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Hayao Miyazaki sketches cute characters for new signboard at the Ghibli Museum【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 23, 2020
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Japanese anime legend shows off his art skills at the Straw Hat Cafe.

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• (anime • art • drawing • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • museums • restaurants • Straw Hat Cafe • Studio Ghibli • video)

Studio Ghibli releases 300 more images from six movies free to download online

• Oona McGee
  Oct 19, 2020

Gorgeous anime stills include tantalising food scenes from some of the studio’s beloved films. 

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• (anime • art • cool • free downloads • free images • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Howl's Moving Castle • movies • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • The Cat Returns • whisper of the heart)

Your mistakes will transform into Mt. Fuji with this cool art eraser from Japan【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Oct 15, 2020

Every mistake is another step on the path towards success, and also towards seeing Japan’s most famous mountain.

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• (art • clever • COK • cool • illustrtion • Mt. Fuji • SNJO)

Amazing new exhibits from Japanese art team TeamLab coming to life in the U.S.A.

• Ingrid Tsai
  Oct 12, 2020

An imagination-defying visual arts exhibition set to open by the end of this year.

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• Japan, USA
• (art • beautiful • COK • cool • digital art • exhibitions • Florida • museums • Team Lab)

This Gunpla builder designs amazingly life-like Gundam dioramas out of plastic model kits

• Dale Roll
  Oct 11, 2020

This is the mark of a truly dedicated hobbyist!

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• (anime • art • awesome • cool • dioramas • Gundam • Gunpla • models • robots)

Five new Pokémon manhole covers arrive in Tottori Prefecture, now with one in every municipality

• Dale Roll
  Oct 3, 2020

That puts the new total of Pokéfuta in Japan at 110!

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• (art • manhole covers • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Pokémon manhole covers • sandshrew • Tottori Prefecture • travel)

Tokyo train stations to host Super Mario box/character art displays to celebrate 35th anniversary

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 30, 2020

Nintendo’s flagship franchise reaches a milestone.

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• (art • cool • Japan Railways • JR • nintendo • Shinjuku Station • stations • Super Mario • Tokyo Station • trains • video games)

Studio Ghibli anime art appears in new ad campaign: What if our mugs were used in Ghibli films?

• Oona McGee
  Sep 25, 2020

Japanese company tests the bounds of “common sense” by using Ghibli art to advertise their wares. 

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• (advertising • anime • Arrietty • art • cool • free downloads • free images • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • marketing • movies • mugs • Ponyo • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Studio Ghibli images go viral for perfectly depicting the life of a housewife

• Oona McGee
  Sep 24, 2020

Hilarious captions with viral hashtag help everyone “Learn about housewife work through Ghibli”.

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• (anime • Arrietty • art • caption • cool • free downloads • free images • funny • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • LOL • movies • Ponyo • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Tales from Earthsea • viral hashtag)

Big win for tattoo artists: Japan’s Supreme Court rules medical licenses aren’t necessary

• Ingrid Tsai
  Sep 22, 2020

After three years of deliberation, the highest court in Japan has decided.

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• (art • body art • culture • Japanese law • society • supreme court • tattoo • tattoos in Japan)

Studio Ghibli animator reveals the secret food eaten by Chihiro’s parents in Spirited Away

• Oona McGee
  Sep 21, 2020

19-year mystery solved with startling revelations from the person who drew it. 

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• (animation • anime • art • cool • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Hiromasa Yonebayashi • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • twitter)

Studio Ghibli releases 400 images from eight movies free to download online

• Oona McGee
  Sep 20, 2020

Surprise gesture of goodwill comes with an amusing caveat from producer Toshio Suzuki. 

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• (anime • Arrietty • art • cool • free downloads • free images • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • Ponyo • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • Tales from Earthsea)

Capcom vs. Osamu Tezuka art exhibit swaps artists for crossover celebration

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 18, 2020

Father of modern fighting games teams up with the god of manga.

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• (anime • art • Capcom • events • exhibitions • manga • museums • Osamu Tezuka • Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum • video games)

This one guy has spent four years making an entire anime on a 3DS, and it looks amazing【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 17, 2020

Flipnote Warrior is a labor of love, but it might need your help to get finished.

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• (anime • art • awesome • cool • Flipnote • illustration • nintendo • Nintendo 3DS • video • video games)

This isn’t an anime cel – It’s the greatest 3-D CG model of a Studio Ghibli character ever made

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 11, 2020

Don’t believe us? Come on in and take the 360-degree model of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind for a spin.

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• (anime • art • awesome • beautiful • CG • Hayao Miyazaki • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • Studio Ghibli)

Japanese convenience store customers reimagined as gacha game characters

• Oona McGee
  Sep 9, 2020

Working at a konbini is like playing roulette with a gacha game mechanic.

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• Japan
• (art • clever • convenience store • customer service • customers • gacha • gacha games • games • illustration • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • mobile game)

A chain of “welding theme parks” is opening in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2020

For everyone who finds the sparks from a welding torch more beautiful than any fireworks show.

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• Japan
• (art • cool • crafts • metalworking • theme parks • weird • welding)

Tokyo theme park closes down, thanks visitors with touching water graffiti message

• Oona McGee
  Sep 1, 2020

The only thing better than the message itself is the fascinating water printer machine that “prints” it. 

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • art • COK • cool • graffiti • Harry Potter • movies • Mr. Sato • museums • SNJO • Tokyo • Toshimaen • travel • Warner Bros • Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo Making of Harry Potter • water • Water Printer)

The terrifying monster logo for the Osaka world’s fair is born, immediately gets fan art

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 26, 2020

Believe it or not, the design is inspired by cherry blossoms.

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• (art • crazy • cute • Mascots • Osaka Expo • Osaka Expo 2025 • scary • weird • World Expo 2050)

My Neighbour Totoro storyboards reveal secrets behind the Ghibli anime movie

• Oona McGee
  Aug 17, 2020

Totoro’s missing dialogue, Kanta’s final revelation, and… Totoro has a crush on Satsuki?!

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• Japan
• (anime • art • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • SNJO • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

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