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Cosplayers celebrate World Cosplay Summit by starring in sunscreen ads for...
It’s not every day you get to see cosplayers fronting an ad campaign for one of the annual convention’s main sponsors. For many cosplayers, maintaining a pale complexion to match the skin colour of...
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Videos show Tokyo’s new life-size Gundam is nearing completion, and has an...
Fans have been shooting photos and videos of the 19.7-meter (64.6-foot) Unicorn Gundam, and it looks incredible. It was a sad time for anime fans last March, as Tokyo’s full-scale 18-meter (59-foot)...
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Crazy-huge Pokémon figure will dominate your interior, boost your fan cred to...
There’s actually a reason this Pokémon Sun and Moon Exeggutor is so huge. Almost exactly a year ago, Pokémon fans started accepting deliveries of their Snorlax beds. Sold through online anime...
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World’s largest Pikachu and Poké Ball appear on Ferris wheel in Japan【Videos】
It takes a big Poké Ball to catch a giant Pokémon. The Pikachu Outbreak, which is happening right now in the city of Yokohama, is a big event, and in multiple meanings of the word. It’s big in terms of...
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Cute boys chasing each other, crying in the rain showcased in Sanrio Boys...
Anime series about guys who love Hello Kitty and friends seeks to hit emotional highs and lows. Back in 2015, Sanrio, the makers of all those mountains of merchandise for Hello Kitty, My Melody, Kiki...
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Snack anime “Dagashi Kashi” getting second season!
Grab your snack of choice and get those nosebleed tissue plugs because the waifu of snacks is back! Okay, not entirely back, but pretty close. Dagashi Kashi just announced a season 2 in the works....
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Manga reimagines literature’s most famous detective as an android
You’ve seen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective as a dog, a girl, and even Benedict Cumberbatch’s turn as the character as its own manga. A character of near infallible logic is transforming...
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Japanese Twitter artist shares beautiful trick to draw anime-style clouds...
Elegant comparisons makes adding a sense of time to your skyscapes a snap. Japan isn’t the only country with four separate seasons, but few other nations quite match the extremes shifts in weather that...
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AI website’s automatic anime character designs are cute, quick, and free for...
Picking parameters and having a brand-new anime-style character made takes only a few seconds. We recently took a look at how artificial intelligence can be used to help make anime characters move...
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Utena/Penguindrum’s Kunihiko Ikuhara to direct new work at MAPPA
New project seeking production assistants. Animation studio MAPPA (Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World, Rage of Bahamut Genesis) posted on Tuesday a job listing that reveals that it is...
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Which side will you choose? New Sailor Moon tote bags allow you to pick...
Will you side with Princess Serenity or Black Lady? As if there weren’t already enough must-have goods for Sailor Moon fans, now there are these lovely frill tote bags which force us to choose between...
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Cosplayers pull off touching recreation of sisters Mei and Satsuki from My...
Pair perfectly recreates look of the human stars of the beloved Studio Ghibli anime. While there’s definitely a lot of work that goes into complex, elaborate cosplay projects, they a least come with...
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Pokémon terrariums let you feel like you’ve got Pikachu, Eevee, and other...
Six Pokémon species inhabit the awesome Poké Ball-shaped capsules. Turtles, lizards, and frogs are some of the most common pets that you’ll find inhabiting a terrarium. If those are just a bit too...
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Melodica musician surprises cosplayers with character’s anime and movie...
Adorably awesome but timid prankster stalks cosplayers, with musical accompaniment, at Indiana’s Indy PopCon. Armed only with a melodica (a harmonica-like instrument with a keyboard, also known as a...
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Tokyo’s new Gundam statue stands tall as torso and head are mounted【Video,...
From nearly 20 meters above the ground, the Unicorn Gundam looks out over Tokyo. When Tokyo’s original Gundam statue was dismantled last spring, the bittersweet farewell was made a little sweeter by...
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Mystery of Attack on Titan’s Levi’s lipstick-stained romantic dalliance at...
Wall mural of brave squad leader, and ladies’ favourite, Captain Levi proved irresistible for one lipstick-wearing fan. Attack on Titan fans, of which there are more than a few both here in Japan and...
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Is it OK for men cosplaying as women to use the women’s restroom in Japan?...
Chance encounter with crossplayer at fan event prompts poll with near-unanimous response. Crossplay, in which costumers dress as characters of the opposite sex, is a pretty big subset of the cosplay...
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Hit manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure makes unexpected appearance…in a girl’s...
The latest episode of the manga’s popular spin-off series Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe is now out, but in an unlikely magazine! 2017 is undoubtedly a big year for manga artist Hirohiko Araki, whose...
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Even when getting stabbed in the face, Pikachu remains cute, photos...
No attacks are effective at damaging Pikachu’s cuteness. Really, the only way to properly finish the sentence “Pikachu is cute when he _____.” is with the word “exists.” It doesn’t matter what the...
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Eat, drink and buy My Hero Academia exclusive goodies at the Good Smile x...
Heroes and villains of My Hero Academia check in to the Good Smile x Animate Cafes in Tokyo and Osaka! Following the second season of the My Hero Academia anime series, the Good Smile x Animate Cafe...
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