We are now about halfway through the Spring anime season of 2013, and for weeks now I have been bombarded with the…
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Richard Eisenbeis
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Japanese Correspondent. Player of Japan-first and Japan-only games. Watcher of way too much anime. Occasional streamer.
For the past three weeks, Tomodachi Collection: New Life has been the best-selling game in Japan—and in its first…
I’ve never really cared too much about Miis. I never even made one for my Wii or 3DS—hell, I’ve never even opened…
When I picked up Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus: The Girls' Proof for my Vita, I was filled with existential dread.
Each year, Japan produces dozens of live-action drama series. While some are original, many are instead adaptations…
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Japanese games are well known for targeting a straight male audience with their overly sexualized (i.e., incredibly…
Sexual fan service is hardly a new aspect of anime. While the most obvious are panty shots and boob bounces, few…
Library Wars, a new live action movie based on the anime and novel series of the same name, was released in theaters…
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In the past, the Senran Kagura series of games have been brawlers exclusive to the 3DS. But the newest iteration on…
When One Piece: Pirate Warriors was released on the PS3, I found myself playing it and enjoying it—despite having…
Nearly a year ago, I talked about what it was like to play One Piece: Pirate Warriors without any foreknowledge of…
The first time I saw a Dynasty Warriors game, it was when I walked into the TV room of my high school dorm.
Richard: Today, myself and fellow Kotaku author Toshi Nakamura are here to look at the recently released movie…
Growing up, I was a very thin kid. Thanks to an amazingly high metabolism, I could eat anything I wanted, as much as…
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Like most shonen anime and manga, One Piece is filled to the brim with crazy attacks and special moves. But what…
This coming weekend, Japan will see the release of the new Steins;Gate movie, Steins;Gate: The Burden of Déjà Vu.
JRPGs are often a dime a dozen in Japan but late last December, Level 5 released Fantasy Life for the Nintendo 3DS…
When it comes to gaming, RPGs represent the pinnacle of storytelling with games like Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger…
Back when I looked at the first half of Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic earlier this year, I was impressed by the…
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Level 5’s newest game Fantasy Life is a whole new take on the JRPG genre. In the vast majority of RPGs, you play as…