On August 22nd Atlus held a special concert featuring live music from the most recent Shin Megami Tensei: Persona titles: Persona 3, Persona 3 FES, and Persona Trinity Soul. The event was held in Akasaka, Tokyo at a special concert hall called BLITZ.
Japanese concerts are very different from American concerts. (Unless you go to a lot [...]
If you’re wondering who Nexon is, then you have probably never heard of their flagship title, Maple Story. Maple Story is a rather unique MMORPG in that it is both side-scrolling and 2D. May sound kind of lame to some, but I must admit, I play Maple Story from time to time and have about [...]
Square Enix just had their crazy invitation-only event dubbed DKΣ3713. I don’t know how it’s pronounced either, but a bunch of announcements were made regarding some new titles. This is some exciting stuff here people. I hope you’re sitting down, and odds are pretty good you are. Jeez, where to begin…
I guess I’ll start with [...]
Today out of sheer boredom, and inability to find something decent to post about, I stumbled onto the Japanese Playstation store. I figured it would be pretty interesting to see what is coming out over there to buy. End result: I am pretty damn jealous. But alas I feel that my jealousy [...]
So Furai No Shiren 3 has officially hit the shelves in Japan. Am I jealous? Yes. Do I want this Koppa wii-mote holder? Yes. Is life fair? In this blogger’s opinion almost certainly not.
If you have a Japanese Wii and want to try your hand at the game, you [...]
Sting has just announced that next installment of the Dept. Heaven series, Knights in the Nightmare, will be given a fancy special edition. The special edition will include the GBA game Yggdra Union as well as the the aforementioned Knights in the Nightmare for the Nintendo DS. Sting decided that the story would [...]
Uniqlo, a popular retail clothes store in Japan, has teamed up with Konami and will be releasing a line of Metal Gear Solid 4 inspired T-shirts. You can take a look at all the different designs here. The shirts go on sale June 12th, so you can have one equipped when you first [...]
The lucky individuals in Japan who preorder Disgaea: Prince of Hell and the Red Moon (魔界戦記ディスガイア 魔界の王子と赤い月) for the Nintendo DS get this spiffy Prinny shaped touchpen/stylus. The game comes out June 26th 2008, so there is a good amount of time to preorder, but these guys probably won’t last long.
To those living in the [...]
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I guess the first Persona game is old news these days, but I was still excited to find the complete 7 volume manga set at Book Off for 500 yen (around 5 dollars). The art is quite good for being an afterthought spawned from [...]
It is difficult to find quality scans of video game art without doing some digging. The older a series gets, the harder it becomes. Luckily Kei, the creator of Dokuganryu (formally Be Your True Mind–a reference to the first Persona game), has amassed an enormous collection of video game art and scans [...]