

Sword Art Online fans seem to have been delighted by the levels of service on display in the first volume of Sword Art Online Progressive, the gaiden manga adaptation of the light novels.
Read the rest of this entry »


2D anime fighter Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax has been confirmed as having both arcade and home console versions planned, and as featuring Mikoto, Touma, Kirino and Kuroneko as well as the likes of Asuna and Shana, with a gameplay footage showing what is in store.
Read the rest of this entry »


Sega’s newly announced “Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax” seems likely to raise the bar for anime-styled 2D fighting games (as well as generic franchise crossovers), with a full cast of top anime characters appearing as playable fighters – already including the likes of Shana, Wilelmina, Asuna and Leafa.
Read the rest of this entry »

The trend for hit anime to receive movie adaptations rather than the more traditional OVAs continues – To Aru Majutsu no Index is now due a movie adaptation as well.
Read the rest of this entry »

Ore no Imouto fans have been delighted to learn goth loli princess Kuroneko has finally disposed of unworthy rival Kirino, and will be appearing in her own spin-off manga.
Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese gamers asked to rank their most anticipated games of 2011 yield up a list headed not by some blockbuster RPG as might be expected, but by none other than Ore no Imouto, backed up by plenty of other anime-based games.
Read the rest of this entry »

Dengeki readers provide a ranking of the top 10 game characters they feel would make good friend material.
Read the rest of this entry »

Dengeki readers supply a ranking of the top 10 anime characters they would like to befriend – the results are certainly vastly different to the typical bishoujo lineup.
Read the rest of this entry »

Shaa, an illustrator widely suspected of tracing the illustrations of other artists, has now been the subject of plagiarism himself in an unusual case of reverse (or possibly revenge) plagiarism.
Read the rest of this entry »

The US subsidiary of top Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya has stopped all sales of popular anime pin-up magazines, saying it thinks the innocent pictures of anime girls they are famous for may contain “illegal and inappropriate content” – or in other words, that it thinks they might be considered child porn in the US.
The store has cancelled the subscriptions of all customers subscribed to the magazines, which includes fan favourites Megami and Nyan-Type.
Read the rest of this entry »


Dengeki’s unrivalled reputation for employing and even awarding prizes to flagrant plagiarists continues to worsen, with yet another major incident – in this case actually involving a well known title, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (pictured with a pool cue above).
Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese gamers share a ranking of the most enjoyable games of the first half of 2010, revealing the Japanese gaming market truly seems locked in desperate times.
Read the rest of this entry »