Short Peace-based PlayStation 3 game announced

Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day is a "high-speed effect action" game.

Namco Bandai is developing Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day, a PlayStation 3 game based on Katsuhiro Otomo’s Short Peace anime movie project, this week’s Japanese magazines reveal.

Scenario is being handled by Grasshopper Manufacture boss and Killer is Dead director Goichi Suda. The game is being directed by Crispy’s and Tokyo Jungle‘s Yohei Kataoka.

The “high-speed effect action” 2D side-scroller is considered the fifth part of Short Peace‘s four-story makeup. Its theme is modern-day Japan.

Short Peace will begin airing in Japanese theaters on July 20. A release date for Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day was not announced.

Thanks, Game Nyarth.