Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Pokemon Sword and Shield sold around 1.37 million copies in Japan within the first three days of release, according to Shukan Famitsu magazine, which is a new record for any …

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Case in point is the co-winner of the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, Roger Avary who worked on some of Quentin Tarantino’s early works and wrote and directed the 1994 heist film Killing Zoe.…

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Show off your love of Pikachu with a sporty watch!
Casio’s casual watch line, Baby-G, has been making not only functional but stylish watches featuring all of our favorite things, including Kiki’s De…

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AdvertisementWhile Ash has always been the heroic star of the Pokémon anime, Pikachu has always been the star of the Pokémon brand as a whole, even as Nintendo’s gradually elevated the profiles of ot…

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But equally as charming is the brown cat-fox creature known as Eevee, who has recently gained enough fame to bust out its very own adorable Eevee parade.
What’s more, a special branch from the Pokémo…

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While the Hachiko side is geared towards young people, “Shibuya Stream” will represent a more mature side of Shibuya.
One such change is a new building called “Shibuya Stream“, which appears to be in…

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Dynamic projection mapping onto deforming non-rigid surface using a high-speed projectorSummaryProjection mapping attracts attentions as an emerging technology to extend the real world.
This research…

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Are there any well-known game series you haven’t checked out?
In Japan, a recent poll asked people about which famous series they haven’t played.
Momotaro Dentetsu series - 63 votes 9.
Yakuza series …

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But while that description works for the end results, it actually misses the mark on how old-school visual were constructed.
Yes, that massive piece of physical fan art is made entirely out of beads,…

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So, when we heard of an ominous looking old building in Okayama City called the Stop Drinking Center (Kinshu Kaikan) we were hesitant to approach.
She wasn’t sure what the building’s name meant, but …

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