Saturday, January 15, 2011



Title: Rio - Rainbow Gate!
Starts: Tokyo MX, Tuesday January 4 at 11:00 p.m. JST
Studio: Xebec

Genre: Comedy

Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Takao Kato
Series Composition: Mayori Sekijima
Character Design: Hisashi Shimura
Marina Inoue as Rio Rollins Tachibana
Ayana Taketatsu as Mint Clark
Chiaki Takahashi as Rina
Kaori Shimizu as Rosa
Kumiko Inoue as Lisa
Saki Nakajima as Tiffany
Sayaka Ohara as Karutia
Yōko Hikasa as Linda
Yukari Fukui as Anya

Summary:
Based on Tecmo's Rio Super Carnival pachinko slot machine games. Rio is a popular casino dealer at the Howard Resort, an entertainment resort hotel where people from all over the world gather. She competes for the greatest honor among dealers — "Most Valuable Casino Dealer" (MVCD) — by collecting 13 legendary cards known as "Gates." "The Goddess of Winning" first appeared in 2003 in the Super Black Jack game franchise from the pachi-slo company Net, thanks to Net's collaboration with Tecmo (Dead or Alive) to create female characters. Rio's popularity led to several more games, including 2005's Rio Carnival, 2007's Rio Paradise, and 2009's Rio 2 -Cruising Vanadis-.

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