One of Japan’s greatest, if not the greatest, manga creators is having his work tapped into with the power of AI.…
Remember pagers? Maybe not! If you were around in the 1990s, you might’ve carried a pager in case someone wanted to…
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The brand new Pokémon TV anime will star not one, but two trainers as the main protagonists.
The Promised Neverland’s live-action film adaptation will hit Japanese theaters in late 2020.
If you asked me to pick two Korean artists who could produce a duet together, I’d be listing off names for nigh on a…
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Akdong Musician is back, and not a moment too soon. K-Pop just hasn’t been the same without this dynamic duo.
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This is Hamako Mori. At 89, she’s not new to video games. She has been playing them for nearly four decades.
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Earlier this month, SNK announced the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro. It’s packed with 20 built-in games, which weren’t…
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Between 2002 and 2012, Bandai Namco released a mainline Tales game almost every year, save for 2006 and 2010. After…
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Crime is serious stuff. But everyone once and while, some Japanese TV news stations make it as goofy as possible.