Track: Everybody Wants To Rule The World | Artist: Andy McKee | Album: Joyland Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Voice actor Kinryu Arimoto began his career in the mid-1960s. Since then, he lent his vocal talents to numerous anime. Perhaps his most famous role was the One Piece pirate Edward Newgate (aka “Whitebeard”). Today it was announced that Arimoto has passed away. Besides Whitebeard, Arimoto voiced Commissioner Nogami in City Hunter, Patrick Zala in…
Classic anime Yokai Ningen Bem, which first debuted in 1968, is getting a new anime series this year. It’s called BEM and features new character designs. New, but not necessarily better!
Violent games keep getting banned in China. Last month, as r/gaming pointed out, China banned nine games and forced changes in 11 more. Many gory games have no chance of release. To slip past the country’s draconian censors, Chinese online retailers must get creative. According to website Abacus, Taobao sellers have been trying to skirt…
West Texas Winter. Hudspeth, Texas. By Mobilus In Mobili | Flickr 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: Piano Concerto No.3 | Artist: Beethoven (Alice Sara Ott with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra) | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Samurai Warriors fans, listen up! Tecmo Koei is currently developing a new entry in the series and for Samurai Warriors 4 DX’s release next month in Japan, Tokyo’s Koei Tecmo Cafe is serving themed eats and drinks.
Players are getting wrongly banned from The Division 2‘s private beta. The game’s official Twitter writes, “We are investigating this issue. We will keep you updated.”
Like teenagers across Japan, my eldest son is taking high school entrance exams. Earlier today, my wife returned from our local supermarket in Osaka with a bag of Kit Kats. The snacks are for more than eating. They’re for good luck. In Japanese, Kit Kat is Kitto Katto (キットカット). The Japanese word kitto can mean…
Sunrise. Dumaguete, Philippines. By Martin Tan. 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!
Since Ariana Grande revealed her new tattoo last week, the pop star has been criticized in the English-speaking world for cultural appropriation. But what does the Japanese internet think? Let’s find out! Japanese website Front Row recently explained how Grande was being called out in the English-speaking internet for cultural appropriation, which in Japanese is bunka…
Track: Native Dancer | Artist: Sakanaction | Album: Shinshiro Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Japan’s Freshness Burger has upped its bonkers burger game with its latest release: the Blueberry Cheese Burger. As ASCII points out, Freshness Burger previously released a Peach Burger, which was beef, bacon, a slice of peach and cheese, and a Mango Burger, which was beef, a huge mango slices and onions This time around, Freshness…
It’s flu and cold season. That means people in Japan are wearing sickness masks in public. Either they are ill or are trying to avoid a cold. The default is still the white sickness mask, but recently, black ones are becoming more popular among the country’s youth. This recent trend in Japan appears to be…
To celebrate the opening of a new Taco Ball in Osaka’s Umeda, the fast-food chain decided to turn the city’s soul food into a burrito. Okonomiyakiis one of Osaka’s signature dishes. Made with cabbage, flour, egg, strips of pork and crunchy tempura bits, okonomiyaki means “however you like,” so people add all sorts of other…
Track: Moonchild (Live) | Artist: Chibo Matto (with Sean Lennon) | Album: Stereo * Type A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
At many Japanese restaurants, there is plastic food out front. The fake meals function as supplements to the menu so people can see what the meals actually look like. And the way this phony food is made is fascinating. As previously posted, plastic food is called “shokuhin sample” (食品サンプル) or “food sample” in Japanese. Many…
The download sales and shipped copies of Kingdom Hearts III have crossed the five million number since its release late last month. According to Square Enix, the game has set a new sales record for the series, with KHIII being the fastest-selling entry in the series.
Snack packaging gets a second life as wonderful papercraft thanks to a Japanese art student. Harukiru, a student at Kobe Design University, makes these striking sculptures by cutting up the packing with scissors or a blade. Kotaku previously featured his paper gun that shoots wooden bullets. These days, he’s best known for his snack packaging…
Railway Park. Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. By hans-johnson | Flickr 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!
Mode
Follow us
