Phantasy Star Portable is an action role-playing game co-developed by Sonic Team and Alfa System , and published by Sega for the PlayStation Portable . Sega released the game to Japan in July 2008, and to other markets in 2009.
26-403: In addition to the game's single-player story mode, Phantasy Star Portable has a cooperative multi-player mode that supports up to four players. The 2009 sequel, Phantasy Star Portable 2 , takes place three years after the events of Phantasy Star Portable . Phantasy Star Portable begins a few months after the conclusion of Phantasy Star Universe (2006) and its expansion, Ambition of
52-601: A concert at Koshien Stadium , Japan's oldest stadium, becoming the first voice actress and the first solo artist to hold a concert at the venue. In July 2017, Mizuki made her debut as a stage actress in a Japanese production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in the title role of Carol King. On September 30, 2017, she performed in the opening ceremony of 72nd National Sports Festival of Japan , held at Ningineer Stadium in Ehime , in front of Emperor Akihito , Empress Michiko and approximately 20,000 attendees. She held
78-757: A guest performer for T.M.Revolution at Anime Festival Asia , Singapore , Valvrave night. On November 23–24, 2013, Mizuki held her first solo concert outside Japan, in Taiwan . In March 2014, at the 64th Annual MEXT Art Encouragement Prizes Nana Mizuki was recognized as Rookie of the Year in the Popular Entertainment division. She held her second overseas solo concert in Singapore (September 27, 2014) and Taiwan (October 4–5, 2014) entitled "Nana Mizuki Live Flight 2014+". On September 22, 2016, she held
104-484: A monthly subscription, as many other titles in the series do. On August 8, 2010, the official Phantasy Star Portable 2 site revealed Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity . The game contains a new character named Nagisa ( Voiced by : Nana Mizuki ), and the addition of a fifth race, S.E.E.D infected humans called Dumans. It was released in Japan only on February 24, 2011. The game received "average" reviews according to
130-455: A successful singer in the country. In 2009, her album Ultimate Diamond reached #1, her first release to do so; while her single " Phantom Minds ", released in 2010, also charted at #1. Mizuki is the first voice actress to top the weekly Oricon albums chart and the weekly Oricon singles chart since its inception in 1968. Born in Niihama, Ehime , she began to train singing enka when she
156-438: Is adjustable through several variables: face model, eye color, eyebrows, eyelashes, ears, head type, body color, proportion, jacket, pants, shoes, voice type, and voice pitch. Players are assigned missions in which they must kill all opponents in the area; many of the levels conclude with a boss battle . Along the way, players collect weapons, armour, money, and other helpful items. The game received "mixed" reviews according to
182-582: Is also famous for dubbing roles portrayed by Taiwanese actress, Ariel Lin . Mizuki released her first single, " Omoi ", under the King Records label in 2000. A year later, she released her debut album, Supersonic Girl , in 2001. In the years that followed, Mizuki enjoyed modest success that concluded with the release of her single " Innocent Starter ", which reached the top 10 Oricon singles chart, charting at No. 9. Since then, Mizuki's releases have charted steadily higher in Japan, establishing her as
208-469: Is named "Exam", as well as one of four armor units depending on the class that they have chosen. Furthermore, NPCs mention at times that the player is a former GUARDIAN. Unlike Phantasy Star Portable , Phantasy Star Portable 2 features an infrastructure play mode allowing players to form a party with other users through an internet connection, similar to Phantasy Star Online , Phantasy Star Zero , and Phantasy Star Universe . This service does not require
234-1395: Is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name in 1993 and made her debut as a voice actress in 1996. Her prominent roles include Hinata Hyuga in the long-running ninja series Naruto as well in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations , Tamao Tamamura in Shaman King 2001 and 2021, Colette Brunel in Tales of Symphonia , Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha , Tsubasa Kazanari in Symphogear , Moka Akashiya in Rosario + Vampire , Tsubomi Hanasaki (Cure Blossom) in Heartcatch Precure! and Ann Takamaki in Persona 5 . She also had official dubbing roles in live action version of Itazura na Kiss from Korea and Taiwan, as well in Hunger Games film series as Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence ). She
260-678: The 65th (2014) edition of the Kōhaku Uta Gassen produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK . On December 3–4, 2011 she had a two-day concert at Tokyo Dome . She became the first voice actress and 8th Japanese female solo artist to hold a concert at Japan's largest concert hall. On March 3, 2012, Mizuki won Animation Artist of the Year 2011 award in Billboard Japan Music Awards 2011. On November 10, 2013, Mizuki performed Preserved Roses, Kakumei Dualism and Heart of Sword -Yoakemae- in her first overseas performance as
286-659: The PlayStation Portable in Japan on December 3, 2009. The North American version was released on September 14, 2010 while the Australian version was released on September 16, 2010, followed by the European version the next day. Phantasy Star Portable 2 takes place three years after the events of Phantasy Star Portable . The humans have now defeated and sealed off the SEED. However, because material resources in
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#1732801473081312-476: The review aggregation website Metacritic . In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two nines and two eights for the original, and one ten and three nines (37/40) for the Infinity version. Nana Mizuki Nana Kondō ( 近藤 奈々 , Kondō Nana , born January 21, 1980) , better known by the stage name Nana Mizuki ( 水樹 奈々 , Mizuki Nana ) , is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and narrator. She
