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Music production
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Attack On Titan Studio Caught With Generative AI In Latest Anime

Wit Studio confirmed the use of generative AI in the production of Ascendance of a Bookworm's opening sequence.
Games
fromGameSpot
1 week ago

Tomodachi Life Fans Are Already Running Wild With Its Character Creator

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream features a robust character-creation tool, but Nintendo's anti-image-sharing policy limits online sharing of creations.
Video games
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

Let's Play: Genki Kawamura and Jiro Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema

Genki Kawamura adapts the indie video game into a film, merging artistry with box office potential in a unique horror narrative.
#one-piece
fromInverse
1 week ago
Television

Netflix Is Going All In On Its One Piece Universe

Netflix continues to expand the One Piece universe with new seasons and a LEGO adaptation aimed at younger audiences.
fromGameSpot
1 month ago
OMG science

The Search For The One Piece Has Turned Into A Real-World Quest

Manga creator Eiichiro Oda sealed the secret to One Piece in a capsule at the ocean floor 651 meters deep to celebrate 600 million sales worldwide, sparking global treasure-hunting efforts.
Television
fromInverse
1 week ago

Netflix Is Going All In On Its One Piece Universe

Netflix continues to expand the One Piece universe with new seasons and a LEGO adaptation aimed at younger audiences.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

AI-Generated Interview With One Piece Actor Published By Esquire

Esquire's Joy Ling stated, 'We were stoked to have some face time with the Japanese-American actor, but his schedule prevented it. With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive.'
Humor
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Pokemon Champions Has Sauceless Drip

The vibes around Pokémon Champions have been mostly bad for a number of reasons since it launched today, but really I should have caught onto how much of a disappointment the Switch battle simulator would be right when I booted up the game and it handed me the absolute most sauceless Pokémon trainer this side of the Paldea region.
Games
#anime
Television
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

5 Anime Series to Check Out This Spring

The anime industry experiences a crowded debut season with numerous shows launching simultaneously, making it challenging to discern standout series.
fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago
Fashion & style

Now Is the Perfect Time to Dive Into the Wacky World of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'

Television
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

5 Anime Series to Check Out This Spring

The anime industry experiences a crowded debut season with numerous shows launching simultaneously, making it challenging to discern standout series.
fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago
Fashion & style

Now Is the Perfect Time to Dive Into the Wacky World of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'

DC food
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

Netflix's Bloodiest Anime Adaptation Is About To Introduce A Crucial Rivalry

The second season of Netflix's Devil May Cry series will focus on Dante and Vergil's complex relationship amid a conflict between Earth and Hell.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.
Television
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Watch the trailer for Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell anime series

The upcoming The Ghost in the Shell anime features a nostalgic art style reminiscent of the original manga.
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
1 month ago

Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow - Smashing Magazine

Design quality depends on emotional pacing and flow management, not just visual elements. Successful products guide users through emotional states coherently, while poor design creates emotional conflicts through misplaced elements.
#jrpg
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago
Video games

17 JRPGs You Can Add To Your Collection For Cheap During All Of The Spring Game Sales - Kotaku

Spring sales feature significant discounts on popular JRPGs across various platforms.
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago
Video games

Preview: With 'Monster Hunter Stories 3,' a spin-off spreads its wings

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is a multi-platform JRPG emphasizing elite riders, political storytelling, and evolved turn-based Monstie combat.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

17 JRPGs You Can Add To Your Collection For Cheap During All Of The Spring Game Sales - Kotaku

Spring sales feature significant discounts on popular JRPGs across various platforms.
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Dragon Quest 10 Is Getting A Google-Powered Chatbot Slime NPC

Square Enix is partnering with Google to integrate its AI large language model Gemini into Dragon Quest X, creating a Slime character that players can chat with. This character will respond with AI-generated text, offering tips, tricks, and advice as players navigate the game.
Games
Independent films
fromInverse
1 month ago

'Street Fighter ' Just Leveled Up With A Crucial Collaboration

Street Fighter's film and television adaptations have consistently failed despite the franchise's dominance in gaming, but a new theatrical reboot directed by Kitao Sakurai shows promise by prioritizing source material fidelity and kinetic maximalism, with support from Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama.
#anime-adaptation
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Scarlet review Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep nothingness'

