March 31, 2023 marked the final day of the original Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game after a nine-year run. It’s been a part of my life for nearly a decade, so I thought I’d reflect on my time with it. Naturally, my experiences don’t reflect everyone’s, but I hope we can all share in the good times. Discovering the Game I first learned of School Idol Festival thanks to the Love Live! anime and being an unabashed Hanayo supporter. As if fate had conspired to draw me in further, I was fortunate enough to pull an Ultra Rare Hanayo early on that kept me playing that was my first mobile ..read more

Donuts announced that their latest smartphone game, Axis Senki ~ Maidens on the Battlefield~ (Axis Senki ~ Senjou wo Kakeru Otometachi~) will be released in March 2017. Just like Kantai Collection from DMM, the game is an RPG game where the characters are moe anthropomorphisms of military weapons. Axis Senki is a game whose world was based upon the view of military magazine MC☆Axis. Filled with military weapons personified as beautiful girls, the player becomes the commander of the said personified military weapons and goes into battle.    The game was also opened for pre-registrati ..read more

Do you miss Kougami and the rest of the Public Safety Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division? The movie ain’t enough to satisfy your cravings? Worry not since there will be another installment to the Psycho-Pass series—in the form of a game, that is. Psycho-Pass, the popular cyberpunk anime of 2012, is going to come back for fans and to people new to the series as Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness, a PC game that is going to be released via Steam on April 27th. And if you’re a fan of the anime and you haven’t played the PS4 and Vita versions before, you should definitely check this out! The ..read more

The following article does not contain any spoilers. Feel free to read on.  Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, aka Hoshi no Samidare, is an anime that I had been eagerly anticipating. As someone who read the entire manga, I was excited at the prospect of the series gaining new fans. Its odd premise—normal people who become warriors to stop a giant biscuit hammer from cracking the Earth—is hard to forget. But then, I started seeing less than stellar reviews. Seeing how online reactions lamented a low budget that did not do L&BH justice, I watched the first episode with a good deal of tre ..read more

Of the many things I miss doing during this COVID-19 pandemic, there’s one that really stings: the inability to go out with friends and sing anime karaoke. I live in an area that normally has a number of multi-language karaoke options, and prior to the current crisis, it was a great way to both socialize and fulfill the desire to belt out giant robot openings. However, between the need to social distance and the fact that singing is actually a very effective way to potentially spread the virus, it’s just an incredibly bad idea to be in a karaoke box. After nearly a year, I decided to see if I ..read more

As a nature lover, I go out in the woods to feel better and stay positive. Simultaneously, I am a video game enthusiast. Weird combination, right? Today, I will introduce some video games I think you will enjoy if you appreciate nature's blessings while keeping yourself indoors. Stardew Valley Stardew Valley is one of those games where you grow vegetables, upgrade a house, go fishing, take care of your livestock, socialize with other villagers, explore a cave, fight monsters, collect treasures… enjoy your relaxing and sustainable life on this beautiful island! It is my favorite game because y ..read more

  Released on March 20, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been one of the most popular games on Nintendo Switch. Within 3 days after release, more than 1,880,000 are reported to have been sold. As more people stay inside and help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, they have been enjoying exploring the beautiful world of their own island and socializing with charming weirdos.  Here are a few tips and tricks to get those bells more efficiently.  First of all, In order to make bells more Efficiently,  you can collect garden weeds all over the island and sell them. Nintendo Di ..read more

In 2009, doujin group D.N.A. Softwares released the game Touhou Gensou Mahjong, also known as Touhou Unreal Mahjong. Combining the popular Touhou franchise (known for its cute, supernatural aesthetic and its bullet hell gameplay) with one of Asia’s favorite pastimes, it brought together two passions that engender loyal and hardcore audiences. D.N.A. Softwares has recently released a new version of the game on the Japanese Nintendo Switch eShop store.  Game Modes Touhou Genshou Mahjong features multiple ways to play mahjong. If you’re looking for a basic, no-frills experience, you can set ..read more

Magical boys? Yes, they are indeed a thing! Though unlike its predecessor Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu!, Dear My Magical Boys is closer to Little Witch Academia than your typical magical girl (or boy, in this case) series like Sailor Moon. Following the steps that A3!, iDOLiSH7 and other smartphone games aimed at women did in the past, will Dear My Magical Boys become the next big hit?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w66lUMO-YEQ Dear My Magical Boys, known as Dear Magi: Mahou Shounen Gakka in Japan, is an academy adventure game that is set in a magic school. The player takes upon the ..read more

Fantasy Earth Zero will now be available for Android and iOS under the name Fantasy Earth Genesis, as announced by Square Enix and mobile app developer Asobimo at the Tokyo Game Show 2017. Unlike the usual player-versus-player (PVP) battles where a party consists of three to six players, you can now join battles where one party can reach up to 50 players! First appearing in 2006, Fantasy Earth Zero has been famous for having PVP battles on a massive scale. The latest installment to the Fantasy Earth series is set hundreds of years before the events appearing in Fantasy Earth Zero. While it ..read more