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Mega Man Artist's King of Pirates Game Has Anime in the Works

posted on by Egan Loo
Manga in Keiji Inafune

The production company Shueisha have Kaio: King of Pirates manga series green-lit. The game itself is scheduled for next year, although there was no playable demo at Jump Festa.

After leaving revealed the game last year.

Unlike many typical pirate stories, the game will add the atmosphere of the Chinese literary classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The story is as follows:


"Lucifer Coin"
He whom finds it, rules the ocean.
He becomes the "Kaio."

Long time ago,
there was a part of [the] ocean called
"Tai Hei Yo." [Japanese for the Pacific Ocean]
A power so overwhelming
changed the ocean into where
no living thing could survive.
It was called the "dark ocean."

"Aves," "Beasts," and "Scales,"
three different races,
fight over to take controle of the ocean.

In the age of war…
For the power to rule…

Now, sail out to the ocean of glory!


Marvelous AQL opened an English website for the game, but the site cautions that the game is only planned for Japan "as of Oct. 2011." The site is streaming a trailer for the game:






In addition to working on the PlayStation Vita game Soul Sacrifice.

Source: Game Watch

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