Cross Crisis Series



The Cross Crisis Series (クロスクライシスシリーズ) is a crossover series of eight collaborative games co-developed and published by either B.B. Studio (Banpresto) under Bandai Namco Entertainment's management or Arc System Works from 2019 to 2022 in cooperation with various Japanese game companies, including Capcom, Sega and Arc System Works and entertainment companies, such as Toei, Toho, and Tsuburaya.

Referring to eight "secret" projects by Japan's top publishers, Banpresto and Arc System Works signed a multi-million-yen partnership deal with the aforementioned companies to externally-develop six new AAA games together, three fighting games and three RPGs, operating as either the developer and/or publisher under each of them, with the apparent goal of boosting profits and 9th generation hardware sales and showing third-party support in an attempt to restore the popularity of console gaming and reclaim Japan's dominance over the West in the video game industry.

Titles
The following games below are canonical installments of the series released in both marketing and chronological orders.

Development
On May 30, 2018, Tatsumi Kimishima, the CEO of Nintendo, said in an interview that he felt that "the Western gaming industry is becoming more popular worldwide than Japanese gaming". He also expressed his concerns on the "decline of console gaming" in favor of the ever-growing popularity of mobile gaming and the "losings of the Japanese game market to American sources: a major turnaround since the 1983 video game crash". Also, surveys showed that as of the start of summer 2018, Western companies like Rockstar, NetherRealms, Bethesda and Ubisoft were making better and higher-quality games than Japanese-made games.

On December 21, 2018, in an interview with Sam Imbecile, a game developer who had been working in Bandai Namco Games for a year and director of Project X Zone 3, he expressed interest into expanding the story and creating a series behind the game's story. He also stated that he wished to bring the Japanese game industry, as well as console gaming itself, back to its "position of dominance in the entertainment industry in this age of social media to survive, just like the old days".

Namco × Capcom: Crisis
In aftermath of the events of Street Fighter X Tekken, in an alternate universe codenamed Earth-Z000X, the Great Lunarium Kingdom, led by an arrogant and confused Princess Lunatemis and her executives, that is standing proudly at the Moon and currently fighting against Earth's revolutionary government rebelling against their colonists, discovers the technology to travel through dimensions and gathers allies from the Dimensions of the Azure Void (the Capcom Multiverse) to expand their empire beyond their own universe.

Opposing Lunarium is a group of superheroes, led by the noble Knight of Justice Volthur, that in turn gathers warriors and fighters from the Dimensions of the Crimson Light (the Namco Multiverse) to defend the worlds from Lunarium's war of conquest and colonization. However, darker forces may be actually manipulating the entire conflict as they please behind the curtain, especially with a peculiar device that was found known as the Crossgate…

Mahou Shoujo Cross All-Stars
The magical girls are facing beyond the stars. How will the strong beauties of justice, love and peace handle such predicament?

Anime Complex: Cross Arena 2020
Anime Complex's plot is told over the course of various anime franchises, but Cross Arena 2020 focuses primarily on the events of the following series: Sailor Moon Crystal (Stars Arc), Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, Boruto: Naruto Next Generation, Gintama, High School DxD Hero, Attack on Titan Season 3, Fist of the North Star, Go! Princess PreCure, Devilman, Haja Taisei Dangaioh, Endless Orbit SSX, Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Mahou Shoujo Ai San, Saint Seiya Omega, Dragon Ball Super, Princess Knight Lilia, Kuroinu, Princess Knight Catue, Taimanin Asagi, Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale, Shakugan no Shana, Tenjho Tenge, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Future Diary. However, there is an overarching plot that is told over the backdrop of the various series.

With a new threat ravaging the farthest corners of Multiverse, Sailor Galaxia of Shadow Galactica, having conquered the 12th Universe, calls out evil forces from every world she could travel by recreating the dimension-traveling technology using what's left of the Crossgate from Namco X Capcom: Crisis, to unite, destroy all those who oppose them and reshape all of reality according to their will. To oppose this coming threat, the heroes from various universes arrive on what is known as the "Cross-Universe", where all the dimensions converge and participate in an event called Cross Arena 2020. As the story progresses, the anime numbers find themselves fighting against an unknown force of evil called the Great Darkness itself to stop the complete destruction of the Multiverse which is set to happen in the near future of July 28 of 2020.

