Just here to post that if you are reading this list, there is a possibility that Aoi Hana is the best anime you haven't seen.

One of the greatest crimes in anime is that this series did not get renewed. If you like anime that focus on realism, this is a must watch.

If you once lived in Japan, there is no other anime…

This.

I often have to explain to people that just because you can buy a classic car for $1000, doesn't mean you'll save money versus another car.

I bet an MRAP is a great way to kill your budget.

I'm not so sure these are undergarments, at least in common-held sense of the term.

They look more like bike shorts. My wife wears them more as a mid-layer.

"Expert cards that are being changed can be disenchanted for their full cost for a limited time once this balance change goes live. The currently targeted date of this balance change is September 22nd."

Solforge just nerfs your cards and keeps your money.

This isn't exactly true, although I understand what you mean.

Full plate armor offered so much protection that a heavily armored combatant could offer a brief moment of minor vulnerability in order to establish the speed and momentum needed to hit a lightly-armored opponent. We know from various historical sources…

Fuck steam.

Love GOG.

Luke,

Thanks you for correctly identifying Double Dash as the best Mario Kart game, but I want you to look back at Mario Kart 64 and acknowledge that it had the best battle mode.

Those levels were just so epic.

I do remember playing this game, but I seem to remember it being an expensive game to get into (at the time).

In the last few years, I also have looked into picking up some old cards to play older CCGs. I was surprised to learn, however, that cards from the game Ani-Mayhem are actually still quite expensive.

Other…

I just looked into this game after it was mentioned in the most recent Pier Solar HD update. I was pretty excited, but it just doesn't do it for me.

The art style seems very odd to me. The character model moves is a clunky and unnatural way, and the textures of the environment and interactive elements just seem very…

Well said. The economy is not based on the guild system anymore.

Yes.

This is pretty dumb.

These pictures seem confused...

I was going to respond to Richard, but you are quite right. It is commonplace to refer to shojou and even bishojou as genres.

Even though Richard is right—the words attempt to describe the audience—the meaning of the words has been altered by otaku.

Richard's post was probably designed to be a pageclick =p

...with emphasis on the THREE years.

Just don't touch the helm or you lose ALL YOUR SPELLS FOR THE WHOLE DAY!

Well don't worry too much about it Richard. I have it on good authority that the first episode of the next season is reminiscent of the Ep 1 S 3 of Sherlock Holmes.

"Let's run this down. Hatsuna used her powers to their limit (and thus "hung up," which prevented her from using her powers for a period of time). After Kuroha and Murakami left for the lab, she regenerated herself from a pile of goo (most likely hanging up again). Then, as Kazumi lay cut in half, Hatsuna somehow…

I appreciate that Seraphna. I hope my bulletpoints help some readers understand this and other stories out of Japan.

Thanks for the response Helios. I like that Kotaku has writers like Brian and Richard that share news stories from Japan, but I think they oftentimes miss a chance to explain to Kotaku readers more about the situations they are sharing.

I should also say that this is often the case when Americans evaluate elements of…