The past year has been a triumph for the anime community as a whole, with so many wins regarding released content and renewed shows that it’s impossible to say 2025 didn’t live up to the hype. Anime ...

A once-niche subgenre, gacha games are on the rise. Thanks to Genshin Impact’s breakout success with mainstream audiences, gachas are no longer considered merely mobile games with addictive mechanics ...

Love them or hate them, gacha games are huge right now, and there’s no sign that’s going to change on a large scale any time soon. By their nature, they exclude players without a lot of disposable ...

Do you ever wonder what happened to Tower of Fantasy? The free-to-play shared-world anime game that I fully expected to make it onto our list of the best MMOs? The one that got some good buzz on ...

As we pass the halfway mark for this fall in anime, it’s time to take stock of what’s been airing for the last six to seven weeks. The quick version? This season finds itself sandwiched between two of ...

Months ago, Takara Tomy announced a line of Sanrio characters gacha figures that reimagined each one as a tooth, and now it is confirmed they’ll all appear in Japan in November 2025. It will be 300円 ...

I’ve tried my fair share of gacha games, and even gotten hooked on a few — I’m still salty to this day that I’ve never pulled a Kitasan Black card in Umamusume: Pretty Derby. While it is technically ...

There is no reason to sugarcoat it—anime has had a long-standing “diversity who?” problem. For years, Black anime characters were either nonexistent, painfully underwritten, or tossed into the ...

NetEase’s upcoming open-world RPG Ananta has confirmed its free-to-play monetization model will focus entirely on cosmetics and customization, with no character gacha system whatsoever. In a recent ...

Gacha Games are certainly good at taking successful game design formulas and spinning their own gachapon onto it. Take HoYoverse, a clone of what is Breath of the Wild, but managing to make one from ...

Anime has become wildly popular lately, with its potential as a mainstream medium growing exponentially, now spanning globally with generations of fans. With popularity and fame comes a lot of ...

The staff of the anime adaptation of Shisui Meikyou and tef’s My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I’m Out for Revenge! light novel series announced the anime’s ending ...