“Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguru au futari no  Meitantei”

「名探偵コナン&金田一少年の事件簿 めぐりあう2人の名探偵」

The game’s system is similar to the Detective Conan Nintendo DS games and Capcom’s Gakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) Nintendo DS series.

The game is set as Shounen Sunday’s and Shounen Magazine’s 50th anniversary. Another 50th anniversary special is “Nettou! Dream 9!”. Sports characters from both magazines (but also including Meitantei Conan) will be featured in the Nintendo DS game “Shounen Sunday VS Shounen Magazine: Nettou! Dream 9!”

STORY:

The game will be a special story between Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi, which both of them will work on solving a mystery.

VIDEO:

SCREENSHOTS:

“Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguru au futari no Meitantei”

Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

Genre: Adventure

System: Nintendo DS

Release Date: 2009.02.05 (2009 February 5th)

Product NO.: NTR-P-C7KJ

Links:

Official web site

http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/conan_and_kindaichi/

Impress GAME WATCH: バンダイナムコ、DS「名探偵コナン&金田一少年の事件簿 めぐりあう2人の名探偵」 あらすじ＆序盤のストーリーを公開

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20081226/kk.htm

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the popular Manga magazines: SHOUNEN SUNDAY and SHOUNEN MAGAZINE characters will meet in the Nintendo DS Game “SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou DREAM NINE!” !

The Baseball Nintendo DS game will include characters from over 40 manga series from Shounen Sunday and Shounen Magazine Over 400 characters will appear in the game! 150 of them are playable!  Notable series are “Detective Conan”, “TOUCH”, “H2″, and “MAJOR” .

The game will also include a STORY MODE in which there will be manga scenes! Some of the manga scenes will be in color.

The game will be released by Konami Digital Entertainment, and it will be based on Konami’s popular game series “POWER PRO”. The game is a spin-off of Konami’s Power Pro series.

Video:

The Commercial trailer of the game marked the game as “Shounen SUNDAY x Shounen MAGAZINE x POWER PRO”!

SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou! DREAM NINE

サンデー×マガジン　熱闘！ドリームナイン

System: Nintendo DS

Genre: Sports

Players: 1~2 Players

Release Date: 2009.02.26

Publisher: Konami

Buy Online from Play-Asia!

Links:

SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou Dream Nine! Official website

http://www.konami.jp/sunmaga/bb/

Konami’s “POWER PRO” series official web site

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/pawa/

Konami’s press release

http://www.konami.jp/topics/2008/1126_2/index.html

Cartoon Network (US) will also broadcast the movie on 7th of February 2009.

The movie was released in Japan in 2008 as “Giratina and the Sky Bouquet: Sheimi” (Giratina to sora no hanataba Sheimi 「ギラティナと氷空の花束シェイミ」 ) The story is the 2nd movie of the Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Movie Triology. It is a sequel to the previous Pokemon Diamond Pearl movie Movie 10th: Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (The Rise of Darkrai). The movie will also have a sequel be released in Japan on 2009 and in North America on 2010: Pokemon Movie 12th: To the Conquering of Space-Time (Choukoku no Jikuu he)

Unlike the previous movies, this will be the first movie to be distributed by Universal Studios. Also, the Amazon.com specifications shows that the movie will be in widescreen. If the information is correct, this would also be the first Pokemon movie released on DVD in North America in widescreen (while some European and other international releases were in widescreen)

Pokemon Movie 11 Giratina and the Sky Warrior DVD Cover

Pokémon The Movie 11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior

# Format: AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
# Language: English
# Subtitles: English
# Rating: Unrated
# Studio: Universal Studios
# DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
# Run Time: 96 minutes

Links:

Official North American web site

http://www.pokemon.com/PokemonGiratinaMovie/

Amazon.com: Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior

http://www.amazon.com/Pok%C3%A9mon-Giratina-the-Sky-Warrior/dp/B001QWQJ9W/

Pokebeach.com: ‘Giratina and the Sky Warrior’ TV Air Date and DVD Release Date

http://pokebeach.com/news/0109/giratina-and-the-sky-warrior-tv-air-date-and-dvd-release-date

Pokemondiamondpearl.info: Pokemon Movie 11 Giratina to sora no hanataba Sheimi/Giratina and the Sky Warrior

http://www.pokemondiamondpearl.info/movie/11th2008_giratinatosoranohanataba.htm

Nintendo DS Pokemon Platinum (USA-North America)

The game is released concurrently with the North American release of the Pokemon Platinum movie: Giratina and the Sky Warrior. Featuring the debut of Giratina and Shaymin in the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl series.

The game was originally released in Japan on 13th of September 2009 as “Pocket Monsters Platinum”. The game is third part of the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl game series. It is basically a modified version of Pokemon Diamond & Pearl with new features!

New Pokemon Forms

• The debut of Giratina’s Origine and Another Forme
• Shaymin’s Sky and Land Forme
• New forms of Rotom!
• Ability to capture both of Dialga & Palkia
• Ability to capture Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno!

