I was browsing about the interwebs today when I stumbled upon this gem and felt I needed to enlighten any readers that are not privy to the delights of the Cho Aniki series. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, Cho Aniki is a shooter series famous for its large army of greased, muscled, suggestively homoerotic men doing suggestively homoerotic things. It debuted in 1992 on the TurboGrafx 16 and has been wreaking its own special brand of WTF? all over Japan ever since. (Actually, considering the Japanese culture, they probably don't blink twice at this title.)

Fascinated yet? If you feel strangely drawn to the concept, I have just the thing for you: the fabulous Hudson has announced that they are going to be releasing Cho Aniki as one of the first of a series of Turbografx CD and TurboGrafx Duo titles coming to the Virtual Console, along with Y's Book I and II. It likely will not be Cho Aniki Seinaru Protein Densetsu, as there are more popular games in the series, but can you imagine using the Wiimote to shoot your "Holy Protein" around? CAN YOU? Releases like this are likely stabbing the collector's market in its theoretical face, but there will always be those people that have to have the Cho Aniki mint in box with collectible figurine of greased nude male with flowerpot growing from head.

[Via Kotaku] 

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Jim Sterling

Goddamn Cho Aniki!

JJ Rage

Dear God.

Johnny Blaze

I give this article two snaps and a twist honey!!!

A New Challenger

Sin & Punishment I'll take, this I'll pass on.

Actually, I might get it out of curiosity if it comes here.

Takeshi

Scary shit whot?

Chad Concelmo

Amazing.

trydizon

hide your sons!

BahamutZero

wait, what?

LethalHairdo

o_O

::shakes head in bewilderment::

Aaron Mxy Yost

I think those fellas might be gay...

bloodylip

Can't wait.

Brandon Undead

Cho Aniki article and Seanbaby.com.

NSFW. Duh.

AngelsDontBurn

I don't know how to feel about this. :O

F Whipple

Uh...wut?

nilcam

The real story is Ys I and II. The Cho Aniki games are pretty funny, buy Ys is serious business.

bluemeep

Tits on a cupcake! Cho Aniki and Ys?! I think I need some personal time here.

Zac Bentz

Yes yes YES! I've been waiting to play Cho Aniki for like, forever. This is great news!

And yes, I'm being totally serious here.

I WILL BUY IT TWICE.

Bob Muir

The real important thing is these two gay guys are paving the way for Dracula X to possibly come out, and that's honestly all I care about today.

Bob Muir

The real important thing is these two gay guys are paving the way for Dracula X to possibly come out, and that's honestly all I care about today.

bleep

Im made of Man-Frosting! Hee-Hoo

asterick

Just be glad it's not the playstation one with the robotic man with telescoping genitals.

asterick

Just be glad it's not the playstation one with the robotic man with telescoping genitals.

GuitarAtomik

How are they going to explain this to Alpha Moms?

Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain

Suddenly, I want a Wii.

deanhatescoffee

"Holy protein"? Seriously? LOL

thunderpudd

i actually got this games years ago, i ordered it from an import store online thinking it would be some cool Japanese sh'mup. imagine my horror as a young teen and tg16 enthusiast back in the 90's when i fired this bad boy up and was greeted by those two "hero's". i still have nightmares....

Upgrayedd

This was one of the few actually expected to never come out.

Zac Bentz

@Upgrayedd: "...expected to never come out."

HA HA! I see what you did there.

BluDesign

I WANT SUPER MARIO BROS. 2!

Faith

And happy, gayiness ensues! Gotta love the homo-erotic natural of this game. :)

Arugala9

I'll pass thanks.

LostCrichton

wow...I would have never imagined this getting released on VC.

Zed

best. shooter. ever.

Batthink

Cho Aniki? GamesTM did an article on weird games a while ago (which included Takeshi's Challenge, where you needed 100,000 hits to defeat the final boss!), and this game was in it.

Ys 1 and 2? Oh yes sir.

skullivan

The chances of this hitting the US VC are:

ZERO!

lucashoal

Cho Anki? DO WANT. I've wanted to play this ever since I heard of it.

Tristero

Damn, dvddesign. I admire your dedication. Poison mushrooms, FTW. That game seriously might be the neglected pinnacle of the Mario series.

nightmareci

So, will Sega CD games be coming too? Or any other CD-based games? I don't own a Wii, but I bet a lot of people want the various CD games (Dracula X and Sonic CD being more important ones).

STB

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/sexual-games/10.php

ElementalBlazer

I'll probably get it because honesty I like shooters and I heard the soundtrack was good