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During my sixth grade year, two things happened that would change the direction of my life forever: I saw my first…
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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.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most famous—and polarizing—anime ever created. And it always seems to fall…
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Tokitowa is a new JRPG filled with time travel, multiple personality disorder, talking dragons, ghost towns,…
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Over the past few months I've been anxiously awaiting the new PS3 title Tokitowa. While some are looking forward to…
Last weekend, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings, an abridged and enhanced version of the first…
When the Ace Attorney live-action movie was released back in February in Japan, I called it the best video game…
Last generation's PSP was a bastion of great music games with titles like Lumines and Project Diva—in addition to…
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Proving that she is an international sensation, virtual idol Hatsune Miku performed her first live show in Taiwan…
When I left America seven years ago, I couldn't even imagine the idea of free streaming video on the internet—much…
Madoka Magica is an award winning anime series, famous for deconstructing the "magical girl" anime genre and turning…
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The Korean-made DJMax games are some of the most popular in the PSP's library—in addition to being some of the…
Accel World is a popular anime series based on a series of popular light novels centering around a secret MMORPG…
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My recent forays into Japan-only anime tie-in games have been a little less than fruitful. Regardless of the quality…
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Music has always been one of the pillars of Macross—along with love triangles and space wars. But only now, 30…
Without a doubt, Tiger & Bunny was one of the most popular anime of 2011. It took the idea of superheroes and mixed…
I have made no secret of how much I have been enjoying Sword Art Online—going so far as to call it the smartest…
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Since the plot of the light novel/anime series Accel World revolves around an MMO fighting game, one would think…
This year at the Tokyo Game Show, Kotaku had the pleasure of sitting down with Mizuno Naoko, the creator of Hyperdime…
Sword Art Online is an anime based on a series of light novels which has just hit the midway point of its TV run.…
We at Kotaku have already reported at some length how long the line was to get into the Tokyo Game Show this year.…