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When you're faced with imminent danger, what's the first thing you do? Do you gear up to fight back? Do you see if you can land the first punch? Or do you take all of your clothing off? I'm guessing that's a pretty uncommon reaction, …Read more »
Via a tweet from Sega, it appears that the first Valkyria Chronicles game, a strategy-RPG with decidedly anime-style graphics, will be coming to PC. This is particularly unexpected because the game was first released back in 2008, exclusively to the Playstation 3. Games like this …Read more »
Sushi Typhoon is dead, all hail Sushi Typhoon. Or should we? A vomitorium established by ace producer Yoshinori Chiba to allow Japan's grodiest a stage to run wild, it was supposed to be the V-cinema equivalent of huffing a plastic bag full of …Read more »
Based on the manga by the renowned duo of Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami, Crying Freeman deals with Yō Hinomura, a pottery artist who accidentally stumbles onto evidence of a series of murders by a Chinese crime syndicate called the 108 Dragons. Instead of killing …Read more »
It’s become a common sight on the streets of Shinjuku the past few months: a brightly lit flatbed truck, blaring an incessant, loopy theme song and hauling two giant, scantily-clad female robots. It’s part of the promotional campaign for a new attraction in Kabukicho, the …Read more »
Busy week here in mid-October—Mother Nature is working hard to transition from summer to fall, and I along with many others are prepping for the last big pop-culture convention of the year, New York Comic Con! There are going to be a number of manga …Read more »
The New York Asian Film Festival is always a big event, and this year's 10th anniversary celebration looks like it will stay true to that tradition in every way. Among a lineup loaded with must-see flicks are the two live-action adaptations of Hiroya Oku's Gantz …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! Due to the massive earthquake in Japan, Friday ACE is dishing out a bare-bones episode. Be afraid. SHOW NOTES: Mike here! Not much to say for this countdown episode, aside from wishes that this wasn't such a …Read more »
Things seem to be going a little better for the young otaku Milton as we enter volume 3, the last leg of Felipe Smith's consistently bold Peepo Choo . His views of Japan forever altered, he begins to transition from the "anger" stage into his …Read more »
We can all identify with the existence of those otherworldly masked wonders in one way or another, but who is that familiar man with the windblown hair dressed up as Kikaida's Jiro below!? Why, it's none other than our fearless Editor-in-Chief, Patrick Macias, pictured once …Read more »
The answer is simple. Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 -which, if localized here, will be known to each and every one of us as Yakuza 3 -looks very, very awesome. As the first current-gen entry in the series proper (not counting the one that takes place …Read more »
Sex & Fury (1973) is a wonderfully eclectic and insanely violent Japanese sexploitation flick directed by Norifumi Suzuki, the father of the sukeban subgenre and the same madman responsible for the later School of the Holy Beast (1976). His best- known film in the West …Read more »
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