minami - Yuri!!! on Ice: Innocent kid, younger than he looks, always excited and bubbly. Also a figure skater. Very energetic but can get nervous quickly. Overall precious. A little fanboi.

All in all, a parade of very joyous and outgoing characters with too much energy! Very much like Akira. Next to the connection with Junichi Suwabe in Black Clover, Murase also voices Hinata from Haikyū. His best friend and teammate Tobio Kageyama is coincidentally voiced by Kaito Ishikawa who lends his voice to Akira’s twin Yui!

Kaito Ishikawa (Yui)

Tsumugu Kihara - Nagi no Asukara: The perceived love rival of Hikari Sakishima. Saves a girl from dehydration but doesn’t love her. Pretty stoic and a man (teen) of few words. Later studies marine biology (he wants to do that in more than just one way but you need to watch the anime to understand that). His family lives from fishing.

Tobio Kageyama - Haikyū: Another rather stoic person. Arrogant and closed off at first. His team mates hate him. Thinks he’s the best player and blames his team for everything going wrong. Falls in his face with that attitude and changes.

Tenya Iida - Boku no Hero Academia: Strict but reliable class rep. Also a reliable friend. Often torn between his class rep duty and following the rules himself. Robotic movements and air chopping. Dislikes half-assed people who want to be heroes. Idolizes his older brother. A good, solid guy who worries about others and wants to help.

Kuki Urie - Tokyo Ghoul:re: Stoic dude, man of few words. He likes his friends though even if he pretends he doesn’t. Works in a squad under Kaneki’s lead together with Tōru Mutsuki.

Langris Vaude - Black Clover: Snob royal with too much pride in his abilities. Was made heir of his family’s possessions and name because his older bro is disappointing. Tried to kill his bro once. Second in command of the squad led by William Vangeance.

Overall the more stoic types that tend to come from more wealthy families. The stoicism can reach from being an asshole to just being overly serious but with a good heart. Together with Natsuki Hanae (Shiki) and Kana Hanazawa (Inari), he voices the protagonists of Nagi no Asukara. Hanae’s character perceives his char as someone who wants to steal his crush. In Tokyo Ghoul, Ishikawa’s character works under Hanae’s character together with Fujiwara’s character. And his connection to Ayumu Murase was already mentioned. Then there is the teacher student relationship between Aizawa and Iida in MHA. Many of the characters share Yui’s more closed attitude with his generally good natured self beyond the surface.

Daisuke Ono (Mihai)

Arthur Auguste Angel - Ao no Exorcist: Strongest dude in the exorcist order. Is actually a clone of a demon lord raised for scientific purposes. Has a speaking sword that his into him and that gets stronger if he feeds it with his long blonde hair. Solid guy who does his job but he’s kinda arrogant.

Erwin Smith - Attack on Titan: Eyebrows! For his goal he walks over hundreds of corpses and risks the lives of everyone including his own. Recruits a small dude into squad. Very brave guy who doesn’t fear injury. A big monkey threw stones at him.

Jotaro Kujo - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Didn’t watch that one (I know shame on me) but it’s so famous, I gotta mention it.

William Vangeance - Black Clover: Squad captain of the most famous magic squad. Wears a mask to hide his disfigured face. Makes trees with magic. You could say he has a split personality but he gets rid of it. The citizens really like him but most of his squad members are snobs. He doesn’t like them being snobs though.

Pan Ko Paat - Fire Force: Reliable firefighter. When he blows into his whistle, he can give his buddies a heat resistance buff. Is a little obsessed with safety and so used to blowing in his whistle that he preferably communicates like that now.

Phillip Boreas Greyrat - Mushoku Tensei: Wealthy nobleman of an influential family. His father bangs furries that are also the servants of the house. Takes in a distant relative to teach his daughter maths and magic. He also kinda tries to pimp his daughter for said teacher…

So on the one hand we have a couple of characters with unshakable, noble values and on the other hand characters with more questionable morals to put it lightly. Mihai, if compared, is kind of a mix between those. He does questionable things but never to the point when they become too questionable. As mentioned before, Suwabe’s and Ono’s characters from Black Clover have a long lasting rivalry while in KemoJi they live in a house together and Mihai wears Inugami’s old pajamas. At least they don’t fight.

