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This week on RetroNots, bury me with my wall scrolls!

Hey everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of RetroNots. This is your host for this episode of Bob Mackie.

And today's episode is a pretty broad topic. We're going to be talking about why we love Japanese games.

This is in response to a few people that have said maybe I'm a bit too negative here and I realize that too.

That is a personal flaw of mine and it's fun to be negative but it's also very positive.

So on this episode we're going to be talking about why we are such Japanafiles or recovering Japanafiles depending on how we identify ourselves.

Let's go around the table and see who's here today across from me.

It's me, Jeremy, Parish of RetroNots fame.

How'd you firt of me?

What else do you do Jeremy? We know this stuff.

I don't know. I sometimes bake. I have been known to drive around town and do errands. I don't know. Like you know, I exist.

Secretly Jeremy's my boss. Oh right, yeah. I'm the editor in chief of USK.

There you go. I knew there was something I was forgetting. Who else do we have here?

Gilbert Henry Desu. Hi. Bokuwa Henry. I know so much Japanese. I know that. I know those words.

Yeah, hi. I'm Henry Gilbert from GamesRadar and also on the LaserTime Podcast Network, which Bob guessed on the call.

I loved LaserTime and just as everyone knows, I'm the only one in this room who has never been to Japan. I'm a fraud.

I cannot possibly love Japan as much as Jeremy and Henry but...

Bob, we're going to fix that later this year. I'm dragging you to Tokyo.

Okay. I'm going to show this year. Now that's recorded. I think you have to do it.

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