Ah, right, it wasn't the winner, my mistake. Still, being the runner up still says a lot, a lot more than a Famitsu score.

It's worth mentioning that that game earned the "Shit game of 2012" award in Japan.

Japan is even worse at that. Otaku have been strongly associated with murder for the last two decades thanks to this guy.

Hahahahaha. Pretty sure you win the Kotaku Post of the Day Award.

The licensing issues would probably be more on the Japan side. These aren't Pokemon or even Naruto situations where a U.S. company has has a massive, all-encompassing "exclusive U.S. rights" to the properties. It shouldn't cause an issue here any more than it would for a company to get the manga or novel rights (there…

Tales isn't that bad. The "pay to play" stuff is entirely skippable, it just unlocks stuff you can get in the game anyway. People who are really struggling might want to use it but most players can simply completely ignore it.

And I forgot to mention it, but the things you mentioned about the presentation of the female characters is one of the reasons I like the show so much. It's also a rare show to have an actual mixed-sex military, as opposed to only seemingly having 2-5 women in their entire military organization (this tends to pretty…

Interesting that you should choose Total Eclipse as your point of comparison.

From what I understand, Urobochi isn't actually writing most of Gargantia himself. I believe he's writing the first and last episodes himself, but other than that is in a supervisory role, not actually writing the episodes.

I'm pretty sure that was a change done while it was in production in Japan, so the image on the right is what was actually in the final Japanese version of the game. So this was not localization censorship unless I'm remembering things wrong.

Xenosaga had several. In the first game, Albedo impales Momo to search for something inside of her. It's not graphic at all, there's no blood and he's not actually physically puncturing her. But the NA version had his had just hover over her.

Fans did not cause this to happen, and especially not Western fans.

To further correct the article, fans did NOT cause the anime to get made. It was in planning looooooong before that commercial aired. Anime do not just suddenly get started 2 months before the air date.

"More recently, a fandom's excitement was responsible for turning a 30 second clip into a full-fledged anime series—even though the studio didn't initially have plans to expand on the clip."

It's available legally on YouTube and Crunchyroll. And do watch it, it's great stuff.

"Some dismissed these efforts as ridiculous, but it seems it has paid off: the anime is now becoming a reality."

Yeah, it gets pricey if you buy all of them. I only buy 1 or 2 each for a few characters.

I think that's from Stella Deus, not 100% sure though as I only played about the first chapter and that was a looooooong time ago.

I paid $4 or 5 each for a few costumes for Tales of Graces. That's not horribly unreasonable.

It's not that I *want* it to be difficult to learn, I just think a lot of people downplay the difficulty because its the language they know and they have no idea why its so hard. Their only exposure to foreign languages might be a bit of Spanish in high school, so they say things like "man, masculine and feminine…