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Feel The Beat. Jeonju, South Korea. By Christian Mata. 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!

Woman Arrested For Allegedly Making Death Threats To Anime Retailer

Animate is a large retailer of anime, manga, and video games with well over a hundred stores in Japan. A woman has been arrested for allegedly sending threatening emails, including one in which “kill” (殺す or korosu) was apparently written 3,852 times. Over a several week span in August, she allegedly sent threatening emails that…

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, the upcoming game from the two-man dev team responsible for Astebreed, was originally supposed to be out this winter in Japan. The release date has been pushed back to 2020. Its US release date is TBA. 

Let’s Compare Resident Evil 3 Remake With The Original Graphics

As reported yesterday, Resident Evil 3 is getting a remake. The original game came out in 1999. Since then, lots has changed! Just look at the leap in graphics. Compared to Resident Evil 2 Remake, which featured very new faces, Resident Evil 3 Remake seems to do a decent job of capturing the spirit of…

Floating. Tonle Sap River, Cambodia. By Vincent Boun. 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: Blind Leading the Blind | Artist: Mumford & Sons | Album: Sigh No More

Full Metal Panic Manga Creator Apologizes After Tweets About Greta Thunberg

Over the weekend, manga creator Shouji Gatou took to Twitter, writing what he thought about environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Today, he has apologized, calling his earlier remarks “awful.” “I hate this kid,” he wrote in a now-deleted tweet about Thunberg, reports NicoNico. “If I pulled the strings that controlled the world, I would like to…

Anime Studio Mysteriously Vanished, With Artists Unpaid And Unhappy [Update]

Tear Studio churned out shows like this year’s Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!? and last year’s Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King. And Fragtime, a movie the studio animated, is currently in theaters. Tear Studio, however, seems to have suddenly vanished. Update – December 17 – 5:00 AM EST: AWOL anime maker Tear…

Coming and Going. Kyoto, 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: Texas Sun | Artist: Khruangbin & Leon Bridges | Album: Texas Sun EP

A statue of One Piece’s Sanji has been erected in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan. Eiichiro Oda hails from Kumamoto and the statue is a sign of support for the prefecture, which was hit by a series of strong earthquakes in 2016.

Hunter X Hunter, The King Of Hiatus Manga, Continues To Be AWOL

Yoshihiro Togashi is best known for two things: creating Hunter x Hunter and taking breaks from Hunter x Hunter. The last issue this year of Weekly Shonen Jump has been published, and the popular manga was not in it. Nor is it in the first issue of 2020, which was published on December 2. The…

See Nausicaä Come To Life As A Live-Action Kabuki Play

Here’s the first peek at the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind live-action kabuki play. You can watch the footage below. The performance stars Onoe Kikunosuke as Nausicaä and Nakamura Shichinosuke as Princess Kushana, and it gives a kabuki twist to the costumes and set pieces. As previously reported, Hayao Miyazaki turned down a…

Lumphini Park. Bangkok Thailand. By Nick Fron. 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: Rhythm | Artist: Iri | Album: Groove It

The Switch seems like it’s off to a good start in China. In the first nine hours, pre-orders of the Switch surpassed 100,000. As Nintendo Soup explained, these numbers are from JD.com, China’s largest online retailer, so factoring in other retailers, the real number might be higher.

Slot Machine Logo Sure Looks Familiar

This is the logo for an upcoming slot machine called Wheel of Fortune. I’m sure I’ve seen it before. OH RIGHT. It’s not an exact copy, but there certainly are many close similarities. As pointed out on Hachima, this is from Tokyo-based pachinko and slot machine maker Kita Denshi. The logo was included in a…

Late Night Walk. Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan. By Butch Smith. 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: Skinny Love (Live) | Artist: Bon Iver | Album: For Emma, Forever Ago

Mecha game Daemon X Machina is getting Witcher III themed threads, hairdos, and body types, letting players turn their anime-style pilots into Geralt or Ciri with the character creation tool. The free DLC pack is available starting today. In case you missed it, read Kotaku’s Daemon X Machina review here