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What if Resident Evil was a 1970s anime? It’d look like this, Capcom shows in official video【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2023
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Honestly, we want a whole season of Resident Evil Masterpiece Theater.

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• Japan
• (anime • Capcom • crazy • funny • Heidi • Nippon Animation • Resident Evil • Resident Evil 4 • video • video games • weird • World Masterpiece Theater)

Street Fighter 6 throws fierce punch of ‘90s nostalgia, brings back anime movie theme song【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2023

New preview video features iconic J-pop song from the climax of the Street Fighter II anime movie.

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• Japan
• (anime • Capcom • Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokorozuyosa • J-Pop • music • Ryoko Shinohara • Street Fighter • Street Fighter 6 • Street Fighter II • Street Fighter II anime movie • Tetsuya Komura)

Capcom Cafe releases menu for limited-time Monster Hunter: Sunbreak cafe

• Shannon
  Aug 24, 2022

Ever wanted to eat a Fluffy Bunny Dango? Now’s your chance.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • Capcom Cafe • COK • collaboration cafe • cool • drinks • food • Ikebukuro • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Sunbreak • restaurants • Saitama • themed restaurants • video games)

Furious Monster Hunter monster wants to sleep next to you in your home【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 18, 2022

Furious Rajang, awesome bedmate?

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• Japan
• (Capcom • cool • crazy • cushion • Furious Rajang • huggy pillows • interior • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Rise • Monster Hunter Sunbreak • video games • weird)

Multi-purpose meat cushions, raw and cooked, are now here for ravenous Monster Hunter fans【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 22, 2022

Non-food-based monster brooches also let you show your love for the Capcom video game series.

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• Japan
• (accessories • Capcom • cool • crazy • interior • meat • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Rise • video games)

Street Fighter Chun-Li now appearing on free prescription record notebooks at Japanese pharmacies

• Casey Baseel
  May 12, 2022

Strongest woman in the world wants you to be the healthiest person in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • Chun-Li • health • medicine • medicine notebook • okusuri techo • Pharmacies • Street Fighter • video games)

Video game maker Capcom promises to increase worker salaries by 30 percent

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 2, 2022

New hires to get paid more too following very profitable year.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Capcom • COK • cool • society • video games • working in Japan)

New Monster Hunter attraction at Universal Studios Japan lets you hunt monsters in VR

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2021

Free-walk VR game gives you your choice of Monster Hunter weapons to swing as you track and fight Velkhana.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • awesome • Capcom • COK • cool • Monster Hunter • theme parks • Universal Cool Japan • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • VR)

Resident Evil Umbrella green, red herb bath salts now exist in real world, are terrifying【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2021

Surely we can trust the makers of the t-virus to help us relax and improve our skin quality, right?

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• Japan
• (bath powder • bath salts • baths • Capcom • COK • crazy • funny • Resident Evil • scary • SNJO • video games • weird • zombies)

Green and red herbs from Resident Evil are here to restore your health

• Oona McGee
  Aug 12, 2021

Official items from Capcom, produced by Umbrella Corp.

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• Japan
• (awesome • bath salts • biohazard • Capcom • cool • crazy • merchandise • Resident Evil • stationery • Umbrella Corp • video games)

Ōkami menu and merch coming to Capcom Cafe in June for limited time

• Master Blaster
  May 31, 2021

Now you can have your Amaterasu and eat it too.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • Capcom Cafe • food • Ikebukuro • Okami • restaurants • Tokyo • video games)

Resident Evil’s vampire lady is now adorable puppet, promises new game isn’t scary at all【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 30, 2021

Domito-onee-san just wants us all to sing and paint very, very red pictures together.

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• Japan
• (Alcina Dimitrescu • Capcom • crazy • cute • funny • Kikuko Inoue • puppets • Resident Evil • video • video games • weird)

Street Fighter II characters appear in Japanese English textbook, drawn by famous designer

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 9, 2021

Cosplayer conversation in junior high text features cameos by World Warriors.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • cool • cosplay • education • linguistics • Street Fighter • teaching English • Textbooks • video games)

Rising sun removed from Street Fighter II background in game’s latest re-release

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 19, 2021

The sun sets on E. Honda’s bathhouse mural design 30 years after it first appeared.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • rising sun • Street Fighter • Street Fighter II • video games)

Monster Hunter movie line to be removed globally following backlash in China

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2020

Actors clarify there was no intent to evoke offensive rhyme.

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• China, Global
• (Capcom • controversy • Live action • Monster Hunter • movies • video games)

Monster Hunter movie gets pulled from Chinese theaters in less than a day over “knees” pun

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2020

Critics say 10-second scene is racially insensitive.

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• China
• (Capcom • controversy • Live action • Monster Hunter • movies • video games)

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

The 13-year-old video game contest winner who became one of Japan’s greatest manga artists

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2020

Once he was just a junior high kid who drew a Mega Man robot, but now he’s one of the most beloved comic artists in the world.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • Capcom • cool • Eyeshield 21 • illustration • manga • Mega Man • One-Punch Man • Yusuke Murata)

We preview Japan’s first-ever Nintendo Tokyo, Capcom Store and Shibuya Pokémon Centre megastore

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2019

Mr. Sato takes us on a tour of Cyberspace Shibuya inside Parco ahead of its grand opening. 

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• Japan
• (awesome • Capcom • COK • cool • Mewtwo • nintendo • Nintendo Tokyo • Parco building • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • Pokémon Center Shibuya • Shibuya • shopping • SNJO • Tokyo • video games)

Watch Ryu from Street Fighter unleash a shoryuken combo on a Red Bull can in epic stop motion

• Koh Ruide
  Mar 29, 2019

Crumples it so easily, we don’t think there is going to be a round two.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Capcom • cool • Red Bull • Ryu • shoryuken • stop motion • stop motion animation • Street Fighter • video games)

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