“Whether I create a catastrophic couple or the happiest couple is really up to me,” says Yuna, a a programmer who lives in the suburbs of Tokyo (we’ve changed her name here). The appeal of virtual romance games lies in the dreamlike world they offer.

Mythbusters may be wrapped in the US, but separating truth from fiction is far from over in Japan. The subject of this experiment is one of Japan’s most popular contributions to the world: anime. 

Whether you’ve been on the giving, receiving, or happened-to-overhear-your-roommate’s-girlfriend end, at some point in our life we’ve come across the little white lie we tell to keep a relationship going: size doesn’t matter.

When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings hintheth, he delivereth. Just last year, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings expressed the company’s intention to invest in more diverse show formats, anime included. And in a brief yet exciting press release last Friday, not only will the streaming giant be producing an original anime series, Perfect Bones, it will also air the show in 190 countries simultaneously- two major firsts for the company.

Once upon a time Uncle Ben told Spiderman, “With great cosplay power, comes great notoriety.” While Uncle Ben didn’t live long after (SPOILER ALERT) dropping a 100% completely true fact upon his nephew, the adage lives on to this day.

You can take the Kojima out of the Konami but you can’t take the passion for breaking ground in gaming out of the Kojima. In his first year going solo since parting ways with Konami in 2015, Metal Gear Solid series creator Hideo Kojima has already established his own game studio, Kojima Productions, and started work on a new game in collaboration with Sony Interactive Entertainment.