Myriad of Leaves

ISM in Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 refer to the three varieties of super gauges that the player can pick, that greatly effects the properties of their super combos. ISM itself is explained by the official guide to stem from the English suffix '-ism'

The story-trailer for the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion dropped, and I will covering the Japanese counterpart to the English one: …ミケラ様は、仰っていた はじまりは、誘惑と裏切りだった 黄金はそうして生まれ また、影も生まれた そして戦いが起こった 決して謳われぬ、隠された戦いが 祝福も、名誉もない、粛清が …メスメルの火が だから、ミケラ様は全てを棄てていく その黄金の身体も、力も 宿命も それでも、私たちは追う あのお方の行く道を …君も、

Note: This is an updated and wholly rewritten version of a blog post that I wrote a week or so ago, when the trailer for Gouki/Akuma’s inclusion into the cast of SF6 was published. The former blog post was riddled with mistakes,

Many a moment in an anime, tv-series or game you will in Japanese media hear the phrase この程度か (kono teido ka), which at its most literal is "is it to this extent?", but is deeply dependent on the scene and it most often occurs

Sunpoo (“Chibi Robot!”, 2005) The ursine stuffed imitation from Nintendo’s eccentric adventure-platformer “Chibi-Robo!” (GameCube, 2005),featured a diminutive automaton, the titular Chibi Robo (ちびロボ, lit. “tiny robot”) whose quest to bring happiness to the household that he lives with leads him to meet