You know you’ve made it if Pewdiepie retweets you. Congrats, stuck cat, you’ve made it! Twitter user Aktfps snapped an amusing photo of a poor feline friend with its claws stuck in a scratching post and on the bed. Don’t fret, the cat is okay, and this tweet, IT Media reports, racked up 30,000 retweets…
A mysterious Bandai Namco teaser site has popped up online. There’s a clock, some flames, and small text at the bottom that says PC and mobile content. Hrm.
Miyajima Island. Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. By Steven Pianelli. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Jun Maeda, who has written classic visual novels Clannad and Kanon, is suffering from idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Via Twitter, he announced that he needs a heart transplant, but assured that he still has a long life ahead of him.
This is Hiroaki Tanaka. He likes to do martial arts with umbrellas while wearing a suit. I think he’s badass. He doesn’t always use umbrellas. Here he is fighting with a broom. Fans. Shirts on hangers. And finally, glow sticks. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points…
Two men in Singapore were recently arrested for fighting over Pokémon Go, reports Channel News Asia. One man was playing the game while crossing the street, and the other man, driving a car, honked at him. Both face a year in prison or a fine.
Blue Skies. Kyoto, Japan. By Martin Steigele. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Okay, let’s get this straight. California-based Niantic develops Pokémon Go. Tokyo-based Game Freak makes the Pokémon video games. Got it? Because that’s probably why Game Freak co-founder Junichi Masuda can’t help you with your Pokémon Go problems! In a post on his official blog, Masuda acknowledged that he did collaborate on Pokémon Go’s game design,…
What did you do this weekend? I spent my Sunday here in Osaka shopping for a fax machine. No time travel was involved. I need a new home phone and found myself looking at rows of this: Also this weekend, months after an odd on-air apology, the country’s most famous boy band SMAP announced it…
If you’ve ever wanted to know how the latest Pokémon anime stacks up to the Japanese original, here’s your chance to find out. Besides the language and the voices, the biggest difference appears to be that the English dub lacks much of the audible oomph that the Japanese original has, especially when the soundtrack cuts…
Bonsai Tree. Tokyo, Japan. By Stefan Laketa JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
For the past twenty years, Ash has been losing. To date, he’s never won an official Pokémon League, but that could change this month. Ash might finally win his first one. Increasingly, Ash has upped his game and has been more formidable in the anime than in year’s past. This season, Ash and his Greninja…
You know what, for an amphibious mobile suit with iron pinchers, MSM-07 isn’t too shabby at model making. Twitter user TKvirtualworld created this brilliant diorama with MSM-07 sitting at a desk, reading through an instructional manual. A look at MSM-07’s handiwork. Can you imagine picking up those little pieces with those pinchers? Or creating something…
A new series of Parappa the Rapper spin-off animated shorts are coming to Japanese TV this year, MoCA (via ANN) reports. The anime stars a chill teddy bear named PJ Berri and also features Parappa and Chop Chop Master Onion. Each episode is around 96 seconds long.
We take it for granted. Each season, anime studios churn out new episodes on a regular basis. But at one time, a weekly TV anime was seen as an impossibility in Japan. Osamu Tezuka changed that forever. Hailed as the “God of Manga,” Tezuka was also the man who made anime what it is today.…
The computer graphics in Godzilla Resurgence are quite good. Let’s see how they all came together. While I have mixed feelings about the film itself, I loved the look of it, the camera setups, and the CG. The CG felt tactile and heavy like the models and miniature sets of the past. As Kotaku previously…
Studio Ghibli. Nagoya, Japan. By Nelson Diaz. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Is Pokémon Sun and Moon the leakiest game of 2016? Not sure, but for the past few days, Sun and Moon leaks have reportedly shown new characters. Today we can confirm that those leaks were true. Team Skull is Sun and Moon’s antagonist organization: This is Plumeria. Guzma is Team Skull’s leader. New Pokémon include…
Damn, that stuffed bear is effing huge. San-X is once again rolling out a life-sized version of its popular lazy bear character Rilakkuma. The plushie is 5.4 feet tall and weighs 19 pounds. Which means in real life Rilakkuma is not some small, cute bear, but more like this: The plushie is priced at 66,434…
Next February, Matt Damon stars in a movie centered around the Great Wall of China. According to the film’s director Zhang Yimou, there’s a reason for that and it’s not whitewashing. This comes in the wake of the surrounding decision to cast Scarlett Johansson as augmented-cybernetic human Motoko Kusanagi in The Ghost in the Shell…
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