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All the coolest Cosplay from the annual Nipponbashi Street Festival in Osaka!【Pics】

• Evie Nyan
  Mar 23, 2016
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It’s Cosplay time as the Nipponbashi Street Festival hits Osaka (and Twitter) again this year!

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • cosplay • Nipponbashi • Osaka • otaku • photos • Street Festa)

Real-life Pokémon battles would be absolutely merciless, cosplaying frog video shows us 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2016

Respect the Venusaur, and don’t blink while you’re doing it.

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• Anime & Manga, Cute, Games & Tech, Japan
• (animals • cosplay • cute • frogs • funny • pets • Pokemon • Venusaur • video)

Cast of Madoka Magica anime gets into the Easter spirit with line of special holiday merchandise

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2016

The characters from the dead-serious magical girl franchise show off their bunny ears, flowery dresses, and egg-shaped soul gems.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • convenience stores • Easter • Lawson • Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Classic anime Fushigi Yugi’s musical adaptation cast shown in costume for first time 【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2016

If you’ve got a favorite series from the hit fantasy series, odds are he’s in the huge cast of this new stage version.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • Fushigi Yugi • Live action • manga • musicals • plays)

Anime McDonald’s looks like an awesome place to work part-time 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 22, 2016

Beautifully drawn anime ad shows the emotional friendships that can come from a part-time job.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (ad • anime • McDonald's • video)

Want to make anime like Princess Mononoke? Soon you can get the software Ghibli uses for free!

• Preston Phro
  Mar 21, 2016

TOONZ Studio Ghibli Version will be available as a free download starting Saturday March 26.

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• Anime & Manga, Europe, Japan
• (Digital Video • open source software • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • TOONZ)

It’s official! Hunter x Hunter to resume serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump next month

• Kay
  Mar 19, 2016

Yes, Togashi-sensei is finally getting back to work, with the hit manga Hunter x Hunter returning to the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in April!

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (Hunter x Hunter • manga • Weekly Shonen Jump • Yoshihiro Togashi)

IBM’s Sword Art Online virtual reality MMO project teased in screenshots, videos

• Anime News Network
  Mar 18, 2016

Videos show players playing demo that includes bazaar environment, combat.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Japan
• (anime • Sword Art Online • Test • video games • virtual reality)

12 must-have life-size anime figures to complete any otaku’s collection

• Meg Murphy
  Mar 17, 2016

Have a few thousand dollars just lying around? Well then these giant anime figures are just the thing for you!

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • Attack on Titan • Evangelion • lifesize figure • Lupin the Third • otaku)

Superhero Hello Kitty robot Ichigoman is back with a new manga!

• Jamie Koide
  Mar 16, 2016

Japan’s cutest superhero is back to save the world!

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • Hello Kitty • Ichigoman • interview • manga • Sanrio • Toshiki Inoue • web manga • Yuko Yamagata)

Anime girl huggy pillows that talk and gasp when you stroke them now available to purchase【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2016

New frontier in otaku tech smashes crowdfunding goal, set to ship soon.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Japan
• (anime • dakimakura • huggy pillows • otaku • pillows • technology • video • weird)

Sailor Moon grows up and gets a corporate job in new commercial 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2016

Trades the tiara for a blazer, and also seems to have acquired a punishing overtime schedule and some passive-aggressive friends.

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• Anime & Manga, Food & Drink, Japan
• (anime • drinks • energy drinks • manga • Sailor Moon • video)

Female anime fans swarm Tokyo convention site in massive numbers 【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2016

Hardcore fans brave the elements and the crowds by lining up hours before start of dojinshi comic event.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • crazy • dojinshi • fujoshi • manga • otaku • Tokyo Big Sight)

Yu-Gi-Oh! manga is about to get its first new chapters in 12 years

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2016

Two-part extension will serve to tie comic to upcoming anime movie.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • manga • movies • video • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Is anime like reality? Can you flip up a schoolgirl’s skirt just by running past her? 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2016

Experiment provides crucial information in the important field of panty shot research.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (anime • anime isn't like reality • experiment • funny • manga • schoolgirls • video)

Artist reimagines kid-favorite Totoro as the grim reaper in upcoming one-of-a-kind figurine

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 15, 2016

A new figurine modeled after the star of Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro toys with the rumor of Totoro actually being a death god.

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• Anime & Manga, Art, Internet
• (anime • art • death • figures • Hayao Miyazaki • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • urban legend)

First-ever Cardcaptor Sakura Cafe coming to Tokyo next month

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2016

The classic anime and manga franchise has never had us feeling more hungry.

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• Anime & Manga, Food & Drink, Japan
• (anime • Cardcaptor Sakura • drinks • food • manga • restaurants • Tokyo)

Hair salon just for otaku would turn getting a haircut into a mini anime convention experience

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2016

Crowdfunding being sought for planned location in Tokyo’s Akihabara.

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• Anime & Manga, Japan
• (Akihabara • anime • fashion • hair • hair salon • Tokyo)

New line of paired boy/girl Pikachu plushies kicks off with couple in Japanese school uniforms

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2016

As some Pokémon are graduating, others are just about to start life at their new schools.

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Japan
• (anime • Pikachu • plushies • Pokemon • School Uniforms • stuffed animals • toys • video games)

A stone-engraver impresses with Love Live gravestones and wine bottles 【Photos】

• Meg Murphy
  Mar 12, 2016

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. And why don’t we do it all with Love Live, while we’re at it?

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• Anime & Manga, Games & Tech, Japan
• (art • engravings • love live • tombstones)

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