Hiro Shimono (Nobimaru)

Connie Springer - Attack on Titan: Kinda stupid but has a good heart. Loves his friends and family but loses his family rather suddenly. Doesn’t really get over it. People make fun of him cuz he’s small but he’s also competent after taking shit seriously. Has a best friend who loves potatoes. Tries to feed a kid to a titan in a moment of madness.

Naki - Tokyo Ghoul: Kind of an underling at first but later the boss of a certain group. Loyal to this group and its members. He’s also a little unhinged and later has like 9 children with an inbred dwarf.

Dabi - Boku no Hero Academia: Barbecued himself. Barbecues others as well. Daddy issues and practically insane because of them. Also has mommy issues but the daddy issues are so big, they overshadow everything. Tried to kill his little brother and endangered his other siblings. Does everything to spite his dad. Very sad past. Like super sad.

Zenitsu Agatsuma - Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yells at least 12 hours a day. Is desperate to find a woman who loves him and proposes the first chance he gets. Secret badass who is mostly only competent when he’s asleep. Didn’t want to be a Demon Slayer but he was kinda sold into the job. Is actually a great friend and companion. Wants to marry his best friend’s demon sister.

Nacht Faust - Black Clover: Second in command of a magic squad. Never shows up for work though. Dislikes the squad leader and the fact that he was made second in command by him. Conjures and subjugates devils cuz he can so he basically plays with fire.

There seems to be the trend of characters that have more or less unhinged traits ranging from little like Connie Springer to much… very much… like Dabi. Generally, the characters are troubled in different ways with some more comically but others in all seriousness. I pretty much mentioned all character connections with other seiyūs already and too much of Nobimaru is unknown to make enough comparisons, but he’s probably closest to Dabi. I quote, “Nobimaru and Dabi are especially funny because they’re both arsonists who hate a red head in power and love being mysterious.” (Copyright @sistervirtue)

Kana Hanazawa (Inari)

Nadeko Sengoku - Monogatari Series: Didn’ watch that but seems important.

Shiemi Moriyama - Ao no Exorcist: Purest girl on earth. Gentle and caring. Didn’t know about the things coming with romance and couldn’t differentiate between friendship and romantic love. Got embarrassed by reading up on the topic in shojou manga. Very shy girl who spent her days gardening with her grandmother. She loves plants and makes herbal medicine for her friends.

Manaka Mukaido - Nagi no Asukara: Purest girl in the sea. Gentle and caring. Very shy girl but can be outgoing in the right environment. Is in love with one of her friends but to shy to confess. She entrusts herself to a friend tho. For a day, her knee was a fish.

Rize Kamishiro - Tokyo Ghoul: Psycho bitch. First thing she does is trying to eat the main char. She gets crushed by steel beams though and continues to be a psycho bitch in his mind cuz some of her organs got transplanted into him. Usually turns a place into a murder scene when she binge eats humans.

Sato Matsuzaka - Happy Sugar Life: Psycho bitch and lolicon. Kidnaps a little girl and keeps her in her apartment. Kills a bunch of people that encounter her over the course of the anime and investigate the disappearance of the child. Psycho bitch.

Mitsuri Kanroji - Kimetsu no Yaiba: Precious airhead. Super strong fighter and she fights for love. The snake guy loves her and gives her socks that she constantly wears. One of the few hashiras to kick the shit out of a demon moon without much losses. Just boss.

Rika Orimoto - Jujutsu Kaisen: Little girl with a sad childhood. Her only friend was a sickly kid to which she got engaged at the age of 10. She hated everyone but him. Got run over by a car and died but returned as the most powerful curse in history. She kicks ass with her fiancé but is also jealous and protective of him. She once shoved four guys into a single locker when they tried to bully him. Overall boss.

So, there are either the super pure and nice characters with boss attributes now and then, or the psycho bitches with loads of messed up stuff in store. Like Rize Kamishiro, Inari has a fun time binge eating and both prefer humans as their meal of choice. Like Sato, Inari also kidnaps, brainwashes and grooms a little girl which is super disturbing. It is interesting to mention that the older brother of the kidnapped girl is voiced by Yumiri Hanamori, who voices Kon in KemoJi. Other connections have been mentioned already.

Yumiri Hanamori (Kon)

Asahi Kōbe - Happy Sugar Life: Sad kid who’s searching for his little sister who was kidnapped. Got beaten up for not keeping an eye on her. Looks for her with increasing desperation.

