Well, it does have everything you're really looking for in a Oneechanbara game — girls, bikinis, zombies, gore — but it fails in one key component. You really need to have the girls in the bikinis covered with the gore. At least now we know to expect the games — OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad and OneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers — in February of next year. Dibs on review copies!

Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers [GameTrailers]

He also writes "exposed breasts" which has us firing up the Netflix queue.

Also given a good eyeballing was Retro Game Master Episode 1: The Mystery of Atlantis, which you may remember as Game Center CX. If not, it's the Japanese television show that's based on the premise of having host/test subject "the Kacho" play hard video games. It has since been turned into its own video game of the same name.

We think Mr. Hawkins sums it up best — and makes the whole thing sound so appealing — with this:

The reason why the show is so beloved becomes almost immediately apparent; the Kacho is just a loveable, everyday kind of guy, who is just as good, and most importantly bad at video games like you. It's not just his choice of games, that being classics from yesterday, but his attitude towards them that makes it all so enjoyable; its not some young kind dealing with the more than peculiar logic of old games without question as we all did, the Kacho is an older dude who wonders why the hell things are the way they are, like we all do when we play something as an adult, with now all this confusion and reasoning.

Excellent stuff. Thanks for the heads up, Matt!

'Cinema Pixeldiso' – New York Asian Film Festival Part 1 [GameSetWatch]

I went to go check out Chanbara Beauty on Friday but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I had a little too much to drink right before the movie so I didn’t get to see it in its entirety because I fell asleep. I remember some zombies and some chick in a bikini named Aya who had a sword, and she used this sword to fight the zombies. At some point I woke up and she was fighting some other chick who was in a school uniform of some kind. I don’t remember ever seeing this little girl [with arrow] in the movie so I have no idea who she is or what she has to do with the movie. And then the movie ended.

We would've remembered everything if we had seen it. But we didn't, so tough tooty.

OneChanbara Review [That Girl's Site]

The Japanese hack and slash and tits and ass flick based on the D3 video game of the same name will be screened Friday, June 20 at 10:45pm and Wednesday, June 25 at 4:00pm at the IFC Center in New York City. Brain activity will be checked at the door.

Oneechanbara [Subway Cinema - thanks, Alan!]

Out This October [Heisei Democracy]

It's was the first time I've ever worked in a bathing suit, so I was a little worried at first. Though, the costume was really cool, and I was able to play the part. We filmed during the winter, so it was a little chilly. I don't think you'd see a person dressed like this in winter.

In case, you're curious. That's bikini model Erina playing bikini killer Aya. Those are exciting "action shots" below.

Oneechanbara Revolution [Dengeki]

Everyone's favorite cowboy boots and bikini wearin' zombie slayer Aya from D3's Onechanbara is getting a new figurine come this June. Priced at ¥7,140 (US $59), the fig is at 1/6 scale and measures in at 29 cm (11.4 inches). Over at the YAMATO link below, there's even a "PHOTOZoomer" that lets shoppers get up close and personal with the figure. How close? Why, this close. Brian Ashcraft

Zoom Here, Kiddos [YAMATO]

Siliconera is giddy as a pus-covered schoolgirl about the looming American release of Oneechanbara for the Xbox 360. Oneechanbara, aka "that cowboy hat bikini zombie game"; the game that launched one thousand latex catsuits; devourer of souls and destroyer of worlds. Yes, THAT Oneechanbara:

The Oneechanbara series is sort of like Dynasty Warriors, except your hacking away at zombies and playing as a bikini clad, sword wielding, female warrior with a cowboy hat. The Oneechanbara games are also infamous for spewing out blood when zombies are slashed away.

[...] previously the Oneechanbara was released in Europe under the name Zombie Zone, but none of the games have ever been brought to North America.

Nor have I ever played this game of games, but jesus wept, just look at the screenshots (follow the link, our galleries are broken). How could you resist? Eliza Gauger

Oneechanbara Screenshots [Siliconera]

Screw it, the gallery isn't showing. Click here to see Oneechanbara X screenshots.

This one was sent in by Funky J, and boy am I glad. In this charming collection of screenshots from the latest iteration of the Oneechanbara series (see gameplay from #2 here, which features a character crossover from the giant bikini babe game Florian addressed recently) The Oneechanbara X - The Devil Evolution Human, we see our main protagonist wearing nothing but a flimsy &mdash and porous &mdash item of swimwear. And a cowboy hat. It's adorable, actually.

Word around the campfire is that this game is an endless zombie brawler in the style of Dynasty Warriors, but with a lot more upskirts and flying trachea.

While the mucous membranes of the genital area, and follicles of the nipples are important areas to protect, I venture that spandex is an inferior barrier and furthermore, that the face must be guarded as well.

In the wake of the "games make you pregnant" comments thread debacle, in which some truly ignorant statements were made, I felt it important to address the issue of safe zombie-bashing.

I have long wondered how the heroes of zombie films can get away with walking among highly contagious undead without becoming infested with the "Z-virus". Though I am more fond of the theory that like toxoplasmosis and the gordian worm, the zombie germ is some sort of a mind-controlling parasite.

But back to the issue at hand. How to walk, and fight, among the undead without inadvertently contracting their shambling gait and myopic cravings?

Answer to this question, plus a larger version of illustration at right, after the jump.

Simple. Full-body protection.

The latex (or in a pinch, vinyl) catsuit is flexible enough for everything from cringing and wailing to shotgunkata, and hides none of your delicious curves. In fact, a well-tailored catsuit can go a long way towards hiding cellulite, less-than-perky breasts, or a few extra pounds in the stomach area. And it is absolutely impermeable by pus, mucus, saliva, blood, and any other Z virus-bearing bodily fluid that is not strongly acidic or laced with rubber-devouring nanobots.

And if you keep it nice and lubed, their dull human teeth will slide right off with a squeak.

To better assist my flying monkeys in visualizing this, I have included a diagram.

This is Dii, named such because when she was wee, her parents thought it was funny that she was fat, and called her Gordita. The nickname stuck, as they do, so she's a little sensitive about her weight. This getup makes her uncomfortable. She's all grown up and thinned out, and now she works in the mall's "adult novelty" shop to pay for design college.

Her gear includes: pink catsuit with waterproof zipper and hood (pilfered from the "apparel" section), backpack for carrying inventory (like rubber cement and duct tape for on-the-go repairs), hockey stick (from Jock n' Go), dust mask (Hungerdunger & McCormick Hardware), and she's about to acquire a fine denim vest.

Now if only there was some way to develop this into a Dead Rising mod... Eliza Gauger

Get your own full-body catsuit here [Imp of Satan]
Official Site for Oneechanbara X [D3P.co.jp]