For years, famed 2D shooting game developer Cave had been content to leave its work in Japanese arcades. It was a minor tragedy that these kings of an unpopular genre had no desire to leave their native land, but there it was. You’d have to …Read more »
“Congratulations! You’ve won our lottery! You may be one who died with a great sin, BUT, we’re going to give you a second chance, you lucky soul!” Thus begins Colorful , a new film based on an award-winning 1999 novel and directed by Keiichi Hara, …Read more »
Here's a TV series that knows how to arrange its visual hooks. It starts with a doe-eyed, slender, diminutive girl with a ponytail, and decks her out in a stylized letter carrier outfit, complete with adorable little hair ribbons. Add a gimmicky, ornate walking staff as fashion …Read more »
With all the devastatingly masculine media I tend to personally cover around here, one would almost think I have no room in my heart for softer fare. Far from it, I just don't have time to dig through anything that ranges from mediocre to outright …Read more »
Without any background on its creator, Felipe Smith, being a tad confused by what exactly Peepo Choo is would be understandable. You see, Felipe had the proper mixture of fortune, hard work and guts to be able to produce manga in Japan, where it's considered, …Read more »
On Saturday, July 3 during this year’s Anime Expo, attendees filled a very large screening room for Funimation’s premiere of Trigun: Badlands Rumble . Although it debuted at Seattle’s Sakura Con even before its theatrical run in Japan, this was the first time anyone had …Read more »
Writer and artist duo Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata have an especially tough act to follow, a trap set by their past selves to cast a shadow on all subsequent endeavors. Death Note 's presence still looms menacingly, but their latest series, Bakuman , takes …Read more »
At this point we've had fairly ample room to explore some of the principle work from prolific mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi. His books published by Drawn & Quarterly manage to paint experienced visions through a lens that can be simultaneously distorted with hope and despair. We've …Read more »
When we last left Asumi Kamogawa, she was in the early stages of admittance to the Tokyo Space School, gradually becoming accustomed to both the rigorous program and the mix of classmates with which she'll have to learn to get along. With someone like Kei, …Read more »
Housuke Nojiri’s novel Usurper of the Sun is a novel of first contact, of enigmatic artifacts and ineffable extraterrestrials, of cognitive science and astroengineering. When high school astronomer Aki Shiraishi notices a tower on Mercury during its transit of the Sun, she immediately finds herself …Read more »
Toriko is my kinda dude. Like the TV dinners of the same name, he is most definitely a Hungry Man™. He makes his living as a "Gourmet Hunter," but don't let that create images of prancing deer and other such relatively harmless game in your …Read more »
I'll confess right now: I never played the original version of Pokémon Gold and Silver , and my reasons for not doing so are phenomenally dumb. I was super pumped for Red and Blue when they came out back in the day, but got hung …Read more »
If there's ever been a game with more half-baked ideas than Last Rebellion , I don't want to know. It sounds cute on the surface. A single character RPG, persistent buffs that raise your stats to absurd levels, a combo system where every part of …Read more »
If you've never heard of Cave Story , don't feel too bad. While the 2004 game may be one of the least obscure titles as far as PC-developed indie games go, it still remains under the radar of most. Let that no longer be the …Read more »
Watching a reboot of a series that originally aired in Japan in 2003 kind of makes me feel like I was cryogenically frozen at some point, only to wake up at least a decade or more down the line. Fullmetal Alchemist may not be that …Read more »
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