Mamoru Hosoda's anime adaptation of Hamlet, Scarlet, features stunning visuals but suffers from incoherent storytelling, arbitrary world-building, and heavy-handed philosophical messaging that undermines its narrative impact.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Scarlet review Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep nothingness'

Mamoru Hosoda's anime adaptation of Hamlet, Scarlet, features stunning visuals but suffers from incoherent storytelling, arbitrary world-building, and heavy-handed philosophical messaging that undermines its narrative impact.
Video games
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Weird Nintendo never went away

Nintendo releases the Talking Flower, a whimsical toy that announces time and offers random positive affirmations without practical function, representing the company's playful side despite recent conservative decisions.
LA Dodgers
fromDodgers Nation
1 month ago

Yoshinobu Yamamoto Stars in Dodgers Super Mario Crossover

Yoshinobu Yamamoto receives a Yoshi bobblehead promotional night on March 31, 2026, as part of a Dodgers collaboration with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Online Community Development
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Why Fandom Discourse Feels Extra Cringe Right Now

Heated Rivalry revitalized Tumblr's fandom community, drawing former users back to the platform and creating positive fan spaces contrasting with hostile discourse on other social media platforms.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Pokemon Pokopia Fan Artists, Are Y'all Okay?

Humans have disappeared and their Pokémon have been left behind, trying to make the remains of the old civilization into one that they can live in and sustain by themselves. Throughout this process, these Pokémon talk about how much they miss their human partners, and the information we can glean from the notes and letters we find lying around is that a climate crisis forced them to evacuate the planet and leave the Pokémon in a massive PC server for their safety.
Games
Television
fromInverse
1 month ago

A New Anime Adaptation Could Make Up For Netflix's Biggest Mistake

Live-action anime adaptations are improving through streaming platforms, though Shinichirō Watanabe's previous Cowboy Bebop adaptation failed to capture the original's essence despite his involvement.
Video games
fromApp Developer Magazine
1 year ago

Gaming goes permanent as Pokemon tops global tattoo trends

Pokémon dominates video game tattoo culture with 557,000 Instagram hashtags, far exceeding other franchises due to recognizable characters and emotional attachment among millennials.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Check Out The Very Best Cosplay From Katsucon 2026

Katsucon, which describes itself as 'for multicultural enthusiasts,' takes place each year in the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of DC, and has been running in some form since 1995. It's one of the smaller, more intimate events on the cosplay calendar, but still pulls in guests like My Hero Academia's Justin Briner and Date a Live's Michelle Rojas.
DC food
Toronto Raptors
fromDefector
1 month ago

New Japan Makes, The World Takes | Defector

Tomohiro Ishii, a 50-year-old New Japan Pro Wrestling mid-card wrestler, maintains authenticity through his unwavering commitment to a consistent wrestling formula despite being past his prime.
LGBT
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

The Answer to That 'Heated Rivalry' Question Everyone Keeps Asking? It's Decades-Old

Women, especially anime/manga fans, drive interest in gay male romance through the women-created Boys' Love tradition, shaping works like Heated Rivalry.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

This Artist Creates Superhero and Comic Watercolors With Traditional Japanese Motifs

Justin Bieber for Calvin Klein Spring 2015 Ad Campaign In A Parallel Universe: Artist Exposes Sexism By Switching Up Gender Roles In Old-School Ads Russian Blogger Makes Parodies Out Of Celebrity Photos, And More Than 20,000 Followers On Instagram Approve 10 Famous Movie Titles Written Using Negative Space The World of Modern Graphic Design & Typography by Kyle Kemink Chinese Tech Companies Hiring 'Pretty' Girls to Motivate Male Employees by Chatting, Playing Ping Pong and Buying them Breakfast
Typography
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 months ago

MG Raiser Doubles Up Your Manga Shelf Without Hiding the Back Row - Yanko Design

MG Raiser from MangaGuardian is a tiny shelf adapter that takes that double-row habit and makes it less painful. It is a compact L-shaped stand that lets you display two rows of manga in the same footprint, with the back row raised just enough to stay visible. Simple plastic geometry aimed squarely at overcrowded shelves, it solves a niche problem that anyone with more than 20 volumes has quietly dealt with at some point.
Gadgets
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus

