“In one cutscene, male characters encourage a woman to strip…”

Roughly twenty to thirty percent. “Maybe two or three out of ten titles, I get the license. We have many offers, but many of them I have to reject,” Haru Akenaga, President of NIS America, said to OtakuXGamer.

Pay attention to this Ar Tonelico III trailer and you’ll see Saki and Finnel play dress up.

Let’s switch gears and look at another Namco Bandai RPG, Ar Tonelico III.

Namco Bandai released another Ar Tonelico III video with a bit of battling and dungeon crawling.

But, it doesn’t look eye-poppingly gorgeous like Atelier Rorona.

Gust is continuing the Ar Tonelico series on the PlayStation 3.

Like Gust’s games? Like the music in those games? Game Sound Station might be for you. This WiiWare app gives users access to a library of music from a range of Gust titles like Ar Tonelico and Mana Khemia 2.

An illness is infecting Metafalss, but it only affects Reyvateils, the songstress magicians in the world of Ar Tonelico. Cloche is the first Reyvateil we see in Ar Tonelico 2 and she also happens to be Princess of Metafalass . Lady Cloche gives a speech before we switch over to Croix, the game’s protagonist. Like [...]

If you played Ar Tonelico you have a pretty good idea of what to expect in Ar Tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica. Turn based combat with singing Reyvatils in the back row, cosmosphere diving, item synthesis, and vocal music are key elements in the sequel too. This trailer kindly uploaded by Siliconera reader Volcynika (thanks!!) [...]

As mentioned we last week Ar Tonelico II: Melody of MetaFalica got held back about a month. The new release date for Ar Tonelico II is January 20. While you’re waiting NIS America is throwing a “Girls Gone Towel” contest where you can with a bath towel stamped with Luca and Cloche in towels. All [...]

Originally, Ar Tonelico II: Melody of MetaFalica was slated to come out in mid-December. We just got word that Ar Tonelico II has been rescheduled to ship a for a few weeks later in January 2009. No specific reason was given for the delay and it’s probably better NIS America takes time with the release [...]

Hey Ar Tonelico fans, get ready to dive into more cosmospheres. NIS America hasn’t forgotten about you. They just waited for an opportune time to announce Ar Tonelico 2 for North America. The plan is to bring it out in December as many of you are already aware of thanks to a number of tips. [...]

Chaos Wars was a mere warm up in Idea Factory mashups. Lahar Sama dropped us a line (thanks!!) about another merger between worlds from Compile Heart and Cross Edge (aka X-Edge) unites even more characters. Souls from Disgaea, Darkstalkers, Mana Khemia, Atelier Marie, Spectral Souls and Ar Tonelico will collide for the first time on [...]