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Super Heroine Chronicle's 4th Promo Video Highlights Game's Original Characters

Bandai Namco Games began streaming a new promotional video for Super Heroine Chronicle, its upcoming "heroine melee simulation RPG," on Monday. The game's characters Dorothy (voiced by Yui Itsuki) and Rin (Hitomi Nabatame) narrate the video.

The video previews some of the game's original characters, including the previously-revealed Eve Valentine, and the new characters Mii Madobe (also voiced by Yui Itsuki, pictured at left in below image), and K-86X (voiced by Kei Mizusawa, pictured at right in below image).

Besides playing the role of Dorothy, Yui Itsuki and her band Yousei Teikoku will perform the game's opening theme song, "Dea x Crisis.”

In the game, heroines from several franchises join forces to save the world. The list of previously-announced characters include:

• Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise: Yukari Tamura as Haruka Minazuki (Red Angel), Mamiko Noto as Aoi Kannazuki (Blue Angel)
• Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise: Rie Kugimiya as White Angel (Kurumi Hazuki)
• Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise: Yui Horie as Twin Phantom (Tesla Violet)
• Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise: Ryōka Yuzuki as Twin Phantom (Nine Violet)
• Kyousogiga: Rie Kugimiya as Koto
• Kyousogiga: Eri Kitamura as Yase
• Di Gi Charat: Asami Sanada as Dejiko (Di Gi Charat)
• Di Gi Charat: Miyuki Sawashiro as Puchiko (Petit CHARAT)
• Di Gi Charat: Kyōko Hikami as Usada (Rabi~en~Rose)
• Senki Zesshō Symphogear: Aoi Yūki as Hibiki Tachibana
• Senki Zesshō Symphogear: Nana Mizuki as Tsubasa Kazanari
• Senki Zesshō Symphogear: Ayahi Takagaki as Chris Yukine
• Super Sonico: Super Sonico (as herself)
• Higurashi: When They Cry: Mai Nakahara as Rena Ryūgū
• Higurashi: When They Cry: Satsuki Yukino as Mion Sonozaki & Shion Sonozaki
• Higurashi: When They Cry: Yukari Tamura as Rika Furude & Mika Kanai as Satoko Hōjō
• Aria the Scarlet Ammo: Rie Kugimiya as Aria H. Kanzaki
• Aria the Scarlet Ammo: Mikako Takahashi as Shirayuki Hotogi
• Aria the Scarlet Ammo: Mariya Ise as Riko Mine
• Aria the Scarlet Ammo: Ayako Kawasumi as Jeanne d'Arc
• Infinite Stratos: Yōko Hikasa as Houki Shinonono
• Infinite Stratos: Yukana as Cecila Alcott
• Infinite Stratos: Asami Shimoda as Lingyin Huang
• Infinite Stratos: Kana Hanazawa as Charles Dunois
• Infinite Stratos: Marina Inoue as Laura Bodewig
• The Familiar of Zero F: Rie Kugimiya as Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière
• The Familiar of Zero F: Mamiko Noto as Tiffania
• The Familiar of Zero F: Yui Horie as Siesta
• The Familiar of Zero F: Rie Kugimiya as Lemon-chan
• Dream Hunter Rem: Naoko Matsui as Rem Ayanokouji

The game will also include the following original characters:

The game will feature an original "Ability Destruction System" by which players can decimate their opponents' attributes mid-battle.

As in many of Namco Bandai's Super Robot Wars RPGs, the characters appear in regular full-size form in some game screens, but battles takes place in super-deformed (SD) form.

The PS Vita version of the game will retail for 7,480 yen (US$75), and the PS3 version of the game will retail for 8,480 yen (US$85). The game is slated for release on February 6. The first copies of the game will bundle a "Tongue Paper Kiss Thermometer" on a stand. The stand is illustrated with the faces of the two original female characters, so when you take your temperature with the thermometer, it looks like you are kissing them.