J.C. Staff just announced that Shakugan no Shana is finally getting a third entry in the series, 11 years after season 2 ended. While many expected the series to die in ignominy after the open ending of the second season and over a decade without an announcement, the recent success of A Certain Magical Index’s revival…

...Okay, yeah, that reference may be a little dated. Anyway, this is Raitzeno, just home from day 1 of Naka-Kon, an anime convention in Overland Park, Kansas (in the Kansas City metropolitan area, since many of you have probably never heard of it). Today was basically a scouting day for me and my fellow panelist,…

This is Raitzeno, back from a food coma with another delicious Ani-TAY Review. Today’s target is a fantastic little movie I’m sure none of you have ever heard anyone talk about: The Broly Rises. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, which should be everyone, TBR is a new movie set in the Dragon Ball Super…

Let me get this out of the way first: I really, really like Octopath. I’m enjoying the hell out of it, and getting more than my money’s worth out of the purchase - and I got the big silly collector’s edition.

Surprise! The client is available for download on the Google Play store RIGHT NOW, and servers go live in less than half an hour. CBT players just need a quick update on the client software, and supposedly we’re keeping our data from it. I sure as hell hadn’t heard anything solid about the release date, so this is a…

Had I known the beta was going to end that fast, I would have been better prepared to write this (or, indeed, I might have known I was going to write it before it ended). But much like in most of the SMT series, shit happened I wasn’t ready for, and we got wiped, but we should be able to load our save data later. So…

Emails have been sent out with links to the closed beta test of Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2, a new F2P mobile game from ATLUS. Registered users can find a download link in the email, and the servers will fire up Tuesday evening. (Do note that the email contains quite a few formatting and grammatical errors,…

(This is Scully’s fault.)

Welcome back to (a NEWLY UPDATED, see bottom of article) Cooking With Raitzeno, where God is dead of food poisoning, Cthulhu is vomiting in the bathroom, and the Buddha is glad to be fasting. Today I’ve only got a small morsel of suffering to inflict on you, but it’s going to be made deliciously worse by knowing what…

So i may have mentioned my Wednesday night RPG campaign is an Avatars game, in which we are playing as ourselves in what’s effectively an isekai. One of my friends has brought his full-size van into this world, the other has brought his motorcycle. I brought my backpack with all my gadgets, and we’ve managed to cobble…

‘Welcome’ back to Cooking With Raitzeno, where more than a year of absence is not enough to save you from deep emotional trauma.

I’m gonna lead off with the question real quick for the tl;dr before I go long into how I got there: What’s your favorite instance of either a tabletop RPG featuring in anime/manga/LNs, or an anime-based occurance in a tabletop game you’ve played?

Welcome to the Summer 2017 Ani-TAY Recommendation Collaboration! Assuming nobody else writes a better version of this before we have to publish, I’m your host this time, Raitzeno, and I’ve cooked up— no, thankfully, I haven’t. We’ve had some scheduling kerfluffles leading to me writing this up, but the overall process…

This is why we can’t have nice things.

So this is a thing in Japan. Ninty just announced a Metabble-themed New 2DS bundled with DQ11. Holy shit that is smexy. Too bad the XL/LL hurts when held by my itty bitty t-rex hands. ;_;