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Rio - Rainbow Gate! TV Anime's Promo Video Streamed
posted on by Egan Loo
The official website for the Rio - Rainbow Gate! television anime series began streaming a 100-second promotional video on Saturday. The anime features a casino dealer named Rio Rollins (Marina Inoue) who has starred in several pachi-slo (pachinko parlor-style slot machine) games from Net and Temco. The anime will premiere in Japan on January 4, 2011.
In the story, Rio is a popular casino dealer at the Howard Resort, an entertainment resort hotel where people from all over the world gather. She competes for the greatest honor among dealers — "Most Valuable Casino Dealer" (MVCD) — by collecting 13 legendary cards known as "Gates." "The Goddess of Winning" first appeared in 2003 in the Super Black Jack game franchise from the pachi-slo company Net, thanks to Net's collaboration with Tecmo (Dead or Alive) to create female characters. Rio's popularity led to several more games, including 2005's Rio Carnival, 2007's Rio Paradise, and 2009's Rio 2 -Cruising Vanadis-.
[Via Livedoor, Uri-Sure Matome R]
