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Astro Boy: Edge of Time Game Adds Japanese Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Active Gaming Media revealed four cast for the Japanese version of its Osamu Tezuka. The revealed cast includes:
Satomi Satou as the Female Protagonist
Mami Koyama as the Phoenix
Hidekatsu Shibata as Goa
The game's cards will feature Tezuka's characters redesigned by modern artists. For example, Hiroya Oku provided a new illustration of Tezuka's Magma, pictured below.
Active Gaming Media DMM will release the game as a free-to-play digital card game for iOS, Android, and PC this spring. Pre-registration began last month.
Osamu Tezuka's son Macoto Tezka is supervising the project. The artists redeg the characters include:
- Hiroya Oku (Gantz, Inuyashiki manga creator)
- NekoshowguN (Lollipop Chainsaw character designer)
- Satoshi Yoshioka
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- Hiroaki
- Seiichirow Hosokawa (character designer for .hack//Roots)
- Suda 51 (Grasshopper Manufacture and director of Killer is Dead, No More Heroes)
- Sina Faroughi
- Juan Fandiño Martín
- Chu Yi-Cheng
Composers Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series) and Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (pioneer of disco and electronic dance music) are working on the music for the game.
The game will feature an online multiplayer mode and a single-player story mode. The story takes place in The Sprawl, a city that lies outside of normal space and time, where characters from different universes gather in peace until the demon king Goa invades. Players take on the role of a "summoner," who is able to summon "hard light construct" versions of characters they have met in order to fight off Goa.
Source: Animate Times
