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Yu-Gi-Oh Hair Looks Insane In Real Life

Not surprising! It looks nuts in the manga and anime, too. Out of all the Yu-Gi-Oh characters, Yami Yugi has the most amazing hairdo. It’s always been tricky to replicate in real life. In a new series of ads, Konami tries to do just that—even if the result is more plastic hat and less actual…

Poll: The Most Anticipated Anime Of Spring 2017

Soon a new anime season will start. Excited? A thousand people in Japan were polled about which shows they were looking forward to most. Here are the results. The poll comes via Japanese site Charapedia, and the data breaks down to 63.7 percent men and 36.3 percent women. Age-wise, 66.2 percent were in their teens…

Radiant Historia is getting a Nintendo 3DS full remake called Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology. It will feature a new scenario and is slated for release in Japan on June 29. No word if an international release is coming.

Japanese Pro Gamer Claims To Be Descended From Ninja

We all have ancestors. Yours might be farmers or doctors. Street Fighter pro Yusuke Momochi’s are ninja, it seems. Momochi currently plays for LA-based Echo Fox. He’s one of the most famous players on the scene, winning a Capcom Cup as well as the Ultra Street Fighter IV title for EVO. Asahi News reports that…

The King of Fighters is getting a CG animated series. Titled The King of Fighters: Destiny, it’s starting this spring in China. No word if and when it will hit other regions. 

An Inside Look At Yu-Gi-Oh Creator’s Studio 

An inside look at Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi's studio

Hirose Entertainment Yard in Akihabara. Tokyo, Japan. By Linus Hagman. 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!

On the official Mana Twitter site, footage of what looks like Seiken Densetsu 3 on the Nintendo Switch has surfaced. No other details were revealed, but there you go. 

Pokémon Developers’ Hiring Ads Lead To Inevitable Switch Speculation

New job ads from Pokémon developer Game Freak are causing speculation that a Switch entry is in our future. There is reason for such conjecture. Last fall, a report appeared that Pokémon was coming to the Switch as Pokémon Star This recent character modeler wanted ad is for a “new title.” Based in Tokyo, the…

Monster Hunter XX‘s Voice Acting Sounds Pornographic

XX? Surely, Capcom means XXX. The just released in Japan Monster Hunter XX has a handful of voice options for players. One in particular stands out.  Check out how the game’s Type 17 voice compares to hot and heavy Type 18. Goodness. Voices Type 19 and Type 20 don’t sound nearly as porny. This voice…

From Enoshima Sea Candle. Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. By Tom Perrine. 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!

An Erotic Game With A Very Big…Script

Who knew erotic game scripts were so big? Maybe you did! It makes sense, because these games, sexy stuff aside, sure can get chatty. The official Twitter for eroge Shin Koihime Musou Kakumei Souten no Haou announced that voice recording for the latest entry in the long running Koihime Musou series is getting underway. Here’s…

VR Schoolgirl Turned Into Life-Sized $23,000 Figure

In Namco Bandai’s VR game Summer Lesson, players are the tutor of schoolgirl Hikari Miyamoto. But that’s the virtual world! Now, they can have a real, life-sized Hikari statue to…put in their living room? I guess? According to Dengeki Hobby and Game Impress Watch, the highly detailed, 160-centimeter Hikari is produced by a high-precision 3D…

Burgers So Cheesy They Beg To Be Measured 

In Japan, fast food restaurant Lotteria is rolling out two cheesy burgers, providing patrons with measures for them to see just how long the mozzarella stretches. According to Entabe and Gigazine, the Mozzarella Cheese Burger and the Mozzarella Cheese & Beef Burger just launched in Japan. (I believe they’ve already go on sale in South…

Ryuji Yamazaki is coming to The King of Fighters XIV as an upcoming DLC character. Here’s a first look at the character in action. No word yet on when he’ll be released, er, unleashed. 

Wrong About Ninja, Again 

Ninja are mysterious. There are things we know and things we don’t. But the notion that some have about these ninja water shoes is supposedly incorrect. In Japanese, these floatation devices are called mizugumo (水蜘蛛), which literally means “water spider,” and are believed to be used while crossing castle moats. Sankei News reports that it’s…

First Look At New Devilman Anime

In spring 2018, a brand new Devilman anime is coming to Netflix. It’s called Devilman Crybaby, and here is the debut teaser. Masaaki Yuasa, who did the Ping Pong anime, is directing, and Ichiro Okouchi of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion fame is writing the script. Created by Go Nagai, Devilman debuted as a…

Seven Years Later, Pokémon Player Finally Maxes Out Pokéwalker

For over seven years, Japanese Twitter user Suica has been carrying around the Pokéwalker pedometer that was bundled with Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. And now, Suica has discovered its secret felicitations. When Suica’s Pokéwalker hit 9,999,999 steps, a message reading “Congratulations!!” (おめでとう!！or omedetou!!) appeared on the pedometers tiny screen. An in-game message also appeared, stating,…

Sangenjaya at Night. Tokyo, Japan. By Matt 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!

A Tokyo Parking Garage For Geeked-Out Cars

“Itasha” are decal-covered nerdmobiles. One Tokyo garage might be the best place in Japan to spot them. That, or you know, just walking around the streets of Akihabara. Whichever! Akihabara UDX is a 15-story building in Tokyo’s anime and gaming epicenter of Akihabara. UDX is filled with shops, restaurants, offices, and event spaces. Underneath are…