338-663: The review aggregation website Metacritic . In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine and three eights for a total of 33 out of 40. James Mielke of 1Up.com gave the game an A− stating, "The truly neat trick that Portable performs is that it is not only an excellent distillation of the Phantasy Star Online/Universe experience, but it makes me want to go back and give Ambition of the Illuminus another shot, even if it's just to reinvestigate that game's offline mode." In its first week on sale in Japan,
364-716: The Gurhal galaxy have been depleted, the Gurhalians plan to migrate using technology based on "sub-space sailing theory". The player character is a member of Little Wing, a private mercenary group on the space colony resort of Clad 6. The player starts by designing and customizing his or her own character by choosing facial features, gender, body and vocal features. Though much of the gameplay features will be similar to its predecessor, there will be some notable differences. Photon Points are no longer attached to weapons, but characters instead. Photon Charges have also been removed from
390-525: The Illuminus (2007), in which an alliance of humans, newmans, beasts, and CASTs of the Gurhal star system drove off alien invaders known as S.E.E.D. The peace is short-lived, however. Vivienne, a newly constructed CAST android, and her partner (the player), discover that some SEED remain, and are causing trouble. Vivienne and her partner work to save the Gurhal system—and, in the process, learn more about humanity. The player begins by choosing one of four races and three character classes . The character design
416-524: The Japanese record label King Records . Her debut single as Nana Mizuki, " Omoi ", was released on December 6, 2000. Her 2004 song " Innocent Starter " became her first Top 10 single and her 2005 single " Eternal Blaze " reached No. 2 position on Japanese Oricon weekly single charts. Mizuki won the "Best Musical Performance" award for her song " Justice to Believe " in the first Seiyu Awards in 2007. Since her seventh album Ultimate Diamond debuted at
442-500: The No. 1 position on Oricon weekly album charts during the week of June 15, 2009, she became the first voice actress to reach the No. 1 position on the Oricon weekly album or single charts since its creation in 1968. Ultimate Diamond sold over 74,000 copies in the first week. In addition, her 21st single, " Phantom Minds ", became the first voice actress single to top the charts, debuting at
468-424: The No. 1 position on the issue of Oricon weekly single charts dated January 25, 2010. On November 23, 2009, NHK announced that Mizuki would take part in the 60th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen of New Year's Eve . It was Mizuki's first time appearing on the show. Nana chose her song " Shin'ai " for her performance. She is well known for voicing female characters who are very shy yet kind-hearted and gentle, and many of
494-488: The characters she has voiced were initially very shy/soft-spoken (however, after interactions with other people, they gradually opened up (e.g. Fate Testarossa from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha , Nyamo from Love Hina , Hinata Hyūga from Naruto , Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Tsubomi Hanasaki from Heartcatch Precure! ). She's also well known for voicing females with romantic affection for protagonists, as six of her characters have romantic feelings for
520-400: The game sold more than 342,000 units. Phantasy Star Portable was the 14th best-selling game in Japan in 2008. Phantasy Star Portable 2 Phantasy Star Portable 2 ( ファンタシースターポータブル2 , Fantashī Sutā Pōtaburu Tsū ) is a video game for the PlayStation Portable , produced by Alfa System and published by Sega . It is the sequel to Phantasy Star Portable and was released for
546-407: The game. Players are able to transfer over their character from Phantasy Star Portable to the game. However, not all data can be carried over. Data that can be transferred over includes the character's name and parts of the character's original appearance. However, the character's level and items cannot be transferred over. As a bonus for having done so, however, players acquire a photon saber that
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#1732801473081572-437: The main characters (Oboro from Basilisk , Hinata Hyūga from Naruto , Colette Brunel from Tales of Symphonia , Tamao Tamamura from Shaman King , Moka Akashiya from Rosario + Vampire and Fate Testarossa from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ), some of her characters craved maternal attention (e.g. Fate Testarossa from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its sequels A's and StrikerS , Wrath and Maria) and she
598-618: The middle of February 2010, Mizuki was named her hometown ( Niihama, Ehime )'s First Tourism Ambassador. The news was broadcast during her Live Academy 2010 tour, held in Kanagawa , Osaka , Aichi , Miyagi, Fukuoka , Ehime Prefecture Niihama Cultural Center's Hall. There were 7 lessons in total. In 2010, Mizuki won the Tomiyama Kei Award in the 4th Seiyu Awards for her news hook in the year 2009. In 2010, she also participated in 61st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen singing "Phantom Minds",
624-506: The single which had topped Oricon Charts. On January 21, 2011, she released her first autobiography, titled Shin Ai , to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her singing career. Mizuki won Top Pop Artists award in Billboard Japan Music Awards 2010 on February 6, 2011, together with 4 other artists: AKB48 , Nishino Kana , SID and Exile . Mizuki has participated in the 60th (2009) , 61st (2010) , 62nd (2011) , 63rd (2012) , 64th (2013) and
650-410: Was also part of the voice actress quartet "Prits", alongside Yumiko Kobayashi , Natsuko Kuwatani and Hisayo Mochizuki (all four voiced characters in the anime Sister Princess ). Nana Mizuki voices Microsoft 's Japanese Windows 7 unofficial " OS-tan " mascot , Nanami Madobe . The mascot's name uses some wordplay on Mizuki's own name as well as the operating system ( "Nana" = "seven" ). In
676-406: Was five years old. In 1993, she released a Compact Cassette single "Tsugazakura" ( つがざくら , lit. "Phyllodoce Nipponica") as Nana Kondō . However, she passed the audition of game Noël: La Neige and became a voice actress. Mizuki released an image song single titled "Girl's Age" under the name Chisato Kadokura in 1997. When she performed her first concert at the age of 20, she was scouted by
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