Anime does like to come at you in waves of popular topics, and while isekai is undoubtedly one, it tends to focus on a you-or-I style character going somewhere fantasy and becoming mighty.
Does Deep Blue dream of electric sheep?
Deep Blue debuted its chess-playing skills in 1996, and lost to Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in Philadelphia. The computer’s victory, the matches everyone thinks about when they hear Deep Blue, happened in 1997, over the course of six games.
Japan’s One Piece McDonald’s advert is a work of lumpy drama
One Piece is the world’s most successful manga and an incredibly long-running anime.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #200
Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly summary of RPG news. In this 200th edition, nothing has changed, as bold headers take you directly to new deal, releases, interviews and headlines.
Amazing RPG deals and incredible community spirit as roleplayers help Owen K.C. Stephens pay medical bills
There’s content for various games and genres as the publishers rally around to help one of their own cover many systems.
Cosmic horror in north Africa: The Blessed and the Blasphemous
I doubt it’s the branding they want, but mention Sons of the Singularity to me, and I think of the Call of Cthulhu partner with the RPG that China burned.
Star Trek Lower Decks gets its own tabletop RPG
The comedy cartoon spin-off, Lower Decks, has been popular and now has an official RPG for the Star Trek Adventures series.
Uurrg! My One-Hit Killer Sister
“Uurrg” is the sound of me deciding whether to blog about My One-Hit Kill Sister. I liked the idea; an isekai, except the so-called sister is already there and more powerful.
Wild Boys: The feral adventures of The Goonies meets George of the Jungle
In this story, our heroine, Kate, enjoys mystery, adventure, and friendship with two wild young men she meets while on a treasure hunt mandated by her late father’s last will.
If you hate Battlefield, then you’re not alone, while Sweden hates The Witcher
Let’s start with the positive and the games people like and their characters. At the top, there’s Halo with 14 countries and Pokemon.
