BlazBlue Alter Memory Official Site with Cast, Crew, Caracter, and Intro Now Live

The official site for BlazBlue: Alter Memory has launched. I mean, the site is up and you can go to it. Most of the pages haven’t been made yet, but you can still see them in the menu. Just don’t try to go to the “Caracter” page just yet. It isn’t ready at time of writing.

The pages that are ready are the “Introduction” and the “Cast and Crew” page. The intro is simple enough and explains BlazBlue at its most basic. There’s a bad dude named “Ragna the Bloodedge” who keeps destroying sites run by the evil super government in the year 2199AD. Because of his destructive prowess, he’s been nicknamed “Grim Reaper” (Shinigami) and given a tremendous bounty. He now finds himself in a place called District 13 “Kagutsuchi.”

The cast is entirely self consistent. Everyone from the games are back for the show.

Ragna the Bloodedge – Tomokazu Tsugita
Noel Vermillion – Kanako Kondo
Jin Kisaragi – Tetsuya Kakihara
Rachel Alucard – Kana Ueda
Hazama – Yuichi Nakamura
Taokaka – Saito Chiwa
Litchi Faye-Ling – Chiaki Takahashi
Iron Tager – Kenji Nomura
Tsubaki Yayoi – Asami Imai
Kokonoe – Chie Matsuura
Makoto Nanaya – Tomomi Isomura

And also the entire crew.

Original Work: Arc System Works
Supervision: Mori Toshimichi (Series Producer)
Series Director: Hideki Tachibana
Cooperating Director: Seiji Mizushima (Director – Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam 00)
Series Composition: Deko Akao
Screenplay: Deko Akao, Tatsuya Takahashi
Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Tomoyuki Shitata (Key animation – Paranoia Agent, Chief AD – Toradora!)
Art Director: Shigemi Ikeda (Art Direction – King Gainer, Turn A Gundam, Planetes, 1000 other things)
Color Design: Haruko Nobori
Director of Photography: Hayashi Kojiro
Editor: Masato Yoshitake
Sound Direction: Masanori Tsuchiya
Sound Production: Studio Mausu
Music Production: Lantis
Animation: teamKG, Hoods Entertainment (In Between Animation – Attack on Titan, Production Assistance – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

We’ve got an interesting bag of people. You can see that there are some who’ve worked on some high profile, good pedigree stuff, but there are also some like Deko Akao who did the series composition for Mysterious Girlfriend X. That may not have been her fault though, so I’ll hold out some hope. If Hoods brings half the game they’ve brought to Attack on Titan, then these fight scenes are going to be pretty good. And, really, that’s all I ask.

(Image from the Official Alter Memory Site. © Arc System Works and the BlazBlue Alter Memory Production Committee)

Men of the Pillar Men: More JoJo’s Cast Revealed

According to a tweet, Ultra Jump released a few more names for the JoJo’s The Animation cast in their latest issue. Then another tweet came around right after that and told us what it said.

That one contains the new cast listing for all the Pillar Men. We already knew about Akio Otsuka being Wham from the last cast reveal, but now we’ve got the whole ancient, evil demigod figure voice set.

• Cars: Kazuhiko Inoue (Naruto as Hayate Kakashi, Cyborg 009 as Joe Shimamura, Super Robot Wars as Hwang Yan Long)
• ACDC: Keiji Fujiwara (Aquarion EVOL as Zen Fudo, Fullmetal Alchemist as Maes Hughes, Hajime no Ippo as Tatsuya Kimura)
• Santana: Kenji Nomura (Metroid: Other M as Anthony Higgs, Eyeshield 21 as Makoto Otawara, One Piece as Kuromarimo)

Another Super Robot Wars alum to add to the list. I’m most excited about Keiji Fujiwara. I have a soft spot for ACDC because he does one of the more ridiculous thing in Part 2, and Zen Fudo was most of everything valuable about EVOL because of how absurd he and everything he did was. I expect some great things when ACDC shows up, but then again, I expect great things whenever there’s a new episode of JoJo’s.