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American marketing turns anime’s Doraemon into an ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!...
Even if a movie or TV series has elements that give it a broad international appeal, different countries might take very different approaches in marketing it. For example, Disney’s Big Hero 6 had a...
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Craftsman combines old and new with Naruto-meets-Yukio-e woodblock print
We think it’s probably a safe bet that fans of Naruto and fans of traditional Japanese culture have a fair amount of overlap. Naruto, after all, features ninjas flipping around in the air and throwing...
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We check out world-first Pikachu cup clingers ahead of their release date
Have you ever wished you could stick to your long-lost New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, kick those bad habits and take better care of your mental and physical health? Well, June might be the...
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No plans for the weekend? Free CG animation festival is going on in Tokyo...
If you were just looking at the clock and smiling because you’ve reached the end of your workweek, but have since switched to frowning and looking at the Tokyo weather report (clouds or rain all week...
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7-Eleven really does sell everything in Japan, even Attack on Titan 3-D...
As we’ve mentioned before, Japanese convenience stores are pretty awesome. Since so many people do their shopping on foot in urban and suburban Japan, convenience stores often function like small...
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One Piece ship to anchor at Japanese theme park
Ahoy, landlubbers! The Thousand Sunny, the preferred vessel of the Straw Hat Pirates in One Piece, is paying a call at the port of Laguna Ten Bosch, a theme park in Gamagori, southeast of Nagoya....
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Which anime characters do you share a birthday with? This website will tell you
A pretty major difference between anime and western animation is the amount of detail Japanese productions put into character profiles and backstories. For just about any significant anime character,...
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Ghost in the Shell is about to become Ghost on the Stage with Tokyo theatre...
Similar to how some of Ghost in the Shell’s characters can slip their consciousness into new bodies, the enduring science fiction franchise has gone through many incarnations. Starting with the manga...
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Where’s Wally? Out of the picture now because Japanese Twitter users want to...
One of the best things to come barrelling out of the 80s alongside Donkey King and the Garbage Pail Kids was a man with glasses and a fondness for red and white shirts. Known as Wally (or Waldo in the...
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It’s Luffy Galore! Feast your eyes on these One Piece drawings by ten...
Any remotely popular manga or anime is bound to have its share of fan art, and with a mega-hit comic like One Piece, the amount of artwork created in homage to it has to be staggering. But the...
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Dragon Ball “should have ended with the Frieza Saga”, says Akira Toriyama’s...
The first editor of the Dragon Ball manga has revealed that he thinks the franchise should have ended with the Frieza Arc. Kazuhiko Torishima, who worked closely with Akira Toriyama on the first half...
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Cool cosplay ideals vs. funny cosplay reality-Part 2【Photos】
While being an anime or manga artist takes a huge amount of artistic talent, they do at least have the advantage of complete control over the mediums in which they work. Making one person taller than...
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Nana Mizuki teaches us the proper way to eat eel
Nana Mizuki (Hinata in Naruto, Fate in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Cure Blossom in Heartcatch Precure!) is now the “image girl” (celebrity spokeswoman) for Nakau, a Japanese restaurant chain...
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One Piece creator throws VIP party at his place, you’ll never guess who shows...
By now I think it’s safe to say One Piece is something of a household name, especially for those interested or living in Japan as well as other parts of Asia. Not only has it become the best-selling...
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Everything is awesome when you own an Akira bike built entirely from Lego
If you’re equal parts anime fan and Lego enthusiast, this amazing motorised model will be right up your alley. It’s Kaneda’s iconic motorcycle from the animated cult film Akira and it’s made entirely...
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Kyoto’s newest anime mascot has a stinky name, is worried about garbage, and...
The Japanese are rather enthusiastic when it comes to recycling. In most Japanese cities, domestic waste has to be separated into a minimum of three categories: combustable “raw” garbage, recyclable...
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What makes “Love Live!” so mega popular? We asked one passionate super fan
If you’re into anime and you haven’t been living under a rock for the past two years, you should have at least heard of the unstoppable, indomitable multimedia force known as Love Live! School Idol...
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China swings its ban hammer, blacklists 38 Japanese anime from the Internet
It had been rumored for some time that China’s government would be clamping down on sites that stream Japanese anime. The likes of Naruto and One Piece especially were hotly tipped for the Chinese...
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Japanese professor specialising in bone structure thrills students with...
What would Pikachu look like under the flesh? It’s a question that, weirdly, been asked a number of times over the years, with several hypotheses appearing online in the form of cute yet macabre...
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Did you spot the Studio Ghibli cameo in Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron?
With Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel and Disney have once again struck gold by putting all of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in front of the camera at the same time. And really, is it any surprise that’s...
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