So after hours of slaving away with Sintaku on our Fall Preview article, I couldn’t help but subconsciously consider which new anime I might be interested in possibly picking up.  After reading about and previewing the 20+ being released (many of which made me laugh), I thought to myself this one could have some potential.

I dug around a bit and discovered that shinki figurines are quite a big hit in Japan and that Konami even went ahead with an MMORPG, where players get a unique code and go online to battle it out using their shinki.  Initially I thought this was just another way to promote the game product much like Pokemon, Digimon or Bakugan and honestly was a little sceptical about the plot’s potential. Would it be just like all the others? Or could it have something more? (more…)