Project Im@s

<img src="http://www.idolmaster.jp/imas/event/images/061106/img.jpg" border="0"> The Games: The Idolm@sters are an Xbox 360 games only released in Japan by Namco Bandai on February 28, 2008. The game is the sequel to the arcade game The Idolm@ster (which was later ported to the Xbox 360) which followed the career of a producer who works for the fictional 765 Production studio and has to work with a selection of ten prospective pop idols. In this game, due to the sudden absence of the original producer, the player is given the role of 'Special Producer' and is charged with coordinating the idols' concerts. On Wednesday, July 23, 2008, a PSP version of The Idolm@ster was announced by gaming magazine Famitsu. It is a direct port of the Arcade game, but will have three different versions, each featuring 3 different idols to work with. All three versions were released February 19, 2009 in Japan. There has also been shown in a teaser that there will be a fourth group that consist of Miki and 2 new characters to the series, one named Takane Shijou, the other named Hibiki Ganaha. This will also be the first PSP game to feature PS Home Rewards support. <img src="http://sziur18.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/idolmster_masterofmaster.jpg" border="0"> The Anime: The series was later adapted into a television anime series, Idolmaster: Xenoglossia by Sunrise. Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai, it was shown across Japan from April to October 2007. Numerous of the Sunrise staff working on Xenoglossia have also previously worked on My-HiME and My-Otome. The series centers around mecha and reimagines the ten prospective idols as fighter pilots of those robots, eight of them also posing as students. Some girls were also given different ages. Chihaya, Iori & Yayoi were all made 2 years older (17,16 & 15 respectively), while Yukiho was made a year younger at 15.