For the last few years on rec.arts.anime.misc, there's been a yearly event, the New Year's Challenge. You pick three anime characters to form a team, and then pit them (and yourself) against challenges rated as Easy, Medium and Hard. I chose a slightly different approach this year, due to the nature of the challenges ( Read more... )

Got the September issue of Comic CoroCoro. This one is definitely aimed at younger boys, with over fifty pages of color ads for toys and games. Given this and the majority of the stories, this feels like a Nintendo house magazine. Overview behind the cutline.

( Lurk, you may be interested in some of these. )