Ai Hayasaka - Kaguya-sama: Love is War: Didn’t watch that but it’s pretty popular so I guess it’s worth a mention.

Hinaki Ubuyashiki - Kimetsu no Yaiba: Creepy, pale faced and seemingly emotionless kid. One child out of a set of quintuplets. Doesn’t speak much. Her dad leads the Demon Slayer Corps.

All characters are very much unlike Kon and there are no more seiyū connections left for me to mention.

Note that this list is far from being complete. I just didn’t know all the other animes the seiyūs voice characters from and in the end I was too lazy to do research.

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If Limbus had JP VAs too:

Yi Sang: Mamoru Miyano

Faust: Sayaka Ohara

Don: Rie Takahashi

Ryoushuu: Maaya Sakamoto

Meursault: Hikaru Midorikawa

Hong Lu: Tetsuya Kakihara

Heathcliff: Chihiro Sawashiro

Ishmael: Rikako Aida

Rodion: Eriko Matsui

Sinclair: Kenshou Ono

Outis: Natsumi Fujiwara

Gregor: Hiroaki Hinata

Vergilius: Rikiya Koyama

Charon: Sumire Morohoshi

Yuri: Inori Minase

Effie: Kaito Ishikawa

Saude: Kana Hanazawa

Kromer: Ayana Taketatsu

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• 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:

31.12./01.01. ┇ New Year's Day/Eve

— 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 - is a term coined by Cliff Arnall to define the most depressing day of the year, supposedly falling on the third Monday in January.

• 𝐙𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬:

22.12–19.01 - Capricorn ♑︎

20.01–18.02 - Aquarius ♒︎

= 01.01. ♑︎

• 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲:

- Yoshiko Hanabatake (Aho-Girl),

- Haru Ichinose (Akuma no Riddle/Riddle Story of Devil),

- Gakushu Asano (Ansatsu Kyōshitsu/Assassination Classroom),

- Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach),

- Principal Nezu (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- Mao (Code Geass),

- "Radical Edward" | Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV (Cowboy Bebop),

- Hajime Hinata (Danganronpa),

- Izuru Kamukura (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair // Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School),

- Gao Mikado (Future Card Buddyfight),

- Kochoube Asuko | Asirpa (Golden Kamu),

- Asahi Azumane (Haikyu!!),

- Kaguya Shinomiya (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen/Kaguya-sama: Love is War),

- Daichi Tachiaki (Miira no Kaikata/How To Keep A Mummy),

- Might Guy (Naruto),

- "Fire Fist" Ace | Portgas D. Ace (One Piece),

- "Mr. 1"/"The Killer" | Daz Bonez (One Piece),

- Takeo Gouda (Ore Monogatari/My Love Story!!),

- Tsubaki (Servamp),

- Masato Oujou (Shakunetsu Kabaddi/Burning Kabaddi),

- "Super Rookie" | Kaede Rukawa (Slam Dunk),

- "Vongola Primo" | Ieyasu Sawada / Giotto (Reborn!),

= 02.01. ♑︎

- Mariko/Maririn | Mimori Kishida (AKB0048),

- "Sir Nighteye" | Mirai Sasaki (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- Mutsuki Nakano (Danchigai),

- Ayumi (InuYasha),

- Mio Aoyama (Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai/The World God only knows),

- Maria Louise (Kidō Butōden G Gundam/Mobile Fighter G Gundam),

- Emelenzia Rudiger Beatrix (Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!/Venus to Mamoru!),

- Tsubomi Kido (Mekakucity Actors),

- Kenzo Tenma (Monster),

- Peepley Lulu (One Piece),

- Mitchie | Mitsuhiko Nagafukada (Robotics;Notes),

- Isshinsai Ogata (Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi/Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple),

