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Starting this April in arcades everywhere, darlings of the idol scene, AKB48 will be making their debut in an arcade game. Unfortunately for fans they are also zombified and require you to take aim and unload on them with your handgun.
It’s called "Sailor Zombie AKB48 Edition," and as the name suggests it features members of the pop squad dressed up in adorable sailor outfits. Also as the name implies, the cuties are reanimated corpses who desire to eat your brains.
Luckily, you’re strapped with a plastic “vaccine gun” that can cure the ladies of their undead strife. And you know you want to start plugging away once they get into that old Thriller routine.
This zombie army is represented by Yuko Oshima, Mayu Watanabe, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rina Kawaei, Anna Iriyama, Mako Kojima and Miki Nishino. All of them are beautifully rendered in 3D, aside from their complexions.
If you happen to be in Chiba on Feb 14 or 15, you might want to head down to the Makuhari Messe Convention Center for a sneak peak of "Sailor Zombie AKB48 Edition." The rest of us in Japan will have to wait until April.
It’s truly an interesting game from the idol group though. Can AKB fans squeeze the trigger between Oshima-san’s doe eyes? Meanwhile, can AKB48 detractors resist shooting out the streetlights to save the idol septet? "Sailor Zombie AKB48 Edition" makers NEX Entertainment and Namco Bandai are hoping no on both counts, because that means more coins in the machine.
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tokyobakayaro
99.9% of JT posters.
dbsaiya
Ha, Ha! Call of Duty 48...why vaccines? Just put them out of their misery. Big boss stage is to get rid of Akimoto monster.
Jimizo
'adorable sailor outfits.' That phrase makes me more uneasy than the concept of the game itself.
Kabukilover
This is sick.
nath
Negative, bro. AKB can't date. You gotta wait until they "graduate."
slumdog
With what?
Dennis Bauer
I am waiting for the Justin Bieber version :P
John Constantine
I'm sure this will be a huge hit ....if you put next to the machine that sells girls panties and use the words from the JT article.."take aim and unload on them". Sorry I could not resist that......I'm such a perv....which explains why I'm single.
paulinusa
Just wondering if this is an official AKB48 product.
nath
Unfortunately for fans they are also zombified and require you to take aim and unload on them with your handgun.
This must be a dream for a segment of their fanbase..... Wrong on so many levels.
Yardley
@Kabukilover
On so many levels.
genjuro
I would think so, considering you have Namco Bandai behind this game. I guess Akimoto doesn't mind as long as it lines his pockets.
Aaron Loki Brummett
Sick on so many levels. Regrettable that they have stooped to this level.
titaniumdioxide
Another worthless piece of cash cowing idea! What's next? Pachinko AKB slots? No, thanks!
Sharon Arai
Why they allowed themselves to be disgraced ? Cracked brain...
lucabrasi
@Sharon
They don't "allow" themselves to be or to do anything.
They follow orders.
Frungy
... so, I'm guessing the "vaccine gun" looks like it shoots mayonaise?
Bear27840
Humm?
Kuribo1
Big AKB fan, big zombie fan. For me at least would like to try this out!
lostrune2
Zombified?................. So they gave 'em personalities? haha
Just give us the good ol' Sledge Saw, and we'll be right at 'em!
http://deadrising.wikia.com/wiki/File:Golden_Sledge_Saw.jpg
(Aren't we supposed to cut their heads off? Just watch, there'd be a mod for that.)
TrevorPeace1
Disgusting.
taj
according to the article, you shoot to save, not to kill.
You have a vaccine gun, that somehow "vaccinates" the girls from something they've already caught.
nath
i'd let em eat mah brains all day eeee'r day, know wut i'm sayin dawg?
B.B.Q.Demon
Splooging AKB48 girls with "vaccine"? This sounds like a thinly veiled "gamen hassha" pervo thing. If this is officially sanctioned by AKB48, then I feel truly sorry that it's come to this. If so, it's time to say goodbye to this group.
FooPeiLing
This seems like a nice game. Although, in my opinion, it's a poorly created game. Really, 'shooting them in the face'?... Come on...they could have created something more interesting or better yet, something that doesn't at least relate back to taking aim, as if 'gun aim'. I guess whatever makes money, though.
Brian Wheway
There must be a market for this game as it must cost a small fortune to produce such a machine.
nath
I guess it's for people who hate AKB48.
Fapster
Every one of these girls is hot. Why would i want to shoot them when i can take them on a date? Just sayin.G.Pl
Strychnine
Can we PLEASE get a decent Gundam simulator in the West?
P.S.
We will give you money.
the_odeman
no comment
ben4short
Given the contempt most Japanese men feel toward women, and given their fondness for acts of obscene degradation, I'm sure they fantasize that the handguns they use are shooting bullets of a different nature.
Disillusioned
Ok, so now should we stop wondering why there is so much violence and abuse of young women in Japan?
smithinjapan
OK, I'm no AKB fan by any means, but this is just twisted, and I would not play it at all.
Fapster
I dont have to wait man. On the other hand they should get in line to play MY game! G‐play