released only in Japan midway through the anime season for mobile phones, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Advance. Prior to the PS2 release, Taito released a 2D fighting game for mobile phones in May 2005. The PS2 version of the game called Erementar Gerad: Matoe, Suifu no Ken was released on June 30, 2005. Matoe, Suifu no Ken is a 3D cel-shaded fighting game featuring seven characters/groups and two unlockable characters in four modes of play. It was re-released on June 8, 2006 as part of the Taito Best lineup. The GBA game called Elemental Gelade: Tozasareshi Uta is a 2D turn-based role-playing video game released on July 7, 2005 developed by Jupiter and published by Tomy Corporation. Playing as Kou, Ren, Cisqua, Rowen, and Kuea, you journey from town to town and fight enemies through an original story and meet new original characters. Reception On the week of March 8–14, 2010, both the 18th of Elemental Gelade and the sixth volume of Flag of Bluesky were featured on Oricon's weekly chart of the best-selling manga–on the 15th and 30th spot for selling 38,996 and 24,649 copies respectively. In Jason Thompson's online appendix to Manga: The Complete Guide, he regards the plot as being stereotypically shōnen.Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo, shares strikingly similar story and character elements to Elemental Gelade'', e.g. "Drivers" and "Blades" instead of "Pledgers" and "Eldel Raids" or "Elysium" instead of "Eldel Garden". Footnotes and references External links Erementar Gerad Official Anime Site Erementar Gerad TV Tokyo Site PlayStation 2 game site Game Boy Advance game site Tokyopop's Elemental Gelade Site 2002 manga 2003 manga 2005 anime television series debuts 2005 Japanese novels 2005 Japanese television series debuts 2005 Japanese television series endings 2005 video games 2006 video games Anime composed by Yuki Kajiura Digital Manga Publishing titles Discotek Media Game Boy Advance games Game Boy Advance-only games Geneon USA IG Port franchises Japan-exclusive video games Jupiter (company) games Light novels Mag Garden manga Odex Pirates in anime and manga PlayStation 2 games PlayStation 2-only games Shōnen manga Tokyopop titles Tomy games TV Tokyo original programming Video games developed in Japan Xebec (studio)