The panel started with a trailer for 07-Ghost, which I had no interest in previously, but am now intrigued. Something about seven mystical beings and a guy with the power to save the world just pushed the right buttons for me.
Next were quick overviews of their new titles, Kamisama Kazoku, Cy-Believers, Ultimate Venus, and Yggdrasil.
New titles are Days of Cool Idols, a BL due in the fall, Angel’s Coffin by Yuu Higuri, and Crown by Shinji Wada, with art by Yuu Higuri, and Bound Beauty (Shibariya Komachi)by Mick Takeuchi. Bound Beauty sounds interesting – it’s about a girl who can see the threads of fate and the trouble she gets into because of this ability.
Next up was a preview of O-Play, an online game platform based on the concept of dating sims. Three different games are in development, and they are like choose your own adventures, with multiple story threads – stat building was replaced with plot building. The games are episodic, like reading a manga – they are shooting for immersive manga, where you interactive with characters and influence the plot. If they are successful, they are looking at having games based on Japanese manga properties – Yuu Higuri and Setona Mizushiro were specifically mentioned, and they were the first to preview the games.
They ran through the prologue of Dragon Academy, and showed characters designs for the game. Haven’t decided on pricing, but plan on eventually offering subscription pricing as well as per episode pricing. I found this concept kind of interesting, depending on the price.
Someone asked if they are interested in licensing any other works by Tomo Maeda – the answer was a definite “yes.”
A print version of the first volume of Masque of the Red Death will be available in Oct.
July 7, 2008 at 6:55 am
[...] Go! Comi: It’s something old and something new for Go! Comi, which announced new titles by creators of their existing books: Shibariya Komachi, by Mick Takeuchi (Her Majesty’s Dog), and Angel’s Coffin and Crown, by You Higuri (Cantarella). They also announced a BL one-shot, Days of Cool Idols. The somethinnga gamig new is their online mang site, o-play. This has been up on their site as a teaser for quite a while now, and Gia has more details as well as a photo. (ANN, AoD, Deb Aoki, Manga Maniac Cafe) [...]