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Track: Youth | Artist: Young Juvenile Youth | Album: Youth (single)  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Poll: Ten Anime And Manga With The Most Unhappy Endings Ever 

Not everything turns out like you hope it does. Not life, not manga, and certainly not anime. Goo Ranking conducted this this poll last month, asking 500 people in Japan (a 50/50 split between men and women) to list anime with “miserably” bad endings. Below you can see the top ten. This article doesn’t have…

A trailer marking twenty years of SoulCalibur just hit Namco Bandai’s Japanese YouTube channel. Wonder if that means a new title is around the corner. Who knows? Namco Bandai does, that’s who. 

First Look At The Live-Action Gintama Cast In Costume

Next year, a live-action Gintama movie based on the popular manga and anime is slated to hit Japanese movie theaters. Here’s a first look at the movie’s leads. That’s Shun Oguri, who you might remember as Lupin in the live-action version, as the titular Gintoki Sakata Oguri is joined by actor Masaki Suda as samurai-in-training…

Omoide Yokocho. Tokyo, Japan. By Brent Hopkins. 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: Halcyon + on + on | Artist: Orbital | Album: Orbital 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Final Fantasy XV Glitches Are A Good Time

As with any open world game about men with fancy hair, Final Fantasy XV is bound to have some glitches. Players are finding some of them, and many of them are terrific. According to our own Jason Schreier, who reviewedFinal Fantasy XV, the game wasn’t super glitchy for him. So, let’s assume these are part…

A fourth (yes, fourth!) Yokai Watch movie has been announced. It will be released in winter 2017 in Japan. Wonder if they’ll do a fifth? I bet they do!

Destroying Japanese Convenience Stores In Yakuza 6 Will Never Get Old

Never! Because in the Yakuza 6 demo, you don’t even need punches and kicks to wreak havoc on in-game convenience stores. You can just run up to them and watch stuff start flying.  See what I’m talking about in the clips below: I guess if you did run at a shelf filled with stuff, it…

Mt Fuji, as seen from Hachioji. Tokyo, Japan. By Johan Toresson. 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!

When Making The Costume Is Easy, But The Prop Is Not

In anime Durarara!!, bodyguard Shizuo Heiwajima is known for his amazing strength. His outfit, a bartender outfit and sunglasses, is easy to pull off. The improvised weapons he wields, however, are not. Heiwajima often uses street signs for battling, but when typical cosplayers dress as him, they carry a stop sign. While difficult to make,…

The New Pokémon Anime Masters The Art Of Silly Faces 

Pokémon Sun Moon is a silly TV show, but some of the facial expressions it has been unloading are nothing short of art Online in Japan, some people are calling the new Sun Moon show a “kaogei anime” (顔芸アニメ), which means being skilled at making silly faces. It’s often used in Japanese comedy, with some…

Hideaki Anno’s Studio Just Sued Gainax

Famed animator Hideaki Anno is one of the founders of Gainax, the studio behind the iconic Neon Genesis Evangelion. His latest studio, Khara, filed suit for over 100 million yen ($877,636) it claims Gainax owes. Anno co-founded Gainax in 1984 with fellow students he met at Osaka University of Arts, including current Gainax president Hiroyuki…

Alley. Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. By Chris Bryan 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: The Mountain Will Fall | Artist: DJ Shadow | Album: The Mountain Will Fall  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The latest rice-straw sculptures to go up in Japan are these Dragon Quest Slimes. They’ll be on display in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture until March 26, 2017. 

Titanfall Online Is Coming To South Korea

Yes, yes. Titanfall already has online play, but this Nexon-released title is specifically an online game. Titanfall Online was announced for Asia as a collaboration between EA, Respawn and Nexon. So no word on an international release. It appears to be based more on the first game than its sequel. Here is some gameplay footage:…

Japan’s Giant Gundam Will Be Torn Down Next March 

On March 5, 2017, the giant Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba will be no more. So there’s still time to see it, but not much. This giant Gundam statue went up in 2012, and it’s not the first of its kind. Previously, a giant Gundam went up in Tokyo in 2009, and there was another…

The View Through Yasaka Shrine. Kyoto, Japan. By Daniel Spung 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: Get Up Lucy | Artist: Thee Michelle Gun Elephant | Album: Chicken Zombies Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.