Brian Ashcraft

Senran Kagura Creator Is Leaving Marvelous

After 13 years, Senran Kagura creator Kenichiro Takaki is leaving Marvelous. Last December, Takaki discussed how making the curvy ninja Senran Kagura games has become more complicated. “Recently, regulation of sexual depictions has gotten stronger globally and taking that into account, it’s been said [games] need to be made so that they don’t cause misunderstandings,”…

Urban Fauna. Porsgrunn, Norway. By Marcus Patai | Instagram JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Fast As You Can | Album: When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might so When You…

Japanese Pop Idol Apologizes After Being Allegedly Attacked [Updated]

Maho Yamaguchi is a member of Niigata-based idol group NGT48, a sister group of AKB48. Two men have been arrested for allegedly assaulting her. Yet tonight, it was Yamaguchi who apologized. Update Jan. 15 – 6:30 am: On Monday, an AKS official for NGT48’s parent company apologized this week, saying that the reason why it…

An official Pokémon baby brand called Monpoké is launching in Japan with Pokémon themed goods for infant and parents, including maternity clothes and baby gifts. The designs are simple, tasteful and refined.

Collectable Figures Make For Excellent Stop-Motion Animation

Twitter user Kenta Shinohara makes excellent stop-motion animation clips using game and anime figures. Case in point, this one of Ryu beating the crap out of a Red Bull can. Here is how the made the stop motion clip Here is more of Shinohara’s work:

From Dusk to Nowhere. Águas de São Pedro, São Paulo, Brasil. By Lucas Rosalin JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Sunflower (Post Malone & Swae Lee cover) | Artist: Vampire Weekend | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Japanese TV drama Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light is getting a feature film adaptation. It will star Kentaro Sakaguchi as the son and Kotaro Yoshida. In the original TV show, Yudai Chiba played the son and Ren Osugi, who passed away last year, was the father.

Not All Blu-ray Releases Overhaul Anime

It’s become expected that the disc release of an anime will go back and fix any spotty animation that the show let slide during the broadcast. That’s not always the case! As pointed out on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, the Blu-ray release of The Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotoubun no Hanayome) didn’t exactly clean up some…

Buildings, Buildings, Buildings. Hong Kong. By Ben Green | Twitter JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Two Rights Make One Wrong | Artist: Mogwai | Album: Rock Action  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Realistic Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Disk Costs Almost $200

A nearly one-to-one scale Duel Disk is going on sale in Japan. In Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Duel Disk is a piece of dueling hardware for card-carrying Duelists. Priced at 21,600 yen ($195), this realistic Duel Disk has light up effects, and it can play four Yu-Gi-Oh songs and forty different Yu-Gi-Oh catchphrases. It was released on…

Dialogue dubbing for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 has begun Pictured is a copy of Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno’s script. The movie is slated for a 2020 release in Japan. 

Hayao Miyazaki Seems To Hate Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones And Hollywood Movies

Hayao Miyazaki may like many things, but the Lord of the Rings movies and the Indiana Jones series don’t appear to be among them. In an interview that dates from a few years back, Miyazaki not only criticized Hollywood, but those who enjoy its films. The interview has recently been appearing on major Japanese blogs…

Tea Fields. Mie Prefecture, Japan. By Brian Ashcraft | Twitter JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Track: Sotsugyou | Artist: My Hair Is Bad | Album: Woman’s Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sega is making a new Yakuza game for PS4 that will star Ichiban Kasuga, who made his debut in Yakuza Online. Sega is holding auditions for one of the game’s female co-stars.

Pokémon Go Grandpa Is Now A Mobile Phone Spokesperson

Last year, Taiwan’s Chen San-yuan went viral with his bicycle contraption to which nine phones were affixed so he could play Pokémon Go around Taipei. Now, he has more phones and a new gig: ambassador for Asus ZenFone smartphones. As Apple Today recently reports, Chen now has a whopping twenty-two smartphones rigged up to his…

Japanese Arcades Light Up The Night

In cities across Japan, arcades are beacons of the night. They are a place to take refuge, escape, and unwind, which is what makes them so special. Photographer Victor Gonzalez has started documenting Japanese arcades, hoping to tap into the nostalgia they invoke. For more, you can follow him on Instagram. He will also be showing…