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Month: November 2016

  • The Touhou Project

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    I really like shooters/shmups, yet I wasn’t really aware of the Touhou Project, a fascinating indie series of bullet hell shooters, and in fact so much more. I now know all of this thanks to this great article on Waypoint — and here’s a primer video too. I really need to play a bunch of…

  • Anime Films You Don’t Know

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    I wrote that as a title to this post because, as much as I think I’m pretty well versed in the world of Japanese animation, I have seen none of the 20 films mentioned in this post. It’s quite an interesting selection — 20 films that I guess could be considered a bit experimental or…

  • Chiptune Primer

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    Bandcamp’s blog has a really nice post up that acts as a primer on the current state of chiptune music in Japan, also highlighting a bunch of artists. Pictured, Toriena, who also runs the Madmilky Records label.

  • Rui Guerreiro and Mare

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    Polygon has a nice feature up on Rui Guerreiro, a dev who left the Last Guardian team and helped start up the Friend & Foe studio in Tokyo, later leaving to work on his own game Mare (and later joining up with Visiontrick Media, the studio behind Pavilion, which I mentioned last month).

  • Shibuya at Night

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    The Japan Times has a photo essay up by Tokyo-based photographer Andrew Curry, who gives us his version of Shibuya at night.

  • The Latest from Toco Toco

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    I haven’t posted about Toco Toco recently, but it continues to be one of my favorite web series, and so let me remind you that you should really check it out if you’re on the lookout for a beautifully produced series of documentary shorts covering Tokyo creatives. The last 3 episodes cover accessory designer KAE,…

  • An Interview with Tomonobu Itagaki

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    Even though I know he’s working hard on a new project that hasn’t been announced yet, it’s been great to see my buddy James Mielke get back to a bit of games writing (on Glixel and Polygon), and his latest piece is this feature interview with legendary game creator Tomonobu Itagaki (Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive)…

  • Drawing Tokyo

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    I’ve posted a bunch of times about my friends Luis Mendo and Adrian Hogan, and all of their drawing activities in Tokyo — which of course includes their monthly PauseDraw series. Airbnb has just launched a new activity service as part of everything the company offers, and Luis & Adrian were quick to offer up…