This one for Nine Sols is real good and it was only made last year youtu.be/_cyZzb5ZXx4?...

久しぶりに若干筆が乗った気がするざっくり雑描き

Last I rewatched Serial Experiments Lain. 9 years ago almost to the day. It is a classic, and an anime worth watching at least 5 times. Dont have motivation for a new rewatch at this time. BUT I will now port over and painstakingly recreate my favorite twitter thread. Where I counted. Every pole

Our English patch for Kowloon's Gate, the surrealist Asian-gothic cyberpunk PS1 adventure game arrives June 9th.

REAL gamers turn on tank controls DURING nine lives mode (permadeath) in Bubsy 4D. No regrets!

You can mute Bubsy, but he'll be so sad about it he'll actually break character.

Today at @retroxp.bsky.social is an esteemed guest, @garrettmartin.bsky.social, writing about an Atari 2600 game that fits right in thematically with our ideas of sci-fi in the present. Here's Garrett on Imagic's Cosmic Ark.

Finished! Here's the fourteenth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, in which I tackle William Morris's 1894 romance THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD. This ended up being a long one, but there was a lot to wrestle with in this novel: gender, socialism, anarchism, genre history, etc.

tanaka romeo?!

That is world record in Crescent Prism's Sundown at Midnight NG+ category! Congrats to @Ad129.bsky.social on the fantastic run! #RPGLB2026 The fun doesn't stop here, with Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance coming up next! Tune in at twitch.tv/RPGLimitBreak

I’m very happy this exists because you would not believe the struggles in finding some of these older pieces.

"Nezumikozo Jirokichi" animated short film by Rintaro & Studio M2 is now online. Character designs : Katsuhiro Otomo, Yoshinori Kanemori. Dedicated to jidaigeki filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoKC...

I LOVE YOUU 😩💜🤲

i went through the ballots of the guardian’s 100 best novels of all time list, found the most obscure novels that were recommended once, and made a goodreads list to counter the ubiquity of the official list: www.goodreads.com/list/show/41...

We have a new interview! Kouji Kawasaki talks about the unpredictability of Star Detective Interview to Animage magazine! Is my journalism too predictable? https://magicalstage.moe/2026/05/20/kouji-kawasaki-interview-animage-may-2026/

It was very important to me to celebrate America's 250th birthday with Southland Tales. America should celebrate her birthday with free public rooftop screenings of this film!!

so after a year and a half of working on this on-and-off, i no longer look at this and think anything still looks off and needs to be tweaked. he's finally completely done now

As @plushmayhem.bsky.social has been hooting and hollering about it for a while, I finally wrangled the Japanese system locale stuff needed to try out Cell Of Empireo, a *huge* free Japanese horror adventure, recently localized. So far? Very cool, minus Act 1's many instant deaths (save often).

this week's little rpg "Elf Fight World" - explores the traditional rpg concept of "some weird bullshit i thought would be cool" - you can play it in your browser or on your phone - made in 1 day - i seem to recall that it is possible to beat tunditur-unda.itch.io/rpg19

First up, we have a Phantasy Star IV interview from 1993, from the World of Phantasy Star book (which has somehow remained untranslated all these years). There are some interesting comments on how the characters were created, and IV's relationship to II and III.

looking for a few more folks to talk to for a story i'm working on about tamagotchi. has tamagotchi influenced your games or art, even going beyond the creature care genre? hit me up here or [email protected] ✨

Here, Duncan Lawie looks at the latest from Paul McAuley, a novel of climate change which "hits hard because we can see it in the world around us". I kept thinking of Paul March-Russell on EJ Swift as I read this one. A tight little corpus of Brit climate near-futures is forming.

Indonesia has a growing comics scene, but locally made comics hold just 10 percent of the domestic market, and creators are struggling to get readers to care amid a sea of manga from Japan. Read this story by Jakarta-based correspondent Yohana Belinda.

learning video editing AND subtitles. soon i will be unstoppable.......

Please consider voting for @decassette.bsky.social at the Eisners! We are so excited over the 3 nominations she received this year, and it's been almost 10 years since her first nom for stages of rot. Lets go. This might be the year! Or not. But we have to at least dream.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 19,1947

the part that sticks with me here is: “For all of our aspirations of centering our whole selves, our identities, around the beauty of the art, a lot of the time, we just end up centering the art around ourselves.”

a little guy gives a tiny speech

i spoke with selina kibara in april and our talk is finally up! kumitantei has been mighty interesting to follow, i hope the dangan fans who read startmenu can see the joy of it :)

Mio from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 #SantanaelArt #XenobladeChronicles #XC3 #Mio

"You could go on for hundreds of pages trying to understand how Takano captures the appeal of movement through space on the page. But is that really necessary? Miss Ruki boasts flawless technical execution, but it is first and foremost entertaining and accessible." Miss Ruki! @yattatachi.com

I've been told by folks that they don't know we put these lists out each month! If you find our lists to be useful, please, please, PLEASE share it with folks! We put a lot of work into these and we work closely with a few publishers to make sure our lists are as accurate as possible!

On today’s edition of This Week in Anime, @vestenet.bsky.social and I explore the beautiful math of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell and its many interpretations!

Lvl374's adventure game "halfmoon" will release on May 22 in English and Japanese. Story: Mio has died. But all that awaited her after death... was work. store.steampowered.com/news/app/417...

I’m very excited that we’re releasing Tie Me Up, Stare Me Down in English next year! This was a manga that we saw a lot of enthusiasm for online over the past year, on top of Victoria from @redstringtl.bsky.social pushing us to license it! I hope people end up enjoying it!

the point was going around earlier that it's impossible to separate anime/manga culture from *adult* anime/manga culture, and here is an animated opening for an 18+ game directed by a young Makoto Shinkai, the guy who would later direct Your Name and become a major, mainstream director

no truce with the furies. here’s my review of zero parades

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

What non-superhero fans don't understand about my love for superhero comics is that they are weird and they used to be even weirder. I don't like MCU so much. I like that comic runs used to go on for like 100 issues and the whole time I'd be like, what the Hell am I reading???

@danmorris.bsky.social on fantasy world-building, @fujoshiunite.bsky.social on an unexpected writer/artist collab, and me on girl band manga! break out the GING NANG BOYZ

The 4th issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's PREMIERE destination for thoughtful long-form writing about adult games, is now available! Our longest issue yet at 15 essays & over 35k words! Support human-created, sex-positive, trans-inclusive writing! bp-games.itch.io/adult-analys...

every morning i wake up and open palm slam a vhs into the slot. it’s context collapse and right then and there I start doing the moves alongside with the main character of the week

The first issue of SMALL PLANET: THE SF IN TRANSLATION MAGAZINE is OUT! www.sfintranslation.com?p=16928 #SFinTranslation

hello it’s me with a mildly sprained ankle screaming from the rooftops, ZERO PARADES IS THE TITS!!! THIS GAME HAS THE JUICE!

Gotta show them the episodes that Sayo Yamamoto (creator/director of Yuri on Ice) did

the toudens #costcomeshi 🌭 (2024)

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone