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5pb.’s Chaos;Child Anime Adaptation Announced

At the recent TwitCast event, Chiyomaru Shikura the head of Mages inc. has announced that an anime adaptation of their visual novel division’s, 5pb., latest game in the Science Adventure series Chaos;Child is currently in production. Shikura also revealed that the VN will be ported to other platforms later this year.

Chaos;Child-Visual-2

The game originally released on the Xbox 360 late last year and will not be appearing on Sony’s line of consoles, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, and their handheld, the Vita on June 25th this year. A demo for the game has been released on the Japanese PlayStation store, so you can play a few hours of the game right now. Pre-orders for the full game have also opened, where limited editions will also come with a papercraft version of the Present Box and a drama CD.

Chaos;Child, as the name indicates is related to the first game in the series Chaos;HeadChaos;Child will be set in the same world as its predecessor and in the same city of Shibuya, but after the game’s conclusion. The game’s setting are as follows:

November 6, 2009.
A local Earthquake occurred in Shibuya with a magnitude of 78.
The city of Shibuya, and the area surrounding Shibuya Station is devastated, and the final death toll is 3851 people.

It is currently the year 2015.
The story begins with the reconstruction of a post- earthquake Shibuya…??

Here is the game’s launch trailer:

The series of science adventure games is a collaboration between developers Nito+ and 5pb. The games play out similarly to modern visual novels but notably with the usage of the main character’s device casually known as a trigger. All games focus heavily on scientific methods and theories and are incorporated into the game. The first game in the series was Chaos;Head, which released in 2008 for the PC. The next game, Steins;Gate released in 2009 and finally followed by Robotics;Notes in 2012. All games have been released and re-released on multiple platforms. The games also received numerous adaptations in manga, novels and anime. The most well known series, Steins;Gate, also received an original film set after the events of the anime.

Chaos;Child, Due in 2014 promo

An anime adaptation of Chaos;Child has been announced, and the game itself will be coming to the PlayStation line of products. Further information about the anime will be revealed soon.

You can visit the game’s website here: http://chaoschild.jp/

 
Source Article and Images – Chaos;Child Website
Source Article – Anime News Network
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