There’s a show on Japanese television called Kansei! Dream House (“It’s Finished! Dream House”). On it, architects build dream dwellings for regular folks, who do have to foot the bill. And while most of the houses seem okay, some of them are utterly horrible. Often, the architects are acting under some sort of constraint. Sometimes,…
The PS Vita is doing much better these days. The game library is still not as robust as I’d like, but I don’t get depressed so much when I check the Vita section of my regular game store. Sadly, the hand-held powerhouse is still not performing as well as Sony would probably want it to.…
Game developer Compile Heart unveiled the first game for their Galapagos RPG brand Titled, fairy fencer f, the game is labeled as a fantasy RPG for the PlayStation 3 and will utilize the talents of concept artist Yoshitaka Amano, composer Nobuo Uematsu and the Earthbound Papas, and the Hyperdimension Neptunia team. In the game, players…
Okay, a little clarification is probably needed here. The new peripheral, the Pokémon TRETTA Lab for Nintendo 3DS, is a 3DS attachment and software bundle developed by Japanese toy company Takara Tomy A.R.T.S and game developer Marvelous AQL that allows players to load data of captured Pokémon from the arcade game, Pokémon TRETTA, to analyze,…
The MSX might be gone, but its fans still live on. And a group of them in South Korea decided to launch their own MSX machine. This is it. The MSX was a classic machine that even saw the birth of Metal Gear in Japan. Between 1985 and 1991, Daewoo released a version of the…
Maybe you are creepy geek (née, “otaku”). Maybe you’re not! But maybe other people say you are, and you’d really like to know whether you are, in fact, a creepy otaku. Good thing there’s now a test you can take. This test comes via 2ch, Japan’s largest internet forum. It’s…not scientific! But if there’s one…
Homework sucks! It does. With the help of a 3D printer, one Japanese person figured out a way to make it go faster. Japanese students (or students of Japanese, for that matter) have numerous writing exercises that force them to scribble the same kanji characters over and over again. It’s rote memory. Twitter user Hitoshinshi…
Sexual fan service is hardly a new aspect of anime. While the most obvious are panty shots and boob bounces, few anime come without a shower scene, beach episode, or hot springs episode where the female characters—and sometimes even the male ones—are shown off in all their near-naked glory. But occasionally, there comes an anime…
Tomodachi Collection is Nintendo’s take on The Sims. But unlike The Sims, same-sex marriages have apparently not been allowed. Until now. In the recently released Tomodachi Collection: New Life, players are reporting a “bug” that allows male Mii characters to marry each other. It does not appear to allow female characters to do the same.…
In many countries, there’s freedom of speech. You can criticize your country’s government and leaders on, for example, television. On China’s state-run TV, you cannot. Enter Jon Stewart. The Chinese Government controls China Central Television, or CCTV. “The role of the media as defined by the (Communist) Party is to serve the party’s interests,” David…
According to a Japanese magazine leak, the first Compile Heart “niche” (with non niche talent) JRPG is called Fairy Fencer F. Noted! To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan,…
Wake up! You are not dreaming. This is really happening. Well, in Japan at least. Fast food joint Lotteria is teaming with ramen restaurant Menya Musashi for this culinary collaboration—a first of its kind, apparently, for the hamburger chain. Thus, as IT Media reports, the resulting burger is called “Menya Musashi Ramen Burger”. The noodles…
According to a Japanese magazine leak, the new Dead or Alive 5 project that was previously teased is apparently called Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate. Joining the fray as a playable character, it seems, is Momiji from the Ninja Gaiden series. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on…
And it’s actually from a research group called “Crazy Labo”. Geddit? Crazy. Given the female name “Kaori”, which can also mean “smell” or “fragrance” in Japanese, the robot is able to discern if your breath stinks or not, reports Asahi News Breathe into the female robot’s face, and if your breath is okay, she’ll say.…
Professional Warcraft III player Seung Hyun Park (aka “Go)Space”) passed away this Monday. He was 25 years old. As MyDaily previously reported (via tipster Sang), Park suffered from muscular dystrophy, but still went on to become a top ranked pro Warcraft III player. Park was diagnosed when he was 11, and doctors didn’t think he…
You are looking at what appears to be a publicity stunt. An awful, humiliating publicity stunt in which company employees in China had to crawl in public. The incident recently took place at the Chongqing People’s Liberation Monument, and it was supposedly part of a training exercise for some Chinese cosmetics company. The goal was…
A Japanese gamer poured 2,280 days worth of playtime into this Final Fantasy XI account. That’s over six years! But now, it’s time to part ways. The gamer is putting his or her Japanese account on the internet auction block, giving anyone with around the equivalent of US$4,500 the chance to own it—and all the…
In the past, the Senran Kagura series of games have been brawlers exclusive to the 3DS. But the newest iteration on the PlayStation Vita makes the game play more like Dissidia: Final Fantasy than an old school brawler or its 3DS cousins. But brawler gameplay is hardly the aspect Senran Kagura is famous for. No,…
Meet Vanilla Chamu. She greets fellow Japanese people with a “bonjour” and claims to be from the Palace of Versailles. She’s not, of course. Recently, she was introduced on Japanese TV as “Osaka’s Plastic Surgery Cyborg”. This past April, Chamu appeared on Japanese variety show Watashi no Nani ga Ikenai no? (私の何がイケないの? or “Is There…
You’ve probably seenActresses without Teeth. Or Celebrities Without Eyebrows. Or Small Face Celebrities. Now, There’s Pin the Face on the Celeb. Lovely. On 2ch, Japan’s largest internet forum, a net user uploaded a series of “Pin the Face” style images of celebrities. Like the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey, physical features are being…
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