Join the Centaku Media Anime & Gaming Discord Server
Here is an invitation to join a small community of fellow readers, listeners, and viewers of the Centaku Media circle. We have a Discord server that has been a few…
Interesting Find: McDonald’s BTS Meal – US Debut Impressions
This is an article found in my backlog on Notion of post drafts that time forgot. I intended to post this as soon as I could, but having gotten inundated…
No Means No: Stop Bad Chatters Before it’s Too Late
This is something we need to talk about more often about rather than just talking about it on our livestreams—a medium in which we’re talking about as I bring to you a video discussing a situation that needs more visibility when it comes to disruptive chat behavior falling under categories that you never knew were possible from bad chatters on Twitch, YouTube, and other livestreaming platforms.
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Exclusive: Dragon Con 2024 Recap Stream
With another year of Dragon Con complete, we look back at this year’s past event of the best Atlanta’s largest fandom convention has to offer. For Centaku Media, we had…
Takuya Kimura: Birth of a J-Drama “Hero”
If you’ve never seen a Japanese drama, then let me say there are often 3 key elements to each series: brevity, “trendiness”, and melodrama. 1) Each series is usually 10 or 12 episodes max, unless incredibly popular in which case a follow-up movie will be made, or special as it’s called. Only rarely does a show, even a popular show, get a second full season. This means most series are essentially like American/British mini-series, and are more serial than episodic. 2) The brevity of these shows plays into component 2, which is J-Drama’s “trendiness” or perhaps a better word would be relevance to their audience.
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Exclusive: Interview with Ace Attorney’s Miles Edgeworth
It’s not every day you are granted an interview with a celebrity. Especially when one of those celebrities does not exist, but only within the media we consume: be it anime or gaming content. This is one of those interviews I’m lucky to be a part of with the world-famous Chief Prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney.
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Top 5 90s K-Pop Music Performances for High-Energy Moods
We all talk about BTS, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, NewJeans, and whatever K-Pop group that’s currently trending in the early 2020s. But let’s go back… way back… back into time when things were simpler. Let me talk about 90s K-Pop with you.
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What Countries Do You Want to Visit?
What countries do you want to visit?
Running a blog called Centaku Media for over 15 years and having the word “Otaku” in one form in the name, you would think I have visited the land of all things Otaku: Japan. As of 2023, that has yet to happen. But here are some observations of how that could happen.
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