Japan's Video Game Rankings, March 16-22

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Resident Evil Revelations 2 games debut

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Japan's Game Ranking: March 16-22

Rank	System	Title	Maker	Release Date	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	4Gamer Reader Review
1	PS4	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (Including Bundled Editions)	Square Enix	March 19	92,094	92,094
2	PS3	Resident Evil Revelations 2	CAPCOM	March 19	73,373	73,373
3	PS4	Battlefield Hardline	Electronic Arts	March 19	68,823	68,823	40
4	PS4	Resident Evil Revelations 2	CAPCOM	March 19	42,358	42,358	35
5	PSV	Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition	Sony Computer Entertainment	March 19	36,151	36,151	90
6	PS3	Ryū ga Gotoku 0: Chikai noBasho (Yakuza 0: The Place of Oath)	Sega	March 12	29,568	175,390
7	PSV	Battlefield Hardline	Electronic Arts	March 19	28,976	28,976
8	PSV	Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 3 Deluxe Package	Sega	March 19	26,289	26,289	68
9	Wii U	Mario Party 10 (Including Bundled Editions)	Nintendo	March 12	21,433	71,645
10	3DS	PriPara & Pretty Rhythm: PriPara de Tsukaeru OshareAtem 1450	Takara TomyArts	March 19	21,261	21,261
11	PSV	Digimonstory Cybersleuth	Bandai Namco Games	March 12	20,166	96,926	63
12	PS3	Dragon Quest Heroes: Yamiryū to Sekaiju no Shiro	Square Enix	February 26	16,446	442,854
13	PS4	Ryū ga Gotoku 0: Chikai noBasho (Yakuza 0: The Place of Oath)	Sega	March 12	15,255	105,761
14	3DS	Yōkai Watch 2 Shin'uchi	Level 5	December 13	11,353	2,551,238	65
15	3DS	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (Including Bundled Editions)	Nintendo	February 14	10,851	392,553	80
16	3DS	Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire	Pokémon	November 21	8,646	2,568,569	85
17	PS4	Dragon Quest Heroes: Yamiryū to Sekaiju no Shiro	Square Enix	February 26	7,915	327,389	81
18	3DS	Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!	Nintendo	March 19	6,893	6,893
19	3DS	Ansatsu Kyōshitsu: Koro-sensei Dai Hōimō (Assassination ClassroomKoro-sensei Great Besiegement)	Bandai Namco Games	March 12	6,358	31,852
20	3DS	Dairan Tou Smash Brothers for Nintendo 3DS (Super Smash Bros.) (Including Bundled Editions)	Nintendo	September 13	6,293	2,186,501	79

Hardware Sales

System	Weekly Sales
PS4	46,395
Vita	20,923
New 3DS LL	17,652
Wii U	7,595
New 3DS	6,566
PS3	6,352
3DS	2,371
3DS LL	2,115
Vita TV	639
Xbox One	344

Source: Media Create via 4Gamer

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Upcoming Anime

	Name & Description	Premiere date
	Omakase Mamitasu (TV)	2015-03-31
	Labyrinth of Grisaia (TV)	2015-03
	Battle Spirits Burning Soul (TV)	2015-04-01
	I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying (TV 2)	2015-04-02
	Aikatsu! (TV 4)	2015-04-02
	Vampire Holmes (TV)	2015-04-03
	Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan (TV)	2015-04-03
	Denpa Kyōshi - He Is an Ultimate Teacher (TV)	2015-04-04
	Kyōkai no Rinne (TV) High school student Sakura Mamiya began to see ghosts and ghouls after she was tricked into taking a trip to the otherworld as a child. However, cool and collected, she is not extremely phased when she finds out that her always-absent classmate Rinne Rokudō is actually working as a shinigami (god of death) on the side, helping lost spirits reach the wheel of reincarnation. Although he is a talented young man with shinigami blood in his veins, he is extremely poor, and is forced to rely on Sakura's assistance- monetary or otherwise- to solve many of his cases.	2015-04-04
	Blood Blockade Battlefront (TV)	2015-04-04
	Seraph of the End (TV) After an unknown virus wiped out all adults on earth, vampires appeared and ruled over the surviving children, treating them like livestock. Yuichiro Hyakuya survived along with other orphans by giving their blood to vampires, until Yuichiro escaped four years ago. Now he is a member of the Moon Demon Company, a unit in the Japanese army dedicated to hunting down the vampires he blames for the death of his family.	2015-04-04
	Plastic Memories (TV) In a future not too far away, androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids.	2015-04-04
	Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono: Spin-off Puru Purun Sharumu to Asobō (TV)	2015-04-04
	Rainy Cocoa (TV) Due to various circumstances, college freshman Aoi Tokura begins part-timing at the café "Rainy Color" run by Shion Koga and owned by Kōji Amami. Attending the café are the cool and handsome Keiichi Iwase and the confident Ryōta Sakurai. Aoi's life gets a lot more hectic, but fun.	2015-04-05
	Heroic Legend of Arslan (TV) Arslan is the heir apparent of Pars, a strong nation that sits at the hear of the trade route connecting the East and the West. When the pagan nation of Lusitania begins an invasion of Pars, the timid Arslan is confronted with battle for the first time. His worst anxieties are realized the Parsian army falls for a Lusitanian stratagem and are routed. He barely escapes with his life, thanks to the loyal and indomitable warrior Daryun. Together they will stand against the invasion and the cruelties of fate that are about to blow down on Pars.	2015-04-05
	Duel Masters VS R (TV)	2015-04-05
	Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture (TV)	2015-04-05
	Baby Steps (TV 2)	2015-04-05
	Show By Rock!! (TV)	2015-04-05
	Takamiya Nasuno Desu! (TV)	2015-04-06
	Mysterious Joker (TV 2)	2015-04-06
	Ace of Diamond: Second Season (TV)	2015-04-06
	Teekyū (TV 4)	2015-04-06
	BAR Kiraware Yasai (TV)	2015-04-07
	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Battle City Hen (TV)	2015-04-07
	Gintama (TV 4)	2015-04-08
	Triage X (TV)	2015-04-08
	Etotama (TV)	2015-04-09
	Punch Line (TV)	2015-04-09
	Urawa no Usagi-chan (TV)	2015-04-09
	Future Card Buddyfight 100 (TV)	2015-04-11
	Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo (TV) One day, high school boy Yamada bumps into the beautiful female honor student Shiraishi on the stairs (literally), and their lips touch as they fall. When they regain their wits, they realize that they have swapped bodies. As time progresses, the two realize that this is not the only mysterious happening in the school.	2015-04-12
	Hōkago no Pleiades (TV)	2015-04
	Nisekoi: (TV)	2015-04
	Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love Revolutions (TV)	2015-04
	Sound! Euphonium (TV)	2015-04
	Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine (TV)	2015-04
	Eden of Grisaia (TV)	2015-04
	PriPara (TV 2015)	2015-04
	Robot Girls Z+ (TV)	2015-04
	Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (TV)	2015-04
	Narudoma (TV)	2015-04
	Ore Monogatari!! (TV)	2015-04
	Super Short Comics (TV)	2015-04
	Momokuri (TV)	2015-04
	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid (TV)	2015-04
	Digimon Adventure tri. (TV)	2015-04
	Ninja Slayer From Animation (TV)	2015-04
	Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV 2)	2015-04
	Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Zoku (TV)	2015-04

