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Isaiah Colbert
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I write things and put them on the internet. Otaku of Kotaku, Reading Comprehension Devil, and wrestling mark. The bird app is actually @ShinEyeZehUhh. Oh ho, are you sending me a tip?

I’m sorry, this photo is just too wonderful and it’s such a bizarre thing to have been included in the source tweet. Read more

“There is no doubt that I knew the facts about the game before it was made public and bought the stock,” Yuji said, according to Japanese outlet TBS (which was translated by Time Extension).

I know even the writers here are children but surely we can get an invite for Claudia Grant/Lasalle from Robotech/Macross. The only “bridge bunny” on the SDF Macross who wasn’t screaming in fear all the damn time.   Read more

I regret to inform you that you’ve excluded the best variant that’s been found, and you must now edit the article:

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon. Read more

As someone who worked as a professional translator, I agree that this is pretty much a lost cause. Things like this don’t translate well, or at all. It would be like trying to translate a crossword puzzle into another language and still expecting it to work with the original spaces provided, or even for the wordplay Read more

Not a chance. It’s literally a manga about decoding and solving puzzles. When the puzzles are language-based, as many of them are, they become difficult or even impossible to translate, let alone localize. I promise you, the writer (singular, not writers) is spending his time thinking up compelling puzzles as well as Read more

Or, they did it for just Japanese speakers to enjoy. Not everything is about trolling.  Read more

Now this is the kind of content for which I come to Kotaku. Read more

In the John Wick franchise, Keanu Reeves doesn’t play the man who is the Baba Yaga. He plays the man you send to *kill* the fucking Baba Yaga. Read more

I know Keanu Reeves doesn’t need my support but I just hope that dude is living his best life. Stuff like this only reinforces my opinion. Read more

I’m with Carrie-Anne Moss on the discomfort with that sex mod thing. Happy Keanu was okay with it, but the glee that was reported with is disturbing considering it’s like one step removed from the extremely fucking dark deep fake porn we’re dealing with now. Read more

For a lot of people “anime” is a genre, they all have a similar look and tone. Avatar looks like Naruto and Dragonball, and the tone is similar, so it’s an anime.

Has Isaiah ever addressed why he categorizes Avatar: The Last Airbender as anime? There’s no point in correcting him, many surely already have in past listicles and he’s no doubt aware. I’m just curious what his rationale is, or if it’s just arbitrary. Read more

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One of my favorite lines from DBZ Abridged: Read more