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Starwing Paradox Arcade Game's Animated Video Previews Characters

The official website for Sunrise's Starwing Paradox (Hoshi to Tsubasa no Paradox) project began streaming an animated promotional video for Square Enix's arcade game on Wednesday. Sunrise animated the video, and it is handling the animation in the game. The video introduces the main characters including Hikari (voiced by Mikako Komatsu), Nagi (voiced by Ryōko Shiraishi), and Reika (voiced by Ayaka Suwa).

The "high-speed mecha combat game" is slated for release this fall. Up to 16 players can fight each other in two teams of up to eight players each. The game's cabinet (seen below) is made to look like a cockpit. Players will be able to feel movement matched to the game from the cabinet.

The game will be available for exhibition and testing at the JAEPO 2018 event at the Makuhari Messe event hall in Chiba on February 9-11.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water, Summer Wars) is designing the characters for the project.

The story takes place on the planet Meguriboshi, a planet "very, very, very far away" from Earth, where the light from Earth doesn't even reach. The planet is split between two kingdoms: "Kō Country A Slegga" and "Va Led Sei Kingdom." Meguriboshi produces a type of living-energy called "Hoshinochi" (lit. Star Blood), and is the reason for the two kingdoms' eternal and ongoing strife. The stars of the battlefield are the "Ae Rial," gigantic weapons developed by the multinational corporation Kizana.

The Ae Rial are equipped with a "Rearide System" that allows them to transmit personalized information between planets. When an "AZ-One" special knight and an alien who has excellent flying skills are paired, only then can the true power of the Ae Rial be unleashed. And another Planet With type of sentient life who have a superior aptitude has been discovered. The name of that planet is: Earth.

The Japanese tagline on the website reads, "The planet around which life revolves, the two Ae Rial (fluttering wings)." The English subtitle on the project's logo reads, "When two planets align and two souls become as one, the path to peace is revealed."

The mechanic designers are Ippei Gyōbu (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Gundam: Reconguista in G) and Junya Ishigaki (Xenogears, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Gundam Build Fighters). Yoichi Kato (Yōkai Watch, Aikatsu!) is writing the scripts, and Ryōji Sekinishi (Valvrave the Liberator, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is collaborating on the world-building. Akio Izutsu (99.9: Criminal Lawyer, Phi-Brain - Kami no Puzzle) is scoring the songs. Sunrise's producer is Naohiroshi Ogata (Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt).

Source: MoCa News