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Spoiler Space: 16-Bit Sensation - Another Layer

I'm warning you on this one.

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16-Bit Sensation is a manga about making a 90s-2000s bishoujo game. 16-Bit Sensation: Another Layer is an anime that turns into one

It's got a whole other idea of video game dystopia, and it's not what you're thinking

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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Really Love You is this season’s brilliant, hilarious, utterly indefensible fave

I'm not typing all those Reallys again.

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Bonus: Why doesn’t anybody know about Daytona USA 2/Sega Racing Classic 2?

The (second) never-ported sequel to one of my favorite games, hidden away in Like a Dragon Gaiden, is just weird and difficult enough to take it out of the mainstream

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Like a Dragon Gaiden - The Man Who Erased His Name is for people who really missed making Kiryu Kazuma hit people

Everything else is quantity over quality

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Under Night In-Birth II remains the long-running sleeper gem of anime fighting games

IMMORTALIZE

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Granblue Versus Fantasy Rising is back with rollback and I'm throwing sheep at everyone

Everyone is getting hit by some damn sheep

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Chisato from Lycoris Recoil is my new mahjong main

Chika Anzai speaks to me

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Guess I’ll finally write about Angel Cop

But if this is justice, I'm a banana.

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Reborn As a Vending Machine gets a surprising amount of mileage out of its novelty value, but isekai is isekai in the end

*You might get a bonus item!*

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The Black Dynamite followup Outlaw Johnny Black is hilarious when it wants to be, overstuffed, literally preachy, and definitely not what you expected

Who the hell is interrupting the second repetition of my lengthy sermon on forgiveness!?