- Gralat Berlurik (Shoukoku no Altair/Altair: A Record of Battles),

- Akane Shinjo (SSSS.Gridman),

- Taichi Dan (Tennis no Ōjisama/The Prince of Tennis),

- Jun Fuyumi (The Idolmaster SideM),

- Ren-Ren | Reina Suzuki (Wake Up, Girls!),

- Marie Tennouji (Yumeiro Pâtissière),

= 03.01. ♑︎

- "Seiryuu" | Shin-Ah (Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn),

- Hiromi Iwasa (Baby Steps),

- Alecdora Sandler (Black Clover),

- Fujitaka Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura),

- Kyoshiro Tohdoh (Code Geass),

- Keisuke Yuuki (Fushigi Yuugi/Mysterious Play),

- Haruko Saeki (Idoly Pride),

- Masako Araki (Kuroko no Basket/Kuroko's Basketball),

- Gamabunta (Naruto),

- Aisa (One Piece),

- Iceberg (One Piece),

- Mukki | Mutsuki Tsuyama (Saki),

- Kotone Noda (Sakura Trick),

- Ichiro Ogami (Sakura Wars),

- Itsumi Natsume (Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel),

- Arata Inanaki (Sousei no Onmyouji/Twin Star Exorcists),

- Bart Garsus (Vandread),

- "First Sniper" | Haruaki Azuma (World Trigger),

- Shinji Fuyushima (World Trigger),

- Yukino Yukinoshita (Yahari ore no seishun rabukome wa machigatteiru/My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU),

= 04.01. ♑︎

- Tsubomi Hiiragi (22/7),

- Michio Sumiyoshi (All Out!!),

- Tadaomi Kurama (Argonavis from BanG Dream!),

- Kaname Izuma (Beelzebub),

- Kyusaku Yumeno (Bungo Stray Dogs),

- Senku Ishigami (Dr. Stone),

- Aiichiro Nitori (Free!),

- Aobimbo | Aoba Tsuzaki (Jinki: Extend),

- Arthur Trine (Kidō Senshi Gandamu Shīdo Desutinī/Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny),

- Lina/Angie | Angelina Kudou Shields (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei/The Irregular at Magic High School),

Torii Natsumi (Nurarihyon no Mago/Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan),

- Fumiki Mizutani (Ookiku Furikabutte/Big Windup!),

- Takeru Fujiwara (Prince of Stride),

- El Cid (Saint Seiya/Zodiac Knights),

- Kotonoha Katsura (School Days),

- "Galand the Truth" | Galand (The Seven Deadly Sins),

- "Gourmet Surgeon" | Atashino (Toriko),

= 05.01. ♑︎

- Eri Ibusaki (D_Cide Traumerei the Animation),

- Prince of the Capital/King | Mei Narumiya (Diamond no Ace/Ace of Diamond),

- John Brown (Ghost Hunt),

- Ichigo Kohinata (Girlfriend (Kari)/Girl Friend Beta),

- Terence T. D'Arby (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure),

- Kuroh Yatogami (K-Project),

- Keitaro Urashima (Love Hina),

- Ozma Lee (Macross Frontier),

- Strawberry (One Piece),

- Sion Todo (PriPara),

- Ryō Yoake (ReLIFE),

- Kae Hiiragi (Re:Stage! Dream Days),

- Momiji Kanō (The Unlimited Hyobu Kyosuke/Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited),

- Mew Berry | Berry Shirayuki (Tokyo Mew Mew),

- Wanko | Inumaru (Ueki no Housoku/The Law of Ueki),

- Ichigo Amano (Yumeiro Pâtissière),

= 06.01. ♑︎

- Anna Nishikinomiya (Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist),

- Jeanne d'Arc (Fate/Apocrypha),

- Nene Kinokuni (Food Wars!),

- Jeanne d'Arc (Drifters),

- Nobara Yukinokouji (Inu X Boku Secret Service),

- Saki Morimi (Eden of the East),

- Makoto Sawatari (Kanon),

- Shingo Komoi (Cardfight!! Vanguard),

- Tatsuma Suguro (Blue Exorcist),

- Haji (Gintama),

- Kiyoko Shimizu (Haikyu!!),

- Sherlock Holmes (Moriarty the Patriot),

- "The Darkness of the Shinobi" | Danzo Shimura (Naruto),

- "Fifth Raikage" | Darui (Naruto),

- Ebizou (Naruto),

- Oimo (One Piece),

- Tilestone (One Piece),

- "Sailor Saturn" | Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Moon),

- Amidamaru (Shaman King),

- Oluo Bozado (Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan),

- "Liz" / Elizabeth (The Seven Deadly Sins),

= 07.01. ♑︎

- Konekomaru Miwa (Blue Exorcist),

- "Jack Mantis" | Kamakiri Togaru (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- Genya Shinazugawa (Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon Slayer),

