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Is Attack on Titan’s Armin actually a girl? The series’ creator seems to...
Producers sometimes run into a tricky problem when picking voice actors to portray anime characters: In the case of a teen boy, is it better to cast a man or a woman to play the part? Especially if...
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Pokémon goes old-school cool with hanafuda playing cards, wall scrolls, and more
A few days ago, we took a moment to appreciate the amazing combination of Japanese digital entertainment and traditional clothing in the form of the Super Mario kimono. The platforming hero isn’t the...
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Just bought an iPhone 6? Keep it safe and stylish with a Sailor Moon case
Last month, Japan was part of the first round of the iPhone 6 release, and we were as psyched as anyone. However, now that the excitement has died down, a sobering problem is sinking in for early...
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What? Pokémon Breeder Girl is evolving! Congratulations! She has evolved into a…
Since the release of Pokémon X and Y a year ago, players in Japan were enamored by the comely pokémon breeder Tsuzumi. Her sparkling brown eyes, bright smile, and huge bucket of what appears to be...
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Zzz…zzz…pika…pika – The Pikachu bed is here!
Back in the summer, we spent a day chasing Pikachus around Yokohama as part of the amazing, multi-day Pokémon event held in the bayside city. The smile it put on our faces still hasn’t completely...
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Somebody turned a Disney Channel cartoon into an anime and it’s pretty awesome
There are a lot of topsy-turvy world “What if…?” scenarios to ponder. Like, “What if I’d invested the money from my crappy summer job as a kid instead of blowing it all on Fruit by the Foot?,” “What...
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Want your own Attack on Titan 3-D maneuver gear? You can order a life-size...
Last January, fans got hit with a mix of awe and envy at an Attack on Titan event in Osaka where the heroes’ 3-D maneuver gear was on display. Looking over the intricate harness and paired swords, it...
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Anime and real-world basketball collide with Nike’s Slam Dunk Air Jordans
While most popular sports anime are about baseball or soccer, creator Takehiko Inoue’s basketball story Slam Dunk is one of the most popular series of all time. Beginning as a manga in 1990 before...
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Cosplay as you cook with new Sailor Moon aprons!
If you’re a woman in her late twenties in Japan, chances are you grew up obsessed with Naoko Takeuchi’s “Magical Girl” manga series Sailor Moon and its accompanying anime. Given Japan’s love of...
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The 10 best anime of the fall season, according to Japanese otaku
Just like it does every year, autumn brings red leaves, cooler temperatures, and a new season of TV shows to Japan. This is especially good news if you’re an anime fan, as tons of new series have...
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Anime pregnancy tests: The latest otaku meme, and it’s not just for 2-D girls
Back when Japan was still at the mercy of the midsummer heat, a group of…creative anime fans tried to cool off with bowls of shaved ice. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be so weird, except that they set up...
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The Simpsons Halloween episode pays tribute to popular anime
The Simpsons had some fun last night in their “Treehouse of Horror XXV” Halloween episode, imagining a world where multiple incarnations of the Simpsons family has been created by an evil marketing...
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Sailor Moon candy, dolls, and music boxes! More new merch than you can shake...
We recently took a look at a new batch of Sailor Moon aprons, but if you’ve been following the celestial-themed magical girls for very long, you knew that wasn’t going to be the end of cool and quirky...
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“2.5D Mask” lets you spend the day as an anime character, frighten pets and...
On a budget? Stuck for a Halloween outfit? How about turning yourself into a “2.5D” hero and scaring the life out of everyone you encounter with this series of free printable masks? Join us after the...
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【TBT】The top 9 anime situations that seem likely to happen, but never do
How many times have you ever been running to school late in the morning, rushing to get to class before the bell rings, only to turn the corner and bump into someone of the opposite sex, who you...
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2-D anime characters so cute, you just gotta pinch their cheeks
Anime fans in Japan have been trying to bring 2-D characters to our world, most notably with the help of virtual reality headset Oculus Rift. But now a recent meme brings a more wholesome and...
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Do you enjoy pirated anime and manga? If so, this “thank you” is not for you
While the Japanese economy is powered by numerous exports and industries, from cars to computers, perhaps one of its largest, if not most visible, industries is that of entertainment content such as...
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Ghibli distributing free discs of arrested singer’s music video cut from...
If the whole point of buying an anime box set is to have everything you want in one neat package, there must have been a lot of upset fans last summer when Studio Ghibli released the Directorial Works...
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Some fans love Pharrell’s “It Girl” video, others call him a pedophile【Video】
Last summer the international pop-star Pharrell Williams rocked Japan with his single, “Happy,” which launched countless fan-made remakes across the country. Joining in with the “happy” Japanese...
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New Studio Ghibli sunglasses will make anime fans look like fat pigs
Totoro may be Studio Ghibli’s most iconic roly-poly creation, but he’s not the only corpulent character from Hayao Miyazaki’s animation house. 1992’s Porco Rosso stars Porco, a heavyset seaplane...
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