Their failure is because they didn’t run old COPS, Cheaters and Star Trek episodes

“Its really not tho. Not to the degree its seen in other places. There is no other place where office lady is a thing like how it is in Japan nor is it normal to have the women srrve you drinks on your mandatory post work get-together”

People who play visual novels and complain that they are, in fact, visual novels are so incredibly frustrating. Please go do that to literally any other genre and leave visual novels alone.  It’s ok to just acknowledge that a genre isn’t for you and move along.

Well, Ash is married to Serena and Misty didn't want to be a side bitch like Dawn. 

Yes. She also made other poor life decisions if the cigarette and toeless sneakers are any indication. 

“Gary was here! Ash is a loser!”

I had a rather deep-but-also-shallow conversation with a friend not so long ago, and we ended up agreeing on/with the idea that AI that are not specifically meant to titillate should probably not be human. Clippy was ahead of his time. It sounds like a joke, but we will only avoid popularly sexualizing AI when their…

Also worth noting is that it can be shiny. This isn’t the first time it’s been possible to get a legit one, but the only way to get it before was a random chance from buying a movie ticket for the Hoopa movie in Japan so it’s the first time most people can get it shiny.

Evangelion Unit 01, which is best classified as “it’s complicated”.

They’re playing a little fast & loose with the word “hero”, if they’re including the force of nature/cautionary tale about man’s hubris Godzilla, and Evangelion Unit 01, which is best classified as “it’s complicated”.

Yeah, but Kotaku doesn’t cover Twitch news unless Pokimane or Amouranth is involved.  I think AGDQ is the only time Twitch comes up and one of the two isn't mentioned 

Couldn’t have happened to a better person.

Jesus Christ

Do you mean like Unggoy, Sangheili, Jiralhanae, San’Shyuum, Kig’Yar, Mgalekgolo, and Yanme’e?

Found the CIA agent.

It’s rare that an Indian festival gets recognition, let alone accurately so this makes me really happy. Wish you all a very happy Deepavali ("Diwali" but in the Tamil pronunciation, since I'm one). 

I was actually really surprised that the multiplayer for a generally single player franchise wasn’t just tacked on, but was actually fun.

Well obviously they had to take it down because we all know it should have been the other way around.

So I think you might be thinking a little too deeply into this... and as much as I want to address your comment know that this is very much a tangent from the overall article... first I’d like to offer a gentle rebuttal that just because reverse racism, and reverse prejudice may not be truly real in a systemic sense,…

so for those keeping track. Sony now controls a VAST majority of English language streaming (something like 90% in some seasons), and a slightly smaller percentage of physical releases (until they try to get their claws on Sentai)

Here’s a short list of companies that Sony owns in the anime space:
A-1 Pictures
Aniplex
Funi…