Games

Talking games | YS IX: Monstrum Nox

When a game tries to escape the prison of itself

Books

Talking books | Qualia the Purple

Gay anime girls make me question reality (aka another Friday for Baxter).

Translation

In Translation | "The Glass Marble" by Fumiko Okada

One of manga's great artists, in English for the first time.

Translation

In Translation | "Keep This a Secret From the Laughing Kookaburra" by Masako Yashiro

An interior manga from a forgotten master.

Newsletter

In Translation | COM Gag + Psychedelic Manga Collection

Including never reprinted rarities from Hiroshi Hirata, Kazuo Umezz, and Go Nagai.

Newsletter

In Translation | "The White Shadow" by Reiko Motoyama

Readable for the first time in 50 years, a daring wordless manga by a young shoujo artist.

Fiction

Fiction | All's in the Blood

The day the mountain moved, Tyler Dawson’s blood turned to diesel.

Games

Talking games | Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere

Dreams of a digital sky.

Movies Featured

Talking movies | Shadow of Fire

Examining the boom of post-war movies with Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest.

Art

Talking art | Pop Step: A Hisashi Eguchi Exhibition

Taking a stroll through the career of one of the great pop artists.

Games

Talking games | Towelket 2

On the experience of being haunted by a game.

Books

Talking books | The Year I Met 70 People From a Dating Site and the Books I Recommended Them

Recommending a book about recommending books

Games

Talking games | Kamaitachi no Yoru

Losing my mind searching for answers in 1994's influential obsession simulator.

Newsletter Featured

In Translation | 3 mangaka, 30 movies

Atsushi Kaneko, Daisuke Igarashi, and Taiyo Matsumoto share 10 of their favorite movies

Talking games | Valkyrie Elysium

Defending the story of the latest entry in a storied RPG franchise.

Talking movies | Senritsu Kaiki World Kowasugi!

Reviewing the latest from the uncontested king of found footage horror

Talking manga | Karakuri Circus

Learning how to smile with one of battle shounen manga's great masterpieces

Featured

Talking manga | Saint Muscle

Digging into the influential fleshbomb masterpiece and the biggest flex in manga

Talking games | Linda Cube

An anti-RPG classic and the story we all tell.

Talking movies | Godzilla Minus One

Reviewing the latest of the world's favorite monster

Talking games | Mirrors

The terror and pleasure of boredom in a forgotten PC-88 adventure game.

Talking movies | The many adaptations of House

The history of a cult classic that isn't just a movie.

Talking youtube | Hen na Ie

Constructing the architecture of our nightmares.

Talking games | Mad Panic Coaster

On the stupid joys of anxiety.

Talking anime | Phoenix: Eden17

The world might be bad but anime? Anime good.