Virtual Cram School Wish High is a new online school by Tokyo-based company Luminaris. According to the publication, all teachers are "active VTubers," meaning streamers who use digital avatars to represent themselves instead of showing their real faces. Tuition at the online academy is the equivalent of around $63 per course per month, on subjects including mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, world history, Japanese history, and geography.
Online learning
UK politics
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Anti-Extremism Visual Novel Sparks Goth E-Girl Extremist Meme

A British government-funded anti-extremism game unintentionally turned its racist goth antagonist into an alt-right meme and AI fan-art phenomenon online.
Games
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Pokemon at 30: Fans explain what the series means to them

Pokemon celebrates 30 years as the highest-grossing media franchise, maintaining global cultural phenomenon status through games, trading cards, and mobile apps that continue attracting new generations.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Ikoku Nikki Is The Must-Watch Anime Of The Season

You've got your obvious bangers, such as Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and Jujutsu Kaisen, but there are at least twenty weekly releases currently airing that are worth watching. Hell's Paradise, Fate/Strange Fake, Sentenced to Be a Hero, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Trigun Stargaze, Golden Kamuy - I could go on, and that's without including the stuff that just finished airing, such as Spy x Family and To Your Eternity.
Television
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise

Koike's Lupin III film showcases striking animation and a darker manga-inspired style but has a thin plot and offers little for casual viewers.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

This Guy Built One Piece's Marineford In Minecraft...In Hardcore

YouTuber stan616 spent 80 days building a One Piece Marineford recreation in Minecraft Hardcore mode using over a million blocks, requiring manual mining and crafting while managing constant mob threats and permanent death consequences.
Television
fromKotaku
1 month ago

A New Evangelion Series Is Coming Written By Nier's Director

A new Neon Genesis Evangelion series was announced for the 30th anniversary, with Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Toru Yatabe directing.
Games
fromJezebel
1 month ago

The latest Umamusume: Pretty Derby is for the horsegirls (and guys)

Umamusume: Pretty Derby expanded from Japan-exclusive niche to worldwide phenomenon, combining anime horse girls with real Japanese racing history through games, shows, and films that treat absurd premises with genuine earnestness.
Games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Persona Artist Kazuma Kaneko Reveals New AI Art Card Game

Kazuma Kaneko's new Switch card game, Kazuma Kaneko's Tsukuyomi, launches April 23 with AI-generated art and includes 3,600 curated AI-produced cards.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys

We can now look back on November 28, 2025, as the start of a mass-psychosis event. In an era of neo-puritanical television slop, a fresh, horny breeze swept in from Canada: Heated Rivalry, a six-episode series about two professional hockey rivals turned lovers, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, stirred something deep in the American psyche. Ordinary taxpaying adult women, many of them my friends, suddenly lost control of their faculties over "the gay hockey show."
Television
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Pokemon Fan Spends Five Years On An Insane Shiny Hunt

A player spent five years collecting Shiny costume sets in Pokémon Battle Revolution, completing full six-piece Shiny sets in both the Japanese and international versions.
Video games
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon': how Pokemon went from moral panic to unifying global hit

Pokemon evolved into a wholesome, imaginative cultural phenomenon that rewards dedication, fosters community across generations, and offers a fantasy of independent self-determination.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Preview: With Monster Hunter Stories 3,' a spin-off spreads its wings

Slowly but surely, Monster Hunter Stories has established itself as more than just a spin-off of Capcom's famed action role-playing game. It has gone from a small project on the Nintendo 3DS to an ambitious Japanese RPG on the Nintendo Switch that punched above its weight. Now in its third iteration, Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is the franchise's coming-out party. The entry is launching across multiple systems for the first time, and it's taking a different approach to the story.
Video games
Video games
fromVG247
2 months ago

Zenelss Zone Zero Version 2.6 has you playing as an event planner and social media manager for an idol group

Zenless Zone Zero Version 2.6 'Encore for an Old Dream' launches Feb 6 with new Agents Sunna and Aria, Angels of Delusion event, rhythm minigame.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Beloved Action-RPG Nier: Automata Might Finally Get A Sequel

Square Enix teased a continuation of Nier: Automata, renewing hope for a proper sequel after nine years and more than 10 million sales.
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