- Samui (Naruto),

- "Square Sisters" (with Kiwi) | Mozu (One Piece),

- Guang Hong Ji (Yuri!!! on Ice),

= 08.01. ♑︎

- Kai (Akira),

- Mars (Black Clover),

- Hiashi Hyuga (Naruto),

- Hizashi Hyuga (Naruto),

- "Okama King" / "Miracle Person" | Emporio Ivankov / Iva (One Piece),

- Ching Tao (Shaman King),

= 09.01. ♑︎

- Kaede Kayano (Ansatsu Kyōshitsu/Assassination Classroom),

- Reika Rikudou (Fate/Apocrypha),

- Haku (Naruto),

- Pickles (One Piece),

= 10.01. ♑︎

- Braz D. Blood (Blood Lad),

- Koyo Ozaki (Bungo Stray Dogs),

- Yukichi Fukuzawa (Bungo Stray Dogs),

- Ittetsu Takeda (Haikyuu!!),

- Eustass Kid (One Piece),

- Otohime (One Piece),

= 11.01. ♑︎

- Todoroki Shouto (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- Itomimizu (One Piece),

= 12.01. ♑︎

- Schneizel el Britannia (Code Geass),

- Dr. Hiriluk (One Piece),

- Ricardo (Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World),

= 13.01. ♑︎

- Cutthroat (Akudama Drive),

- Gordon Agrippa (Black Clover),

- Cornelia Li Britannia (Code Geass),

- 13 (Dorohedoro),

- Ikaros Much (One Piece),

= 14.01. ♑︎

- Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach),

- Ayumu Tojo (Gintama),

- Snoozer (Hamtaro),

- Sweet Pea (One Piece),

- Estarossa (The Seven Deadly Sins),

= 15.01. ♑︎

- A.O (One Piece),

- Historia Reiss (Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan),

- #81194 | Ray (Yakusoku no Neverland/Yakusoku no Neverland),

= 16.01. ♑︎

- Revchi Salik (Black Clover),

- Jirou Kyoutoku (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- Boodle (One Piece),

- Felix Argyle (Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World),

= 17.01. ♑︎

- Kazuo Tengan (Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School),

- Capone Bege (One Piece),

= 18.01. ♑︎

- Rhya (Black Clover),

- "Dabi" | Toya Todoroki (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- Kiyomizu Yukihiro (Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited/The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited),

- Katsuhiko Teshigawara (Kimi no na wa/Your Name),

- Hannes (Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan),

= 19.01. ♑︎

- Coyote Starrk (Bleach),

- Lilynette Gingerbuck (Bleach),

- Edgar Allan Poe (Bungo Stray Dogs),

- "Baron Zeppeli" | Will A. Zeppeli (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; Part 3),

- "Prince of the Sand Waterfall Gourd" | Gaara (Naruto),

- Spandine (One Piece),

= 20.01. ♒︎

- Sakura Kouno (Horimiya),

- Maki Zenin (Jujutsu Kaisen),

- Mai Zenin (Jujutsu Kaisen),

- First Mizukage | Byakuren (Naruto),

- Tetta Kisaki (Tokyo Revengers),

= 21.01. ♒︎

- Antonio (One Piece),

- Miss Friday (One Piece),

= 22.01. ♒︎

- Miki Okudera (Kimi no na wa/Your Name),

- Merry (One Piece),

- Mii-chan | Michelajul Lortelia (Senyuu),

= 23.01. ♒︎

- Yumacchi | Walker Yumasaki (Durarara!!),

- Haruki Komi (Haikyuu!!),

- Nobu | Nobuo Terashima (Nana),

- Shino Aburame (Naruto),

- Charlotte Dosmarche (One Piece),

- Charlotte Nusstorte (One Piece),

= 24.01. ♒︎

- Inoichi Yamanaka (Naruto),

- Kairiken (One Piece),

- Miss Monday (One Piece),

- "Witch of Greed"/ "Witch of Wisdom" | Echidna (Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World),

- "Quinque Fanatic" / "Mad Mado" | Kureo Mado (Tokyo Ghoul),

= 25.01. ♒︎

- Shingo Mido (Death Note),

- Rintaro Suna (Haikyuu!!),

- "The Fourth Hokage" | Minato Namikaze (Naruto),

- Giolla (One Piece),

= 26.01. ♒︎

- Kuromarimo (One Piece),

- "Nero the Sea Weasel" | Nero (One Piece),

- Meene Montgomery (Shaman King),

- "Attack Titan" | Grisha Jaeger (Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan),

