After seven years and five games, we haven’t heard much from Ace Attorney lately. The series that helped introduce Americans to visual novels hasn’t seen an English release since 2010’s Miles Edgeworth, which may have suffered sales-wise thanks to the absence of the series’ central character — this would explain the lack of an Apollo Justice sequel, anyway. Though Ace Attorney appears D.O.A. in America, Capcom’s underappreciated IP seems slightly healthier in Japan, where various projects rife with anime courtroom melodrama are currently under production. Phoenix hasn’t been completely forgotten in the West — the excitement surrounding his appearance in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will attest to that — but for now, we can only speculate as to which of the following creations will make the slow-but-steady transition into the English language. Fingers pointed, then crossed.
