Tag: Saitama

Japanese City Unveils Lucky Star Manhole Covers

Kuki, Saitama has spruced up a few of its manhole covers. The city, known best to anime fans as the setting for Lucky Star, has installed four colorful manhole covers based on that series. But wait, you say: wasn’t Lucky Star set in Washimiya? Yes …Read more »

Japan’s Lamest City Gets Indie RPG

March 14, 2016

Fernando Ramos

It always sucks to be second banana. Tokyo’s immediate neighbor, Saitama, hardly ever gets a break in the Japanese psyche, seemingly condemned to be a punchline – sometimes literally, as in the case of One Punch Man ’s comically bland protagonist. Some of our more …Read more »