Super Robot Wars U
It is the year 795 of the Universal Calendar (3595 CE). The birth-planet of the human race, the Earth is a dead uninhabitable world, destroyed by generations of war and industrialization that plagued the planet's atmosphere to the point of extreme toxicity and placed all living lifeforms to extinction. However, mankind continued to progress and venture into the vast void of space, looking for new planets and star systems across the galaxy to inhabit. The great progress in man's culture, technology and influence throughout the Milky Way Galaxy ushered in a long era known as the Golden Age of Humanity.

But the progress of man's technology leads to wars of great scale and impact, and in the end of the Golden Age comes the worst one in the history of humanity yet to happen… the Universal War, fought by the two great galactic superpowers, the Galactic Empire, a powerful entity that seeks to expand mankind's glory throughout the universe, and the Free Planets Alliance, a collection of planetary systems that fights for democracy and liberty. In the ensuing conflict, both sides bring out their heroes of steel, carrying their own brand and belief of "justice" by fighting for their faction.

However, the fighting would attract the attention of life from another galaxy. It would seem for the first time in human history, man would make their first contact with life that is unfamiliar and alien to them as what would lie ahead in the greatest war that will determine which power, ideals and "justice" will unite all eight corners of the universe under one roof.

Alliance-Imperial War
The primary conflict for the first two-third of the game is the Alliance-Imperial War from The Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which is the catalyst for the two galactic superpowers, the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance, to each gather a large squadron of heroes, protagonists, mecha pilots and commanders from various anime. Across the game, the two factions would clash against each other. It would eventually culminate in what would be known as the Super Robot Decisive Battle Royal Tournament (スーパーロボット大決戦ロイヤル大会 Sūpā Robotto Daikessen Roiyaru Taikai?) on the planet Nemesis in Chapters 53 to 55.

After discovering the conspiracy behind the division and the Battle Royal Tournament and the revelation of the common enemy, the Empire and FPA declared peace and form a grand alliance called the All-Stars United Front (オールスターズ統一戦線 Ōrusutāzu Tōitsu Sensen?) for the purpose of fending alien invaders and destroying the source behind the intergalactic conflict, ultimately leading to the invasion of the Satan Darkness' homeplant Valiant and the confrontation with its leader Emperor Overlord.

Super Hero Taisen XX: Lost Heroes
During the aftermath of Anime Complex: Cross Arena 2020, the fallen knight Barago resurrects Juza Yumihari, a powerful nemesis of the Ninningers, and they form a legion with other evil forces to conquer all dimensions and universes they could and exact revenge against the superheroes of justice that continually thwarted the endless conquests of evil forces.

In contrast, a delinquent hero by the codename of Dragon ZERO-X gets drafted into an alliance of superheroes established to counter the coming threat, though he does not play along at first and take the conflict he is in seriously.

Super Project Cross Tag Battle: Destiny
Some time after the events of Super Hero Taisen XX: Lost Heroes, an unknown multiversal catastrophe is tearing apart reality itself. Taking place just before the events of Project X Zone 3, a rebuilt and more powerful version of Byakushin called Zenshin'ou brings fifteen parallel universes into the Cross-Universe that was previously seen in Anime Complex: Cross Arena 2020 and drags them into conflict, as its residents and champions are confronted with confusion and some hostility. United with the forces of evil from many worlds, she opens a Cross Crisis Tournament to determine the strongest of the strongest in existence and see if the winner is worthy to surpass Zenshin'ou and become the god of a new world that she plans to create.

As time passes, the ones involved in the conflict are about to learn the reality behind the "Genocide of Heroes" and the oncoming "War of Infinite Worlds" and the true reason why their worlds are being fused as they are.

