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Tenga

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Pickups

Suzume Producer Kouichirou Itou Confesses to Paying Underage Girl for Sex

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

GREGORY HORROR SHOW game and animation
Making of Wild Zero 2

Live-Action Anime news:

Rumor: Netflix’s ‘One Piece’ To Race-Swap Nico Robin, Alleged Season Two Casting Call Seeks Latina Actress For Role Of Straw Hat Archaeologist

Streaming news:

Netflix Reveals Terminator Zero Anime to Premiere Worldwide on August 29
   Some extra screenshots
Rumble now banned in Russia

Theater Release news:

Ghost Cat Anzu Anime Film Reveals New Trailer, Cast and More

Series news:

Anime:
Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho Premieres on June 27
I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level Season 2 Anime Adds Beelzebub to Teaser Visual
2.5 Dimensional Seduction TV Anime Premieres on July 5, 2024
The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human Anime Cleans up with Satie in New Character Trailer
Mysterious Disappearances Anime Unveils Special Maid Day Illustration
You Are Ms. Servant Anime Shares Special Maid Day Illustration
Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? Anime Reveals Additional Cast and More
Akira Konno’s Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo Comedy Manga Gets Anime Adaptation
Takako Shimura’s Yuri Manga Awajima Hyakkei Gets Anime Adaptation
Detective Conan Author Gosho Aoyama’s Yaiba Manga Receives New Anime Adaptation
Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time Anime Announced for January 2025
Sunrise Robot Laboratory Project Releases Experimental Movie “AURA BATTLER DUNBINE SIDE L”
New Survey Says Anime Is No Longer for Teens
Manga:
Turtles of Grayskull Comic Mini-Series By Dark Horse Coming Soon
1st Run of Shōhei Ohtani’s Picture Book Soar in Price After His Disgraced Interpreter Is Airbrushed Out
Games:
Eiyuden Chronicle Translation Mod Fixes Unnecessary Internet Slang
The #FreeStellarBlade campaign continues to climb
Lara Croft is Lara Soft
   A good pirate doesn’t steal
Warner Bros. Discovery Admits To Taking $200 Million Loss On ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’
   ∟Remedy Reveals 2023 Revenue Declined By 24% In Fourth Quarter Despite ‘Alan Wake 2’ Release
      ∟Sweet Baby Inc. Influenced ‘Alan Wake 2’ Still Has Not Recouped Its Budget
   ∟Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer Admits Recent Activision Blizzard Layoffs Were Partially Undertaken Due To Falling Industry Profits
      ∟Former ‘World Of Warcraft’ Team Lead Mark Kern Says BlizzCon Cancelled Because It Loses Money
   ∟Microsoft Guts Bethesda’s Workforce, Shutters ‘Redfall’ And ‘Hi-Fi Rush’ Studios In Order “To Focus On Our Priority Games”
      ∟Xbox Studios head says they need “smaller games” immediately after shutting down small studios
         Hi-Fi Rush gets reverse review bombed after Microsoft shutters Tango Gameworks
   ∟Embracer Group Sells ‘Borderlands’ Developer Gearbox Entertainment To Take-Two Interactive, But Keeps Sweet Baby Inc. Influenced ‘Hyper Light Breaker’
      ∟After Purchasing Gearbox, Take-Two Interactive Reportedly Shuts Down Two Developers
         ∟Less Than A Month After Acquiring Gearbox, Take-Two Interactive To Reportedly Fire 5% Of Its Staff And Scrap Multiple Projects
            Layoffs Hit Gearbox Staff Hours After Embracer Sale
   ∟‘Grand Theft Auto’ Publisher Take-Two Announces Brutal Cost Reduction Plan, Cuts Over 500 Employees And Cancels “Several Projects In Development”
      ∟Report: ‘Immortals Of Aveum’ Developer Ascendant Studios Furloughs “Majority Of Their Staff”
         ∟Sega sells off Relic Entertainment alongside laying off 200+ staff in Europe
            ∟Relic Entertainment lay off 41 employees shortly after split from Sega
               We are up to 20k job losses in AAA
Square Enix stock price plummets after confirming 70% profit drop
   ∟Square Enix confirms layoffs in USA and EU amidst restructuring
      ∟Square Enix announces new plan to “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy”
         ∟Following 70% Decline In Profit, Square Enix To “Shift From Quantity To Quality” And Focus On Developing “Fun” Titles
Xbox launches new team dedicated to game preservation and backwards compatibility
   Nobody wants to play modern games
   New Tool Allows N64 Games To Be Played With Ray Tracing, Uncapped Frame Rates And Ultrawide Support
Nintendo Censors Scene Of Enemy Goombas Cat-Calling Female Party Member From ‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’ Remake
   GameStop exclusive slipcover
   Amazon and Now Walmart Have Cancelled Preorders for Paper Mario Thousand Year Door. Walmart Will Sell In-Store Only. Print for TTYD Might Be on the Smaller Side.
      Walmart should still carry it in-store
      It is seemingly still available at Best Buy, GameStop, and Target
         But at Walmart it is listed as ‘out of stock’
‘Marvel Rivals’ Developer Attempts To Explain Ban On Negative Reviews For Players With Early Access
Sony announces two PlayStation CEOs to replace Jim Ryan
   Sony is also restructuring their Marvel film

