News: Unbalance Fighters Beta for Windows

February 23, 2005, 08:12 AM

by chazumaru, via Iggy -
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Genshiken was one of the best Anime surprises of last winter in Japan, and to promote the release of the new DVD pack next friday (including episodes 5 to 8), Media Factory announced that lucky (and wealthy) buyers of the whole Genshiken DVD collection (14500 yen per box) would be gratified with Unbalance Fighters Beta, which is apparently a 2D fighting game based on the characters of Kujibiki Unbalance. For those not in the know, please stay focused, it's a bit twisted : Genshiken is originally a manga about a club of otakus who happen to be fans of a fictional manga called Kujibiki Unbalance. In the Genshiken anime, they are instead fans of the Kujibiki Unbalance anime. But as they worked on the anime adaptation of Genshiken, Media Factory also produced the actual Kujibiki Unbalance anime, which can be found in the form of a series of OAV through the purchase of Genshiken DVD boxes (one Kujibiki Unbalance episode per Genshiken box). So we have an anime made for a fictional story in which characters are fans of that anime and therefore buy a lot of related goods and doujins. The forthcoming Unbalance Fighters is certainly the kind of doujin game the characters of Genshiken would be playing, which leads us to conclude that fans who bought all the DVD boxes will get an official game pretending to be a doujin game of a previously fake manga turned into a real anime to please the real fans of the fictional fans of the aforementioned fake manga and real anime. Yes.