@7heartstudios I’ve been following this game since I played it back in wanna say late 2018ish or 17 idk I will be dammed before I let this go keep going man
🚨 Breaking censorship news
Google removed Doki Doki Literature Club from the Play Store over “sensitive themes.”
Serenity Forge’s made a response
This is NOT okay, the game should not be censored.
BREAKING: No Game No Life Season 2 is officially happening 😭♟️
WIT Studio will take over production for a Fall 2026 release.
After 12 years… it’s finally real.
#NGNL#NoGameNoLife#AnimeNews#WITStudio#AnimeJapan2026
The FTC Chairman sent warning letters to PayPal, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard.
They can no longer deny services to legal businesses, including anime and adult content creators.
This follows Trump's order against unfair debanking.
VISA, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe shall no longer force censorship, according to FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson
His warning against denial of service to any legal business, encompassing Anime and Adult Content, to all 4 payment processors:
"It is inconsistent with American values to deny law-abiding individuals the ability to run their legitimate businesses and feed their families because they attracted the ire of rogue American officials, overzealous activists, or, more worryingly, foreign governments seeking to control public discourse.
That is why President Trump's August 7, 2025, Executive Order on debanking makes clear that it is unacceptable to debank law-abiding citizens due to 'political affiliations, religious beliefs, or lawful business activities.'"
"HE1000 WiFi sounds better than HE1000 Unveiled does with most amplifiers, and it sounds exactly the same Wi-Fi as it does wired, pointing out to an extraordinary work from the HIFIMAN team to balance the sound and build of the new WiFi headphones." https://t.co/xYV79v7W9r
The wait is finally over!
Patch 0.5.0 is LIVE with two big Hana Main Story Events, six Exploration Events, Action System upgrades and more!
Get the new build + full notes on our Patreon:
https://t.co/IXOzni6ooL
FUCK AI AND SUPPORT REAL ARTISTS
We are so cooked. Everyday AI content is eating up more and more market share of our eyes and ears, and it’s now basically indistinguishable from reality. If regulation is not placed SOON around copyright, we are going to loose unfathomable amounts of human creativity.
Most developing artists rely on a small project-based work to get their foot in the door in an already gate-kept industry. Being a “starving artist” is looking like it may become less and less attainable without being forced to become “proficient in ai tools”.
The pursuit of artistic excellence must be protected at all costs. It is built on hundreds of years of blood, sweat, and tears from uncredited and unpaid artists.
COMMENT
As a result of pouring absolutely everything from the thirty years I’ve been alive into this project, every last element, from self-harm to drugs, religion, and sex—got flagged during the review process. Each time it happened, the anime staff worked hard to keep the vision intact, insisting: “We absolutely don’t want to let fear of regulation ruin what makes this work compelling,” and they kept pushing. Thanks to that, the NEEDY anime has been coming together in an almost undiluted, straight-from-the-bottle form. Seeing the staff’s passion and depth of understanding, and how strongly they believed that “the concept of NEEDY GIRL has a reason to exist in this world,” and that “there are certain expressions only this work can depict," I’m now fully certain of this project’s value.
When the voice actors performed the scripts I’d written so nakedly and frankly, there were moments when someone, fully immersed, would start crying. In that instant, I realized it: what this work is depicting, in the end, is “human beings.”
A lot of people have discussed NEEDY with “the internet” at the center of it all.
As for me, I’m proud to say I wrote out, in the original game, both the sweetness and the bitterness of the internet as I’ve seen it from childhood to the present. And because this is an anime born from that kind of work, of course we have to ask ourselves: “What was the internet, anyway?” Even the title of the new song I made with my friends this time is "INTERNET ANGEL".
After releasing the game, the huge reaction to it connected me, too, to an unspecified multitude across the world. And I was insulted at times, had admiration hurled at me at times, was loved at times, attacked at times. Who on earth are these faceless people? Trends, oshis, faith, sneering cynicism, call-outs and pile-ons, outrage fires, consumption, algorithms, SNS, love and hate, influencers, pop, culture, criticism, subculture, mainstream, illustration, animation.
My conclusion was: “human beings.”
The true nature of the internet is nothing special. It’s simply “a gathering of human beings.” It isn’t anonymity, and it isn’t AI. Everything there is a collection of individuals: First there are people, and then there is the internet.
At the end of a long history, humanity finally took a small rectangle into its hands and connected, at light speed, with people all over the world. Faced with the first great transformation in human history, many people are tormented by both its merits and its harms. Now, people fear that excessive power so much that smartphones and SNS are being regulated around the world.
That overwhelming electromagnetic field, too, is “human beings.”
Picking at a single word to nail a celebrity to a cross and burn them for it, or elevating a nameless girl—wrapped in two-dimensional aesthetics as she broadcasts her feelings—into an idol to be worshiped... all of it is done by individual human beings, one by one.
The internet’s true nature was human beings.
And so, at the turning point of my mid-life, I had to depict across thirteen episodes everything I’ve experienced of “the truth, the goodness, and the beauty human beings possess,” and in doing so, sublimate that strange youth I spent together with an unspecified multitude across the world into the comprehensive art form called animation.
That comes with immense pain. It also means we can’t avoid including extreme, blunt expressions, and I’m sure countless opinions will fly back and forth. I think that, too, is proof that you are human. When the Taroman film ended on the caption “Taro Okamoto: Human,” I was overwhelmed, thinking: yes. Exactly this.
Me, and you—we’re not anonymity. We’re not anime icons. We’re not creators, or lurkers, or streamers, or scalpers, or fans, or antis, or Toshiaki, or Nanashi-san.
We are human beings who feel pain.
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