{"id":20220,"date":"2010-02-15T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=20220"},"modified":"2010-02-15T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:02:19","slug":"sbjs-rio-to-get-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/sbjs-rio-to-get-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"SBJ&#8217;s Rio to Get Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bj01_800_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bj01_800_640-450x360.jpg\" alt=\"bj01_800_640\" title=\"bj01_800_640\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bj01_800_640-450x360.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bj01_800_640-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bj01_800_640.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamecity.ne.jp\/rio\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rio Super Carnival&#8221; publicity event<\/a>, Japanese game developer Tecmo announced that popular mascot character Rio will star in an anime production tentatively titled &#8220;Rio.&#8221; The female casino card dealer Rio, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-fun.co.jp\/SBJ777\/chara.html\" target=\"_blank\">associated characters<\/a>, were designed by Tecmo and debuted in the 2003 <i>pachi-slo<\/i> (pachinko slot machine) arcade game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tecmo.co.jp\/product\/ps\/04sbj\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Super Black Jack<\/a>, developed by Net. Since her first appearance, Rio has become tremendously popular, appearing in manga, spin-off games including Rio Carnival (2005), Rio Paradise (2007), and Rio 2 -Cruising Vanadis- (2009), collectible figures and other character goods. Rio will also appear in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadoralive.jp\/paradise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dead or Alive Paradise<\/a> game for the PSP, due out in Japan on April 2.<\/p>\n<p><i>Considering how popular Rio is, I&#8217;m surprised that it took so long for an anime to get green-lit.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-02-14\/report\/tecmo-rio-game-character-gets-tv-anime\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;Rio Super Carnival&#8221; publicity event, Japanese game developer Tecmo announced that popular mascot character Rio will star in an anime production tentatively titled &#8220;Rio.&#8221; The female casino card dealer Rio, and associated characters, were designed by Tecmo and debuted in the 2003 pachi-slo (pachinko slot machine) arcade game Super Black Jack, developed by [&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-20220","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\/20220","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=20220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20222,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220\/revisions\/20222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}