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By Alleef Ashaari|March 8, 2024|0 Comment
Earlier today, the world learnt that Akira Toriyama passed away on 1 March 2024, leaving behind a legendary legacy that has influenced so much of modern pop culture. Dragon Ball has inspired many other famous IPs, including One Piece, Naruto and more. Here are touching tributes from the creators of One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Quest and others (...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 8, 2024|3 Comments
Akira Toriyama has passed away at the age of 68. According to the official Dragon Ball Twitter account, he died on 1 March 2024 due to acute subdural hematoma. https://twitter.com/DB_official_en/status/1765935471971213816 This is sad news for anime fans and gamers around the world. The late Akira Toriyama was extremely influential and a legen...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 29, 2024|0 Comment
The Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association has released the outline for the upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2024, which will take place from 26 September to 29 September 2024 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. This year’s theme is “Trailblaze the World with Gaming.” Tokyo Game Show 2024 will take place in a hybrid format, which will include...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 27, 2024|0 Comment
After an exceptional year that saw a renowned assassin take more lives than ever before, the hitman is suddenly forced into hiding after attracting too much-unwanted attention in The Fable, a new anime series coming to Disney+ Hotstar on 7 April 2024. Adapted from the best-selling manga The Fable by Katsuhisa Minami and published by KODANSHA Ltd...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 26, 2024|0 Comment
Bravely Default franchise producer Tomoya Asano confirmed that news about future games in the series will be coming sometime in 2024. In a tweet celebrating Bravely Default 2's third anniversary, Asano said: \Default 2 3rd anniversary celebration! / Many messages will be sent during the year-end and New Year project, Thank you m_ _m I'm su...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 26, 2024|0 Comment
Team Ninja has released a new behind-the-scenes video showcasing the swords and gun hybrid combat in the upcoming Rise Of The Ronin. We can see samurai using handguns and even bayonets, which fit the Bakumatsu era when Japan was transitioning to the more modern Meiji era. It's great to see an upgraded combat system utilizing both melee weapons a...
The main event of the Capcom Cup is here, and it's pulling out all the stops for the first season of Street Fighter 6. Taking place in Los Angeles, California USA, Capcom Cup X's finalists will be duking it out for the big US$1 million 1st place prize. Capcom Cup X features many of this generation's greatest esports players and fighters like NAS...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 24, 2024|0 Comment
Back in November 2023, a live-action Naruto movie was confirmed to be in the works. Now, Lionsgate has attached a director to the project and it's none other than Destin Daniel Cretton, who co-wrote and directed the Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (2021). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cretton will also produce al...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 23, 2024|0 Comment
The Hideo Kojima Connecting Worlds documentary is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. It runs just under one hour long and according to a blurb on the Kojima Productions website, the documentary film explores "the power and potential of video games as an art form through the work of an influential talent" as Kojima sets about launching his own ind...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 22, 2024|0 Comment
According to a report from Japanese publication Mainichi, Wakayama Prefectural Police in Japan arrested 52-year-old anime producer Kouichirou Itou for allegedly soliciting a 15-year-old high school girl living in Nagano for nude pictures of herself. Itou admitted to the charge. However, he claimed that he had "done it with other people, so [he ...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 16, 2024|0 Comment
Hot Toys has unveiled the Battle Damaged Version of 1/6th scale Kamen Rider Black Sun Collectible Figure. It is an era of chaos, half a century after the government announced the coexistence of humans and kaijins. A young human rights activist calling for the elimination of discrimination, he meets a man named Kotaro Minami, a.k.a Kamen Rider Bl...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 16, 2024|0 Comment
Most reviewers have been comparing Shogun to Game Of Thrones, but that's too much of a simplified comparison. For one thing, Game Of Thrones is first and foremost a fantasy series; it's only somewhat inspired by the historical War Of The Roses. For those more familiar with the historical epic genre, Shogun is closer to something like Netflix's Marc...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 13, 2024|0 Comment
Open-world action RPG Rise Of The Ronin is not getting released in South Korea. It's developed by Team Ninja, the Japanese studio best known for games like Nioh, Nioh 2, and Stranger Of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. As reported on the Korean community site Ruliweb, Sony Interactive Entertainment Korea has released a statement confirming that Ri...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 12, 2024|0 Comment
FX has released an epic new trailer for the upcoming Shogun series. The trailer showcases some great moments of war and action, as well as political intrigue. It looks like a series tailor made for fans of Total War Shogun 2. Based on James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Sh?gun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil ...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 9, 2024|0 Comment
Assassin’s Creed Codename Red is in development and it will launch sometime by or before 31 March 2025, according to Ubisoft's third-quarter 2023/2024 earnings report. The earnings report mentions: “The extent of the FY2024 to 25 (Editor’s Note: April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025) line-up will be revealed in May and will notably include Assa...
It's a helluva milestone for developer Pocket Pair. The makers of Palworld have recently celebrated its new player numbers for its survival game featuring "Pokemon with guns". Palworld has sold 12 million PC Steam copies and has 7 million Xbox players on the game (via Game Pass, most likely) during the past two weeks since its launch. In additio...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 9, 2024|0 Comment
I’m sure you won’t want to waste time sifting through Crunchyroll’s extensive catalogue of anime just to decide on what to watch. The streaming site updates its site every day, week, and month with new content, so I’m here to save your precious time. The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles. He...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 5, 2024|0 Comment
Every year, the Japanese anime cable channel AT-X polls viewers in Japan on their favourites. Here are the ones for 2023 (via Anime News Network). The categories are divided into two broader groups: AT-X Anime Ranking 2023 and AT-X 25th Anniversary. For the 2023 polls, the categories are: Anime Ranking 2023 and Anime Ranking 2023 Second-half. For t...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 2, 2024|0 Comment
Ufotable, best known for the Demon Slayer and Fate/Zero anime, unveiled a new teaser for the anime film of Type-Moon's visual novel PC game Witch On The Holy Night. The original visual novel's story is set in the late 1980s, and centers on protagonist Aoko Aozaki, one of two sister heirs to a long family line of modern mages. Although she is dis...
By Alleef Ashaari|December 29, 2023|0 Comment
The Blue Exorcist anime franchise revealed a new trailer and visual for its highly-anticipated new season, Blue Exorcist Season 3 or Blue Exorcist Shimane Illuminati Saga. It's been a whopping seven years since the anime's previous second season, Blue Exorcist Kyoto Saga, in 2017. The first season premiered way back in 2011, as well as a Blue Exorc...
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