The cartoon drama scientists at Bushiroad going, "hmm, everyone loves Nyamu, the self-centered Influencer who blows up the theater kid's bit -- let's put an Actually Evil version of her in the next show"
Youtube has found a new evil default: machine translating the English closed captions script back into Japanese for a Japanese-audio video
Remembering that moment in otaku culture when one of the most popular cartoons of the year was a sitcom about a teenage girl trying to find someone to proselytize to about her collection of moe lolicon eroge
Sometimes I think I'm being too harsh about my assessment of what the big first-party console games publishers think about their mass audience. Anyway, here's the splash screen you see before the opening cutscene in Returnal
There are some good dolls in NIS's Labyrinth games. Like the agender cat maids (they have dialog expressing confusion about the entire concept), which are separate from the non-binary knights. And of course, Literally A Cat
Trying to figure out why I *knew* a random turn of the century pop-punk song the music algorithm fed me, and for once a Fandom wiki was useful
Okay, this rolling up in my YouTube recs actually made me feel my age a bit
Digging through 20 years worth of hoarded data on hard drives I never even mount in my desktop, trying to find old fansubs, and I just keep finding junk like an install of famous doujin kusoge Million KNights Vermilion
Noel 5B is a very funny button because it looks like it should be great for anti-air or picking up after a ground bounce but it's actually pretty bad at both of these things
Oh, good, it's not just me being unable to tell if Nikaidou's wearing gloves in her sprites, Good Smile Company *also* can't decide
The holidays are here again -- it's GW in Japan. That's right: it's Golgo Week
Curses for the modern era: "may that character you like from a cult 90s fighting game re-appear in a tie-in videogame for yet another completely indistinguishable LitRPG anime"
Player's impression 30G at the start: ah, the Reliable Senpai squad Player's impression of 30G after the camera is pointed at them for five seconds:
Book Walker promo banners provide a valuable window into all of the ways publishers are trying to capitalize on current trends, like a "technically, it's not porno" comic about a girl getting isekai'd into a low-budget doujin porno RPG. Sasuga Young Champion
In honor of today's news, have a look at my favorite official Evangelion illustration
I think it's really sweet of Cygames to keep Special Week in the splash screen that comes up while the game loads, even though she hasn't been relevant for years. John Umamusume isn't just the app icon
Tezuka Saki demonstrates the difference between カリスマ ( beauty, celebrity) and rizz
Scrolling through a reputable videogames web site and the next auto-loaded news post is this. The world has changed
The 20-year nostalgia cycle strikes a critical blow on the AmiAmi new listing page today
We had four good years together but I guess it's time to say goodbye to all my lesbian alien-fighting daughters