The latest Channel Surfing post is about a TV anime series that premiered on Netflix a while back called Carole & Tuesday. Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop anime fame, this anime is nothing like Cowboy Bebop at all but will have a familiar theme or two throughout the series–including one that is rarely incorporated into an anime that helped its success.
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In this episode: Sanjo bids everyone a happy mid-season break as we talk about details surrounding Bandai Namco’s recently revealed Gundam: Witch from Mercury anime, yet more details on FFXIV 6.1 patch, and BIGBANG’s April 2022 return along with an interview with T.O.P on his thoughts about the K-Pop industry.
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In this episode: We take a look at the upcoming Tekken anime coming to Netflix, the Top 10 Final Fantasy games according to Yahoo! Japan, and BIGBANG is making a comeback after 4 years!
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In this episode: the completion of the Funimation and Crunchyroll merger, huge FFXIV and Pokémon news, and an unusual “business” background for a South Korean presidential candidate.
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We talk about the recently announced anime adaptation of Square-Enix’s RPG hit “Nier: Automata”, Atlus’ recent reveal of “Soul Hackers 2” set in the universe of Shin Megami Tensei, and upcoming military enlistments for several male K-Pop idols.
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In this episode, Sanjo talks about the restructuring and upcoming name change of the famous anime studio Sunrise; remasters of Chrono Cross, Live-A-Live, and other huge announcements from the February ’22 Nintendo Direct, and BIGBANG to return… as a three-member group?
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We’re back for Season 3 of Centaku Media Journal, ready to catch up with the ever evolving world of anime, gaming, and much more! To kick off the season and this year, we’re recapping news stories we missed from 2021 and talk about what to look forward to in 2022!
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The past decade has been dominated by many K-Pop acts–PSY, to BIGBANG, to BLACKPINK, to BTS. Elsewhere, in Japan, the idol industry has been dominated by Japan’s largest girl group, AKB48. They have had more than a dozen songs sitting on top of Japan’s Oricon charts in the several years since their debut. However, their popularity has dipped in the past few years. In this post, a non-AKB48 fan talks about another non-AKB48 fan covering a video that chronicles their rise to fame.