His characters are rocking the ginormous, quintessentially kawaii eyes, and Gakuen Handsome ... Admittedly, I haven't played too many gacha games in my time, but even among the few I have played ...

ZeroERA’s kawaii dystopia feels like a love letter to shotacon fans, and I’m all in for this cult classic vibe. With no rival shota gachas, Yomio’s got a clear shot at dominance. The dual launch, paid ...

Their catchy name, “gachapon”, is derived from two sounds: “gacha”, which represents the noise of turning ... miniature food, tiny furniture, kawaii keychains, and nostalgic everyday objects from ...

What are the best gacha games? A spiritual successor to coin-operated gachapon machines, gacha games take the joy of capsule toys and translate them into a live-service videogame format where ...

As the country confronted its imperialist past and sought to repair its international image, a quiet cultural revolution emerged—rooted in the aesthetics of cuteness, or kawaii. Through Hello ...

“Kawaii,” the closest Japanese equivalent to the contemporary English “cute,” goes further. Here the cute isn’t so much unthreatening as threatened. According to the Japanese cultural ...

Thanks to the reader who highlighted the expired code! Honkai Impact 3rd is a loot-focused anime-inspired gacha RPG first released back in 2016, and even after almost nine years, is still going ...

Part of the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of “kawaii,” which is Japanese for “cute” but also connotes a lovable or adorable essence. Sanrio recruited Shimizu and other ...

The art style is reminiscent of Reverse: 1999 and features plenty of male characters alongside the classic female body types we see in many gacha games. Who knows, maybe this will be the game to have ...

Silvia Figini, Chief Operating Officer, Sanrio for EMEA, India, Oceania, and Mr Men Worldwide, explains, “The kawaii trend has evolved into a powerful form of self-expression—a way to embrace what we ...

Among those games is Uma Musume: Pretty Derby, a gacha game about collecting and racing horse girls. Anime games and media collaborations with sports aren’t anything new. The past few years have ...