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You (can) have a heart attack at Lotteria
On April 24th, in Japan, Evangelion 3.33: You can (not) redo will be released on DVD and Blu-ray. To celebrate the upcoming release, Lotteria will be making a special burger to commemorate this joyous event. It's a play on the title Q from the move. Show More Summary
Review: Ys I & II Chronicles+
You may not realize this, but Ys I & II are video game classics that the action RPGs of today owe a helluva lot to.
Up until XSEED's partnership with Falcom, the developers of Ys, North America's exposure to the franchise had been minimal. Show More Summary
Cu-poche Madoka
She not due out until later this week but I managed to sneak into the Kotobukiya HQ with my ninja skills and nab a copy of Cupoche Madoka which can only mean one thing - pre-release preview time!
Just like Cu-poche Haruka, while Madoka is a chibi figure, her body is well articulated meaning that you can give her a wide variety of poses. Show More Summary
First Impressions: Garo Season 3
Ever since I started this gig at Japanator, I was hoping to get the chance to cover Garo on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, my journey through the world of Garo started in 2012, so I wasn’t able to complete the whole series before Garo: Makai Senki ended its broadcast. Show More Summary
The iDOLM@STER Shiny Festa available in English on iOS
In a move that's sure to surprise pretty much every single iDOLM@STER fan ever, Namco Bandai has released all three The iDOLM@STER Shiny Festa games on iOS platforms. Each game has been renamed, with Honey Sound becoming Harmonic Score,...Show More Summary
Surreal, silver-suited Tokyo
Tokyo has a wonderful habit of throwing up surprises, an aspect that makes the city even more of a joy to walk around. And the scene below was one such instance. As men clad in silver suits sporting fluffy adornments are not, at least in my neighbourhood, commonly found by loading bays. Or at all [...]
What guys can’t understand about girl friends, and vice versa
goo Ranking took a look at what guys can’t understand about female friendships and what girls can’t understand about male friendships. Demographics Over the 6th and 7th of March 2013 1,083 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.7% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 15.0% [...]
Licensing GET: Uta no Prince-Sama to fly overseas
Sentai Filmworks has sent over a press release announcing that Uta no Prince-Sama: Maji Love 1000% will be seeing a digital release soon, and a physical release later on this year. Considering how successful it's been over here in Japan,...Show More Summary
Go West! Week Forty-Five: Slaying Dragons and Friendship
After a brief hiatus, Go West! is back to supply you with your [almost] weekly dose of Japanese games coverage! This week? Well... not a whole lot actually. At least my dear friends at Idea Factory give me some company.
Yeah, it's been kind of dead around these parts. Show More Summary
Creative Industries Internationalization Committee
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Japanese government has appointed me as a member of the "Creative Industries Internationalization Committee" [????????????????] (CIIC).
As a member, I will be representing the overseas...Show More Summary
Licensing GET: Sentai plucks the Flowers of Evil
Sentai continues on its path to become a powerful empire, and their conquest continues to overpower the anime shows that are currently airing as we speak. This time around, Sentai has ventured into corrupted soils to obtain the Flowers...Show More Summary
Annotated Anime: Spring 2013 Week 2
Hello and welcome to Annotated Anime, the weekly recap that comes to you this Saturday morning to prove that yes, Saturday Morning Cartoons are back!
After a lengthy absence the spring season is up and kicking hard, with a raftload of high-quality anime series to chew on. Show More Summary
Japan Gaming Life
Spending too much time playing games is something I would not really recommend - the world waits for nobody and while you spend 50 hours or so to complete a particular game, you could have spent that time to make advances in your life career or even change the world. Show More Summary
Friday Night Fights: Charizard vs the Azure Rathalos
ding, ding, ding
It's Over!
Oh boy, Zoro and Masamune are still at it again. Oh well, let's ignore that quarrel and focus on the main fight at hand. Considering that Mikoto is immune to lightning, Storm gets ready to prepare a blizzard to freeze the tsundere Zapper to death. Show More Summary
Review: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Devil Survivor Overclocked has certainly seen a rocky release here in Europe, finally landing in the laps of desperate Atlus fans well over a year after the rest of the world. What's more, the eventual launch was hampered with negative press regarding a list of bugs and errors that frequent the European port exclusively. Show More Summary
Dance Party Friday!
Turn it up! It's Friday!
Official English subbed Little Witch Academia on Youtube
Trigger has uploaded Little Witch Academia to Youtube for free.
As if that weren't awesome enough, the half hour OVA has received the English subtitle treatment, which means there's no excuse not to go watch it immediately.
Seriously. It's a fantastic one-off that deserves all the love in the world. Check out our review if you haven't already.
Good show, Trigger. Good show.
Banning luxury items
Today’s quickie from Research Panel’s Day Research is a look at what luxury items, if they were banned, would be a problem, a bit of an odd question, and an odder selection of possible answers… 136,639 members of the Research Panel monitor group answered (it must have been a hot question!), and the results were [...]
Tokyo in full, incredibly colourful, bloom
The cherry blossom may well be gone for another year, but that doesn’t mean Tokyo is any less colourful — not by a long shot. And, for the capital’s legion of flower photographing fanatics, there are still more than enough blooms to be captured at incredibly close quarters. Although for others, beauty is better observed [...]
Anime-inspired novel, Kojiki, on sale April 19th
Keith Yatsuhashi's debut novel, titled Kojiki, is a whole new fantasy set in Tokyo, where powerful spirits await the 18-year old Keiko Yamada following the death of her father. She sets on a mission to fulfill his dying with by visiting...Show More Summary