Chou Super Robot Wars Æ
Taking place after the events of 3rd Super Robot Wars OG and during Project X Zone 3, various worlds across the Multiverse are slowly being destroyed one by one and countless millions of lives lost in the crossfire with the suspicion that a great evil is responsible for this.

Ten years after Unicron's empire of Decepticons laid waste upon Cybertron and forced the Autobots to flee their destroyed homeworld, Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, along with his comrades who were scattered across the galaxy seeking for a new planet, visit Earth… along with a wandering seemingly-almighty source of power called the AllSpark.

Meanwhile, in the Land of Light, the Father of Ultra observes the situation of what's happening with the Multiverse and understands that the problem is probably the gravest and most dangerous anyone will ever face, so he sends his sons Taro and Leo, as well Seven, Astra and 80, to summon a grand alliance of heroes from any world they could find that had not been ravaged by the Genocide of Heroes.

After some time, a grand alliance of good is formed from the heroes of ten Earths: Time begins to run out for the Earths in both the past and the future while in the present, the Father of Ultra tells the heroes of his plan to halt the approaching antimatter waves by transporting them to various times in various Earths where they help the Ultras build Time-Space Towers by harnessing the power and technology of the AllSpark that are to be activated to save reality.
 * Earth-35 (Universal Century Earth);
 * Earth-6C7G (Cosmic Era Earth);
 * Earth-A509 (Anno Domini Earth);
 * Earth-9909 (After Colony Earth);
 * Earth-8334209 (Post Disaster Earth);
 * Earth-123P (Build Fighters Earth);
 * Earth-007F (After War Earth);
 * Earth-10O8 (Regild Century Earth);
 * Earth-233 (Advanced Generation Earth); and
 * Earth-ZY48 (Future Century Earth).

More to be added…

Project X Zone III: War of Infinite Worlds – Ultimate Edition
A mysterious massive powerful evil force is sweeping across the corners of the Multiverse without any warning, laying many worlds in ruin. In these sieges, vast multitudes of heroes from many different alternate worlds were either killed or captured and brainwashed to do their enemies' bidding in a pursuit to remove any further resistance to the unknown growing threat entirely. This unholy persecution would be infamously known throughout the game as the “Genocide of Heroes”, a catalyst that would serve as a driving force to the events of the game.

Only now aware of the growing number of ruined worlds and rapidly decreasing number of heroes in the Multiverse, the secret inter-dimensional combat organization Shinra once again acts and investigates matters that caused the Genocide of Heroes, the reason behinds the mass slaughters and the mysterious dark force that does everything horrific at this point behind the scenes.

Eventually, as everything begins to unfold and the truth to unravel, all of the Multiverse is locked in a great war between good and evil that could possibly conclude the eternal strife between light and darkness and bring about the end of all reality as we know it.

Japan Heroes Project and Japan Heroes Project: EXPO 2019 EDITION
In Mahoromatic universe, Mahoro and Minawa attend to VESPER ceremony they were introduce a new Android named "Hana Gekina" (AKA "Hexa Prime Girl"), which she was base on Vicory Gundam Hexa, Mahoro admit that she has her new friend after all however, in Garo universe, Barago finds out about a new android in Mahoromatic universe, as he travel to Toei's Tokusatsu Universe, where he revived Time Demon God Chronos, one of the enemy of Boukenger and Super Sentai, they made an alliance to conquer the world including Mahoromatic universe, however, Mahoro sense that a new threat will be arrived any time soon.

However, The Father of Ultra finds out that Barago revived Time Demon God Chronos, he contacted heroes from various worlds including Mahoromatic universe, Hana Gekina was receive message by The Father of Ultra to stop the villains from conquered all the worlds.

In Da Capo universe, Junichi was receive message by The Father of Ultra, Junichi finds out that a new threat will arrived on her world and he warned his friends about this.

