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Last week, Kotaku unveiled a pretty amazing piece of long-form anime journalism about the quest to find a strange piece of 90s anime history—a pilot for an American Sailor Moon. Writer Cecilla D’Anastasio details the making, in the mid-90s, of a pilot based on Sailor Moon …Read more »
The Pokémon franchise releases a lot of merchandise, and now that includes a plushie of Wiglett, a Pokémon who was introduced in last year’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The new plushie is already attracting a lot of attention online, but it’s not for the usual …Read more »
Chainsaw Man opens with main character Denji wanting to get some action. And he does get a lot of action — in the live-action pornographic movie spoof Dildo Man. (You can guess what the chainsaws are replaced with.) This is the work of Studio TMA, …Read more »
Horror mangaka Junji Ito is known for writing manga involving people’s fears. And in an interview with the Japanese site 4Gamer, he revealed one of his fears: that AI will replace artists. He shuddered at the thought of future manga being made by AI instead …Read more »
Microsoft has signed a 10-year contract to bring “Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty” to Nintendo consoles, says Microsoft president and vice chairman Brad Smith. Releases will happen on the same day across platforms. Kotaku points out that one reason for this …Read more »
Netflix recently put out an anime short from WIT Studio on its Japanese YouTube channel. The anime, titled “Inu to Shonen” (translated as “The Dog and the Boy”) has a very unique feature: the backgrounds are AI-generated, using concept art done by people and getting …Read more »
Mob Psycho 100‘s third season, Mob Psycho 100 III, is debuting next month and receiving a SimulDub. However, it appears that Crunchyroll is replacing some of the dub actors last minute because of the actors’ interest in Crunchyroll having a conversation with the union Screen …Read more »
Many anime fans know the complexity of loving a long series but hating the filler. A YouTuber who goes by Oceaniz asked his girlfriend, “Would you watch Naruto with me if I edited it to be less ass to watch?” She agreed. “That’s when I …Read more »
Stealing Pokémon cards is sad enough as it is, but it’s doubly pathetic when said thievery impacts a locally-owned small business like Forest Lake, Minnesota’s Punch Out Gaming. On February 10, the game and card shop was robbed in an unusual manner, as a thief …Read more »
Ah, Florida, the Sunshine State. It’s also the place you’re most likely to see a man attempt to rob a bank while wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog mask, which is exactly what went down in DeLand, Florida on February 2. Local police were dispatched to …Read more »
Zoom calls can be kind of unpredictable, but it’s usually pretty easy to avoid broadcasting porn right in the middle of one. That’s what happened during an Italian senate meeting, which had lawmakers gather to discuss, ironically enough, data transparency. Just as Giorgio Parisi, a …Read more »
Thanks to a recently published court document, we know that a pair of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers were fired for a handful of reasons, primarily centered on playing Pokémon GO on the job. Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were being investigated for a …Read more »
Joji Yanami—a veteran of anime voice acting, with roles that span the beloved baseball anime Kyojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants), Dragon Ball Z, and more—is no longer with us. As announced through his agency, Aoni Production, Yanami passed away on December 3. He …Read more »
Last week came the news that Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop would not receive any further seasons. In previous articles we covered how Japanese netizens at first generally seemed unenthused by early imagery from the adaptation, then some of them began to warm up …Read more »
You may call yourself a gamer, but how much of that gaming to you do in a Hello Kitty chair? Probably none! You can change that in the near future thanks to a collaboration between Razer and Hello Kitty and Friends, which includes a branded …Read more »
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