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The Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade English version is now available, and there are multiple events running as the mobile game launches in English. There are four launch events, with two available now, and four events that start and run the first week someone plays through the title.

The new player events consist of two campaigns and two tied to actual activities. You get 2,100 cubes for logging in seven days in a row after just starting the game with the Starter’s Gift. Between November 7-21, 2024, the Launch Gift gives people more Cubes and in-game items. The other new player bonuses are a Friend Invitation that gives you up to 3,000 Cubes if you invite others to play. The last one is a set of missions for SSR Recollection Bits.

The other Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade gamelaunch events are split up over the rest of November 2024. Starting today, there is the A Homesick Horizon Gacha banner and a matching story event. Both of those run until November 21, 2024. Between November 16-25, 2024, there is a Phantom Parade Featured Gacha banner and a Grand Exorcism Battle: Spiritual Mountain Range Arc map event. 

There’s a trailer dedicated to A Homesick Horizon that shows what to expect from that first story event.

Two other types of videos also appeared alongside the launch. One features Producer Tatsuya Omori explaining how the game works. 

The other is a final launch trailer:

Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade is available on mobile devices worldwide.

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A new Hatsune Miku, showing what she would wear if she's on a trip in autumn, figure is open for pre-order. It's based off a contest-winning design from illustrator Rumoon.

The figure shows Miku in her signature pig tails, though with the additions of hair horns and barrettes. She also has a beret, as well as a blue fall jacket over a white-and-black dress. The dress has two maple leaves in the ruffles, along with a ribbon, and there is also a leaf on her head. Her cheeks are a little flushed, looking like she’s standing out in cold weather. As mentioned earlier, the designer is Rumoon. They had submitted it to Chinese site Poppro as part of the contest.

Here are some more pictures:

You can pre-order this figure via AmiAmi. The English version of the site, as of the time of writing, doesn’t carry it. AmiAmi in Japan is selling it for 12,980 JPY ($90.40). It’ll come out some time in March 2025.

This is not the first time that a Miku figure came out with a design from a contest winner or guest artist. Piapro usually holds contest for the next Snow Miku design, for example. It recently announced the winner for the 2025 design, which uses “Kira Kira Snow Material” as a theme.

The autumn Miku figure will come out in March 2025, and pre-orders are available on AmiAmi.

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Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade, a mobile game that debuted in Japan in November 2023, will appear in English. Bilibili Game already opened pre-registration for the Android and iOS versions, though there is no word if the PC version that launched in other regions in April 2024 will also eventually show up everywhere too.

This game essentially follows Yuji Itadori’s story after he eats Ryomen Sukuna’s finger and, in so doing, is exposed to the world of sorcerers and curses. He then heads to Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School to learn to hone his new skills alongside his classmates Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki and teacher Satoru Gojo. 

Here’s the first English trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, which includes some animated segments and a look at turn-based battles in the game.

Pre-registration is now open, and there are also rewards we get if certain tiers are hit. Here are the goals so far:

• 1 Million s: 500 Cubes
• 2 Million s: 1,000 Cubes
• 3 Million s: 1,000 Cubes
• 5 Million s: 2,000 Cubes
• 8 Million s: 3,000 Cubes
• 10 Million s: Redrawable SSR-Character-Guaranteed Gacha Ticket

As of time of writing, over 285,000 people signed up.

This game has proven to be a success so far. In July 2024, it was confirmed that the developer and publisher had earned over $100 million from player purchases.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade is available in Japan on iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as PCs via DMM Games, and it will appear in English on mobile devices globally.

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bilibili announced service for Artery Gear: Fusion will end in November 2024 for both the Global and Japanese clients. Released in 2021, the mobile game ran for nearly three years in Japan. A Global version appeared the following year. Artery Gear: Fusion will end service in Japan, and in the Global region, on November 12, 2024.

Consumers will have until November 12, 2024 to issue a refund for any paid currency they have yet to use. Refunds will be processed sometime after the end of service. The official Artery Gear: Fusion Global X (Twitter) has shared detailed instructions as to how consumers can issue those refunds. One such details s will need to share include their bank details, and other sensitive information.

Refunds can be submitted starting on August 13, 2024. Anything after the end of the refund period in November, will not be processed. s that submit their applications too late, will not be given a refund.

