Making Japanese Kit Kats sure seems fun. Checking them, though, that looks hard, especially when thousands of them are rolling by every minute. A recent episode of Japanese TV program JobTune showed the inside of a KitKat production factory. To ensure that only decent wafers end up sold, a factory worker spot checks them. One…
Hummingbird and cherry blossoms. Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan. Update February 15 – 2:42 am: The name of the photographer was removed at his request. 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!
Sometimes in anime and visual novels, the perspective is spot on. But sometimes, it’s not. Via Nijipoi, GirlsChannel and OneCall, let’s have a look at when those backgrounds and viewpoints come up short. These kind of images appear to exist in a different dimension, because they don’t follow our universe’s basic rules of perspective. For…
Purple and Green. Saga Prefecture, Japan. By Colin Laycock. 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!
Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV, the full-CG Final Fantasy XV spin-off flick, will be out in Japanese movie theaters on July 9. No word yet on its international release date.
Is the Persona 5 release date coming soon? After getting delayed and being awfully quiet, Atlus has put up a countdown clock today, which at the time of writing, has over 300 hours left to go.
Many Japanese think English is a difficult language. So why not make that linguistic grind enjoyable? That’s exactly what this odd little book does. A few years ago, Kotaku introduced English Words That Don’t Appear on Tests (here and here). It’s a wonderful English book filled with silly drawings and words and sentences that probably…
Fushimi Inari Shrine. Kyoto, Japan. By Christian Astorga. 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!
Of course it is. Warning: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. “Life-sized boob mouse pads” (等身大おっぱいマウスパッド or “toushindai oppai mausu paddo”) have been released in Japan for well-over a decade. Some people think they’re harmless fun, while others don’t like them. In the past few years, however, the these mouse pads have…
While a bit time consuming, it was relatively easy for me to get the digimon I wanted in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. In the new game, Digimon World: Next 0rder, it’s a whole lot more complicated. Like, “get your spreadsheets ready” complicated. Back in the early 2000s, I was enough into Digimon that I watched…
Brave warrior, the only thing that can defeat you now are sharp pointy things like pencils. And rough-housing. And sitting on the sofa funny. And rain. But behold, here is genuine made-in-Japan cardboard samurai armor. The dark armor is patterned after Date Masamune’s, while the red is designed after Sanada Yukimura’s armor. According to IT…
According to Japanese game industry site Game Business, the president of PlatinumGames, Tatsuya Minami, has stepped down. This comes as PlatinumGames began celebrating its tenth anniversary earlier this year. Platinum is the developer of games like Vanquish and Metal Gear Rising. Their most recent title, Star Fox Zero, launched in Japan for the Wii U…
This is it. The first museum in the world dedicated to the cartoon beagle. And it’s opening this weekend. Located in Tokyo’s Roppongi, the museum features original and unpublished works from Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, rare memorabilia, as well as new, rotating exhibits. The only other Peanuts museum is the Charles M. Schulz Museum…
Fastfood chain Lotteria has lost its mind. Yet again. Back in 2013, Kotaku reported on the “With Everything Burger” (“zenbu nose baagaa” or 全部のせバーガー), which came with lettuce, cabbage, egg, a slice of cheese, a cheeseburger, a rib patty, a fried shrimp patty, a beef patty, pickles and various sauces, like ketchup, mayo, and teriyaki…
Tokyo Sunset from Odaiba. Tokyo, Japan. By Batist Tardiou. 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!
While Scarlett Johansson’s casting as Japanese cyborg Motoko Kusanagi has been controversialin the West, the original Tokyo-based publisher of the Ghost in the Shell manga seems totally cool with it. Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest publishers, first put out the manga in 1989, and as AnimeNewsNetwork reports, began reprinting the manga after Production I.G successfully…
Track: Boku no Rock n Roll | Artist: Six Lounge | Album: Shinonome Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
John Ramirez loves Japan. He’s also a Disney storyboard artist. This is where things get interesting. “I try to mix my love of animated characters and old Japanese photos for a laugh,” Ramirez tells Kotaku. Many of the images are from the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Disney and Disney-influenced characters appear…
Japanese artist Shinichi Furuya can wield all sorts of magic with pencil and paper. Furuya is a middle-aged salaryman, but in his free time, as pointed out on Ota News, he draws portraits of famous Japanese female celebrities like Satomi Ishihara, Rino Sashihara, and Suzu Hirose. It’s not surprising that his work has been featured…
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is set somewhere within the first eight episodes of the first season of cyberpunk dystopian animePsycho-Pass. And it’s made me do things so messed up that it’s hard to keep playing. [This post contains spoilers for the first two cases of Psycho Pass: Mandatory Happiness.] In the world of Psycho-Pass, Tokyo is…
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