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If you’re keeping score at home, we’re three for three so far with year-end Nutaku pieces. We’ve walked you through some of your favorite genres, before we showed you the crème de la crème of what you’ve been playing this year. But there’s something we lef...

Last time, we filled you in on Nutaku’s top genres of 2021. In that piece, we broke down all the cool and sexy types of games players got their mitts on this year. “But wait,” you say, “what about the top games in those genres?” Wow – very particular of you! But d...

We’re impressed! Nutaku fans spent thousands of hours across hundreds of games in 2021. Whether you were tapping away to build your mobile empire, or solving puzzles to score a date with an anime cutie, you helped make this one of our best years ever. So now, with 2022 right around the corner,...

What is yuri? Quite literally, it translates to “lily.” But the term has blossomed into something well outside the world of botany! These days, when you say “yuri,” you’re most likely talking about a sub-genre of anime, manga, and gaming centered around lesbian romance....

They say earth girls are easy, but the truth is, human beings are fickle and unpredictable creatures. We have all these pesky prerequisites for intimacy, and most people struggle to meet any of them. So instead of working on ourselves, becoming a better person, and trying our best to find intimacy i...

Last week we unveiled the 31 winners for the first ever Nutaku Inktober Art Challenge. For those that don’t know: Inktober, also known as Artober by some, is a month-long internet drawing challenge in October that is centered around doing 1 drawing per day, all month long. Often artists will s...

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, and even earlier than that, sci-fi authors were obsessed with the idea of virtual reality. From early cyberpunk landmarks to blockbuster films, the idea of strapping on a helmet and being transported to an alternate reality has been explored across hundreds of books...

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Last time, we walked you through the history of porn games in Japan – how they came to be, their rise to fame, and how they reshaped anime culture for good. But while we covered a lot of ground overseas, we didn’t spend much time elsewhere! While Japanese audiences got to bask in the glo...

A few months back, we took you through the storied past of adult gaming – from its humble text adventure beginnings to its multi-million dollar success stories. In that piece, we briefly touched on the rise of the visual novel in Japan, and how the genre would go on to propel adult gaming to n...

Do you, like hit ‘90s band Harvey Danger, want to publish ‘zines and rage against machines? Artists in the early Meiji era of Japan certainly did – so much so, in fact, that they birthed a whole literary genre! Today, doujinshi has a very specific meaning when used in Western anim...

Yaoi isn’t just a word you hear whispered in the dark corners of anime conventions anymore. Anime boys kissing is big business, and has exploded in mainstream popularity over the past decade. Unlike most hentai, too, you can find even some of the more hardcore yaoi at major booksellers. This g...