Hmm… Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin: Blue-Eyed Casval. A prequel to a highly successful, generation-defining SF franchise? That’s never gone wrong before… I would say Gundam is more akin to Star Trek than Star Wars. Both series are more science fiction as opposed to science fantasy. Both deal with topical issues like war, discrimination, evolution,…
Service for the first Nintendo 3DS free-to-play game is ending in Japan on June 30. Dubbed Initial D Perfect Shift Online, beta testing began back in 2013, with service beginning in April 2014.
This is not an endorsement or recommendation for trolling. If anything, it’s simply an explainer to let you know what’s going on. Because trolling is bad poi. What’s “poi”? In Japanese, “poi” (っぽい) means “apparently,” “supposedly,” “seems like,” or even “~ish.” It’s a pretty common and basic word. But many fans are using it without…
Because seeing a geriatric cyborg badass is kinda cathartic in a way. Inuyashiki is the latest manga from Hiroya Oku, the guy who created Gantz, a manga about people who are transported to a room with a giant black ball in it when they die so they can fight aliens with crazy future-tech weaponry. So,…
It really hasn’t. Twitter user Tachibana 11111 created this “fantasy Japanese style” village. The design is modeled after a Japanese village filled with traditional inns. Tachibana 11111 spent one year and eight months to complete this work, using a self-made custom texture pack to capture that Japanese feel. The result is truly spectacular. [All photos:…
Have you seen this man? His name is Hideo Kojima and he makes video games. And since March 19 he seems to have vanished. Of course, he hasn’t vanished from the internet. There have been various stories about Hideo Kojima and how his production company seems to have vanished. Then, there was, in my opinion,…
No, no. Not every burger restaurant in Japan is like this. Too bad, huh? The Lotteria in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro is… different. One floor of the restaurant is reserved for anime collaborations and covered in whatever show (or game) is being promoted, whether that’s Sword Art Online, Fate stay night, or The Idolmaster Not only are…
Tomo Tanaka is a “miniature artist.” That doesn’t mean he is of small stature. Oh no, but his art certainly is. Tanaka, who lives in Osaka, works with very small scales—such as 1/12 and 1/24 scale—and makes items for small-scale display. Tanaka creates everything from glasses to samurai swords and from cookware to meals (though,…
There already are Naruto manga, an anime, and numerous video games. Be happy with those. Because from the looks of it, staging Naruto fights in real life is hard. As previously reported, a live-action stage version is being performed in Tokyo. Parts of the production do look cool, and I’m sure they’re doing the best…
Never mind that there was already an Astro Boy reboot in 2009. Or that the previous reboot was not so good. They’re giving it another shot, calling it, wait for it, Astro Boy Reboot. It looks very green. As reported last year in Variety (via IT Media), the series is from Monaco’s Shibuya Productions and…
You are looking at someone wearing a Baymax costume while learning how to be a flight attendant. As one does. Via Sina, the training went like this in the simulation plane: [Photos: Sina] A flight attendant trainee from Sichuan Southwest Vocational College of Aviation was apparently stuffed in a Baymax costume. Here you can see…
Speakers give inspirational talks. There’s clapping. Words of wisdom. Nostalgic looks back on the time passed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz… Wake me up when they start passing out diplomas. It’s time to spice things up with cosplay. The vast majority of students still wear suits or kimono, but in Kyoto,year after year, some students ditch the standard attire…
Final Fantasy Type-0 was released in Japan this past Thursday—two days later than in America. But like many of you, I was more interested in the Final Fantasy XV demo than Type-0 itself. I didn’t exactly enjoy the Type-0 experience when the game was originally released, to say the least—though there were more than a…
One pair to rock, and one pair to stock, right? Sneakerheads might amass a large collection of shoes, with some pairs not aging like fine wine, but rather, falling apart. Above, you can see a pair of twenty-year-old Air Max 95s. Recently, Twitter user Nagomo Ojitried them on for the first time in twenty years,…
We really don’t know much about Nintendo’s new hardware. It’s codenamed NX. It’s from Nintendo. And…well…That’s about it, really. However, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently offered what could be vague hints. Or not. In an interview with Nikkei, Iwata briefly mentioned the hardware, saying he wouldn’t go into particulars about the NX. “However, if you…
Smoking is bad. Don’t do it! But that’s not why the new Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime is being censored. It’s because this is underage smoking In the most recent Japanese broadcast of the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime, the face of Jotaro Kujo is covered in blackness to censor the cigarette in his mouth. This is…
From the country with the most interesting Kit-Kat flavors, comes this: a Kit-Kat sandwich you can order at a fast food chain. Sure, why not? Though, I bet somewhere someone in a moment of snacking depravity has put Kit-Kats between bread. However, no fastfood chain has ever sold such madness to the masses. Until now.…
This week, the Final Fantasy XV demo was released across the world to those who picked up Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. However, it’s important to remember that it is just a demo and not necessarily the same experience as the full game. I mean, look how much Final Fantasy XIII changed between its demo and…
Maybe it’s good! There’s a big difference between looking at stills and sitting in a theater and experiencing an actual Naruto musical. But for now, let’s look at photos. Actually, I’m not sure what to make of this. Some of the photos look kind of goofy. Then again, others look very cool. At least the…
Imagine if Don Quixote was a JRPG and the title character really was fighting giants while everyone else saw windmills. That game exists and it is Tales of Zestiria Tales of Zestiria is the story of Sorey, a young man who grew up not in a village of humans, but a village of the spirit-like…
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