Thanks a lot for this elightening explanation. Now it's very clear that a translation is very unlikely ^^' ... but you also drastically dampened my enthusiasm for Canaan at the same time, I thought Nasu had had a much more important role in its writing :s
Oh, and Nasu only wrote something like 10% of the script of 428, since he did that bonus scenario only. The rest were written by other writers - Yukinori Kitajima and Takemaru Abiko - and has hardly any connections to Nasu's part. Type-Moon's involvement in 428 was little more than a guest. Add to that the fact that not a single Chunsoft sound novel, ever since they invented the genre in 1992, has ever been translated.
The thing is, the story is tied heavily with the sound novel (visual novel) game "428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de". A game which, while exceptionally good, relies so heavily on text that there's no hope of it ever getting translated to English.
Most of the stories made by TYPE-MOON are set in the same universe/etc. I'm not sure if this one takes place in the same world, sadly :/ I know next to nothing about this anime, other than that it looks really cool!
Well, in addition to having loads of text, it's for the Wii - there goes almost all of the hardcore-gamer population - AND the whole thing uses photographic stills of live actors almost exclusively - there goes the rest of gamers/otakus allergic to live actor games. (Anime art is only used in a small bonus scenario.) Despite the game itself being very good, do you still think any company would want to touch it with a ten feet pole?
one of the chara in this anime is much like resemble of revi from black lagoon (chick with black hair and has twin tail) i hope her personility as a bad ass as revi so i cross my finger then...by the way nice priview...i have high expectiation with this one
Are all the scenarios written by Nasu? I heard that they only came up with the original conception or something. I'll watch and play anything that is associated with Type Moon so it doesnt really matter but just curious.
Unfortunately I must say Nasu's part in the game seemed grossly out of place, in a game mostly dominated by live photography and down-to-earth characters. However, the anime Canaan is based and extends on that 10% bonus scenario and, apparently, mostly ignores the rest of 428, so I wouldn't say Nasu isn't involved in the anime. Which is quite ironic, since the rest of 428 is a VERY rare game where using live photography was the only way it could have been made as exceptionally good as it was.
