Creamy Mami joins the Tokyo Idol Festival, Dragon Quest has it’s own chess set, and legendary mangaka Rumiko Takahashi explains the origin of Shampoo‘s name! Also, legendary j-rocker GACKT goes on indefinite hiatus, Studio 4C creates an anime ad for R&B artist Aaliyah to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her album, and an otaku cryptocurrency to produce isekai anime? Meanwhile in Japan, we get an update on what happened to Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし), a Guinness World Record goes to Motimaru the cat, and card buyers need to prove they’re real Pokémon fans to buy new expansion packs…
#515: The Ides of September.
September 15th, 2021 DJ Ranma S