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PlatinumGames announced this week that they are opening up a brand new game development studio in Tokyo, Japan with a very specific focus in games The studio will focus on "live ops development", which is basically their way of saying the studio will focus primarily on updating games after released with new content So DLC,[...]

From my homeground in Japanese manga into the global major leagues — it is a thrilling time for me to believe in my craft, and aim for new heights." – Yasao Ohtagaki Netflix These creators are a mix of manga artists, novelists, screenwriters and filmmakers They will develop new projects exclusively for Netflix Netflix also plans to exploit[...]

If you haven't had a chance to visit the Square Enix Cafe in Japan, you might want to take a visit and see the Final Fantasy VII Remake dishes they're making The cafe itself creates food based on all of their franchises, and while it's not as decorative as the Pokemon version where all your[...]

A Japanese court ordered go-kart company Mari Mobility to pay over $450,000 for infringing on the video game company's intellectual property, according to a report in Inside via Kotaku The company offered Nintendo-themed costumes for drivers to wear. Credit: Nintendo Nintendo vs Mari Mobility In an attempt to avoid confusion or conflict, Mari Mobility labeled its karts with[...]

Hulu has the streaming rights to the Adult Swim series here in the U.S., while Channel 4 has the rights lock in across the pond, in the U.K. So that means Netflix gets to introduce the following chunks of the world to the down side to peaceful pooping and the smooth flow of snake jazz: India,[...]

I'm glad that us collectors can finally get our hands on some of these more elusive Japanese exclusive Funko Pops but it's almost unnecessary to get them as their value has plummeted I have known a lot of collectors who completely dropped their entire Ultraman collections because their exclusive nature is no more There are[...]

He made a discovery the other day, which he was gracious to allow Bleeding Cool to share, regarding the first appearance of Spider-Man in Japanese comic books He writes, What is this Japanese pornography cover doing in my feed you might ask? Well, let's start by saying what it is…. this is the Weekly プレイボーイ #39,[...]

This morning, THQ Nordic announced they have officially expanded into Japan with their new location called THQ Nordic Japan KK The new office has officially been incorporated and will take over the tasks and responsibilities for the region That includes distribution, PR, and marketing of THQ Nordic's and HandyGames' slate of games This will be[...]

A short time ago, we received this wonderful subscription box in the mail called Bokksu, filled with some delicious treats from Japan Considering how much snack food we usually go through playing games, and how many of them are tied to Japanese developers and publishers, this kind of box would totally be up many a[...]

Nintendo is going to be throwing their own convention this year in Japan as Nintendo Live 2019 will be coming to Kyoto in October This isn't the first time Nintendo has held this event as they did so last year in November 2018, as well as previous conventions over the years held in their home[...]

Japan is still reeling from the arson attack on Kyoto Animation's 1st Studio building that killed 34 people This was the biggest act of mass murder in the history of post-war Japan Kyoto Animation's president Hideaki Hatta appeared before the press to make a statement. "Our company's philosophy is to create wonderful works We are not[...]

But even though the series won't be back until 2020, Macchio was kind enough to break a little news when speaking with Entertainment Weekly: Daniel's packing his bags and heading to Okinawa, Japan – and considering how things were left at the end of the second season, we can't blame him for trying to find[...]

That often forms the launchpad for a different customer's story in each episode – very often quirky shaggy-dog stories involving lost love, LGBTQ issues, moral dilemmas, ghost stories, nostalgia for old superhero shows, reunions of old friends… you name it, it's pretty much fair game. Netflix Japanese Home Cooking and Good Company The series is a warm, slice-of-life[...]

AMC's The Terror: Infamy is trading the hidden horrors of the first season's 19th-century Northwest Passage for the very real, visible horrors of American-run Japanese internment camps during World War II, and viewers are now getting their first official trailer for the series' return Co-created by Alexander Woo (True Blood) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull[...]

