The September month has started relatively calm, considering the quantity of new titles. Around 15 games were published in Japan this week. The hottest seller has been Sony's anime based PSP™ fighter Bleach: Heat the Soul 2 (Japanese and Asia version), followed by Square-Enix's PlayStation2™ action game Heavy Metal Thunder (Japanese and Asia version).

The most exciting toy releases in this week include the Naruto Premium Heroines Part 2, PalmCharacters Disgaea Ver.2 and Neon Genesis Evangelion Extra Sport Time Figure (Asuka Langley and Rei Ayanami).

With the Namco x Capcom Original Soundtrack and Demento Original Soundtrack, two interesting video game soundtrack releases have been published by Capcom's Suleputter label.

As usually, here's a summary of all new releases from this week:

PlayStation2™:

AIR (Best)	JPN		US$ 34.90
Daisan Teikoku Koubouki II: Aufstieg und Fall des dritten Reiches II	JPN		US$ 64.90
Fight Night Round 2	JPN		US$ 64.90
Gladiator: Road to Freedom Special Remix	JPN		US$ 64.90
Heavy Metal Thunder	ASIA		US$ 59.90
Heavy Metal Thunder	JPN		US$ 64.90
Princess Maker 4	JPN		US$ 59.90
Princess Maker 4 [Collector's Edition]	JPN		US$ 109.00
Relakuma: Ojama Shitemasu 2 Shuukan	JPN		US$ 64.90
Relakuma: Ojama Shitemasu 2 Shuukan [Limited Edition Teddy Bear Pack]	JPN		US$ 79.90
Slotter Up Mania 7	JPN		US$ 44.90
Stuntman	JPN		US$ 64.90
Zwei !! (Taito the Best)	JPN		US$ 34.90

Gamecube™:

Fight Night Round 2

JPN

US$ 59.90

Sony PSP™:

Bleach: Heat the Soul 2	JPN		US$ 52.90
Bleach: Heat the Soul 2	ASIA		US$ 49.90
Nobunaga no Yabou: Tenshoki	JPN		US$ 52.90
TOCA Race Driver 2: The Ultimate Racing Simulator	KOR		US$ 49.90
Initial D UMD Box Set (w/ Initial D PSP™ Carrying Bag)	Hong Kong		US$ 29.90

Toys & Magazines:

Mai-Hime Collection Trading Figure			US$ 6.90
Naruto Premium Heroines Part 2			US$ 7.90
Neon Genesis Evangelion Extra Sport Time Figure - Asuka Langley			US$ 18.90
Neon Genesis Evangelion Extra Sport Figure - Rei Ayanami			US$ 18.90
PalmCharacters Disgaea Ver.2			US$ 6.90
Arcadia Magazine [October 2005]	JPN		US$ 12.90
Famitsu Wave DVD [October 2005]	JPN		US$ 16.50

Video game soundtracks:

Demento Original Soundtrack	JPN		US$ 23.90
Marginal Prince Songs 1	JPN		US$ 29.90
Marginal Prince Songs 2	JPN		US$ 29.90
Namco x Capcom Original Soundtrack	JPN		US$ 23.90

A separate Video/Music update containing Japanese releases from this week, including new Anime, J-Pop and Movie releases will follow tomorrow.

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Looking forward to next week, once again around 15 new titles are on schedule.

Expected PlayStation2™ highlights include Bandai's Fighting for One Piece, Success' Tokyo Bus Guide 2, the Korean version Taito Memories Joukan Special Package and Square-Enix's Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts Ulimate Hits reprints, including the Final Fantasy X / X-2 Ultimate Box.


PSP™ handheld owners can be looking forward to Capcom's RockMan Dash 2, for Nintendo DS™ we will have Namco's DigDug Digging Strike and Tecmo's Touch de Rakushou! Pachinko Sengen: Rio de Carnival.


Once again, a number of UMD™ Video, UMD™ Music and UMD™ Adult Video releases are expected as well.

Access our preorder lists for further upcoming video game, movie and music releases.