New Dominion Tank Police (1993)

t.A.T.u. Paragate (2004) remains a lost media holy grail for both anime fans and pop music historians

The amount of detail Toshiaki Kato put into artworks is wild. You could stare at these forever..

Texhnolyze by Yoshitoshi Abe

Macross Plus (1994) introduced the virtual idol Sharon Apple which was before the modern Hatsune Miku vocaloid phenomenon by over a decade

The artists cooked so hard on this lab background just for Mewtwo to destroy the entire facility five minutes later

James Cameron actually cited the gorgeous environmental themes of Princess Mononoke as a primary influence for his film Avatar

This manga is a literal love letter to the early two-thousands Tokyo streetwear and alternative luxury fashion scenes

The fog in Silent Hill wasn’t just there to make the town look creepy. It was actually helping the original PlayStation survive. The hardware struggled to render huge outdoor areas with long draw distances so the fog basically hid what the game couldn’t render far ahead But somehow, that limitation became the horror. You couldn’t see what was coming and your imagination filled in the blanks. One of gaming’s best examples of turning a technical problem into something genuinely terrifying 😶‍🌫️🏚️

Phantom Quest Corp (1994)

Netflix randomly dropping a Cyberpunk Edgerunners trailer just made my entire week

Lollipop Chainsaw has some of the most satisfying hack-and-slash combat mechanics from the entire Xbox 360 era

It is crazy how this steampunk Buddha design immediately told us we were dealing with an entirely different breed of antagonist 👁️‍🗨️🌧️

FLCL (2000)

Aya Takano’s surreal paintings always feel like stepping directly into a late-night anime fever dream

Redline (2009)

From her combat-torn outfit to her martial arts training, she is absolutely nailing the look of Chun-Li

Back in 2001, Nintendo aged up its image with a surreal GameCube launch campaign. By trapping games, jet skis and even humans inside glass cubes, these iconic print ads proved that gaming is hardwired into our DNA. We were Born to Play..

The mechanical detailing on that suit design is crazy