Via Chinese networking site Sina Weibo, someone noticed this archaeological find at a museum in northern China, pointing out its resemblance to Android’s iconic Robot mascot. According to MIC, one Chinese net user even wondered about an ancient relic that looks like a bitten apple. Android [Sina Weibo via MIC] Kotaku East is your slice…
3DS title Inazuma Eleven 1・2・3!! was pushed back in Japan to Nov. 29 from Nov. 15.
Out of all the things Nintendo have worked on this year, this one is certainly the most bizarre. This is a set of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure hanafuda playing cards. The name of this set? Jojo’s Bizarre Hanafuda ~ Gold Fuda. Nintendo is, of course, originally a card company. Hanafuda is a traditional card game in…
This year, the city of Ishihara opened a 200-square meter, landscaped women’s restroom. It is supposedly the “world’s largest toilet”. Supposedly, because you need the Guinness World Records’ seal of approval for something like this. But, from the sound of it, that will never happen. According to Mainichi News, when the city submitted its outdoor…
Studio Ghibli, the folks behind classics like Howl’s Moving Castle, is no stranger to urban legends. There’s that one about Totoro being a harbinger of death, for example. Well, have a listen to the latest one that’s making its way around the internet in Japan. In the image below (via 秒刊SUNDAY), you can see Sosuke…
Comedian Yosuke Ochi, who’s won the Air Guitar Championships a few times, was recently roped in to promote Rocksmith in Japan, reports 4Gamer. And while I wish I could play the real guitar, re-watching Ochi’s schtick makes me wish slightly more that I could rock out like him on the air guitar. 大地さんのエアギターに大勢のファンが大熱狂 [4Gamer]
Upcoming RPG The Paradox of God and the Fate Revolution has been delayed to Jan. 24 in Japan.
Rule of thumb about Japanese comics: Just because they’re drawn, that certainly doesn’t mean they are for children (although that doesn’t mean they should be banned from public libraries, either.) According to B-Town Blog, Burien, Washington resident Travis De Nevers’ 10 year-old niece recently checked out the second volume of Makoto Tateno’s Hero Heel manga,…
Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi left game development “for now”. He’s currently a professor at Keio University.
Excited for the upcoming November release of the Wii U? New reports out of China might curb that enthusiasm. These reports claim that some underage teens were used to assemble the Nintendo Wii U consoles. According to Chinese site Sina, Foxconn, the company hired by Nintendo to assemble the Wii U, confirms that it’s had…
Tokitowa is a new JRPG filled with time travel, multiple personality disorder, talking dragons, ghost towns, assassins, comedy, and cake—lots and lots of cake. Its creators have called it an “Anime RPG” as it uses 2D sprites for all the characters and enemies which are then superimposed on a 3D world. In battle, Tokitowa plays…
For a while now, it’s been common knowledge that Atlus is making Persona 5. In a recent interview on Famitsu.com, Atlus game designer Katsura Hashino briefly (and I mean briefly) mentioned the next, numbered Persona. When asked about the latest in the Persona series, Hashino replied, “We’re making progress on developing the next numbered Persona.”…
I guess he’d look something like this? Here’s Hong Kong cosplayer LenLENko swinging by a local McDonald’s in her Hatsune Miku inspired Ronald McDonald get-up. Outfits like this that rework or reimagine established characters are among my favorite. LenLENko pulls this one off brilliantly. Extra points for actually going to McDonalds and getting a meal…
Over the past few months I’ve been anxiously awaiting the new PS3 title Tokitowa. While some are looking forward to the love story aspect or to its attempt to make a playable anime, the core of my anticipation is something altogether different: I’ve been dying to play another Japanese time travel story. For me, time…
This fall, Hyperdimension Neptunia is getting a card-based smartphone app. It’s free with microtransactions.
After seeing cute Dragon Quest Slime and Hatsune Miku meat buns, it was only a matter of time before Hello Kitty hit Japanese convenience stores. For a limited time only, convenience store chain Sunkus is selling Kitty-chan meat buns for ¥150 ($1.90) a pop. Japanese site Gigazine ordered a few and took photos for the…
Last weekend, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings, an abridged and enhanced version of the first eight episodes of the Modoka Magica anime was released in theaters across Japan. Now, exactly a week after the release of the first movie comes the second, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 2: Eternal.…
On October 1, a teacher in Aichi Prefecture, Japan warned a 14 year-old student several times about reading manga in class. When he wouldn’t stop, she took the manga away. That then angered the junior high school student. According to ANN News, the 14 year-old allegedly grabbed a pen off the teacher’s desk and then…
To mark the release of crime saga Yakuza 5, Sony is putting out a special (tacky—sorry!) PS3 bundle, complete with a gold colored PS3 controller. The controller is just gold—kinda ho hum. Know what can jazz it up? Stickers. Today, Sega showed off the Yakuza 5 controller, which now comes with customized stickers. Stickers that…
Earlier this year, there were discussions online in Japan on the “whiteness” of anime characters. That discussion, it seems, is not over. A recent Japanese thread titled “Even After Seeing This, You Can Declare Anime Characters Japanese?” (これを見てもアニメキャラは日本人って言い切れるかい？) picked up this issue once again, trying to suss out the physical characteristics of anime characters and…
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