With 450 million units sold over four generations of consoles, PlayStation announced on Twitter on December 3 that the ‘PlayStation brand’ has won the “Best-Selling Home Video Game Console Brand” Guinness World Record. Hit the jump to learn more!
How do you show your love of your favorite anime? One Dragon Ball fan has gone all out, assembling a collection of more than 10,000 pieces of merch! Check out the collection, and find out more about him, after the jump!
It's almost time for this year's version of the Dragon Ball World Tour. Toei, Funimation, and Bluefin have teamed up again for the 2019 Dragon Ball World Adventure, and this time they're setting their sights on a Guinness World Record. Read on for more.
If you thought there was a lot of dialogue in your average mobile game, they don't have anything on Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Memoria Freese. See what earned it and lead voice actor Yoshitsugu Matsuoka a Guinness World Record after the jump!
The city of Tottori in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan has nothing to be crabby about, because according to Guinness World Records, they now possess the world's "most expensive crab sold at auction" thanks to a sprightly 1.28 kilogram (2.82 lb) male snow crab that was sold at auction for 2 million yen (about $17,605 US) on November 07, 2018. Hit the jump to learn more.
Ilhan Ünal, a Brussels-based university student studying multimedia and communications who works weekends as a hardware / software developer, has won a Guinness World Record for crafting the largest, fully functional replica of the Nintendo Game Boy portable video game console. Hit the jump to learn more.
At an official ceremony in Tokyo on July 25, 2017, singer Mai Kuraki was given the Guiness World Record award for "most theme songs performed by a single artist for an anime series" for her work producing 21 songs so far for Case Closed (known in Japan as Detective Conan). Hit the jump to learn more.
Veteran voice actress Masako Nozawa has been honored with a pair of awards by Guinness World Records, recognizing her as the current record-holder for the longest time voicing a single character in video games and also as for the longest time working as a voice actor in video games for her work as Son Goku in Bandai Namco Entertainment's Dragon Ball Z video games. Hit the jump to learn more.
Conductor, composer, and orchestrator Koichi Sugiyama - best known internationally for his work on Square Enix's Dragon Quest games - was recently honored with his 2nd Guinness World Record award: as of January 28, 2016, Mr. Sugiyama is on record as the "Oldest videogame music composer". Hit the jump to learn more.
It is officially announced today that Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga series is listed in Guinness World Records for "The most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" with 320,866,000 copies printed (as of the end of December 2014). Hit the jump for more details.