Category Archives: Anime

Iconic Voice Actor Yuri Lowenthal confirms a Persona 4 Remake IS in development…and all voice roles will be recast

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Lavon Samuel Davis

  Yuri Lowenthal, who voiced Yosuke Hanamura in all English versions of Persona 4 and its various spinoffs revealed to the world earlier this week that Atlus is working on a Persona 4 Remake ala last year’s Persona 3 Reload. … Continue reading →

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Nihon Falcolm’s The Legend of Heroes series sure has come a long way especially in recent years

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Lavon Samuel Davis

  Mind you, I mean in regards to those of us who are outside of Japan. Most don’t know or remember this but it was only 13 years ago that the very first game in the franchise–Trails in the Sky … Continue reading →

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Breaking News: Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior Creator Akira Toriyama passed away at the age of 68

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Lavon Samuel Davis

Bird Studio, which was the studio Toriyama worked with for many years broke the news online for the international community with this written statement: In case the image breaks, Toiyama actually passed away on March 1 from complications caused by … Continue reading →

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Watching a Netflix Docudrama on the Sengoku Period reminded me Koei Tecmo’s Samuarai Warriors series whitewashes one iconic character

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Lavon Samuel Davis

I refer to Hideyoshi, the second of the three Great Unifiers from Japan’s Sengoku Period. If you were not familiar with the true history of that time period, you would’ve thought the real Hideyoshi was the same as the wisecracking, … Continue reading →

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Have you played one or more games from any of these longtime RPG series?

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Lavon Samuel Davis

    When most people think of longtime RPG Series, Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest series are usually what comes to mind for most people. Initially two separate companies, Squaresoft and Enix merged in 2000. By then, Squaresoft had … Continue reading →

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I recently got a PS4 and I already have 12 games

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Lavon Samuel Davis

…You did not misread. I shared the above picture on Facebook yesterday morning. I bought or traded for 5 more games last night and used my GameStop rewards Points to prettymuch get two games for free. In addition I preordered … Continue reading →

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Review: Harvest December (Nintendo 3DS)

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Lavon Samuel Davis

Update 4/4/2026: I originally wrote this review in 2016 when the 3DS was still current. 10 years later, the Visual Novel has yet to be re-released on modern platforms. I am planning to reach out to both Talestune (IP holder) … Continue reading →

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Visual Novels: A unique way to tell a compelling story

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Lavon Samuel Davis

As many of you Anime fans might have heard–hopefully from my blogs–The Clannad Visual Novel was released on Steam last Fall. It was an important moment for Visual Novels being released in North America as Clannad had name recognition thanks … Continue reading →

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Nintendo’s rolling out the red carpet to celebrate Pokemon’s 20th Anniversary

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Lavon Samuel Davis

Much of this is being covered by Serebii.net. I reccommend going there and reading the details. Of note: Click here to go to the official page but one of these will be given out electronicaly via Gamestop every month this … Continue reading →

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Postgame Review: Persona 4: Dancing All Night (PS Vita)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Lavon Samuel Davis

…Awesome. One week ago today, North America got Persona 4: Dancing All Night (henceforth P4DAN for short). Before I continue, here is the fill Track List including the DLC-Only Songs: “Specialist” (“Never More” ver.) Featuring Yu Narukami “Time To Make … Continue reading →

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