This is a blog post, where VGC writers post irreverent and (occasionally) entertaining coverage of video game culture.
During my travels the topic of Yooka-Laylee, a spiritual successor to Rare’s Ban…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

The ad, which features a sumo wrestler standing in a power pose with a determined expression on his face, actually sounds kind of depressing at first.
But even so, people will say things without thin…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

Spirited Away food court also rumored to be part of theme park dedicated to the works of anime creator Hayao Miyazaki’s studio.
When you’re as successful and respected as anime production house Studi…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

Ten more passengers on a Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising the number of people aboard the vessel who have been diagnosed with the illness to 20.
To redu…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

Snapshot from the recording booth shows the beginning of the end of one of anime’s most important franchises ever.
Of course, that’s assuming the fourth Rebuild film actually comes out on the promise…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

Sega announced today that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Puyo Puyo 2 are coming to the Nintendo Switch on February 20.
These are coming as part of the Sega Ages program, Sega’s initiative to release classi…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

Kindaichi, the creation of the revered Japanese detective novelist Seishi Yokomizo, made his first appearance in 1946, solving, with typical flair, the fiendish conundrum of The Honjin Murders.
That …

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

There are a couple of major reasons Japan’s chikan (train groper) problem is so persistent.
East Japan Railway Company, also known as JR East, has an idea that it thinks can help.
This month, the rai…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

Over 3,700 people on a luxury cruise ship now docked in Yokohama, Japan, are trapped aboard, with guests confined to their cabins for the remainder of 14-day quarantine after the 2019 novel coronavir…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments

NANZUKA is pleased to present a solo exhibition with New York-based American artist Jonathan Chapline.
This exhibition, Hunter Gatherer, marks Chapline’s first solo showcasing in Asia.
On the occasio…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 comments