anime
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Our Favourite Cosplay From Anime Expo 2022
1Anime Expo 2022, held earlier this month in Los Angeles, bills itself as “the largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America”. Just before the pandemic it was attracting over 100,000 people to the LACC, and while numbers were well down on that for this year’s show, for attendees it was a pleasure just…
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Grieving Yu-Gi-Oh, My Favourite Childhood Game
Kazuki Takahashi died this week. The creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga, anime, and trading card game, he was an artist who meant a great deal to me. A strange and surprising grief struck when I heard the news, both for the man himself, only 60 years old, and for his game. With his death, I…
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In The Name Of The Moon, I Must Have These Sailor Moon Phone Cases
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it feels like Sailor Moon‘s making a resurgence and in style, no less. Just the other week, we caught wind of Vans’ Sailor Moon collaboration, and now Casetify’s joining them in Nostalgia Lane with a full collection of Pretty Guardian phone cases and goodies. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon x…
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New Dragon Age Anime Suffers From Typical Netflix Blandness
I started screaming in Kotaku Slack when my fellow weeb (and staff writer) Isaiah linked a screenshot of Dragon Age: Absolution. My favourite western fantasy RPG is getting an anime adaptation? Sign me up. But then I started watching the trailer, and my enthusiasm deflated immediately. Absolution doesn’t look like a show produced for the…