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Anime, Manga, Game Creators Celebrate April Fool's Day: Part VI

[We're slowly finishing the backlog after taking care of Anime Contents Expo coverage and the new Spring anime season.]

Anime, manga, and software studios marked April 1 with a slew of April Fool's spoofs and jokes. Here are more of those that have cropped up this year - click on the thumbnail images to see the original!

Weekly Shonen Jump

The villains of Shonen Jump took over the website and renamed it USOjump.com.

Sengoku Collection

"SenColle Puzzle game now in development!!!?"

Senyū.

For one day, Nico Nico Seiga offered the manga's first arc for free.

Servant X Service

Coming this summer from Aniplex and A-1 Pictures: Magical Flowers the Movie: The Only Flower in the World
Advance tickets now on sale with a bonus "Shining Watering Can"
Thanks to Vito Plahuta for the video!

7th Dragon 2020-II

The new game changes scenery and moves from Tokyo to Okinawa.

Shift

The God Eater developer is now Enoshima Games, a game studio for cat lovers (an apparent nod to the Enoshima cat virus incident.)

Silent Hill

Shizuoka Prefecture has been renamed Silent Hill Prefecture. (The Japanese kanji characters for Shizuoka literally means "silent hill.")

Sonico

Nitroplus takes a break from Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi. to tell fans that SonicoShock Infinity is still coming out … next year.

Starry Sky

The "HoneyQlo" (a pun on Starry Sky's publisher honeybee and the clothing retailer UNIQLO) store will sell "stylish suits" and clothes worn by the characters in the game.

Street Fighter

Introducing Super Duper Street Fighter 4
[Via Polygon]

There are many more anime/manga/game April Fool's Day celebrations out there, so if you know of one we've missed, feel free to let us know in our forums or by email (newsroom at animenewsnetwork.com).