It's hardly ever the artist's decision in Japan, anyway. Though it's interesting to note that the earliest anime shows were also doing the same thing, basically trying to ape Disney. But the anime industry grew into its own shoes, just like J-pop now. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Japan is good at getting…

Of course, her catchy music has also been instrumental.

Phantasy Star Online 2? That's been out for a while in the Philippines, and nobody I know is playing it. Well, granted, nobody I know will play anything other than DotA or Dota 2, much less an MMO.

I can relate to this as I'm going through a similar situation. I grew up with a fairly good education from a bunch of private schools (where I'm from they're not what you think), but my family's been through a lot of tough times. I currently live alone, living with very meager savings each month, but I hope that my…

This is actually pretty surprising, given that mainstream Japanese culture—-despite all the crazy shit we see on the internet—-is pretty conformist. I think it's a great step forward.

I find that monogatari is more traditional animation than SZS.

Yeah, Shinbo is, I believe, the face of SHAFT. I'm pretty sure that REC is the only Shaft anime I've seen that isn't by him. Though Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko was at least least trippy in terms of general style. Till now I still have not watched the Monogatari series or Mekakkucity Actors because I find…

I guess I can say that I'm "on board", but that doesn't mean I reject everything else out of hand. Well, except stupid, no-brained ecchi-centered love comedies.

Um, I think that's exactly what I just said.

The trend is moving, as it's been since the beginning, towards stylization, or rather a comfortable balance between stylization and realism. And this is good, because it opens up huge avenues for creativity; artists don't have to be stifled by the trends of the age and can make styles all their own. I think the…

You need a tongue to pronounce a rolling R. Of course I'm okay with him having just bones for a face, he's Skeletor. The fact that he can pronounce a rrrrrolling R without a tongue just makes him more awesome.

How in the hell can Skeletor say "rrrrrumbling" with a rolling 'r'?!

Kairosoft (the people who made Game Dev Story) has been doing this for a long time with games like Oh! Edo Towns, Hot Springs Story, and Venture Towns. It's hardly original. But yeah, this game looks good regardless.

Looks like I'm a tenor. But I think it would still be better for me to sing from tenor twenty miles away.

Where did the idea for this come from? "I came up with the idea for the competition while spacing out," the event's organizer is quoted as saying.

With this I'll have played two games in the Valkyria series, and with the fan translation of VCIII, it'll be three!

Perhaps if this meal involved green tea. It's so meta. Bowels in, bowels out.

I was thinking that they don't look like bowels per se, but what's in them.

Forgive me for thinking that this greenish-brown squiggly hose thing on Mr. Zaku's helmet looks like something else entirely in real life.

Controllers on the PC are the reason that the whole PC vs. Console war is irrelevant. A PC with a controller is just the same as a console, except you can do more stuff.