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New Yume Twins “Kawaii Monthly Box” from Tokyo ships cute Japanese items...
Now you can get a monthly supply of cute featuring characters from Sanrio, Neko Atsume, and Sailor Moon, all delivered straight to your door, no matter how far away you live! Earlier this year, we...
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Dragon Ball Super Training Challenge! is ready to whip future defenders of...
Nasu Highland Park in Tochigi Prefecture is home to a special experience-type attraction where you can undergo the same training regimens as Goku. Calling all Super Saiyan hopefuls out there! On July...
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The 23 most wonderful women cosplays at Summer Wonder Festival 2016【Photos】
We trekked out in the height of summer to get the hype on this summer’s popular cosplay. RocketNews24 is no stranger to Wonder Festival, the semi-annual convention that, in recent years, has been...
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Pikachu cosplayer delights Pokémon Go gamers in Japan
Get out your Poké Balls! It’s time to catch a cute Pikachu! With everyone out looking for Pokémon Go creatures on the weekend, gamers at the 2016 Summer Wonder Festival event in Chiba Prefecture were...
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Transform your hairdo in the name of the moon with these Sailor Moon kanzashi!
Wargo Nippon’s new collection of Sailor Moon kanzashi are here just in time for yukata season! Summer in Japan is hot and humid, making us want to coop up at home and hide from the scorching sun. At...
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Dragon Quest celebrates anniversary with enormous rice paddy art in Gyoda,...
The Guinness World record-holding game joins up with the Guinness World record-holding rice paddy to create a Dragon Quest artwork on a massive scale. Gyoda City, in Saitama Prefecture, north of...
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Angel Beats! anime’s creator needs heart transplant
”I can’t go on living with my own heart.” If you’ve watched much anime or played many visual novel video games over the past 15 years, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Jun Maeda’s works. A scriptwriter and...
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Evangelion Unit-01 morphs into Godzilla in exquisitely freaky crossover...
The King of the Monsters is lurking under the skin of modern anime’s most iconic mecha. While landmark anime Evangelion is often described as a mecha or giant robot series, it’s technically a little...
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Japanese capsule toy vending machine area for women includes Sailor Moon...
The “Brilliant Capsule” sales area in Shinjuku is filled with plenty of adorable and ladylike anime goods! Following the opening of the Bandai beauty store for women in Tokyo Station, another...
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Jaw-dropping anime-style paper craft fan art is the ultimate otaku...
Best of all, you can fold your own for just a couple of bucks. It can be extremely tricky to render anime and manga-style characters in anything other than a 2-D form. The extremely stylized dimensions...
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Japanese schoolgirl showdown 4: Dating girls in summer kimono vs. western...
More than 50,000 votes have been tallied and the results are in! Which girl do you think won at the polls? Japanese illustrator and Twitter user @niichi021 has been conducting a number of popular...
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Fantasy sci-fi anime Sword Art Online to become a live-action, U.S.-produced...
Kirito and his fellow virtual reality adventurers to be portrayed by real-world actors. Contrary to some early expectations, 2012 anime Sword Art Online didn’t achieve quite the same breakout...
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Japan’s grimoire smartphone case will let you work mobile magic in style【Photos】
Fashionable case will appeal to fans of the occult, anime, and video games. It’s a fine time to be a fan of wizardly fashion in Japan, what with both the Grimoire Bag and Wizard Parka currently on...
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Former Ghibli producer has (somewhat) harsh words about the Ghibli working...
Former Ghibli producer Hirokatsu Kihara gave an interview with Dazed magazine, and some of his insights paint the famous studio in a negative light. Studio Ghibli is a beloved institution in Japan and...
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Turns out you can draw all four original starter Pokémon with just three...
And no, black isn’t even one of them. While the titles of the Pokémon video game installments have now evolved into such fancy things as Omega Ruby and SoulSilver, back in the beginning they bore...
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Large portion of Japanese fans are willing to drop an anime after one bad...
Some say patience is a virtue, but not these anime fans. The barrier of entry for watching anime is extremely low in Japan these days. Unlike previous eras of expensive direct-to-video releases,...
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Fans discover cute anime girl and elderly Japanese man have same body...
And not only that, they’ve got the exact same nickname, too! With Japan’s otaku community growing ever-larger and more open, there’s also been a steady increase in the number of self-referential anime...
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Cuddly Doraemon PC cushion looks as awesome as the time-traveling anime...
The anime star is always emotionally supportive, and now he’ll support your wrists, too. This year, Premium Bandai, the upscale arm of anime merchandiser Bandai, has been rolling out a number of PC...
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Japanese artist creates tear-jerking images of Lonely Pokémon Cubone looking...
This touching four-panel artwork is making people cry around the Internet. With people around the world swept up in the pursuit of monsters from the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, there’s no real...
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Pikachu makes vocalist debut with brand-new “Pikachu’s Song” 【Video】
Newest Pokémon anime ending theme is cute, catchy, and easy to sing along to. If you’re a cynic, you could accuse the producers of the currently airing Pokémon XY & Z TV series of being...
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