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Watching Studio Ghibli’s first-ever all-CG anime was weird in weird...
These weren’t the bumps in the road I was expecting for Earwig and the Witch. Earwig and the Witch starts off with a bold visual. We see a woman astride a motorcycle, her thick, curly red hair...
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Not everyone was happy about Enako revealing her riches during a year that’s been financially tough for many. Getting paid to cosplay is all in a day’s work for Japan’s “number one” cosplayer Enako,...
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10 amazing manga to read over the winter holidays
Here are our top ten recommendations for comics to read as the year comes to an end. 2020 is drawing to a close, and while it may have been a year where a lot of stuff was cancelled or postponed, for...
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Lack of otaku blood from cancelled Comiket contributing to donation shortage...
In a normal year, right now anime fans wouldn’t just be emptying their wallets, they’d be filling up blood vials too. Twice a year, massive crowds gather at Tokyo’s Big Sight convention center for...
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Relive an iconic scene from anime Weathering with You with Japan’s rentable...
Take Hina with you for all kinds of weather this weekend! The most recent film from Your Name director Makoto Shinkai, Weathering with You, was yet another smash hit. Though in our eyes it didn’t have...
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Doraemon teams up with fashion super-brand Gucci for top-of-the-line glamor...
Japan’s favorite robot cat becomes a Gucci glamor puss. Gucci is such a household name at this point that the brand name itself has become slang for “good”. Its high price tags and ostentatious golden...
View ArticleFree-to-download Demon Slayer backgrounds! Just the thing to entertain...
”I’d like to speak with you in the Infinity Castle, please.” This week, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train became the highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan. Again, not just the...
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A totally classy gigantic anime girl bust for your home【Photos】
Is this a 1:1-scale figure of A Certain Scientific Railgun’s Mikoto, or a 1/2 1:1 one? You could argue that a quick test of how big an anime fan a person is is to check how big their anime figure...
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The Animate anime lucky bag is an otaku mind-blowing value【Photos】
SoraNews24’s otaku reporter heads to one of Tokyo’s biggest anime fan neighborhoods and gets a massive return on his fukubukuro investment. Our reporter Seiji Nakazawa is a man who likes his anime....
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16 years’ worth of One Piece manga now free-to-read online to celebrate...
Need to catch up on 70-plus volumes of Luffy’s pirate adventures? Right now it won’t cost you a single yen. Monday was a very special day for readers of Weekly Shonen Jump, and not just because it was...
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Ending date for Attack on Titan announced, and it’s startlingly soon
Creator insists he wasn’t pressured by publisher to keep drawing the smash-hit. From the very start, Attack on Titan has delighted in keeping fans off balance. Creator Hajime Isayama’s story takes...
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Sailor Moon wedding reception reservations start, floral arrangements, table...
Designers channel the beautiful aesthetics of one of anime’s most visually distinctive franchises with Sailor Senshi-inspired décor. Last month, Japanese wedding planning company Arc-en-Ciel made...
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One Piece sets out to find its most popular character in the world in massive...
Everyone from Luffy to Camel the super penguin is in the running. Having recently reached the impressive milestone of 1,000 chapters and been voted the best manga by Japanese citizens, the manga One...
View ArticleStudio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki creates coronavirus character to wish fans a...
Miyazaki’s son Goro also pens a new illustration for fans of the Ghibli Museum. At the start of every year, people in Japan send out New Year’s greeting cards called nengajo, much like people in...
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Japan’s favorite Pokémon types by prefecture–which types are the most popular?
You might guess the most popular Pokémon type in the country, but each prefecture might surprise you! For those who don’t know, the creatures of the Pokémon world are all divided into types, which...
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Real-life Team Rocket? Pokémon popsicle fraud gets man arrested in Japan
Saitama Prefectural Police foil underhanded method to catch ‘em all. In the Pokémon anime, Ash/Satoshi’s desire to catch ‘em all is presented as an admirable, noble aspiration, and the same goes for...
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Legendary basketball anime Slam Dunk is getting a brand-new movie
First-ever theatrical release for one of the most popular and influential sports anime of all time. It takes somewhere between 20 and 30 years for pop culture nostalgia to gestate. By that math, we...
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You can turn half your arm into Eva Unit-01 with the crazy Evangelion drink...
Just in time for the release of the final Evangelion movie, there’s a new way to bond with the most famous Eva of all. So there’s this movie coming out soon. Maybe you’ve heard of it? It’s called...
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Pokémon “you’ll absolutely want to get licked by” plushie is here to make nap...
Hey, Gengar, stick out your tongue, because we’re feeling sleepy. Each Pokémon species has its own collection of combat capabilities, but really, their greatest power is their ability to soothe the...
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Kyoto Animation arsonist says which scene he feels copied his work and...
Incredibly brief Tsurune meat-shopping scene aired exactly eight months before arson attack. Shinji Aoba, the arsonist who set the fire at anime production company Kyoto Animation’s Fushimi studio in...
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