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Last Ranker makes an appearance at Jump Festa 2010 in Japan.

More footage of the epic duel teased in the debut trailer!

Siliconera got the jump on a likely TGS announcement from Capcom, finding an American trademark for "Last Ranker." The PSP role-playing game, revealed by Famitsu last week, follows a young man's rise through a worldwide fighting tournament, and the events and characters in his life during that tournament.It's being developed by Sands of Destruction/Luminous Arc creator Image Epoch, which is a promising sign for an RPG. We'll find out more about its semi-turn-based combat system this week at TGS. In the meantime, enjoy the extremely short trailer for the game in Capcom's Click Theater, a site set up specifically for extremely short trailers of TGS games!

Japanese magazine scans show a new RPG in development for PSP by Luminous Arc/Sands of Destruction developer Image Epoch -- it's called Last Ranker. Capcom-Unity's summary of the article mentions some impressive people on staff for the Capcom-published RPG: direction by Image Epoch founder and Trauma Center creator Kazuya Niinou; music by Yoko Shimomura; scenario by Final Fantasy VII's Kazushige Nojima; and production on Capcom's end by Ace Attorney producer Minae Matsukawa.According to PSP Hyper, the game focuses on real-time fighting as it follows the career of competitive fighter, named Zig, trying to succeed in a giant tournament. Siliconera notes that the storyline in the game is intended to "emphasize the relationships and rivalries that go on between fights." Which is why it's an RPG and not a fighting game. We'll find out if Capcom knows what it's doing when Zig takes off in Japan next year.