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New Evangelion figure has eyes that follow you, very form-fitting plugsuit【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 7, 2020
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If you’ve got your eyes on Asuka, she’s got her eyes on you too.

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• Japan
• (anime • Asuka • Bandai • Evangelion • Figure-rise Labo • figures • Premium Bandai • Rebuild of Evangelion)

A capsule toy vending machine pandemic shopping solution The My Gashapon Handle

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 4, 2020

Because who knows how many little kids and giant otaku have put their hands on that machine since the last time it was cleaned?

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• Japan
• (Bandai • capsule toys • clever • COK • coronavirus • gacha toys • gachapon • gashapon • toys • vending machine toys • weird)

Demon Slayer Tamagotchi on sale now, preorders for 9 more types on the way

• Master Blaster
  Nov 2, 2020

Raise your own Pillar of the secret society of demon slayers.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Demon Slayer • games • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • Tamagotchi • toys)

Defibrillator toys from Japanese capsule machines are so realistic they might save a life

• Master Blaster
  Oct 3, 2020

Indirectly of course, the actual toy couldn’t save a life to save its life.

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• Japan
• (AED • automated external defibrillator • Bandai • capsule toys • gachapon • heart attack • how to use • Nihon Kohden • toys)

Will our reporter’s wish to find the secret Dragon Ball sweets be granted?

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 4, 2020

Our reporter visits several Family Mart branches in her quest to unravel the mystery and comes to an important realization in the end. 

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• Japan
• (Bandai • campaign • convenience store • dessert • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Super • Family mart • food • Goku • konbini • Saya • Shenron)

Don’t eat these Cup Noodles…because they’re actually a super-realistic full-scale model【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 4, 2020

Designers 3-D scanned an entire instant ramen meal for maximum non-edible authenticity.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • Best Hit Chronicle • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • food • Instant Ramen • models • Nissin • ramen • toys • weird)

Building the crazy-detailed PlayStation model is a surprisingly emotional trip down memory lane

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 17, 2020

A two-fifths-scale inside look at what made Sony’s original video game system work brings back some full-size reminders of something we should never forget.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • COK • cool • Mr. Sato • plastic models • playstation • SNJO • video games)

Your cat or dog can be King of the Pirates with One Piece anime cosplay outfits for pets【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 20, 2019

Kitty B. Luffy and Bowwow Chopper.

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• Japan
• (animals • Bandai • cats • Charapeti • cool • cosplay • cute • dogs • One Piece • Petio • pets)

UchiPika: New Pikachu robot talks, sings, controls lights and TVs, even when Pokémon isn’t on

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2019

A talking Eevee robot is arriving in Japan this summer too! 

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• Japan
• (Bandai • cool • cute • Detective Pikachu • Pikachu • plushies • Premium Bandai)

New posable life-size detective Pikachu plushie commits crime of stealing our hearts【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 28, 2019

But we’re willing to grant him a pardon in exchange for lots of fluffy hugs.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • cool • cute • Detective Pikachu • Pikachu • plushies • Premium Bandai)

What do Japanese kids spend their allowance on? Survey finds out

• Master Blaster
  May 24, 2019

Surprisingly, prunes and nicotine patches didn’t crack the top 10.

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• Japan
• (allowance • Bandai • COK • kids • money • Parenting • society • survey)

Samurai C-3PO is the Japanese warrior droid we’ve all been waiting for

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2019

Complete with gold armour and topknot.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • C-3PO • collectibles • cool • figurines • Movie Realisation • samurai • Star Wars • Tamashii Nations)

Japanese kids can get boo-boos treated by augmented reality anime characters in Bandai-d form

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 2, 2019

These Bandai band-aids come with an app that lets Super Sentai or PreCure characters wish away the pain. Aww!

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• Japan
• (anime • AR • augmented reality • bandages • Bandai • cool • kids • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Rysoulger • Super Sentai)

Tokyo anime toymaker has the world’s coolest office entrance【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 2, 2019

The spirit of anime runs strong through Bandai Spirits’ office culture, where just going to the conference room is a dramatic experience.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • Bandai • Bandai Spirits • cool • figures • video)

Official Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball cosplay outfits from Japan turn your pet into an anime hero

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 27, 2018

All Sailor Senshi represented, and a few Dragon Ball villains are also part of the new line of pet supplies.

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• (animals • Bandai • cats • Charapeti • COK • cosplay • cute • dogs • Dragon Ball Z • pets • Sailor Moon)

Win Cardcaptor Sakura cosmetics in the Bandai Spirits lottery!

• Shannon McNaught
  Nov 4, 2018

Bandai Spirits will make you spend all of your money to win these Cardcaptor Sakura goods.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • Cardcaptor Sakura • cosmetics • Ichiban Kuji • make-up • manga)

New anime figure line boasts hyper-realistic skin, super-shapely butt on its debut release【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2018

Clever production innovation lets designers create amazingly convincing contrast between skin and other textures.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • Bandai • cool • Figure-rise Labo • figures • Gundam)

Original Tamagotchi goes on sale again in Japan in nostalgia trip two decades in the making

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2017

1990s tech toy that kick-started the virtual pet boom is back!

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• Japan
• (Bandai • retro tech • Tamagotchi • tech toys • technology • toys)

Fulfill your dreams of becoming Goku with a Flying Nimbus cushion and Kamehameha ball

• Koh Ruide
  Sep 23, 2017

These Dragon Ball accessories will send your power level skyrocketing.

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• Japan
• (Bandai • COK • cushion • Dragon Ball • Goku • kamehameha • toy)

Captain Japan? Marvel’s Captain America reimagined as samurai warrior in awesome new figure

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2017

The living embodiment of the throwing star and stripes.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Bandai • Captain America • cool • figures • Marvel • Premium Bandai • samurai • superhero)

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