Originally developed as an arcade game by Amusement Vision, Super Monkey Ball became on of Sega's first original hit titles outside of the Dreamcast. (segabits.com)
But the Japanese market for dojinshi (self - published manga) has grown massively over the last 20 years, even while the mainstream has stagnated, and although most dojinshi is porn, there are also big original hits like Onani Master Kurosawa, which started out as a not - quite - Death Note parody with lots of (off - panel) masturbation, but became so popular it's been adapted into a voice drama. (io9.gizmodo.com)
The staff and parents of Far Rockaway's PS 215 — one of the 25 schools on the mayor's original hit list for this year — paint a picture of a school crippled by four years in a row of budget cuts. (uft.org)