Press release: [320 Million JPY Achieved]
The deadline for Armed Fantasia & Penny Blood by Double Kickstarter crowdfunding is 9:50AM PST /0:50PM EST September 30. Be quick and don’t miss this very last chance to become a supporter!
Double Kickstarter campaign for Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood, each inspired by Akifumi Kaneko’s classic, Wild Arms series, and Matsuzo Machida’s masterpiece, Shadow Hearts series, now reached 320 million Japanese Yen. We are going to tell you more about this campaign that ends today.
[The Last Chance! A Streaming Event at 6AM PST/9AM EST September 30th]
Double Kickstarter campaign for two new big JRPG titles each inspired by teams of creators responsible for Wild Arms or Shadow Hearts series officially launched on August 30th, 2022.
It within a day of funding reached the minimum goal of 750,000 USD, but now it has already hit 320 million JPY. Along the way, additional Stretch Goals (new goals set up after successfully achieving initial goals) were made public, and the campaign never ceases to attract great international excitement even on this last day.
The campaign will end at 25:50 September 30th (1:50 AM JST October 1st), and Special Closing Stream is slated to begin at 10 PM JST. Armed Fantasia section will feature two new songs with their promotion videos. Moreover, Junpei Fujita, Daisuke Kikuta, and Yuta Kasai from Elements Garden will tell the audience more about producing the songs.
Furthermore, GoldenTicketConcert1001(Live), only available to campaign backers, is going to start at 7 PM JST October 1st. A message video of Elements Garden’s Noriyasu Agematsu, the music producer, will also be there. On top of that, Special Image Promotion Video for the new songs announced at the Closing Video previous day will also be shown for the first time.
Michiko Naruke, the composer responsible for a lot of spectacular soundtracks for Wild Arms series, and Elements Garden, a music production team lead by Noriyasu Agematsu, are involved in Armed Fantasia. Kaneko and Agematsu together are very famous for creating music that always truly reflect the world of many works including not only Wild Arms series but also TV anime series Symphogear. We are pretty sure there will be great enthusiasm and excitement over the new songs and promotion videos.
Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and SaGa composer Kenji Ito are now working on Penny Blood. People are with extraordinary enthusiasm always talking about the music of the two game titles.
[This is the ideal and perfect culmination. I want to deliver the perfection.]
Akifumi Kaneko said
“The only and most sincere answer to those to supported us with real money is to translate ideas into a tangible form. I’m going to spend three years making painstaking efforts to complete Armed Fantasia, and first I will create a “stage” where I can one hundred percent fully bring my dreams come to fruition, so please support us. Although in many circumstances in professional industries one must make an inevitable decision to release a work not fully complete, 70% – 80% complete, this time I have ever stronger feelings that I don’t want to do that.
in a dialogue with “Penny Blood” Matsuzo Machida, which was realized in this campaign.
The Double Kickstarter campaign for Armed Fantasia & Penny Blood will end soon.
Don’t miss this opportunity to become a supporter.
Original article in Japanese: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000010.000078451.html