Elgort's Jake Adelstein is an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Originally published in 2009 by Pantheon, here's a look at Adelstein's memoir, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan: Pantheon From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan[...]

Nintendo just got a new feather in their Minish Cap in Japan as the Nintendo Switch has officially surpassed the PS4 in sales in their home country Famitsu has published new sales reports for the top 10 current games in Japan as well as sales figures for consoles to-date As of this week, the Nintendo[...]

ET. Neon Genesis Evangelion premieres on Netflix on June 21st! In terms of what exactly Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion fans will get when the anime drops, the deal includes the original 26-episode Japanese television series (originally broadcast from 1995-1996) as well as two follow-up films: Evangelion: Death (True) 2 and The End of Evangelion. Set 15 years[...]

Netflix has released a new trailer for the new animated version of Ultraman, an adaptation of the manga series by Tomohiro Shimoguchi and Eiichi Shimizu, which was a direct sequel to the original live action TV series from the 1960s. In the original story, Ultraman is an alien, a "giant of light" who comes to Earth[...]

The Straw Hats Pirates from One Piece are gracing television screens in Japan once again, and they have never looked better than they do in this screen-grab from a series of commercials from Indeed Japan! Here in all their glory are Luffy, Nami, Tony Tony Chopper, Usopp, Zoro, and Sanji – singing songs on a cliff[...]

Announced by FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf during today's Televison Critics Association's (TCA) summer press event, the project is set to be filmed in the UK and Japan; and will be the network's largest international production to date. Tim Van Patten (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) is set to direct several episodes, with Eugene Kelly[...]

The ship successfully makes the return voyage, but the crew discovers that twenty thousand years have passed and Earth's ecosystem has evolved, with Godzilla reigning atop the new food chain. Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters was released in Japan on November 17th, 2017; and is set to be released worldwide on Netflix beginning January 17th, 2018[...]

Working with some of Japan's top animation production, Netflix is readying a series based on popular Sanrio character Retsuko; and futuristic crime action drama from Ghost in the Shell producer Production I.G. Here's a look at both upcoming Netflix series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=MvClxgjYJZ4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Introducing… Aggretsuko! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=MvClxgjYJZ4) Aggrestuko (Spring 2018): Based on Sanrio's Japanese popular[...]

Japan and DC Entertainment would be collaborating on an anime called Batman Ninja, fans who weren't able to attend the convention have been clamoring for some sense of what the film will be about and what visual approach it would take Fans won't have to wait any longer, as the companies have released two teasers[...]

Tokyo Disneyland seems to always be unveiling awesome and fun events, and these upcoming Star Wars and Pixar-themed events are no different!

Both Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea are getting ready for the big 3-5 with some awesome events, decorations, and more!

Amazon Prime Video said it was investing in more original content for and from Japan, and they took their first major step towards fulfilling that promise with the announcement that FACE: Cyber Crime Special Investigation Unit, the streaming service's first original sci-fi series, would premiere on July 11 and then release new episodes of the[...]

We're still a few years away from anything being completed in Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan, but that's not stopping Nintendo from showing us what they envision it to look like Below is a video that Nintendo loaded up yesterday as an advertisement in Japan for a theme park that isn't even built. Now[...]

We'd just been writing the other day about the fact that Hiroaki Samura's manga to live-action adaptation of his Blade of the Immortal had scored an

Following close on the heels of its Japanese premiere back on April 29th, Takashi Miike's live-action adaptation of the classic manga Blade of the Immortal has been picked up for a North American release by Magnet Releasing Magnet is the genre division of Magnolia Pictures, and has previously released such films as 13 Assassins and[...]

I had a nagging feeling that I had seen this all before. Then it dawned on me: much of the trippy style of Legion has been lifted from Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 indie Japanese cyberpunk-horror movie Tetsuo, or as the West retitled it, Tetsuo: The Iron Man ("Tetsuo" already means "iron man" in Japanese, so the Western[...]