
Yasuda announced last month that he was leaving Kadokawa to form his new company, Dragami Games, which appears to have taken Lollipop Chainsaw with it. And Yasuda served as executive producer on both titles. But we know it exists, so there's that at least.Īs pointed out by VGC, Yasuda previously served as CEO of Kadokawa Games, which published a number of Grasshopper Manufacture games like Lollipop Chainsaw and Killer is Dead. Please look forward to it." That was pretty much the totality of the announcement, not explaining if it's a sequel, remaster, or remake. These days, zombiesare more over-exposed than a man wearing rice-paper pants in a typhoon, but if anything is going to shake them up it's going to be the combination of extreme dismemberment and girlie day-glow-nonsense.Yoshimi Yasuda of Dragami Games tweeted earlier this week that "Lollipop Chainsaw is back by Dragami Games. However Grasshopper pull this off though, I love the concept. Exciting-high of course, but certainly high. Considering that this statement comes from the man who has previously facilitated us seeingwank-charged lightsabers and a gimp-batting, beer-sluggingLolita dominatrix, I'd say that the bar is set high.

Suda says that Lollipop Chainsaw is "a poppy zombie game unlike anything people have ever seen". Or maybe the image of a skimpily-clad cheerleader 'sawing the throbbing undead hordes into piles of well-past-its-best steak was just too perfect a grindhouse image for Suda-san to ignore.Why Isay "maybe" to both of those possibilities, when I know that latter optionisalmost definitely the truth, I am frankly unsure.īut either way, she'll be hacking her way through school, leaving torrents of sparkling zombie innards wherever she goes. Perhaps she's part of some apocalyptic new wave of Extreme Cheerleading, which uses bladed power-tools instead of batons. LP's protagonist is Juliet, a cheerleader at San Romero High School (Yes Suda, I do indeed most certainly see what you did there).