Artery Gear: Fusion is a mobile RPG where players assume the role of a commander. Combat is turn-based, and players can collect new characters with vaguely-inspired mecha designs. The mobile game released in Japan in November of 2021, with a Global version appearing in June 2022.

Artery Gear: Fusion is available for Android and iOS. The game will end service on November 12, 2024.

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Thanks, Bilibili announced that it is publishing and distributing the Simplified Chinese version of Uma Musume: Pretty Derby in China. Pre-registration started on August 4, 2023 and within ten days, over a million players signed up. Cygames is working on expanding Uma Musume: Pretty Derby not only within Japan, but to other countries as well. However, there is no news as of yet in regards to an English release.

You can the Simplified Chinese version of Uma Musume: Pretty Derby from the game’s official Bilibili page. Obviously, since the game just came out, it has the debut roster of horse girls and there is only one main story. It’s unknown if the Chinese version will, like the global server for Twisted Wonderland, try to catch up to the Japanese version or if it will remain several years behind the original server on a permanent basis.

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby is a multimedia franchise centering around uma musume, who are literally horse girls. They’re based off of real-life race horses both alive and dead. Uma musume are a combination of sports stars and idols in-universe, in which they legitimately work to compete in their races. However, the winner of the races and derbies get to be the center of a live performance that takes place after the races. Aside from a game, there is also a manga and an anime adaptation.

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby is readily available in China and Japan on mobile devices and Windows PC.

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Bilibili announced an Atelier Ryza collaboration event in Artery Gear: Fusion. The collaboration event will feature Reisalin, Klaudia, and Lila as playable characters, available through the limited-time collaboration gacha banner. The collaboration will also introduces a new alchemy mechanic similar to those found in the Atelier series. There is no confirmed release date for the event. [Thanks, Dengeki!]

https://twitter.com/arterygear_jp/status/1475330601494274053?s=20

The collaboration event story reveals that the three girls accidentally traveled into the world of Artery Gear: Fusion. Though the three Atelier Ryza characters may not seem like a fit for the sci-fi genre, they will be equipped with high-tech equipment and are capable of holding their own. Original voice actors Haruka Terui, Hitomi Owada, and Yuri Noguchi will reprise their roles.

Reisalin can use incendiary attacks, Klaudia can use freezing attacks, and Lila can use lightning. Players can acquire the three characters through the collaboration gacha banner. A pity roll at 90 pulls will reward players with one of the Atelier Ryza characters.

Furthermore, the collaboration will feature an exploration and alchemy mechanic. Players can send out an expedition for a chance to receive ingredients and usable items. Players could then use these ingredients to craft special items using an alchemy pot in order to complete requests, just like in the Atelier games.

You can check out the official Atelier Ryza Artery Gear: Fusion collaboration trailer below:

https://youtu.be/CqQQgE8ZE20

The Atelier series is no stranger to collaborations, of course. Earlier this year, several Atelier Ryza 2 characters appeared in Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV. Koei Tecmo also announced it would collaborate with Bandai Namco to bring Atelier Sophie characters to Tales of Arise.

Artery Gear is available on iOS and Android devices in Japan. As of writing, there is no confirmed release date for the Atelier Ryza collaboration event.

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In the most recent update for the Chinese version of Fate/Grand Order, Bilibili removed large elements from most of the Chinese Servants in-game. The illustrations, voices, names, and matrix data have been deleted. In lieu of the characters’ real names, you will see their class and a number. [Thanks, FateGrandOrder!]

This update went live in China on September 16, 2021. However, it seems that Wu Zetian was missing large parts of her data even earlier. In total, 13 Servants will receive alterations. The new names for the Servants are:

• Jingke: Assassin 042
• Lu Bu: Berserker 049
• Wu Zetian: Assassin 170
• Nezha: Lancer 193
• Xiang Yu: Berserker 226
• Qin Liangyu: Lancer 228
• Shi Huang Di: Ruler 229
• Yu Mei-Ren (Assassin): Assassin 230
• Red Hare: Rider 231
• Sima Yi (Reines): Rider 241
• Yang Guifei: Foreigner 274
• Yu Mei-Ren (Lancer): Lancer 288

