Japanese users share insights on the unsustainable nature of Japan’s anime industry and harsh working and living conditions of animators.
Japanese users share insights on the unsustainable nature of Japan’s anime industry and harsh working and living conditions of animators.
A heated debate about none other than doing the laundry started off on Japanese Twitter when one user shared a note that was put up in their apartment building to warn neighbors not to do their laundry at night.
The “top 100 most “pornified” media franchises ranking” has become a hot topic on Japanese social media as users react to Pokemon coming in first place.
According to Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey, Japanese is currently the sixth most used language on the platform, meaning that there has been a significant increase in Japanese users in June.
Japanese game studio Indie-us Games has recently revealed via Twitter that the company has lost all their prospective employees to other companies due to rising competitiveness in Japan’s growing game industry.
Two Japanese men (20, 21 y/o) have been arrested for attempting to drift on a public road. The offenders told the police that reading Initial D made them want to try drifting in real life.
Twitter’s API-related instability has caused Yostar, a top game publisher in Japan to announce that they will be discontinuing Twitter account binding for their titles.
Cygames has announced that Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising will have a support system aimed at easing the bitterness of losing in battle. Players will be able to select a character that will offer words of encouragement and advice.
Following the major “Seamless World update,” Craftopia’s popularity has been soaring. We asked Pocket Pair’s CEO Takuro Mizobe how he feels about the response and about noteworthy details regarding the update.
Matsuyama Hiroshi, CEO of CyberConnect2, has recently come under fire on social media for a Twitter thread in which he expresses his opinions on the topic of students enrolled in game development-related studies not owning and using enough of a variety of game consoles.
Bourbon Corporation, a major Japanese confectionery maker, released their own Bourbon Metaverse, a virtual candy-land themed 3D space that users can access through avatars.
Capcom announced that they are investigating a bug related to throw escapes in Street Fighter 6, which is likely the auto throw escape that allows overpowered play, causing concern among players.
A recent study shows that in 2022, Konami Group Corporation was the no. 1 company in Japan’s game industry based on number of patents which blocked competitor companies’ patent registration.
The Japanese action survival game Craftopia was updated on June 28. The update elevates Craftopia into a vast, seamless open world. Other elements of the game have also been updated.
Honkai: Star Rail’s Herta’s viral “Kuru Kuru Kururin!” has been growing even more popular recently, becoming a trend among Japanese schoolgirls on TikTok.
Mashima Hiro, author of Fairy Tail and Edens Zero keeps shocking users with his immaculate control over time. This time he cleared Final Fantasy XVI in just three days after the release.
Otakoi, a dating app targeted towards otaku men and women, has been gathering attention for the jarring AI-generated images used for advertising the app.
SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim by SAFE HAVN STUDIO is an upcoming Japanese adventure game where the player is shrunk and kept in the drawer of the giantess Saeko.
A certain character design revision in the Super Mario RPG remake has earned a reponse from Kurashima Kazuhiro, the monster designer of the original game.
The recently released online RPG Blue Protocol, published by BANDAI NAMCO Online and Bandai Namco Studios has reached 600,000 players and 200,000 concurrent players.
Blue Protocol players going around naked in-game has become a hot topic. Apparently, discarding your clothes helps prevent frame rate dips.
The release of Tokyo Stories, a 3D adventure game set in a deserted Tokyo, has been postponed to an unannounced date. Producer Ikeda Yuki mentions wanting to expand the scale of the game.
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