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Over 400 titles of free translated manga from publisher Shueisha available for a limited time

• Master Blaster
  3 days ago
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It’s their birthday, but we’re getting the presents!

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• Global, Internet, Japan
• (anniversaries • free • Hideaki Hayashi • manga • Manga Million • Shueisha • translation)

Studio Ghibli and Akira anime movie cels up for bid in Heritage Auctions animation event

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 17, 2025

Cels and background art from four Hayao Miyazaki-directed Ghibli anime are on offer.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (AKIRA • animation cels • anime • anime cels • art • auction • cels • Heritage Auctions • Kiki's Delivery Service • manga • My Neighbor Totoro • Nausicaa of the Valey of the Wind • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli)

Nintendo mysteriously releases Close to You CG animated video, but what is it?【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 8, 2025

Four-minute video has no dialogue, but still contains audio clues as to what it might be.

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• Internet, Japan
• (nintendo • Pikmin • video • video games • weird)

YouTube’s AI Japanese translation calls for Jimmy Kimmel’s death on his own show【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 26, 2025

Another bang-up job from AI translation!

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (A.I. • AI • AI translation • artificial intelligence • auto translation • crazy • funny • Japanese language • Jimmy Kimmel • Jimmy Kimmel Live • linguistics • translation • video • weird • YouTube)

Pokémon Center Online tells all customers to change their passwords after fraudulent log-ins

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2025

Gotta change ‘em all.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • crime • fraud • fraudsters • manga • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • Pokémon Center Online • scams • scm artists • video games)

Japan’s first “smartphone dementia” clinic opens in Tokyo and online

• Master Blaster
  Jul 3, 2025

Ugh, the name of the clinic is on the tip of my tongue… Lemme check my smartphone.

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• Internet, Japan
• (digital dementia • health • Kanamachi Ekimae Neurological Clinic • smartphone addiction • smartphone dementia • Smartphones • Tokyo)

Sanrio Character Ranking results: Cinnamaroll’s five-year streak broken, poll still goes to dogs

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 1, 2025

Surprise comeback also puts one retro star back into the top 10 for the first time since the ‘90s.

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• Global, Internet, Japan
• (Cinnamaroll • cute • Hello Kitty • Pochacco • Pompompurin • Sanrio • Sanrio Character Ranking)

Live-action Netflix One Piece Chopper shows face for first time – What do fans in Japan think?

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2025

Tony Tony Chopper moves and speaks in introduction video.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (anime • Live action • manga • Netflix • Netflix One Piece • One Piece • Tony Tony Chppper • vide)

Studio Ghibli anime to stream online in Japan for first time ever, but not from any deal with Ghibli

• Casey Baseel
  May 15, 2025

Netflix Japan will be the first service to stream Ghibli anime online in Japan, but the debut won’t be a tale of whimsical adventures.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • Grave of the Fireflies • Netflix • Netflix Japan • streaming • Studio Ghibli)

Can the Japanese government make AI-generated Ghibli images illegal?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 18, 2025

Politicians discuss the sudden surge in “Ghibli-style” AI-generated images.

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• Internet, Japan
• (AI • AI art • AI images • AI-generated images • anime • artificial intelligence • ChatGPT • crime • manga • Studio Ghibli)

Japanese government’s investment alligator mascot missing, possibly in hiding

• Master Blaster
  Apr 9, 2025

Followers are demanding crocodile tears.

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• Internet, Japan
• (alligators • economy • investing • Mascots • money • NISA • stock market • Tsumitate Wanisa)

Thinking she was giving money to Mick Jagger to invest for her, woman conned in Aomori

• Master Blaster
  Mar 20, 2025

No sympathy for this devil.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Aomori • crazy • crime • fraud • Mick Jagger • music • Rolling Stones • scams • weird)

Japanese parenting app has demon call your phone and scold your misbehaving kids

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2025

When your kids are acting like devils, Oni kara Denwa dispatches a demon to set them straight.

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• Internet, Japan
• (COK • crazy • demons • funny • kids • oni • Parenting • parents • scary • weird)

Shinkansen Explosion from Netflix may look like Speed rip-off, but its roots go farther back【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 5, 2025

New movie from Shin Godzilla director stars former boy band star on bullet train that can’t slow down.

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• Internet, Japan
• (bullet train • movies • Netflix • Netflix Japan • Shinju Higuchi • shinkansen • SMAP • speed • trains • Tsuyoshi Kusanagi • video)

Your Name animation studio creating Pokémon anime for this year’s Pokémon Day

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2025

Comix Wave Films animates story of post office Dragonite with soundtrack by American composer.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • CoMix Wave Films • Dragonite • Evan Call • manga • Pokemon • Pokémon Day • Suzume • video games • Weathering with You • your name.)

Netflix announces new My Melody/Kuromi Sanrio stop-motion series【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 10, 2025

Series stars comment on being the newest members of Netflix’s growing roster of stop-motion characters from Japan.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • cute • Kuromi • My Melody • Netflix • Sanrio • stop motion • stop motion animation • video)

Nintendo launches new Nintendo Music service with decades’ worth of iconic game tunes【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2024

And it’s available right now.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Legend of Zelda • music • nintendo • Nintendo Music • Pokemon • Super Mario • video • video games)

Why the new Dragon Ball Daima anime is a perfect place for veteran fans to come back to the series

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 17, 2024

Dragon Ball Daima finally pays off plot points that we’ve been waiting 30 years for.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Akira Toriyama • anime • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Daima • Dragon Ball Z • manga • Seiji Nakazawa • Seiji's world of anime • SNJO)

Netflix reveals first look at Tony Tony Chopper in live-action One Piece【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 20, 2024

A quick teaser to whet fans’ appetites for Season 2.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (anime • chopper • Live action • live-action One Piece • manga • Netflix • Netflix One Piece • One Piece • Tony Tony Chopper • video)

Awesome Transformers 40th anniversary anime short created in famous studio team-up【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 13, 2024

Trigger teams up with top-talent studios and Bump of Chicken for a 40-year love letter to the entire Transformers franchise.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • awesome • Bump of Chicken • cool • J-Pop • manga • music • Optimus Prime • Production IG • Studio Trigger • Takara Tomy • Transformers • video)

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