Crayon Shin-chan’s Japanese Voice Actress Is Leaving The Anime 

Voice actress Akiko Yajima has voiced the titular Shinnosuke Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan since the anime debuted in 1992. Now she’s leaving what’s perhaps her most famous role to date. Besides Shin-chan, Yajima has voiced an array of characters since 1989. Most recently, she’s done Pipimi in Pop Team Epic It was Yajima who asked…

Manga Style Paint Jobs For Model Cars Still Look Incredible

Kotaku previously introduced Initial D model cars that Twitter user Shinga had painted to look like manga art. Shinga is back with more, and his latest work continues to amaze. In the earlier version, Shinga placed his models on a flat sheet of paper. This time around, he’s made a 3D papercraft. This time around,…

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The Saddest Witcher 3 Cosplay

The tale of Olgierd and Iris is one of the most tragic to be found in The Witcher 3, which when you consider the rest of the quests in such a bleak, brutal game is really saying something. This is Lyumos paying homage to the character with some incredible cosplay, with photos by Kira We’ve…

X-Men’s Rogue, by Anastasia Komori. Photo by Akunohako

The Internet Reacts To Those Unused Pokémon Designs

Nintendo recently announced two new Pokémon games coming to Switch later this year and one that’s out now called Pokémon Quest. There’s also a bigger Pokémon RPG coming in 2019. The real news this week though is that there actually used to be a ton of weird and adorable Pokémon that were planned for Pokémon…

Night Colours

Mindy Lee is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked at places like Pandemic, Dark Horse (she’s been nominated for an Eisner!) and Amazon. You can see more of Mindy’s stuff at her Instagramand ArtStation pages. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Eyes front, hunters! We’re hunting down Monster Hunter: World’s new elder dragon, the fiery Lunastra, right now on Twitch. Join us on PS4 with session ID 3t4uxEMFsyJr.

New Leak Suggests That Fortnite Is Coming To Switch

Fortnite is coming to Switch, according to a leaked E3 document that we believe is real, as well as sources speaking to Kotaku. It’s not clear whether this apparent port will include Fortnite’s free Battle Royale mode, its players-vs-zombies Save The World mode, or both. The document, posted on 4chan this afternoon by someone who…

Bungie has detailed how Destiny 2 Faction Rallies are changing for next week’s season 3 debut. There’s a new “Renown” system that increases difficulty and rewards as long as you go without dying, which sounds neat. They’re also lowering the difficulty on waves 4-7 of Escalation Protocol, which, good

Streamer Solves Puzzle By Drawing Wang

Today on Highlight Reel we have esoteric puzzle solutions, H1Z1 plays, NHL slams, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on all…

Mario Tennis Aces‘ Adventure Mode Is A Great Teacher

Mario Tennis Aces is the sequel to the spiritual successor to the follow-up to Pong. Somewhere along the way, video game tennis became significantly more complicated than two paddles and a square ball. Fortunately, this upcoming Switch game will teach you all its tricks, by way of the RPG-style single-player adventure mode. To be released…

Pokémon Quest Is… Fine. It’s Fine.

Pokémon Quest is a cute little RPG that I enjoy playing, but that I feel like I’ll enjoy more once it actually comes to phones in June. On the same day that Nintendo announced Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, they also announced that there’d be a small, “free to start” game available on the Switch’s…

Fallout 76 Gives Overwatch Fans Crossover Fever

When Fallout 76 was announced yesterday, half the world immediately thought “Heck yeah, new Fallout.” But the other half—a more insidious and frankly intolerable one that includes noted individuals such as me—started cracking jokes about Soldier 76 from Overwatch. Then came the fan art. Evidently, a whole lot of people want to see Soldier 76…

GTA Online’s Fast-Paced Dispatch Missions Are A Great Addition

The latest GTA Online update was released earlier this week, and along with the usual new cars and new discounts, Rockstar has also added more contact missions, calling these new missions “Dispatches.” These six new co-op missions are fast, fun, and to the point. Dispatches are PVE missions that come courtesy of Martin Madrazo, a…