{"id":16921,"date":"2009-07-17T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/x-japan-goes-to-war\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T19:43:56","slug":"x-japan-goes-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/x-japan-goes-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"X Japan Goes to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/yoshiki_chara_war-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"yoshiki_chara_war\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/yoshiki_chara_war-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/yoshiki_chara_war.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese music news site BARKS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barks.jp\/news\/?id=1000051181\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the members of rock band X Japan will be the first real life celebrities to appear as playable characters in the online strategy game <a href=\"http:\/\/charawars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Character Wars<\/a> (&#8220;Character Daisakusen&#8221;). X Japan co-founder, drummer, and pianist Yoshiki will debut as a playable character this Saturday. Vocalist TOSHI and the late guitarist HIDE will become available as game characters next month. Players gain permanent use of a character after purchasing the character for 2,000 yen. It&#8217;s unclear, presently, exactly how Yoshiki&#8217;s drum solos and piano playing will work into the game based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyograph.com\/news\/id-5033\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyograph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese music news site BARKS reports that the members of rock band X Japan will be the first real life celebrities to appear as playable characters in the online strategy game Character Wars (&#8220;Character Daisakusen&#8221;). X Japan co-founder, drummer, and pianist Yoshiki will debut as a playable character this Saturday. Vocalist TOSHI and the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16922,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}