Gamertell

When gamers think of electronics and video game shopping in Japan, most people name Tokyo’s Akihabara as its epitome. However, not many may know that Osaka, Japan, has an Akihabara equivalent named Den-Den Town. Much like Akihabara, Den-Den Town is chock full of otaku goodness. Just a few years ago,… Continue Reading »

In Iowa, a 32-year-old man may spend 20 years in prison for possession of Japanese manga and will face penalties under the PROTECT Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1466A). Christopher Handley is still in big trouble because of the manga he purchased from Japan in May 2006 that the government claimed… Continue Reading »

While gamers all enjoy video games with voice acting, they often tend to also take for granted the people behind the voices. Many times, the voice actor for a character isn’t even credited or listed, so people might just think someone sounds familiar, but not bother to confirm it. Gamertell… Continue Reading »

September 25, 2008, marks the beginning of the end as Sega’s newest Nintendo DS role-playing game, World Destruction: Michibikareshi Ishi (WD), invades store shelves everywhere in Japan. World Destruction boasts designs contributed by key members of Square’s original Xenogears’ development team as well as former staff who worked on games… Continue Reading »

For those of you who remember the Gaia Online announcements from Boston Anime 2008 in March and zOMG! closed-beta announcement in July 2008. I was tickled pink to take a personal tour of the upcoming zOMG! MMO game with senior producer and director of zOMG!, Dave Georgeson. The game looks… Continue Reading »

If you’ve been following Important Importables for a while, you might have noticed that I like to touch on not only games but game-related imports as well (or at least things from Japan that might interest gamers). Today’s column is one of those days. Due to coverage of titles like… Continue Reading »

Title: Bleach Uncut Season 1: The Substitute box set Price: $27.99 (Amazon) - $44.99 (Barnes & Noble) Format: DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008 Company: Viz Media ESRB Rating: Unrated Pros: 20 unrated episodes of Bleach, Japanese and English voice acting, free double-sided poster and a free Bleach trading card.… Continue Reading »

During Comic Con 2008, many games and comics were featured. And who wouldn’t want to attend a special preview of today’s most talented directors and animators create independent film masterpieces. The Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival consisted of movies that fell into seven categories: action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, humor/parody, horror… Continue Reading »

Viz Media has a special gift for everyone who wasn’t able to attend Comic Con this year in San Francisco - a free episode of Death Note. Members of Viz newsletters received an email today (July 26, 2008) offering an iTunes code for “Rebirth,” the first episode of Death Note.… Continue Reading »

Some fresh anime is now available through iTunes, if you enjoy that kind of thing. Viz Media has decided to make 103 episodes of Bleach, Death Note and Naruto available through iTunes for $1.99 an episode. So far only a sampling of two series are available, in the form of… Continue Reading »