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Streaming Service U-Next Drops Western Credit Cards For Adult Content
The credit card restrictions are still coming strong, and the latest Japanese content-sharing site to follow FANZA, Fantia, Niconico, Getchu, DLsite and others in imposing restrictions on how overseas users can purchase content is streaming service U-Next.If you haven't heard of it, U-Next has been around since 2007 and isn't an art-sharing or explicitly lewd-oriented website like some of the aforementioned sites. It's a streaming service that features ...
What Does Shin Megami Tensei Have in Common with Slipknot?
Heads up: if you're expecting an answer to the question poised in the headline here, I'm afraid you're in the wrong place. That wasn't rhetorical at all, and I am genuinely baffled as to what made Sega partner with popular Iowa nu metal band Slipknot, of all people.Video games and musicians have been collabing with each other for decades, with one of the more recent examples being Metallica themselves appearing inFortnite. That I can kinda understand, ...
FANZA is the Next Japanese Site to Restrict Credit Cards
Another week, another Japanese content sharing website imposes restrictions on purchasing content using major western credit cards. At this rate it's getting hard to keep track of how many sites have done something similar, but here's the story so far.FANZA, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce site DMM.com that specializes in h-games and other lewd content, recently issued a post declaring they'll no longer be accepting Visa payments. The post said:"Thank ...
Gainax Go Bust: Evangelion Studio Files for Bankruptcy
There was a time when Gainax was one of the most dominant forces in the anime world. The studio behind Gunbuster,FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and Neon Genesis Evangelion was synonymous with taking sci fi anime tropes in wild new directions, but their output slowed dramatically in the last decade and other studios took over. By now, it appears Gainax has taken its last breath. On May 29, Gainax had applied for bankruptcy through ...
Episode Aigis - The Answer is Finally Coming to Persona 3 Reload
WhenPersona 3 Reload was first announcedl, people were excited to be playing the 2006 classic again. But would it contain content from its many rereleases over the years, likeFES andPortable? As it turned out, it did not, and fans were unable to play a remade version ofThe Answer, the playable epilogue introduced in theFES rerelease that focuses on robot waifu Aigis.The Answer was eventually confirmed to be DLC and a part ofReload's Expansion Pass, ...
Amazon Announce Like a Dragon: Yakuza Adaptation
These days, video game adaptations can be taken seriously as TV shows, or at least a handful of them ever since HBO'S wildly successful The Last of Us series. Amazon recently struck nuclear gold with Fallout, which was similar to Netflix's One Piece with the way it surprised (most) fans of the original with how respectful and accurate it was for the source material. But before Fallout's second session, Amazon are dropping yet another adaptation of ...
Freedom of Expression on Twitter? Not for Azur Lane!
Remember when Twitter became X, and its new management prided itself over free speech and all that? And all that's happened since is its userbase has dipped, it introduced a bunch of features no one likes, people whose points of view oppose Musk's are having their tweets censored, and because the content moderation team has been fired, the site is absolutely teeming with porn spambots and CP. But at least you can kinda say slurs now! But God forgive ...
Princess Maker 2 Regeneration Delayed on PlayStation Due to Content Changes
Princess Maker 2, a game created by Gainax (yes, that Gainax) where the goal is to raise a magical little girl into a princess that was originally released 21 years ago, is getting yet another rerelease, this time calledPrincess Maker 2 Regeneration. Developed byWonder Boy Collectiondevs Bliss Brain,Regeneration features newly drawn art by original Gainax character designer Takami Akai, who later worked onTengen Toppa Gurren Lagannwhile still at Gainax. ...
Sony Plan to Launch Anime Academy & AI Anime Tools
When you think of Sony, maybe anime isn't one of the first things that come to mind. Maybe you're more likely to thing of the PlayStation brand, not just the consoles but its family of exclusive titles. Maybe you think of their TVs and audio equipment, their smartphones or possibly the studio behind movies such asMadame Web, Emoji Movie and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. But in their most recent annual corporate strategy presentation, the Japanese conglomerate ...
Snowbreak: Containment Zone Drops English Dub After Supposed VA Complaints
Another day, another gacha with its own assortment of waifus emerges, trying to make it to the big time. One of the more recent ones to throw its hat in the ring isSnowbreak: Containment Zone, a scifi TPS from Chinese devSeasun Games Pte. Ltd. It was released last year on iOS, Android and PC, and has already earned a fanbase in the west. Like most games, a lot of content has been added since launch, however, the English dub has now been removed.The ...
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