Stephanie Liu

More Honkai: Star Rail merchandise will appear at Animate Only Shop in Japan, as well as during in the Animate Fair for Winter 2025. Both campaigns will start in early February 2025. [Thanks, Genshin Goods!]

As part of a collaboration with One Piece, Japanese skincare brand Sekkisei will release UV protection items that feature characters from the Straw Hat Pirates on the packaging. They’ll appear in Japan from February 16, 2025. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

Bkub Okawa, the manga artist for most famous for his work on Pop Team Epic, shared fan art on social media of Yugi Muto from Yu-Gi-Oh in his usual style. As of the time of writing, about three days after he posted it onto Twitter, it’s accumulated over 12k reposts and 65k likes. [Thanks, Oricon!]

The Tales series will appear in Last Cloudia once again as part of a collaboration event in the mobile game. It’ll take place on January 23, 2025, and it’ll introduce a new unit.

The Herta in Honkai: Star Rail, the 5-star Ice Erudition version of starter character Herta, is a powerful attacker befitting her role as an Emanator in the story. To maximize her damage potential in the game, you’ll need to farm Ascension Materials for The Herta on both Jarilo-VI and Penacony.

The Herta, the 5-star Ice Erudition version of free character Herta, in Honkai: Star Rail became one of the most powerful characters in her debut patch, and she need relatively common stats in her build. Here are the Light Cones and Relics you should prioritize for her.

While The Herta, the 5-star Ice Erudition version of free character Herta, in Honkai: Star Rail is an amazing attacker, her kit can make it difficult to create teams for her. No matter the composition of your team, though, you’ll need a second Erudition character to make the most of her powerful Skill and Ultimate.

The Square Enix store in Japan is selling goods with the logo for the “Something Like a NieR

A new web event for Astra Yao of Zenless Zone Zero is now live. Playing through the “Should I Be the Stars of Lyra” web event can receive awards like Polychromes and Dennies.

Yamada Heiando, an old Japanese store specializing in carved lacquer, released some