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Sega's Shining Tears To Be Animated
Date: 2/4/2007
This weekend, Sega's Chief publicist Takezaki Tadashi announced their long runnung Shining RPG series would see its debut adaptation to animation in Japan. Closely following the game storyline, Shining Tears will become a TV series scheduled to begin in April, 2007. The news was broke in the Planet Sega World corner of veteran voice actor Megumi Hayashibara's radio program, Heartful Station. Seiyuu Soichiro Hoshi, who voices the game's lead protagonist, Xion, has offered to reprise his role in the anime. The show's theme song will remain the same and be reused which is sung by Hoshi. Hayashibara herself voices the game character Blanc Neige. Auditions for all cast positions will be held in the future. Confirmed staff include director Watanabe Hiroshi (Jigoku Shoujo) and animation production by Studio Deen. The original game was first released for PS2 in 2004. It featured 8 different endings related to each main chracter. Japanese hentai illustrator Tony Taka did the RPG chara designs.
Source: Anime News Service