Hmm, I was in McDonald's last night but haven't seen this in Yokohama yet. There is also nothing on the website. The current promotion is fountain drinks of all sizes at ¥100.

Liberties were taken, I suppose. In the beginning of the Gamecenter HD trailer, the guy says he modeled the arcade shops after Korean ones from the 1990s.

The name of the guy actually comes from the Japanese drama ノーコン・キッド which tells the tale of an arcade gamer in the 1980's which goes by the name KID and uses only one coin (hence the name NoCon or No Continues). It's a rather interesting drama.

Not really, just create an account and get the game for the future. Perhaps you will change your mind in a few years and will have some free games waiting for you ;)

I think it is better than the first. I am still not convinced by most of the acting, however. Most of the actors felt generic.

I also feel cheated. I only went to watch it at the cinema because the trailer clearly showed that there will be a Makoto duel (1:32 in the trailer). Guess what, though? We're gonna have to…

Great Work, man.

I personally like it but I have seen a Gawker website calling its trailer one of the worst ever Ghibli trailers. Miyazaki Sr. did help with the screenplay so his stance has soften from the first Goro film. It did manage to pull in decent numbers at the box office in Japan but not so much in the US.

Well, Miyazaki is retired while Takahata's latest work was a financial flop. The works of Miyazaki's son haven't been well received and Suzuki has stepped down from production. In all, not a positive outlook. I guess it makes more sense to just use their existing IPs to generate more profits by merchandising and…

Distractions is one of the reason why he uses archaic technology to write the books.

How come there still isn't a market for customized HDD covers (the glossy piece)? I would love to replace that with a matte one.

Yeah, they usually release two versions; subbed (字) and dubbed (吹) for most movies here. That said, a few movies manage to get releases here at the same time (e.g. Amazing Spiderman 2) or even earlier (e.g. 47 Ronin) than other markets.

With his thick accent, it probably won't make much difference if he pronounced it in English versus Japanese ;)

There are still a few launch bundles floating around on Amazon Japan even now. I guess they produced too many for the market. Still, even with a price difference of only￥2,000 over the standard post-launch SKU (no bundled game), people are still buying more of the latter! Sometimes the price is almost the same but…

I wonder what goes wrong down the line, however. Around 50% of the marriages in the United States end up in divorces or annulments.

This is a good article:

As others have mentioned, those photo booths (Purikura プリクラ; a word derived from the Japanization of "Print Club" into Purinto Kurabu プリント倶楽部) can give you larger eyes and smoother skins (sometimes impossibly smooth).

Not all charities are honest, however. See: The American Red Cross refusing to disclose what it did with Hurricane Sandy's money ($300m); claiming it is a trade secret and even hiring a law-firm to fight any requests of disclosure.

Better use the time delivering packages, Sagawa. Otherwise, Yamato and Japan Post will continue kicking your ass. The herds of housewives you'll be employing won't save you :P

Because those Arabic numbers are also from India ;)