Release news:

Trigun and Trigun Maximum to Receive Deluxe Edition Hardcovers from Dark Horse
   EXCLUSIVE: Dark Horse to Release Trigun Manga in Deluxe Hardcover Edition
– Right Stuf
   The preferred cover for the Berserk Memorial Edition
Hell’s Paradise – Season 1 – BD/DVD – LE (Amazon Exclusive)

Random Merch news:

StealthWeeb.com
OCAPodcast.com/store
Foreign shoppers in Akihabara tip us off to an awesome souvenir idea: DIY Paper Theater kit
Yes, our new smartphone looks like at least two Studio Ghibli anime characters, Sharp says
Life-size vibrating Legend of Zelda Master Sword for sale from Nintendo
Fried Pokémon: Tokyo restaurant serves up an unusual dish
Bread loaves recalled in Japan after ‘rat remains’ were found
   ∟Poor mouse stuck in a piece of Pasta
Japan now has a convenience store that can be towed by a car
Map of Mexican restaurants across Japan created by Mexican embassy
   The most appealing and unappealing tacos in Japan
McDonald’s Uses Polymerization on Yu-Gi-Oh!/Hello Kitty for Happy Meals
Japanese burger chain Mos Burger starting record label for musician fast food workers

Misc news:

Vietnamese Arrested for Crashing Konbini With Forklift, Stealing 100k Yen
Brazilian woman brings dead man in wheelchair to bank to sign loan, arrested
‘Eunuch maker’ who broadcast mutilations of men jailed for life

AC’s Funhouse

AC’s Funhouse

The Nazis adored it; the Japanese commercialised it – now we’re all trapped in the cult of cute
Luxury hotel chain offering karaoke in a large tub floating on the ocean
Would you pay 450 dollar for a unique picnic dangling 295 feet over a thundering waterfall?
Subway’s flying restaurant will serve sandwiches 1,000 feet in the air: How to book your free ride
Taupo McDonald’s Airplane
Does Guile’s Street Fighter video game crouching block work in real life?
Mr. Sato appears in a French photo album without his consent, goes mad with desire for vengeance
Netflix being sued for $2 billion by Egyptians for ‘distorting the image’ of Cleopatra in new doc
Tokyo capsule toy machine gives you real samurai-era antique coins, but are they worth anything?
Hot spring offers people of all ages chance to participate in Japanese school-style sports day
“Get them drunk then chop off their heads.” Samurai’s assassination plot against U.S. envoys found
“Android” arrested for rice ball theft in Japan, Android Woman denies involvement
Why do people spend so long in jail without going to trial in Japan?

– Little Kuriboh accused of pedophilia by proxy
   ∟I was approached to talk about this during the Daman Mills coverage
      ∟Ex-Girlfriend
      Ex-Girlfriend’s Friend
   Kirbopher’s Apology Post

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