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RIP Akira Toriyama

RIP Akira Toriyama

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I feel like I’ve been stabbed right in the childhood because one of the legends who shaped my younger days is now gone. Akira Toriyama, the man behind anime and manga like Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, Blue Dragon, and Dr. Slump, has passed away at the age of 68. He died inside his studio, doing what he loved. Dragon Ball is one of the most influential anime today, probably the reason why most shonen anime have very flashy fight scenes and even influenced Western animation in some ways. It has become so legendary that even people who have never read a Dragon Ball manga or watched a Dragon Ball anime know who Son Goku is. When Toriyama is still Alive, He is not full time writing anymore. He just give ideas to his apprentice Toyotaro. Hopefully Toyotaro can continue the legacy.   Seeing his works influence people from other cultures shows how universal Dragon Ball is. In 1984, he launched the Dragon Ball manga series, which

Retrospective Reviews – Blue Dragon

Retrospective Reviews – Blue Dragon

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Retrospective Reviews is a new regular series at PopGeeks that looks back at great games that you may have missed when they first released. The idea is to introduce you to the titles in an honest and frank way with the hope that you go back and play them if they sound appealing to you. We’ll be looking at a vast variety of genres over the coming months so there should be something for everyone. We’d also love to hear your thoughts about the games in the comments, so if you played the featured title then please share your experience with it. First Released: December 7, 2006 (Japan) / August, 2007 (Rest of the world) Platforms: Xbox 360 Developer: Mistwalker and Artoon Publisher:  Microsoft Game Studios Blue Dragon was something of an experiment for Microsoft when it released for the Xbox 360. The console was struggling to gain any sort of momentum in Japan and executives believed that part of the reason was the lack of available titles that are

Developer Spotlight: Mistwalker

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Hironobu Sakaguchi; if you’re a fan of RPG’s chances are you’ll know this name. The creator of a series that was to be his last foray into video games if it didn’t succeed which also shared the gambits name: Final Fantasy. Arguably some of the greatest RPG’s of a span of console generations sprung from this man’s creative mind as he worked at the venerable Square Enix.