Japanese voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda has lost a lawsuit involving the unauthorized AI cloning of his voice, but the ruling could still prove significant for voice actors fighting AI impersonation in Japan.
Azur Lane finally added the attractive Implacable to the game’s dormitory function, allowing players to witness the woman in a more casual setting and earning a ton of praise considering her lewd outfits and buxomness in general.
Persona may be one of Japan’s most recognizable RPG franchises, but the series now sells substantially more copies in North America than it does at home.
Sony is exploring a PlayStation controller that could double as a contactless payment device, allowing players to purchase games or in-game content simply by tapping a credit card or smartphone against it.
The developers behind the official Atelier Ryza AI chat app are tightening its restrictions after some users attempted to manipulate Ryza into making inappropriate statements.
Organizers of the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya have apologized after a baseball venue incorrectly told spectators that Japan’s Rising Sun flag was prohibited from being brought inside.
Two Chilean men already arrested over the theft of approximately 200 million yen ($1.3 million) worth of luxury watches from Tokyo’s Nakano Broadway have been arrested again over a separate burglary – and police say the suspects admitted targeting Japan because they had heard its punishments were lenient.
Chizuna Nakajima’s Where Is the Elf Teacher’s Toilet? (Elf-sensei no Toire wa Doko desu ka?) has received the green light for an anime adaptation, with a commemorative illustration and comments from Nakajima released alongside the announcement.
World of Warcraft senior game producer Tom Ellis has deleted his Twitter account after old offensive posts attributed to him resurfaced online, just days after he told players punished for inappropriate character names to “be a better human next time.”
NieR: Automata became one of Square Enix’s biggest RPG success stories, but getting it made apparently required its developers to fight against expectations from inside the company – while director Yoko Taro tried his best to stay out of Square Enix’s way.
An analysis of nearly 140,000 Japanese manga series found that the average title has more than doubled in length compared to the 1960s, with a particularly dramatic increase beginning in the 2010s. The study analyzed 138,438 Japanese manga titles using data from Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Database.
Code Geass is officially returning with a completely new anime in 2027, and its first teaser suggests the franchise may be heading somewhere very different from Lelouch’s familiar world.
Ado’s management company Cloud Nine is warning that it will take legal action against online harassment and misinformation as the singer faces a wave of backlash following her appearance at the K-pop festival INKIGAYO LIVE in TOKYO.
Nintendo has won $4.5 million in damages against a former moderator of Reddit’s r/SwitchPirates community who was accused of helping distribute hundreds or potentially thousands of pirated Nintendo Switch games.
The producers behind SEKIRO: NO DEFEAT have issued an unusual apology after revealing that the anime currently playing in Japanese theaters was actually an edited version of an eight-episode TV series – something audiences weren’t told before buying tickets.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run has barely returned with weekly episodes, and Netflix is already facing another round of backlash – this time over the anime’s new ending theme and the controversial producer credited behind it.
Based on special anniversary artwork, this figurine depicts the cute Bismarck in quite the stellar dress, giving off an aura of sophistication that will leave any male speechless – and the small degree of sex appeal here and there will certainly help as well.
An indie game about sewing dresses has unexpectedly become one of Steam’s biggest new releases, briefly climbing above major games including Diablo 4 on the platform’s global best-sellers chart.
Japanese prosecutors are seeking nine years in prison for a 37-year-old farmer who admitted setting fire to a mosque in Hokkaido – a building that had itself previously been declared illegally constructed by local authorities.
Senran Kagura creator Kenichiro Takaki has looked back on a time when games built around attractive anime girls and sexual fanservice weren’t always taken seriously within the Japanese game industry. Takaki shared the memory as Senran Kagura celebrated its 15th anniversary on September 22.
Silent Hill is apparently heading back to the screen yet again, with Resident Evil producer Roy Lee now attached to a new adaptation of Konami’s horror series — just months after Return to Silent Hill arrived in theaters.
Armed Fantasia, the crowdfunded spiritual successor to Wild Arms, has had its development discontinued by publisher 505 Games’ parent company Digital Bros, four years after its Kickstarter campaign raised millions of dollars from fans.
Sony is reportedly asking game developers what they think about its controversial decision to stop producing physical PlayStation games, raising questions about whether the company could reconsider some part of its digital-only plan.