New Design

• New Storyline! With new characters!
• New Area! a 3D Area “The Reverse World” (The Torn World)
• New Design for cities
• New Animations for Pokemon Sprites and for the cities.
• New players outfits
• New GYM Puzzles
• Newly designed tools (such as Poketech)

Pokemon Platinum also features a new GTS (Global Trade Station), which features:

• Trade-and-seek pokemon from friends
• Battle Video Recorder to record battle videos. Videos can be uploaded online to the Online Battle Ranking on the Nintendo DS!
• Wi-Fi Plaza with Online mini games!
• 4 Players voice chat! (In Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, only two players could voice chat)
• Battle Frontier (as in Pokemon Emerald)

Pokemon Platinum Fan site: http://pokemondiamondpearl.info/platinum/

The series will be released in two Bluray boxes: The first -The Clow Card- with 46 episodes, and the second bluray box -Sakura Card- with 24 episodes. The first Bluray Box sets will be released on March 27th 2009, and will be on sale until March 2010.  While the second box will be released June 26th 2009 and will also be released as a limited time release.

The Card Captor Sakura Bluray box will be one of the very first anime series to come in Bluray box sets in the Japanese market.  According to the publisher, The series has been remastered from a new master newer than the one used for 2005’s DVD Box series.  While the specifications mention that the aspect ratio will be in wide screen 16:9, Commercials of the Bluray Box shows it in 4:3. It’s unclear if the series will be released in 16:9, as It was originally produced as a 4:3.

This news confirms the 2ch rumours that was mentioned last year.

CardCaptor Sakura: Clow Card Hen Bluray Box

Product NO.:GNXA-1039

Release Date: 2009.03.27

Publisher: Geneon Entertainment

Price: 81,900 Yen

Discs: 8

Audio: – Japanese (Linear PCM 5.1) – Japanese (Linear PCM 2.0)

Subtitles: None

Running time: 1150 Minutes (46 Episodes + Extras)

Extras:

- Textless OP/ED

- Making of CardCaptor Sakura

- CardCaptor Sakura Special Documentary (Clow Card Edition)

* Even though that the specifications are official, it may change.

Order from CDJAPAN:

Cardcaptor Sakura – Clow Card Hen – Blu-ray Box [Limited Pressing]

Animation

Order from Play-Asia:

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-3sol-71-sp-49-en-84-j-70-36rb.html

CardCaptor Sakura: Sakura Card Hen Bluray Box

Product NO.: GNXA-1039

Release Date: 2009.06.26

Publisher: Geneon Entertainment

Price: 49,350 Yen

Audio:- Japanese (Linear PCM 5.1) – Japanese (Linear PCM 2.0)

Discs: 4

Subtitles: None

Running time: 600 minutes (24 Episodes + Extras)

Extras:

- Textless OP/ED

- Kerochan ni Omakase / Kerochan ni Omakase DX / Kerochan ni Omakase DX Tenkomori

- CardCaptor Sakura Special Documentary (Sakura Card Edition)

- CardCaptor Sakura Memorial Diary (OVA; Released as a present for VHS Collectors; Released as an Extra in the DVD Box 3)

* Even though that the specifications are official, it may change.

Order from CDJAPAN:

Cardcaptor Sakura – Sakura Card Hen – Blu-ray Box [Limited Pressing]

Animation

Order from Play-Asia:

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-3sol-71-13c-49-en-84-j-70-36r9.html

Chibi Maruko Chan DS: Maru chan no machi

Release Date: 2008 February 5th

Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

Console: Nintendo DS

http://www.maruko-ds.com/

“Meitantei Conan:  Shikkoku no Chaser -The Raven Chaser-” 「名探偵コナン　漆黒の追跡者（チェイサー）」

The movie will feature the Black Organization confronting Conan.

It is expected that the movie will be a canon to the series. Fans expect it to be the End of the Detective Conan series! As the Black Organization member Gin names Conan “Shinichi”! While some fans expect it to be just a Conan’s dream!

Trailer:

Black guy: The one that use the drug on the high school detective is you, isn’t it?
Gin: Hmph, so he’s living as a kid now?
Haibara: The organization is going to kill anyone that relates to you!
Gin: Are you ready to die, Edogawa Conan? no..Kudo Shinichi..
Ran : Conan-kun!
Conan: Detective Conan Movie number 13th, The Raven Chaser.

Detective Conan Movie 13 The Raven Chaser In Cinemas April 18 2009　（Japan)
wwww.conan-movie.jp

(Trailer Translation by Muchstrongershiho )

Fan Sites:

2DeepOnline.com: Detetcive Conan Movie 13

http://www.2deeponline.com/2008/12/detective-conan-movie-13-the-raven-chaser-32-seconds-preview-1/

Official web site:

Meitantei Conan – Shikkoku no Chaser: Official Web site

http://www.conan-movie.jp/index.html

日本語： 劇場版名探偵コナン映画2009年： 第13作 漆黒の追跡者（チェイサー）