Toshi Nakamura's posts

Being an animator in Japan is hard. It’s very hard. But with the myriad of problems in the industry, is there a…

What if Vegeta had came to Earth as a child instead of Goku...

Check out the trailer for Imperial SaGa, the newest game in Square Enix’s SaGa series, now with English. Yes,…

Vampire yakuza, minigun-toting trucks, a guy in a flying fuzzy frog suit... Sounds like Miike Takashi all right.

Se Jun Park won the Pokémon Video Game World Champion Master’s Division last year. You’d think preparing for a…

Cute anime girls on stage singing and dancing... S’okay, but I feel I should be more entertained than I actually am.

One of the new anime this season, My Love Story, is a romance story featuring an atypical protagonist. A…

With the release of the latest Dissidia Final Fantasy trailer, Kingdom Hearts director and zipper enthusiast*,…

The third season of the anime Gintama started off with a bang. Or rather, a bawling parody of a disgraced…

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s most celebrated anime creators. He also has the reputation of being a bit…

It’s been over two years since Smash Bros. creator, Masahiro Sakurai, first revealed that he was suffering from…

Solid Snake is one of gaming’s iconic characters. And in Japan, his voice is as iconic as his look – if not more so.

Take a good gander at the above image, because it’s one of the few legitimate images of Yakuza 0’s campaign that…

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae came out last month and most people who got it have probably had enough time to…

Resident Evil was released in 1996, and changed the gaming world. It also apparently taught a lot of people some…

Hmm... Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin: Blue-Eyed Casval. A prequel to a highly successful, generation-defining SF…

Because seeing a geriatric cyborg badass is kinda cathartic in a way.

Yakuza 0 rewards you for beating the crap out of street thugs and gangsters in the form of gobs of cash. Gobs and…

They already had a live-action movie and a TV show, so I guess a stage adaptation was only a matter of time.

Recently, Japan saw the release of the latest Warriors-style collaborative game, Dragon Quest Heroes. The game sold…