- "Old Warrior" | Aldrich (The Seven Deadly Sins),

= 27.01. ♒︎

- Loly Aivirrne (Bleach),

- Takahiro Hanamaki (Haikyuu!!),

- "Sailor Uranus" | Haruka Tenou (Sailor Moon),

- Charlotte Lola (One Piece),

= 28.01. ♒︎

- Doctor Onishi (Akira),

- "Gran Torino" | Sorahiko Torino (Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia),

- "Puppet Princess" / Tianzi | Jiang Lihua (Code Geass),

- Shizuo Heiwajima (Durarara!!),

- Mansherry (One Piece),

- Naki (Tokyo Ghoul),

- Chosuke Nakamoto (Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited/The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited),

= 29.01. ♒︎

- Kotaro Takebayashi (Ansatsu Kyōshitsu/Assassination Classroom),

- Gadjah (Black Clover),

- Carla Jaeger (Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan),

= 30.01. ♒︎

- "Kosaku Kawajiri" | Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; Part 4),

- Eld Jinn (Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan),

- "Parka Freak" | Misuto Kiriya (Corpse Party: Blood Drive),

- Suleiman (One Piece),

= 31.01. ♒︎

- Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach),

- Shizuku (Naruto Shippuden the Movie),

- Aladdin (One Piece),

- Ippon-Matsu (One Piece),

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FINAL FANTASY XVI - REVENGE Trailer

Japanese version

Final Fantasy XVI will launch for PlayStation 5 on June 22, 2023.

Game editions

Physical Standard Edition

Full Game – Base game package, including reversible cover art.

Physical Deluxe Edition

Full Game – Base game package, including reversible cover art

Special Clive Rosfield Steelbook Case – A SteelBook case featuring artwork of Clive Rosfield, the protagonist.

Cloth Map of Valisthea – A cloth map of Valisthea where the story unfolds.

Collector’s Edition (Square Enix Store-exclusive, pre-orders open December 12, 2022)

Full Game – Base game package, including reversible cover art.

Collector’s Box – A beautiful metallic-sheen box featuring impressive artwork by legendary Final Fantasy series illustrator, Yoshitaka Amano.

Premium Statue: Phoenix vs. Ifrit – A premium statue depicting a battle between two eikons, Phoenix and Ifrit.

Metal Eikon Pin Collection – A premium metal pin collection featuring eight Eikons.

Special Clive Rosfield Steelbook Case – A SteelBook case featuring artwork of Clive Rosfield, the protagonist.

Cloth Map of Valisthea – A cloth map of Valisthea where the story unfolds.

In-Game Weapon “Blood Sword” – The fabled scarlet steel of Firion, hero of Final Fantasy II.

Digital Mini Art Book

Digital Mini Soundtrack

Digital Standard Edition

Full Game

Digital Deluxe Edition

Full Game

Digital Mini Art Book

Digital Mini Soundtrack

Pre-Order bonuses include:

Weapon “Braveheart”

Accessory “Cait Sith Charm” – Increases the amount of gill you can get when equipped

Accessory “Scholar’s Spectacles” (not included with physical Standard or Deluxe editions) – Increases the amount of experience points you can gain when equipped.

Additionally, the following bonuses will also be available at the listed retailers:

Square Enix Store – The Realms of Valisthea Wall Banners (six-inches height printed cloth banners)

GameStop – The Realms of Valisthea Patches (2.5-inches height printed cloth patches)

Best Buy – Final Fantasy XVI Pre-Order SteelBook

Cast

Clive Rosfield (child) (voiced by Benn Starr in English, Yuma Uchida in Japanese)

Clive Rosfield (young adult) (voiced by Benn Starr in English, Yuuya Uchida in Japanese)

Joshua Rosfield (voiced by Logan Hannan in English, Natsumi Fujiwara in Japanese)

Jill Warrick (child) (voiced by Charlotte McBurney in English, Megumi Han in Japanese)

Jill Warrick (young adult) (voiced by Susannah Fielding in English, Megumi Han in Japanese)

Torgal

Cidolfus Telamon (voiced by Ralph Ineson in English, Hiroshi Shirokuma in Japanese)

Benedikta Harman (voiced by Nina Yndis in English, Akari Higuchi in Japanese)

Hugo Kupka (voiced by Alex Lanipekun in English, Yasuhiro Mamiya in Japanese)

