■4kids Entertainment 日本のアニメーションを多く扱うエージェント
http://www.4kidsentertainment.com/properties/yugioh.html
■今日の英語学習 キーワード
・lure 誘惑する、おびき出す、おびき寄せる、誘い出す
・broaden 広がる、広くなる
・vibrant 活気のある、力強い、活力のある
・tremendous 途方もなく大きい、ばかでかい、ものすごい、とてつもない
・property 財産、資産、所有、所有物
・franchise フランチャイズ、特権、参政権
・portfolio ポートフォリオ、金融資産の一覧、証券類
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■今日の英語学習 リスニング本文
Microsoft looks to broaden the appeal of the Xbox 360. Bloomberg Boot Camp, a report on today’s technology. While Nintendo looks to sell its handheld DS game machines to older consumers….Microsoft is hoping to attract families with younger children to the Xbox 360. It is partnering with 4Kids Entertainment to create a new game for the console…that will follow on the heels of a new kids TV show… Viva Pinata. Shane Kim is general manager of Microsoft Game Studios….
“Viva Pinata is set in this very, very vibrant world and fortunately for us, 4Kids recognized the potential of what they could do in that world and they’re taking it to the animated TV series. 4Kids has tremendous experience and a successful track record with other properties like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and hopefully this will be something exactly like that.”
What Microsoft would like to do is create the kind of franchise brand….that Nintendo has been so successful with …with the Super Mario games and others….
“We certainly have some very successful franchises in our portfolio. Both on Windows and in the Xbox. If you look at things like Fable or Halo or Age of Empires, those are very successful franchises. But you are correct, in terms of targeting or appealing to a younger audience, this is something that we think will have far reaching impact and we don’t have another title like that in our portfolio today.”
The TV show arrives in the fall…with the Viva Pinata game debuting in time for the holidays. And then there’ll be a variety of merchandise as well. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I’m Fred Fishkin.
■今日の英語学習 関連記事
・Pokemon.com : The Official Pokemon Website
http://www.pokemon.com/
・YU-GI-OH! ONLINE
http://www.yugioh-online.net/
・Xbox 360の新キャラクター「Viva Pinata」発表
http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/games/articles/0603/16/news015.html
■今日の国際人マラソン(英語学習＋最新テクノロジー)編集者のつぶやき
ポケモンや遊戯王は、海外でもかなり人気があるようですね。
日本のアニメは、高い評価を受けていますしね。
日本のキャラクターはいいんですが、
どうも海外のキャラクターのドギツイ色合いというのに、
なじめません。（笑）
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