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Japanese city’s promotional campaign catches heat for using scantily dressed high school girl mascot
A Japanese city’s anime schoolgirl mascot, Haruka Aozora, has online users in a heated debate. Is the character sexualizing girls? Users are split on this controversial character.
Japanese man spends 800k dollars’ worth of embezzled funds on mobile games to become a hero online
A Japanese man was arrested on August 22 on suspicion of employee embezzlement. The man had allegedly embezzled over $1,375,000 from his workplace and claims to have spent a large portion of the money on mobile game in-app purchases.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 1.2.1 update makes changes to players’ favorite material – elevator railings
Nintendo released update Ver.1.2.1 for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on August 23, which includes changes to the elevator railings that many liked to use in constructing all manner of inventions due to the unique properties that they possessed.
Magical girl anime event in Japan fails to include its only male protagonist in program, leaving a little boy heartbroken
Young male Pretty Cure fan bursts into tears after the male character is left out of the event. Online users wonder, how did the event forget it’s only main male protagonist.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – newly discovered “law of physics” possibly allows you to override maximum speed of Rockets
One player has made an unexpected discovery regarding the propulsion provided by Rockets in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It appears that if you attach Rockets at an angle rather than perpendicular to the direction of travel, they surprisingly provide an increased level of propulsion.
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Japanese police arrest two people for selling AI generated “obscene” Evangelion posters
The two men made a combined total of over 15 million yen selling explicit AI generated posters of popular female anime characters online.
Indie games
Learn Japanese by taking photos in this cozy new game (Updated)
Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography is a fun new language learning game that helps you learn everyday Japanese by taking photos.
nintendo
Nintendo stock hits highest price since listing as Japanese analysts update Switch 2 sales forecasts
Nintendo has risen for three consecutive trading days, temporarily rising to 9,775 yen on January 23. This renewed the company’s highest price since its listing.
