Reviewing Netflix’s ‘Castlevania’ from a ‘Castlevania’ Junkie
Recently Netflix has released the first “season” of Castlevania, a gory, animated version of the beloved Konami series featuring our
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Your Name: When Body-Swapping Encounters Adolescence
Your Name, Makoto Shinkai’s latest animated film, has been making news and setting records in Japan (it’s currently the second
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Stumbling Down Memory Lane with ‘Double Dragon IV’
The NES was my staple console for the majority of my childhood. While I did not have many games at
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The Exhibition of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
My time in Japan is dwindling down fast so I have been trying to travel a lot. I went to
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Cosplay and Osaka: My Final Nipponbashi Street Festa
Ever since I moved to Japan in 2011, I have been checking out Osaka’s (my current hometown) cosplay extravaganza, the
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My Journey Through Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of Square-Enix’s MMO, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Just when
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Remembering Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata
I had just finished teaching my fifth grade class in Japan when I heard the news that the President of
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My Visit to Final Fantasy XIV’s Eorzea Cafe
With the Final Fantasy XIV expansion Heavensward coming out in less than a week, the game has been in my
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Nipponbashi Street Festa: Cosplay Invades Osaka
Japan. The land of anime and manga. When those two are brought up, usually the district of Akihabara in the
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How Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Renewed my Love for the MMO
Back in the day, when I played single-player games, most of them were RPGs. My first RPG was Final Fantasy IV
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VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Meets Anime Booze-Em-Up
As a person who writes and likes to people-watch, bars fascinate me. People from all sorts of different backgrounds gather
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Diggin’ In the Carts: A Sound Test for Your Childhood
I love video game music. Ever since I started playing them back in the NES/Famicom days, I have always appreciated
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Looking Back at Batman: The Animated Series
In 1992, when I was only eight years old, my Batman knowledge was near non-existent. All I had to go
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GameCenter CX: Kachou On!
Video games have been part of my life ever since I was a little kid. Ever since I was five,
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Maximum Spider?
One thing Japan gets screwed out of are movie release dates. Half the time we won’t get a movie until
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The Terror of the Game Over Screen
Originally posted at The Space Between Two Worlds I had a lot of fears back when I was a kid.
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