Rice Digital is a company devoted to all things doujin. New doujin titles, doujin creators, the doujin community, Rice Digital has it all and then some. “But what is doujin and why should I care?”, I hear you cry. I asked myself the same question when I approached Rice Digital’s display at MCM London Comic…
Samurai How-To For this presentation at Animazement, four of the young men from stage-combat group The Jacabals demonstrated how to properly wear a hakama. A hakama is the wide-pants bottom worn over a kimono in old samurai movies. The Jacobals began with a demo battle in full, traditional outfits. Their translator called this type of…
Konami’s decision to hand over the reigns of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance to Japanese developer Platinum Games may have been a risky move, but the results speak for themselves. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a brutal sci-fi action extravaganza of high-tech samurai, severed limbs and cyborg philosophy. Now that the dust and scrap electronics has…