Dion Lesage (voiced by Stewart Clarke in English, Yuichi Nakamura in Japanese)

Barnabas Tharmr (voiced by David Menkin in English, Gotaro Tsunashima in Japanese)

Key visual

Screenshots

Overview

Final Fantasy XVI introduces gamers to an all-new standalone story in the Final Fantasy universe, an epic dark fantasy world that takes place in the realm of Valisthea—a land blessed in the light of the Mothercrystals, and where peace falters as the spread of the Blight threatens to destroy their dominions. The fate of the land is decided by the Eikons, powerful and deadly creatures, and their Dominants, men and women who have been blessed with the ability to call upon and wield them. This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a warrior granted the title “First Shield of Rosaria” and sworn to protect his younger brother Joshua, the Dominant of the Phoenix, Eikon of Fire. Before long, Clive will be caught up in a great tragedy and swear revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit, a mysterious entity that brings calamity in its wake.

Latest details via The PlayStation Blog

Final Fantasy XVI is an epic dark fantasy world that takes place in the realm of Valisthea—a land blessed in the light of the Mothercrystals, and where peace falters as the spread of the Blight threatens to destroy their dominions. The fate of the land is decided by the Eikons, mighty summoned beasts, and their Dominants, men and women who have been blessed with the ability to call upon and wield them.

This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a warrior granted the title “First Shield of Rosaria” and sworn to protect his younger brother Joshua, the Dominant of the Phoenix, Eikon of Fire. Before long, Clive will be caught up in a great tragedy and swear revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit, a mysterious entity that brings calamity in its wake.

Jump into Action-Packed Battles with Impressive Eikonic Powers

As the first full-fledged action RPG in the Final Fantasy series, designed for the PlayStation 5, Final Fantasy XVI features unique battle systems where you can fight, not only utilizing Eikonic powers woven into your swordplay, but also controlling Eikons yourself! Switch between Clive’s Eikon skills one after another in speedy real-time action battles and participate in dynamic battles taking on the role of an Eikon as they clash against each other. You’ll spot some of the new systems we’re introducing in the game in the trailer above. You can learn more about them below and discover how they’ll help you fight fire with fire (among other elements)!

Titanic Clashes

When rival Dominants come head to head, epic battles between their Eikons ensue!

Eikonic Action

Clive utilizes the powers of multiple Eikons in breakneck battle!

Play Your Way

Myriad accessibility options allow anyone to experience Clive’s adventure—from seasoned action gamers to those who just want to enjoy the story.

We’re introducing a Story-focused mode, recommended for those players who are less comfortable with action games and wish to focus more on the game’s story elements. In this mode, Clive will automatically evade some attacks, and epic Eikonic combos can be triggered with simple button presses. Action-focused mode, where Clive’s every action is controlled by the player, is available for those who are confident in their skill—or want to test it!

A Hero’s Best Friend

Trusty Torgal takes to the field.

Another outcast from the Northern Territories taken in by House Rosfield, Torgal was found alone in a snowfield during one of Archduke Elwin’s expeditions to the freezing north, and gifted to his sons upon his return. After somehow surviving the disaster that nearly ended the Rosfield line, he was reunited with Clive over a decade later, and now serves his master with the same fierce loyalty he did when he was but a pup.

In battle, Clive’s faithful hound Torgal is never far from his side—and when enemies approach, he does not quail. Not only can Torgal attack enemies, but he can also mend Clive’s wounds—and if Clive times his orders right, the two can prove a devastating duo.

The Nore the Merrier

Because sometimes, fighting fate is more than a one-man job.

At certain points in his adventure, Clive will be joined by certain stalwart allies who will fight alongside him—the composition of his party changing as the story develops. Unlike Torgal, these party members do not take orders directly from the player, but fight as they see fit.

One of these party members, Cidolfus Telamon, known to his friends as “Cid,” is a soldier turned outlaw that strives to build a place where persecuted magick casters—Bearers, and exploited Dominants can die on their own terms. A man of science, he also conducts research into how one might live in the deadlands—as he and his band of fellow heretics must. Cid is also a Dominant—the power of the Eikon Ramuh having awoken within him shortly after he landed on Valisthean shores. No doubt it was this power that saw him rise through the ranks of the Royal Waloeder Army—where it would seem he crossed paths with a certain Benedikta Harman…

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