If you didn't know yet, Monster Hunter is the hotness over in Glorious Nippon. It's everywhere, and its elements are worming their way into games right and left. All the same, there hasn't been any game as obviously aimed at slaying Capcom's PSP behemoth as Namco Bandai's God Eater.

At every turn, one can see where God Eater is attempting to one-up its rival. Instead of hunting monsters, God Eater players are hunting gods (and eating them too, presumably), and so on. One of God Eater's bigger points of leverage is the claim that the game will have a stronger, story-based single-player element, something that Monster Hunter enthusiasts outside Japan might take interested in, given how hard it is to gather four PSP owners long enough to get a good hunt on.

And it appears that Namco Bandai are set to twist that particular knife as hard as they can, as God Eater's story-plotty portions are going on an all-out multimedia blitz. Of most interest to me is a planned anime by Studio ufotable. It centers on the character Soma's first mission, six years prior to the beginning of the game. ufotable are damned good animators, judging by their work on Kara no Kyoukai. I'd love to see what they can do with God Eater's fashionable-looking characters and Shin Megami Tensei-esque art style.

A manga adapatation, God Eater -the spiral fate- has just begun in the publisher's free Side-BN magazine, with another one set to begin serialization in Monthly Shounen Rival.

The anime footage is set to stream at some point from the official website and other locations. In the meantime, hit the jump for a fresh new trailer, full of drama, gameplay footage, and gigantic chainsaw-swords.