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– Tenga

– Shohei Ohtani Interpreter Fired After Allegedly Stealing Millions for Illegal Gambling
   ∟Shohei Ohtani’s personal interpreter fired, accused of “massive theft” to pay off gambling debts
      ∟One of Shohei Ohtani’s endorsement deals looks pretty awkward right now

– Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s

– Pickups
   ∟Ocarina of Time is based
      ∟The Temple of Time remains untouched by Ganon’s evil
         ∟Link is canonically Christian

– While Japan Begins To Reject ESG Investments, The Pokémon Company International Posts Job Listing For Director Of DEI & Social Responsibility

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– Godshard Chronicles: A Retro-Meets-Modern Action RPG

Convention news:

– Dragon Ball theme park, bigger than Tokyo Disneyland, announced, but not for Japan

Live-Action Anime news:

– Parasyte: The Grey Live-Action Series Shares Main Trailer, Key Visual

Streaming news:

– Disney+ to Stream Nearly All Macross Anime Worldwide in 2024
– Two Long-Lost ‘Astro Boy’ Episodes Have Been Restored And Are Airing In Japan

Theater Release news:

– GKIDS To Bring Quartet Of Mamoru Hosoda Films To U.S. Theaters After Acquiring The Director’s Full Studio Chizu Catalog
– Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron Jumps 15 Places on Japanese All-Time Box Office After Oscar Win
– Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino: Young animators must “crush” Hayao Miyazaki

Series news:

Anime:
– Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Anime Film 2nd Part Pushed Back to May 24
– Sentenced to Be a Hero TV Anime Reveals Teaser Visual and Video
– Grisaia: Phantom Trigger TV Anime Scheduled to Premiere in 2024
– I’m a Behemoth Light Novels Get TV Anime
   ∟I’m a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet TV Anime Announced
– You Are Ms. Servant TV Anime Premieres in October 2024
– Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? Anime Debuts in July 2024
– The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Anime Unveils New Visual Ahead of Episode 12
– Ishura Anime Announces Season 2 in Production
– Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World Season 3 Set for October 2024
   ∟Capella is censored
      ∟It’s the holocaust all over again
         ∟Emilia’s tits are huge now too
– ZENSHU. is MAPPA’s Next Original TV Anime
   ∟MAPPA Animator-Focused Original Show Zenshuu Quite Ironic
– KENGAN ASHURA Anime Season 2 Part 2 Reveals August 2024 Release, Teaser Trailer, Visual
– Baki Hanma vs Kengan Ashura
– Chinese State Broadcaster Airs Country’s First AI-Developed Animated Series
Manga:
– Dragon Ball Super enters indefinite hiatus
– Eiichiro Oda to Take Three-Week Break From One Piece Manga Chapter Releases in April

Games:
– China Man Arrested for Illegally Copying Game Music at Arcade Center
– Dragon’s Dogma 2 Players Are Planning an NPC Murder Spree to Boost the Frame Rate
   ∟Dragon’s Dogma 2 in Flames for Performance, DLC & DRM Issues
      ∟Make travel fun by paying for it!
      ∟There is no new game option
         ∟If you delete save it is bricked
      ∟The micro transactions are out of control
         ∟They may be hidden, but still unacceptable
      ∟The character creator is still pretty legit
         ∟Play as Mr. Satan
            ∟The King of Pop has come to free his people
               ∟Play as a crack whore
                  ∟Play as late-stage FDDNM
                     ∟You can even give them love handles
– PlayStation Laying Off 900 Across Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, And More, Closing London Studio
   ∟Sony shuts down Deviation Games before first game is released
      ∟Former PlayStation Boss Responds To Mass Layoffs In Gaming, Says Things Will Be “Fine”
– At the Game Developers Conference, the Games Industry Really Needed a Good Scream
   ∟The collective scream heard… just in that garden
      ∟“We’re in control!” screams game dev who is no longer in control
         ∟In reality, only 50 or so devs showed up to scream
      ∟Fealty to the cult must be sworn loudly and publicly
      ∟This all started because one person thought customers should know what they’re buying
   ∟Government-Owned Canadian Broadcasting Company Joins Sweet Baby Inc. Misinformation Campaign
   ∟Kotaku EIC Resigns Over New Editorial Edict
      ∟We Are Now Entering The “Animal Crossing Buttplug” Stage Of 2020
      ∟Contributors would rather quit than write guides
         ∟Good luck inserting politics into guides
            ∟The strategy is to ask for the impossible
               ∟If everyone quits, no severance pay!
      ∟Is this the article that did them in?
         ∟In reality, it is this bullshit
            ∟Of course Alyssa is convinced she’s the victim
               ∟I hope she can learn to code
                  ∟Nope, just gonna suck dick
      ∟Kotaku Owners G/O Media Reportedly Back Down From Fully Shifting Site From News To Guides After Editor-in-Chief Resigns, Staff Push Back
         ∟Alyssa has planned a revenge piece on Melanie Mac
            ∟And appears to have been given the greenlight to write the hit piece
               ∟Get ready for a lawsuit
   ∟EA’s ‘Marvel’s Black Panther’ Narrative Designer Responds After Video Resurfaces Of Her Bragging That Previous Title ‘ValiDate’ Had “No White People” On Dev Team: “I Had Fears Of Certain Treatment Towards My Marginalized Workers”
      ∟Curiously, she just deleted several Tweets
         ∟Associate Narrative Designer Working On ‘Marvel’s Black Panther’ Admits To Being A Racist While Accusing Gamers Of Racism And Saying You Can’t Be Racist To White People
            ∟She is doing a terrible job hiding who she is
   ∟Reflector Entertainment And Bandai Namco’s ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Added To Sweet Baby Inc. Detected List
   ∟Let’s revisit Flintlock
      ∟Report: Sweet Baby Inc. Ruined A44 Games’ ‘Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn’ Race-Swapped Main Character And Made Other Significant DEI Changes
         ∟Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay
         ∟The ops manager for the studio had a meltdown
            ∟Of course she claimed harassment
               ∟She can’t spell preservation
               ∟She deleted her account
   ∟Video Game Developers Reportedly Make Characters Androgynous To Cater To Transgenderism
      ∟Naughty Dog made female characters less feminine to be trans friendly
      ∟Here is a wall of hideous characters
         ∟Game Developer Admits The Game Industry Is Making Games To Cater To LGBTQ+ Agenda
   ∟Why can’t you just ignore the super subtle woke shit?
      ∟Kind of hard when it is EVERYWHERE
         ∟Play as a deaf girl
            ∟Only attractive women are lesbians
               ∟The devs who claim their effort is for realism and authentic lived experiences can’t even get a flag right
   ∟Brianna Wu will decry female game characters for looking like hookers
      ∟Except when it comes to her own game of course
         ∟Remember, these are the people who clamor for real women representation in media

Release news:

– Right Stuf

Random Merch news:

– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Tokyo police arrest two men for theft of 4.98 million-yen Yu-Gi-Oh! card
– K-Pop Idol Apologizes for Enjoying Coca-Cola

Misc news:

– Woman Swindled Out of 900,000 Yen by Fake Astronaut
   ∟Women are so easy to manipulate
– Teen Brit gets USB cable stuck inside penis in bizarre ‘sexual experimentation’
– Man with one-inch penis opens up about life with a micropenis
– Adam Manikis: Man breaks his penis and blogs his way back to health: ‘It blew up like a Coke can’

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