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Nozomu Sasaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, AAA Join World Trigger Anime

Toshio Furukawa, Yurie Kobori, more voice Aftokrator characters; AAA makes new opening song

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This year's 15th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jumpmagazine is announcing the voice cast for the Aftokrator characters in the World Trigger anime on Monday. The castmembers are, from right to left:

• Nozomu Sasaki as Hainrein
• Yurie Kobori as Moira
• Junichi Yanagita as Lamvanein
• Toshio Furukawa as Enedra
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Hus
• Hiroshi Naka as Visa

The new arc of the anime will begin on March 29. The magazine is also announcing that the group AAA is performing the new opening theme song. The song will begin airing in the anime in April.

Daisuke Ashihara's original World Trigger manga debuted in 2013's 11th issue of Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.Viz Media added the series to its digital anthology version ofWeekly Shonen Jump, and it will publish the fifth print volume on April 7.

Viz Media describes the manga's story:

Weekly Shonen Jump's newest series is out of this world! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from itemerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back!

The World Trigger television anime from Toei Animationpremiered on October 5 at 6:30 a.m. on the TV Asahi station and its affiliates. The manga is also inspiring the fighting gameWorld Trigger: Borderless Mission for the PlayStation Vita this year.

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12th Triage X Manga Volume to Bundle Anime Blu-ray

Shoji Sato's assassin manga also inspires TV anime debuting April 8

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The 10th volume of Shoji Sato's Triage X manga is announcing on Friday that the 12th volume will have a limited-edition bundle with an anime Blu-ray Disc.

Yen Press publishes the manga in North America, and it describes the story:

Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained (and well-endowed) nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling disease, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of sickness... Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a handful of staff members and local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the "cancers" of society and excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads.

Sato launched the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine in 2009. Yen Presspublished the eighth volume on November 18. The manga is inspiring a television anime which willpremiere on April 8. Sato also drew the art for Highschool of the Dead, another manga thatinspired an anime.

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Venus Project Idol Story Gets Summer TV Anime After Vita Game

Ami Himesaki (LinQ), Rui Tanabe, Ruka Nemoto star in tie-in idol-training game

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Software and 3D character studio Galat announced on Thursday that a television anime of its "new-sensation idol story" Venus Project will premiere this July. The multimedia project tells the story of idols living in Japan in the near future. In addition to the tentatively titled Venus Projecttelevision anime, there will be the previously announced PlayStation Vita game, web comic, real-life events, and other efforts linked to the current idols and idol voice actresses.

The story is set in Japan in the future, not too long from now. In this world, data devices and videotechnology have been progressing to new heights, and people are abuzz about a new form of entertainment — Formula Venus. In Formula Venus or "F-V," the chosen top idols battle in live performances with their willpower, skills, and all their experience gained.

The television series will actually be six anime episodes and six live-action variety episodes, each 30 minutes long. The anime's story will be set in the same world as the game's, but it will feature a new anime original protagonist, "an aspiring idol aiming to be Venus." The Venus Project booth at Anime Japan 2015 will announce more information about the anime at the Tokyo Big Sight venue from March 20 to March 22.

Before the anime premieres, the Venus Project card battle role-playing game will begin service on the PS Vita on April 21. The free-to-play idol-training game's voice cast will feature LinQ idol group member Ami Himesaki as Karen Takano (center in top image), voice actress/singer Rui Tanabe as Mitsuki Sarashina (right), idol Ruka Nemoto as Yū Kashima (left), former Onyanko Club idols Eri Nitta and Akiko Ikuina, and voice actress/singer Kanako Sakai. Also on April 21, the web comic will begin free distribution. A real-life event is planned for October, and there will also be radio programs (over-the-air and online) and other tie-in efforts.

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