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Pretty Series
An art exhibition and sale celebrating the 15th anniversary of Pretty Series was announced on February 3, 2026. The expo is part of the Art Art Tokyo festival, held in the Daimaru shopping mall in Tokyo, from February 15 to March 10 2026. The key visual for the expo features
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A black anime boomer otaku's opinions on the reveal of Brigandine Abyss featuring Sengoku Basara staff on direction + scenario, and with Kawano Junko, Hayash Niji on chara design
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You can still easily tell this is inspired by (pop-culture's typical representations of) Tokyo so it's not like they changed it that much in my opinion. I guess all the stuff and places had japanese names and they changed them. This still looks like a
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It's crazy how fast video games changed in the past compared to now and how remakes released even a few years after the original could be completely different.
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What I think will get announced on the Feb 4 20226 Nintendo Direct Live A Live 2 (Tokita announced he's retiring but maybe he already wrote the scenario before retiring. Or someone else can do it, I really hope they get Futoku no Guild's mangaka to
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Really curious regarding what kind of announcements the Hebuban 4th anniversary event will have. Last year, on one of the live streams before the anniversary event, i think it was like 2 weeks before, they released a short teaser video. It had three short clips each with a dialogue quote
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Sample of our translation + analysis of the Tales of 30th Anniversary Creators Talk video released on December 15 2025, with Anabuki Kenji, Iwamoto Minoru, Tanaka Yoshimasa, Uematsu Hiroki, Kagawa Hirokazu, Tomizawa Yusuke. Available for tier 2 Ko-fi subs.
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I assume Pokemon right? Tons of black NPCs and black side characters too. Pretty good chara designs too most notably the purple drills 戦闘狂 (battle maniac) black ojousama lady. Really good character. The ultra annoying otaku part of my brain who secretly doesn't like it when people like
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怒ってて何かを書けないとおかしくなるので でも英語にするとまじまんじすぎてさつにやられるので 日本語にすると もうちょっとマイルドになれる パナマ・ノリエガ氏と経緯酷似 米政権がマドゥロ大統領拘束【ワシントン共同】トランプ米政権がベネズエラのマドゥロ大統領を拘束した3日は、米政府が1990年1月に中米パナマの故ノリエガ元将軍を拘束してから丸36年に当たる日だった。ノリエガ氏も米政府から敵視さ…47NEWS共同通信 昔のブログとかもいつもプリリズとか好きなゲームの話しながら差別と資本主義は一心同体だからただ作品を楽しむだけのオタクになれないとかな話してたし今後も出来るだけやる ＳＮＳで真面目RTしながらオタク物もRTするのは頭おかしいと思われるけど真面目な話しないと罪悪感で死ぬ たまに脳をゲームとかで休まないと死ぬ 両方一生やめられない それとイスラム教として「どうせ何も変わらない」とか考えられない 死んだ後「○○があった時あなたはどう生きたか」な質問がくるから そもそもいつか必ず若い世代から「おまえ何してたの」とかを答えなればならないので 「別になにも変わらずで生
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when he's like "kinda miss the days when i just followed orders and didn't know the boundary between good and evil can be so thin" or something. thinking about it now, he just like me fr fr like cool kids say, when i realized
Nitroplus
Nitroplus plans to rerelease its 1st game Phantom of Inferno on Steam in 2026 Seemingly based on the 2013 PC version based on the 2012 Xbox 360 ver, which reused the aesthetics from the Bee Train 2009 anime adaptation Requiem for the Phantom Hopefully it'll be a good
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Reminiscing about Phantasy Star Online and recommending some PSO streamers. Chatting about the 25th anniversary Pop Up Shop & Vol 07 of the Phantasy Star Players Enjoy Club (P.SPEC) official doujinshi.