If you are into visual novels at all, you’ve probably already played Steins;Gate (and if you haven’t, you should). But Steins;Gate is only one in a series of games tied together by their excellent sci-fi tales—and improper semicolon use. But if I’m going to try to explain the Science Adventure series, I’m going to need…
The newest JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 3D fighting game has exactly what fans of the long running anime and manga are looking for: being able to play as a ton of the series’ heroes and villains—53 to be exact. Part I: Phantom Blood Jonathan Joestar, Will A Zeppeli, Robert E. O. Speedwagon, Dio Brando Part II:…
The Monogatari anime franchise has given us four TV series and several specials since it started in 2009. So it’s all the more surprising that it’s only now that we’re getting the beginning of the story in the first of three films with Kizumonogatari Part I: Tekketsu The Monogatari series in general follows high school…
Well, except for Tiki. She gets to be Hatsune Miku Genei Ibun Roku ♯FE is a crossover game between the Shin Megami Tensei series and the Fire Emblem series. However, this time, the “devils” summoned by our Shin Megami Tensei heroes aren’t devils at all, but rather demonic re-imaginings of some of Fire Emblem’s most…
One of the things I love about Nintendo is how they occasionally, with little to no fanfare, release inexpensive first-party titles on the Japanese eShop—especially as the newest of these titles is Box Boy: One More Box, the sequel to one of last year’s best games Like the original Box Boy, One More Box is…
On New Years’ Eve here in Japan, we got to see a special preview cut of the first episode of upcoming anime Macross Delta. It has things we’ve come to expect—like transforming fighter planes—and things we haven’t—namely magical girls. Taking place eight years after Macross Frontier, the previous Macross anime, Delta follows the humans (and…
Nitroplus is a studio popular for its visual novels—and the anime and manga it has collaborated on. Nitro+ Blasterz is what happens when you take the heroines from these works and make them duke it out in a crossover fighting game. As a fighter, it’s a rather simple one. The face buttons on the controller…
What happens when you cross Shin Megami Tensei with Fire Emblem? Come join me and find out! Update: The stream is over but you can watch all four hours of it here! Part 1 Part 2 Genei Ibun Roku #FE (Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem) was released in Japan for the Nintendo Wii U…
There have been more than a few great anime this past winter, spring, summer, and fall. But now, as the year comes to a close, it’s time to look back one last time and pick the five best anime series of 2015. [This post originally ran on December 29, 2015] First, some rules: 1) The…
On a small island, a brilliant computer programmer has spent the last 15 years of her life confined to her small apartment in a high tech research lab. In that time, no one has entered or left—until the day her armless, legless, wedding dress-clad corpse comes rolling out of her room. But before we get…
Each year, a ton of games are made and released in Japan. But many of them don’t come out in the rest of the world at the same time—and others never leave the island nation at all. So with that in mind, here are the best Japanese games of 2015 that have yet to come…
Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky is the newest RPG from tri-Ace, the studio behind the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series. So join me and let’s find out together just what kind of game it is. Update: Here is the complete stream archived below. Oddly, Twitch kept disconnecting every 15 minutes so…
Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist shows us a world where censorship goes too far. And it’s pretty damn hilarious. In the world of Shimoneta, perverted humor—or anything else deemed sexually perverse—has been banned for years. Pornography has been summarily destroyed and now the entire population of Japan wears…
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel is a new fighting game for PS3 and PS4 that is filled with Nitroplus characters spanning everything from visual novels to hit anime. The top pic shows some of the better known ones, such as Saber from Fate/Zero, or Akane from Psycho-Pass Here are all the playable characters: Playable Characters…
Omega Labyrinth is a game about two things: breasts and dungeon crawling. [Note: Some readers might find this content objectionable.] The story of Omega Labyrinth begins as school girl Aina and her friend Nako head into the nearby dungeon that hides the “Grail of Beauty.” As a lowly b-cup, Aina hopes to find the grail…
On its surface, being un-killable seems like something wonderful. But in the world of the new anime film Ajin: Shodo, all that awaits you for eternity is nothing but years of painful human experimentation. Ajin is set in a world where fifteen years ago, immortals, known as “Ajin” were discovered. While only 46 have been…
Up until this point, Dreamfall Chapters has taken place almost entirely in two sprawling cities, one in a fantasy world and one in a sci-fi world. In Book Four: Revelations we finally leave the cities and see some of the stunning locales the fantasy world has to offer. When we last left our heroine Zoë,…
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Every season brings us a massive amount of new anime theme songs. Here are ten of the best from fall 2015. Anime: Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA Song: “Bull’s Eye” Artist: Nano Why I Love It: Honestly, I don’t think I’ve heard a Nano song I didn’t love. After all, her anime themes all seem…
The Neptunia game series has a simple premise: What if video game consoles were actually magical goddesses in a world filled with video game-inspired characters and in-jokes. Uberdimension Blanc + Neptune Faction Vs. The Zombie Army is more of the same but in a high school—and with zombies. In the world of Uberdimension Blanc, the…
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