Sanzang’s card art is also affected in this update, along with the two versions of Yu Mei-Ren and Yang Guifei. The default class art will replace their illustrations. Lastly, Bilibili will alter all 13 Servants’ biographies and voice lines. It seems the only Chinese Servants that are still properly available in the game are Lanling Wang, Zhuge Liang, Chen Gong, Li Shuwen, and Yan Qing. Here is what the summoning animation looks like now:

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Just last month, China further restricted online gaming time for minors within the country. It is currently unknown whether this is a temporary or permanent change. Though speculation is abound online, Bilibili has also not given a concrete reason for this update. Bilibili does note that the character art for the first summoning and story, as well as the sprites, will not be altered.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices worldwide. This change will only occur on the Chinese server.

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The next Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout platform has been released, but it only applies to one region. There will be a Fall Guys mobile port. Bilibili will publish a version of the game in China. [Thanks, GamesIndustry.biz and Daniel “ZhugeEX” Ahmad!]

Ahmad first discovered and shared the Bilibili acquisition of publishing rights. Then, Mediatonic Co-founder Paul Croft told GamesIndustry.biz that it would be going mobile in China.

Here’s Croft’s statement.

We can confirm Bilibili have secured publishing rights to a mobile version in China. As you can imagine, we've had a lot of questions about platforms since launch, and of course we'd love to release on more platforms in the future but for now we're focusing our efforts on PC and PS4.

This comes after Mediatonic had to warn people about a fake Fall Guys mobile scam. Back on August 17, 2020, the developer sounded the alarm that there were fake versions being rumored and people shouldn’t believe it.

Fall Guys has been receiving multiple updates as of late. There have been collaborative costumes connected to games like Portal 2 and Enter the Gungeon. We also know that one of the gamescom Opening Night Live 2020 announcements will offer a peek at what people can expect from the second season of the game.

A Fall Guys mobile version will launch in China. Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is immediately available on the PlayStation 4 and PC.

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2020 has seen no end of cancellations for major events, such as Anime Expo. That won't stop Aniplex, though, as it has dropped details about Aniplex Online Fest, a streaming event intended to promote its productions and acts. The event, which will stream in English on YouTube, will take place from July 4-5, 2020. The July 4th weekend also allows the event to overlap slightly with Anime Expo's own online-only stream Anime Expo Lite.

Aniplex Online Fest will involve a number of programs featuring staff and cast from a number of Aniplex productions, including anime and games. s, discussions, and announcements will be held for titles like Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, The Promised Neverland, Cells at Work!, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, and Sword Art Online. The Fate franchise will also have outside representation, as Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia, Fate/Grand Order Camelot, and Fate/Stay Night Heaven's Feel Part III: Spring Song will all make an appearance. Aniplex.exe, the newly launched publishing label for visual novels, will show off ATRI and Adabana.

Performances are also on the docket for the show, with special appearances and live streams from music artists. Acts like ClariS, ASCA, Eir Aoi, halca, Mashiro Ayano, ReoNa, TrySail, and LiSA will be present. Sally Amaki of idol group 22/7 will be hosting the English-language Aniplex Online Fest stream.

Aniplex Online Fest will stream from July 4 to 5, 2020 on YouTube globally and on bilibili in China. More details about the show can be found at the official website.

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Chinese publisher Bilibili announced today that their smartphone slow life sim Komori Life will be launching in Japan in Summer 2020. The game is a free-to-play title that focuses on single-player exploration and growth, and you can play as a variety of avatars and take in the rustic country environment at your own pace. The game is developed by Shanghai Zorro Network Technology and launched earlier in China, Taiwan, and HK in January 2020. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

Check out the trailer for the game below:

The game has some serious Boku no Natsuyasumi vibes and details the protagonist's return to their grandmother's countryside home, where they grew up. Tired with city life, the protagonist decides to try and reconnect with the people they met here, farm, fish, and experience an idyllic life.

Gameplay-wise, at first glance the game's UI and graphics are reminiscent of a smartphone MMO, and indeed some of the mechanics play similarly on the surface. However, the game is mainly focused on exploration, growing things, helping other villagers out, and restoring your deceased grandmother's old house.

Check out more screenshots below:

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Komori Life will launch in Japan in Summer 2020 for iOS and Android. The game is immediately available to play in Chinese in Asia.

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