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The Chordettes’ 1958 classic “Lollipop” serves as the backdrop for the first trailer for Suda 51’s Lollipop Chainsaw. That piece of pop music candy is the perfect accompaniment to a cel-shaded cheerleader slicing and dicing zombies with a magical chainsaw.

Lollipop Chainsaw will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 by WB Games sometime in 2012. So start practicing your splits and high kicks now.

When Suda 51 revealed Lollipop Chainsaw in the pages of Famitsu two weeks ago, he strongly hinted the game already had a US publisher. Today, WB Games announced that they’ll be the ones to bring Suda’s latest oddity to America.

“Our exciting partnership with Kadokawa Games [Lollipop Chainsaw’s Japanese publisher] allows us to try something new by bringing a very unique game like Lollipop Chainsaw to Western markets,” said Martin Tremblay, President of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Grasshopper Manufacture’s games have shown tremendous success with gamers around the globe and we are delighted to expand our portfolio of Japanese-developed games.”

In addition, Warner Bros. has hired Hollywood screenwriter/director James Gunn to adapt the game’s script for Western audiences. Gunn has previously mixed horror and humor in his work with the Dawn of the Dead remake and the awesomely underrated Slither, so I have high hopes for Lollipop Chainsaw’s script.

Lollipop Chainsaw, the tale of cheerleader Juliet Starling and her chainsaw-fueled crusade against the zombie meance, will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.

No, it isn’t a Highschool of The Dead video game, but it is damn close. Lollipop Chainsaw is a new trip in the works from Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture, the same people that brought you No More Heroes, Killer 7, and Shadows of the Damned. Although there is no release date yet, the game is evidently in the fine tuning stages and the studio has secured a publisher to release the game in English for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Juliet Starling is a cheerleader at San Romero High School (I get what you did there Suda, you clever mouse, you) whose whole school becomes zombified and she needs to teach those brain hungry flesh munchers a lesson with a chainsaw and a miniskirt.

“Actually I’ve wanted to do a crazy horror-action game like this set in a school for a while now,” Suda told Famitsu magazine. “Something where the classrooms, corridors, gymnasium and so on are suddenly transformed into something completely different. I was also working on a game concept centered around using a chainsaw as a weapon, and once the idea for the Juliet character began to form, it was just a perfect fit.”

Surprisingly, Lollipop Chainsaw aims to be a somewhat cute game. It will evidently be trading in gushing sprays of blood for bursts of pink light. And Akira Yamaoka, the man behind the sound and music for Silent Hill and Shadows of the Damned, has been hard at work on creating bubbly pop tunes for Lollipop Chainsaw.

Looks like all that cheerleading practice will help you survive the slavering hoards of undead. And let’s hope Fox doesn’t decide to headshot Lollipop Chainsaw with a lawsuit due to its rather obvious similarities to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

[Source: Andriasang]