Evangelion’s team has been working alongside with Sony to bring in their new PS3 gaming product as part of their marketing campaign to unleash great scores of Eva’s anime in various media formats. It’s a live news program, titled, The Misato Katsuragi News Project (or Katsuragi Misato HÅdÅ Kikaku in Japanese). Basically, it’s just a news program show like any 6′o clock news you get on TV. Except, we have our main character, Misato, is playing the anchor lady, who, of course, reads news to you. (see below)
"And now we bring you this special bulletin".....
This was rather an unexpected or unusual move from PS3 to pursue this line of development work for Evangelion project team. Certainly deviates a lot from a “gaming perspective” of the masses. However, it’s fascinating to know that this program actually collects real-time data from real events on this planet everything from politics, economics, sports, and (not surprisingly) anime industry. Once the data is collected, it gets relayed into the software and it will program to synthesize Misato to read out the news as if she’s actually reading them for the real-life audience like us! Part of the software features allows you to customise her hair, her makeup and her clothing, including the backstage.
The program will go live on June 6 in Japan.
Source: Animenewsnetwork.com
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