You have to go at either Onechanbara game with a supreme single-mindedness: kill zombies as bikini girl. Or sailor fuku girl. Or a couple other female characters you unlock as you go. It's not a game for deep meaningful plot (unless you count introspective ruminations …Read more »
Opening weekend for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has now come and gone, leaving the world at large underwhelmed and turning back toward the 1994 Street Fighter movie with renewed hope and appreciation. Unfortunately for Kreuk and co., Chun-Li raked in just under 5 …Read more »
Well, it will technically be getting that same "real" ending in print, as well, but the official website of the manga's Complete Edition started posting the ending on Friday free of charge. Chapter 287, "Good Morning, Mu Continent," kicks off the final chapters that manga-ka …Read more »
1999 was a special year for me. It wasn't just the end of the 90's, it was the year that I got my first taste of Japanese music that would leave me wanting more. The sample came in the form of a website reviewing the …Read more »
With the series launching on Xbox Live, as well as iTunes, Viz has announced that the first episode of Blue Dragon will be available free of charge on both. The normal price for each episode of the series is 160 MS points on Microsoft's service, …Read more »
Nozomu Itoshiki and Kafuka Fura meet in an unusual manner before classes begin. Nozomu's about to hang himself when Kafuka casually stops him from doing so, claiming that no one could possibly want to commit suicide on a beautiful spring day like this. He …Read more »
I never finished Capcom's first Lost Planet , but I fully intend to before the sequel comes out, because it looks incredible. Capcom made the Lost Planet 2 announcement this week over a video on Xbox Live Marketplace, showing a relatively beefy amount of footage …Read more »
If the wait for the continuation of the Full Metal Alchemist anime, directed by Yasuhiro Irie, is currently killing you, then maybe the latest commercial will tide you over momentarily. The third TV ad is now being streamed over at the official Japanese website for …Read more »
Confession time: I used to be a non-believer in the power of Case Closed or, as it's known in Japan, Detective Conan . I got my first glimpse of Gosho Aoyama's manga many years ago, and the character designs turned me off from page one. …Read more »
With Viz ramping up their output of the Naruto manga, we'll all have to do double time to catch up. Thankfully, that isn't an arduous task, and we're kicking things off with volumes 32 through 34, covering chapters 281 through 309 of the unstoppably popular …Read more »
From the very opening episode of Manglobe's Ergo Proxy , I knew I had stumbled upon an anime that was incredibly special. Set in a future that doesn't seem too far-flung from our own, Ergo Proxy begins in the domed city of Romdo, a place …Read more »
If you haven't heard yet, Dragon Ball Z will begin broadcasting once more across Japan's airwaves in April, bringing with it a brand new, high definition look. Now the HD rerun series has it's own name, according to this year's 13th issue of Weekly Shonen …Read more »
I have to be delicate with the way I use the word "toys" in this news bit, because I assure you these will be more "fine collectibles" and less "blister-packaged TMNT characters." Triad Toys, a collector-centric company that has also acquired the rights to produce …Read more »
If those pictures we posted were worth a thousand words, then the latest media for Chris Nahon's live-action Blood: The Last Vampire flick should be worth a cool million. Yahoo! Japan has made a streaming teaser available, though it prompted a download so I'll instead …Read more »
Yep, childhood. Family restaurant placemats with an abundance of paper spaces and stubby crayons dozens of grubby hands have ground down . Does it come with fries? Yes, but we're sharing them. And we wait. Thankfully eternity is broken by the cheer of doodling random …Read more »
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