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Okayama Bus Company Encourages People to Look at its Newest Employee While...
Okayama Prefecture lies in west Japan, three and a half hours from Tokyo by bullet train. Known for its castle, 17th century garden, and folktale of Momotaro the Peach Boy, it’s a laid-back,...
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Anime Backgrounds: True Works of Art Hiding Behind All Those Digital Boobs
Surprisingly, the majority of time and effort Japanese animators put into a typical anime may not be on the enormous, physics defying breasts of female protagonists, but on the one thing in any movie...
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Somehow ‘Makankosappo’ Now Has Two Different Meanings in Japanese
Wait, do ordinary Japanese schoolgirls really have superpowers? I guess 80 percent of all the anime ever produced wasn’t lying to us… One day a high school student, known as Chanman on her Twitter...
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Evangelion Director Shocks the Anime World Without Making a Movie Where...
With two feature films set to debut before the end of the year, you’d have thought Studio Ghibli grabbed as much media attention as possible. But the venerated anime production house managed to put...
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Moe Madness: Government Realizes Selling Power of Cute 2D Girls
Moe promotion is in right now! Anything can be moe-fied, and a cute persona can help sell anything from regular rice to smelly natto. Recently companies, schools, railways and even government offices...
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Catch-22: Guys Interested in Small Breasts are Probably the Type of Guy Girls...
New research from Japan takes a look into the psychology of male bewb preference and is shedding some unfavorable light on the inner workings of the small breast-loving male mind, resulting in an...
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Vietnamese Trade Ao Dai for Anime-Inspired Uniforms and Collars at Ho Chi...
One of the most enduring images of Japanese pop culture in the past few years is that of the maid café, where customers are served by waitresses with personalities to match the careful craftsmanship...
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Japanese Electronics Shoppers Create Works of Art on Floor Samples
With nearly all of today’s graphic, comic, and animation design work being digital, any serious artist needs a graphic tablet. These are large LCD screens that can be drawn on directly with a stylus...
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Original Evangelion Design Portfolio Gives us Ripped Robots, Smiling Shinji,...
The anime/merchandising franchise Evangelion is one of the few animated series, like One Piece or Gundam, to have achieved true cultural mainstream status in Japan. Even people who have never watched...
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JSDF’s new helicopter may or may not be fake, a real-life transformer
All this anime is clearly getting to Japanese people’s heads. Japanese media has fallen hook, line and sinker for this seemingly impossible, anime-inspired helicopter design, breathlessly reporting...
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From Russia with love (for J-pop), we present trilingual cover band Pudra
It’s taken several years, but as anime and computer generated vocaloid songs continue to grow in popularity abroad, Japanese pop music has solidified a passionate overseas fan base. Go to YouTube and...
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Need a ride? Take a trip to Awesome Town with Japan’s new fleet of anime taxis!
Hokkaido and its capital, Sapporo, are known for many great things: beer, chocolate, butter ramen, and a giant snow festival to name a few. Now the city is adding a fleet of extraordinary cabs to...
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Abu Dhabime? Middle Eastern mech anime ‘Torkaizer’ turns Japan’s heads with...
Japanese animation has over the course of its evolution branched out into several sub-genres based on the proliferating light novels and manga series. While this is great, it seems as though the...
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Automated Dragon Quest playing computer levels your character up while you...
If there’s one thing Massively Multiplayer Online RPGS (MMOs) are known for, other than their marriage-destroying addictive qualities and almost cult-like fan communities, it’s the absolutely...
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First picture from set of live-action Kiki’s Delivery Service released
First written as a children’s novel by Eiko Kadano in 1985, Kiki’s Delivery Service is the story of a 13-year-old witch who, following the traditions taught to her by her similarly magical mother,...
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Japanese musings on odd construction equipment — Art imitating life or...
For those who work in factories or on construction sites the equipment used might not be too awe-inspiring. However, when laymen lay their eyes on these huge hulks of machinery they can look confusing...
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New live-action Sailor Moon stage musical cast revealed
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Sailor Moon. Since the series’ start as a manga comic serial in Kodanhsa’s Nakayoshi anthology, its team of planetary-themed, pleated skirt-wearing protectors...
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Chinese fan-produced anime poster is crammed with heroes: we lose count at 115
Who needs copyrights when you’ve got over nine dozen iconic anime characters? The past few years have seen a handful of anime projects featuring anime characters crossing over from one franchise to...
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Figurines, Wii U consoles and free vacations – Grab a sweet prize in...
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven certainly knows its way to customers’ hearts. The store’s current Jump Heroes campaign–a collaboration with Shonen Jump Comics–is giving customers the chance to bag...
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Line of Attack on Titan capsule toys soon to be released, give children...
The hit anime and manga title Attack on Titan (Shingeki No Kyojin) has grabbed readers and viewers with its combination of high-flying action and surprisingly disturbing giants. More than just being...
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