More informations :

- Takahashi Hino is scenario designer
- Toshio Akashi is director
- each character is designed by a different artist
- Bastard!! artist Kazushi Hagiwara created Crunea
- Crunea is a goddess who oversees the entire world
- Shinichiro Otsuka (Summon Night) created Hector, a golem prince
- Lunar artist Toshiyuki Kubooka drew the nine-tailed Niko
- Manga artist Haruyuki Morisawa created the female lead character, phoenix princess Teana
- the lead male Fang, the strongest dragon king is the work of Pako
- up to 16 monsters an follow your party
- 4-man party

For people wondering, these guys are ex-GameArts and worked on both the Lunar and Grandia games.

this game just went up several levels on my hype list

Grandia is among my favourite RPGs of the 5th gen

Sorry for quality, here are the first screens :

it looks amazing, I really hope it gets released in Europe

If it plays like Grandia, I'll be really hyped for it. That's still my favorite RPG battle system.