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New Transforming Business Card case brings anime mecha to Japanese work meetings

• Oona McGee
  Sep 6, 2026
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Mobile Suits and Mobile Stationery make meishi much more mecha.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • business • business card • business card case • business cards • business etiquette • cool • Gundam • Japanese workplace • manga • mecha • meishi • Mobile Stationery • Mobile Suits • Tamashii Nations • workplace • workplace etiquette)

Tamagotchi evolves into a ring for its 30th anniversary, preorders now open

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 1, 2026

This new model is the smallest one yet in the history of the egg-shaped toy that lets you raise a digital pet.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • cool • digital pets • retro • Ring • Tamagotchi • toys)

Bandai looking to introduce Japanese government ID checks for admission to card game events

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2026

Don’t have a My Number Card from the Japanese government? You might not be getting into some events for One Piece or other Bandai trading card games.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Card Games • card games • COK • collectible card games • manga • My Number Card • One Piece • One Piece Card Game • resellers • scalpers • trading cards)

Bandai cancels gacha/blind-buy system for anime cosmetics, will let fans choose what they buy

• Casey Baseel
  May 1, 2026

Reversal of policy for new Chara Cosme releases follows survey showing immense dislike for randomized merch purchases.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • blind-buy • Chara Cosmetic • cosmetics • CreerBeaute • gacha • Idolish7 • makeup • manga • Touken Ranbu)

Kirby mochi arrives at Family Mart, but is it as sweet to eat as it is to look at?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 12, 2025

Nintendo star’s latest transformation is into Tabemasu sweets.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • Bandai Candy • COK • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • Kirby • mochi • nintendo • SNO • sweets • tabemasu • taste test • video games)

More life-sized Gundams? Plans underway for another Japanese city to get full-scale anime robot

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2025

If your town is getting a new Gunpla factory, it only makes sense that it get a full-size Gundam statue too, right?

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • COK • cool • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Shizuoka • Shizuoka City)

Mickey Mouse in now a transforming robot created by the designer of Gundam【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2024

Mickey, ikimasu?

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • cool • crazy • Disney • figures • funny • Gundam • manga • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • Tamashii Nation • weird)

Pizza Hut x Tamagotchi collaboration features first-ever pink-dough pizza

• Oona McGee
  Jul 30, 2024

Magic awaits in this new collection. 

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• Japan
• (Bandai • campaigns • COK • cool • crazy • food • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • Pizza Hut Melts • Tamagotchi)

Legendary shojo manga classics get reprints as miniature capsule toys with full-volume contents

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2024

Small packages contain a huge dose of girls’ comics history and nostalgia.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • capsule toys • gacha • gachapon • gashapon • Hana Yori Dango • manga • Margaret • Shueisha)

Spy x Family anime scene-stealer Anya turns into seven different adorable mochi sweets【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2023

The many faces of the pint-sized mind-reader reproduced in mochi and anko.

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• Japan
• (anime • anko • Anya • Anya Forger • Bandai • Bandai Candy • cute • food • manga • mochi • Spy x Family • sweets)

Newest Gundam anime robot model kit is made with green tea leaves, smells like green tea

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 21, 2023

Bandai offers the chance to make a mecha that looks cool and smells nice.

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• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • cool • eco-friendly • green tea • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • Ito En • Itoen • models • Oi Ocha • recycling • robots • tea • Zaku)

Jamiroquai doll from Japan lets you control your own Virtual Insanity 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jun 24, 2023

The realism here is off the charts.

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• (action figure • Bandai • Bandai Namco • cool • dancing • doll • dolls • figures • Jamiroquai • models • music • music video • musicians • Premium Bandai • S.H. Figuarts • toys • videos • Virtual Insanity)

Tuna sushi transforms into a robot in Sushiro x Bandai collaboration

• Oona McGee
  Jun 13, 2023

The Unitrobo Tuna Sushi Fire Engine commands you to play with your food!

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• Japan
• (Bandai • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • food • Japan Toy Show • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • maguro • restaurants • revolving sushi • robots • sushi • Sushiro • toys • Transformers • tuna • Unitrobo)

Giant 1,431-square meter arcade and bar opening in downtown Tokyo from Bandai Namco

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 17, 2023

Namco Tokyo pours drinks, serves Pacman parfaits, and plays game music into the night in Shinjuku.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • Arcades • Bandai • Bandai Namco • bars • crane games • drinks • game centers • Kabukicho • Namco • Namco Tokyo • Pacman • parfaits • shinjuku • sweets • video games)

Japan’s newest capsule toys: Capsules that Absolutely Won’t Open【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2023

Our natural instinct is to open up our Gashapon capsules ASAP, but it’s not so simple here.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • capsule toys • crazy • funny • gachapon • gashapon • vending machine toys • weird)

Akihabara arcades aren’t dead yet! New six-floor game center opens in Tokyo otaku quarter next month

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 23, 2023

Namco steps in with its first-ever Akihabara arcade.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Bandai • capsule toys • COK • crane games • gachapon • game centers • gashapon • Namco • video games)

Tiny travel guides are our latest Japanese gacha capsule toy obsession

• Oona McGee
  Aug 19, 2022

Taking pocket-sized to whole new extremes. 

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• Japan
• (Bandai • bean book • capsule toys • COK • cute • gacha gacha • gacha toys • gacha vending machine • Kawaii • mame hon • mini book • reading • SNJO • tiny • travel • travel guide)

One Piece Tamagotchis let you raise Chopper and other adorable virtual pirate pets【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 15, 2022

Fans can vote on which designs they want produced for the Choppertchi.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • manga • One Piece • toys • video • virtual pets)

Bandai Namco is opening a chain of gigantic megastores for mega otaku joy

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 11, 2022

Branches open this summer in Yokohama and Fukuoka.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Bandai Namco • capsule toys • crane games • figures • gachapon • Namco • plastic models)

1:1-scale Ultraman artwork appears on headquarters of Japan’s biggest toymaker【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 2, 2022

Other anime and tokusatsu heroes can be seen on the sidewalk below.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Bandai • COK • cool • life-size • Shin Ultraman • SNJO • tokusatsu • Ultraman)

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