It's Thursday, and you know what that (usually) means! It's time for another edition of Virtual Boy, which catalogs the highlights of Nintendo's weekly downloadable titles. The fact that this article is even appearing MUST be a sign of something noteworthy, and that is indeed …Read more »
It isn’t always easy to get your hands on doujinshi in America, especially doujinshi that’s been translated. Robert McGuire, who has a history in Japanese publishing, is taking a novel way of bringing doujinshi to readers. He’s begun publishing GEN Manga, a monthly doujinshi collection. …Read more »
We’ve already invented time-travel, but it only works in the forward direction. And that’s what The Humanoid is: the proof of the process, a time-traveling, coffee-flavored bullet that has crossed nearly a quarter century of space and time to lodge itself irrevocably in the center …Read more »
Hironobu Sakaguchi’s announced return to RPG creation via the newly formed Mistwalker Studio in 2004 was much rejoiced by those who believed at the time that Square Enix was a sinking ship, and sought the father of Final Fantasy ’s new company to bring back …Read more »
Wondering just what in the heck Square Enix is thinking of doing with its rhythm game, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy ? Now that a trailer showing off gameplay has finally been released, we can get a better idea of what to expect from the title. Theatrhythm …Read more »
Just as Steins;Gate producer Yoshinao Doi hinted, it was worth sticking around after the final episode of the TV series aired in Japan. It's almost as if he knew what to expect! Following the show, both a clip and 5pb's Chiyomaru Shikura announced that a …Read more »
If there's a manga release bigger this week than Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon … you know, it's not even worth speculating. There isn't. Fans have been dying to get their hands on this series again, and Kodansha provides one heck of a product for 'em—uncut, …Read more »
It's finally here. It's the week so many of us have been waiting for—for weeks, for months, for years! It's the newly translated, uncensored, right-to-left oriented edition of Sailor Moon ! Not to mention the first time ever that its predecessor, Codename: Sailor V , …Read more »
Some of your favorite Japanese games crib from Western myth. Sephiroth, your favorite bad guy, takes his name from Kabbalah. The Shin Megami Tensei games make a living out of snatching up any mythological figures they can get their hands on, mostly because the names …Read more »
Hello! Yunmao Ayakawa here! It has been very common among Japanese Otaku to create “doujinshi” (self-published amateur works) involving manga, magazines and novels. An individual artist or a group of artists publish their own works and distribute them through Doujinshi conventions in local areas as …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! Friday ACE has reached the 50 episodes landmark! Let the slaughter begin! SHOW NOTES: 50 Episodes. To think that we’ve finally hit this point. To be honest, this is probably a personal best as it …Read more »
A lot is going on in the latest volume of Kou Yaginuma's Twin Spica . In addition to the space school adventures of the principal cast, one of their peers is possibly about to embark on the opportunity of a lifetime. The pale, eyebrow-less Shu …Read more »
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi is the latest in Namco Bandai's long-running series of 3D brawlers based on Akira Toriyama's legendary franchise. The Spike-developed title is due out in North America on October 25, and a fresh trailer was just released, showing off Frieza and …Read more »
Baka & Test is a show that only Japan could produce. In a country where students often attend cram schools to supplement their education and shoulder the pressure of critical entrance exams, what better premise than a school of academic warriors? At Fumizuki Academy, students …Read more »
No, it's not a trick or a trap, but more of a kind offering from Sunrise's Mobile Suit Gundam portal site . It has started streaming the original 1981 Gundam movie trilogy—composed of three films—legally on YouTube. If you want to get started there's no …Read more »
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