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Square Enix Game producer Naoki Yoshida recently appeared on Japanese TV show One Hour Sense. You can watch a preview of his episode until August 18, 2024 on TVer.

The premise of the show is questioning what people would do if they had an hour’s worth of spare time. For Yoshida’s episode, he decided to go to his favorite Hokkaido ramen store, San Tora. Yoshida states that he likes to go eat miso ramen. As he was born and raised in Hokkaido, he can’t forget about the taste of Hokkaido ramen. At the end of the clip, Yoshida briefly discusses game culture and how it’s changed since he started working in the industry. Back then, people would usually go, “What? Games?” when Yoshida told them about his job. However, these days, games are a prominent part of culture and people’s daily lives.

Naoki Yoshida, or Yoshi-P, is a video game producer, director, and designer whose most famous work is Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. This is also the game that One Hour Sense chose to introduce Naoki Yoshida with. Other games he worked on as either a director or a producer include Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road, Final Fantasy XVI, and Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.

Final Fantasy XIV and its expansions are readily available on the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Windows PC, and macOS.

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Japanese Demon Slayer fans have taken to X (Twitter) to complain about a political news alert appearing during the newest episode of the anime. According to reports online, there were two alerts that appeared during the episode, with one of them being an earthquake alert and the other being the political one in question.

The alert appeared during a very climatic part of the episode. In a screenshot that Jeffrey J. Hall has shared on X (Twitter), we can see the alert banner on a scene in which Tanjiro is desperately training with a wooden sword. The alert states that opposition-backed candidate Yasutomo Suzuki is sure to win the Shizuoka election.

To be very specific, while Suzuki won the election and became the next governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, the alert’s announcement is not that. It uses the term “tousen kakujitsu,” which means that Suzuki was projected to win at the time of the alert. He had not won yet.

Looking up “Kimetsu alert” on X (Twitter) garners many results, with most of them negative. A lot of fans were angry that a political alert appeared during Demon Slayer and noted that since they were recording the episode for later, the alert appeared in the recording as well. A pointed out that a lot of people complaining are probably really young, but it’s a good thing that the government isn’t able to leverage anime or video games to stir political interest or sway anyone’s beliefs. Some ask why these alerts aren't restricted to news channels or NHK.

Demon Slayer is readily available to watch on services like Crunchyroll.

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It was officially announced that Dragon Ball Daima is set to air on Fuji TV in Japan starting Fall 2024. This news comes a few days after the announcement of Akira Toriyama's ing. [Thanks, Comic Natalie!]

Fuji TV held an online presentation on YouTube titled "Fuji TV Anime Lineup Presentation 2024" and featured Dragon Ball Daima at the event as their final announcement. Masako Nozawa, the Japanese voice actor of Son Goku, was there at Fuji TV's presentation to reveal plans to air the anime on Fuji TV as well as give a speech about the impact the Dragon Ball franchise and Toriyama have had on the world. Nozawa ended her speech with Goku's iconic "Kamehameha" line and pose while wearing a Capsule Corporation jacket.

Dragon Ball Daima has been developed as the 40th anniversary work of the Dragon Ball franchise, and features new character designs by Toriyama as well as an episode written by him. In the show, Goku and his friends have been transformed into younger versions of themselves, and Goku must travel to new worlds to find a way to reverse the change as well as face off a new threat. It was revealed at New York Comic Con 2023 that the show would air in Fall 2024, but no television network was announced at the time.

It has been six years since the last Dragon Ball anime series aired. Dragon Ball Super ran for five seasons and ended back in 2018. Other new and Dragon Ball media includes Dragon Ball Z Kakarot which received a new DLC pack featuring a storyline focused on Goku and Uub, Dragon Ball Fighter Z which received PS5 and Xbox Series X ports in February 2024, and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero which is set to release on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC in the future.

Dragon Ball Daima is set to release on Fuji TV in Fall 2024.

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