Before last year I had never seriously played a social game. I was never interested in Bejeweled or Farmville (as…
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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.
Like many people out there, I lost my Shepard in the time between Mass Effect 1 and 2—probably because I forgot to…
Back when I reviewed the first half of Ixion Saga DT late last year, I worried that the humor in the second half of…
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Game & Wario is a new mini-game collection and spin-off of the WarioWare series for the Wii U. And of the minigames…
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Despite being a phenomenon across the Western world these past three years, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic…
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Game & Wario is a new mini-game collection on the Wii U which is a spinoff of Nintendo's popular WarioWare series.…
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A week ago, the new movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods hit theaters across Japan. But that is not the only Dragon…
When I looked at the first arc of the 2012 anime Jojo's Bizarre Adventure earlier this year, I said that it captured…
Anime is by far the most popular piece of Japanese popular culture to leave Japan and spread to other parts of the…
Sword Art Online is a massively popular franchise in Japan. Last year it was the best selling light novel series in…
Back when the anime hit its halfway point last year, I called Sword Art Online the smartest anime I had seen in years
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Back when I reviewed the second half of the anime Sword Art Online, I lauded the sudden, and completely unexpected,…
There is no doubt that Dragon Ball is a world-wide phenomenon. Outside of the original manga, there have been…
Over the years, there have been many games released in Japan only. Of these, a small number have gone on to become…
At first glance, anime Maoyu is hardly what you would call original. There are two worlds, a human world and a demon…
This past week saw the release in Japan of Earthbound(Mother 2) on the Wii U’s virtual console.
Robotics;Notes is a near future tale of a high school robotics club trying to build a giant robot and save their…
This Sunday, I spent about an hour delving through the past 24 hours of messages on the Mother 2 MiiVerse page that…
As part of the Famicon's (Nintendo Entertainment System's) 30th anniversary in Japan, Nintendo has been releasing…
Psycho Pass is a cyberpunk police story in the same vein as Ghost in the Shell. But instead of being centered on the…