Dengeki Bunko X Nitroplus Blasterz: Fighting Evolutions
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Super Hero Year: Neptunia 2020
During The Aftermath of Megadimension Neptunia VII, the fallen knight Barago resurrects True Deity of Sin Arfoire from the Zero Dimension as "Shin Arfoire", as Barago formed alliance with all villains including Shocker-Zangyack Alliance, to form a legion with other evil forces to conquer all dimensions and universes they could and exact revenge against the superheroes of justice that continually thwarted the endless conquests of evil forces.

However, Histoire sense that all villains will invades all dimensions and universes, as she contacted every heroes form existed universe. In Date A Live universe, Kotori and her crew has got message by Zoffy, to warn them that all villains conquer all dimensions and universes, Kotori has realized as villains invades Tengu City and everyone is evacuated.

Granny: Grand Theft Auto Stories
In the epilogue of Granny 2, Histoire was involved of creating a cross gate (A possible connection with the events of Street Fighter X Tekken, Histoire was involved with the Cross Gate never mention in Namco X Capcom: Crisis' and Anime Complex: Cross Arena 2020), as Kirito and rest of his friends from SAO Alternated timeline, are time travelled to the year 2019, as Shido Itsuka was traveled to GTA 3D Universe.

Reception
With extensive marketing and advertising, the series was an extensive success, with all the games receiving critical acclaim and selling a grand total of $5.3 billion worldwide.

Connections to Granny: Grand Theft Auto Stories

 * Due to Histoire from Ultradimension is now involved with the Cross Gate, it can be assumed that she predicted the future that will happen on destruction of the Multiverse which is set to happen in the near future of July 28 of 2020 before the events of Anime Complex: Cross Arena 2020 occured
 * Another possible theory that Kirito from main timeline knew his alternate timeline counterpart was time travel to 2019, it was never mention in Project X Zone III: War of Infinite Worlds – Ultimate Edition.
 * Because of this all the events in Granny: Grand Theft Auto Stories are never mention in Super Project Cross Tag Battle: Destiny.

Trivia

 * Each installment in the series was meant to celebrate a milestone of a certain company or franchise.
 * Namco X Capcom: Crisis was released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Capcom and 65th anniversary of Bandai Namco.
 * Mahou Shoujo Cross All-Stars commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Nakayoshi Magazine imprint and the 15th anniversary of the Pretty Cure series.
 * Anime Complex: Cross Arena 2020 was released not only to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Bandai Namco, but also of Toei Animation and the Nakayoshi Magazine, as well as Aniplex's 25th anniversary, Kadokawa Shoten's 75th anniversary and Shuiesha's 95th anniversary.
 * The release of Super Hero Taisen XX: Lost Heroes was in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider, the 45th anniversary of Super Sentai, the 55th anniversary of Ultraman, the 15th anniversary of Garo and the 70th anniversary of Toei Company.
 * Super Project Cross Tag Battle features characters from Toei Animation and Kamen Rider to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Toei Animation, the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider, 70th anniversary of Toei Company and the 10th anniversary of Trigger, the studio behind Kill la Kill.
 * Chou Super Robot Wars AE was released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Super Robot Wars series.
 * Later, Chou Super Robot Wars M would celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sunrise's founding, as well as the 50th anniversary of Mazinger Z.
 * The release of Project X Zone 3: War of Infinite Worlds – Ultimate Edition was released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Project X Zone series, as well as Shogakukan's 100th anniversary.
 * Nearly all of the games in the series have "X"/"Cross" in their titles, with the exception of Chou Super Robot Wars Æ.￼
 * All of the game's theme songs are sung by various veteran Japanese singers, mostly done by JAM Project.
 * In the series, only three of the eight games (Namco X Capcom: Crisis, Super Project Cross Tag Battle and Project X Zone 3; in particular with it's Ultimate Edition) are packed with English dubs for their international release while the other five (Mahou Shoujo Cross All-Stars, Cross Arena 2020, Super Robot Wars U, Super Hero Taisen XX and Chou Super Robot Wars AE) do not.