Holy shit. Million Knights Vermillion, the latest fighter from doujin group NRF (of Big Bang Beat fame, the high on visuals, low on gameplay fighter) looks incredible. Trailer is here.

The game has gorgeous looking character designs by Shuji Sogae, Senko no Ronde’s designer. A pretty damn good voice cast, highlighted by Mai Kadowaki, Yu Kobayashi, and motherfucking Jun Fukuyama (he’s in everything these days), with other seiyuu that I wouldn’t scoff at. The best part is that it has animation by a real professional animation studio, Tokyo Kids. We’ll be getting mind-shatteringly good animation for a doujin fighter here, if it pans out correctly.

I wonder how they have such a massive budget for Million Knights Vermillion, but I’m not complaining. With how much everything else is stacked, I hope the gameplay does suffer as it did in NRF’s BBB. That’ll be a real shame.

This year is going to be absolutely obscene for fighters in Japan. It’s like the mid-90s all over again. Come to think of it, maybe it’ll be better for MKV to be released in 2009, so it doesn’t get overshadowed by the big arcade releases, unless NRF’s (ill-advised) plan is to go head-on with Capcom, SNK, Arc, French Bread, and the rest.