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Japanese lingerie brand brings out line of Sanrio anime bra sets for girls with smaller busts

Oona McGee
Jul 5, 2016
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Beauty is in the tiniest details.

Japan
(anime • characters • cute • cute girl • fashion • lingerie • Little Twin Stars • Sanrio • underwear)

Bandai opens beauty shop with Japanese anime cosmetics from popular franchises like Sailor Moon

Oona McGee
Jun 27, 2016

Tokyo finally has an actual store filled with beauty and fashion goods aimed at anime-loving adults!

Japan
(anime • beauty • Character Street • characters • cosplay • cosplayers • cute • manga • Premium Bandai • Sailor Moon • Sanrio • Tokyo Station)

These Game of Thrones/Pokémon hybrid designs make us want to catch ’em all!

Corey Gold
Jun 25, 2016

Everybody loves Game of Thrones and everyone loves Pokémon, so why not combine the two to make awesome Pokémon characters out of the Game of Thrones house sigils?

Japan, USA
(characters • Game of Thrones • Japan • Pokemon)

Time to vote for your favourite in Japan’s Sanrio Character Curry Election

Oona McGee
Jun 21, 2016

As you’d see in any election race, there are sweet characters, stern faces and some crazy candidates you’d never think would win…

Anime & Manga, Cute, Food & Drink, Japan
(characters • curry • cute • Hello Kitty • Puroland • Sanrio • Sanrio Puroland)

Sanrio characters assemble at Tama-Center Station, one of them is too lazy to walk by himself

Krista Rogers
Jun 21, 2016

Which Sanrio character is so unmotivated he has to be pushed on a cart? Hint: You probably know egg-xactly which one we’re talking about!

Cute, Entertainment, Japan
(characters • Gudetama • Hello Kitty • Sanrio • Sanrio Puroland • Tama Center Station • twitter)

Hamee (Strap-ya) to release charming catbutt cradles for your phone

Jamie Koide
May 21, 2016

Cat lovers won’t want to miss this new feline smartphone ass-essory.

Cute, Internet, Japan
(cats • characters • cute • Hamee • I Cat • smartphone accessories • Strap-ya)

Artist’s unique artwork imagines Singapore locales as adorable, anthropomorphic characters

Krista Rogers
Apr 3, 2016

If you’re a resident of Singapore, you’ll definitely want to check out what your neighborhood looks like in moe character form!

Anime & Manga, Art, SE Asia
(anthropormorphism • art • characters • moe • places • Singapore)

Enjoy the taste of Japanese vocaloid Hatsune Miku with new Angel Pie sweets from Morinaga

Oona McGee
Feb 19, 2016

These delicious-looking cream-filled sweets take sound bites to a whole new level.

Food & Drink, Japan
(anime • characters • chocolate • cool • cosplay • cute • Hatsune Miku • manga • Morinaga • sweets • Vocaloid)

Cosplay in your underwear with anime-inspired lingerie made to order in Japan

Oona McGee
Feb 8, 2016

Customised lingerie service offers a range of options which are a perfect match for some of the anime world’s most popular characters.

Japan
(anime • characters • cosplay • cute • free • manga • One-Punch Man • Prince of Tennis • Touken Ranbu)

Cute PC character cushions from Japan protect your wrists, keep you company at the same time

Oona McGee
Feb 5, 2016

Who said wrist rests have to be boring?

Japan
(anime • capybara • characters • cute • Funassyi • Kapibara-san • Rilakkuma • yokai • Yokai Watch)

LINE sticker creator Kanahei’s cute characters come to life in theme cafe

Evie Nyan
Jan 15, 2016

Have you heard of Japanese illustrator and social media sticker creator Kanahei yet? She’s behind one of the most popular sticker collections on the LINE app, and now her cute critters are set to adorn dishes in their very own theme cafe in Tokyo!

Japan
(cafes • characters • cute • kanahei • line • restaurants • stickers)

Sailor Moon fukubukuro includes accessories, stationery and figurines【2016 Lucky Bag Roundup】

Oona McGee
Jan 5, 2016

Popular anime shop Animega makes up their New Year lucky bag with all our favourite Sailor Moon characters, including Luna the cat.

Japan
(anime • Animega • characters • cute • fukubukuro • lucky bag • manga • Sailor Moon • shinjuku)

Sanrio’s lazy egg character appears on menu items at new Gudetama Cafe in Osaka

Oona McGee
Dec 23, 2015

Gudetama, the charmingly unmotivated raw egg character from Sanrio, is the star of the menu at his very own cafe in Osaka.

Japan
(cafe • characters • cute • Gudetama • new openings • Osaka • Sanrio)

Popular Japanese rhythm game Pop’n Music’s cat and bunny mascots get a drastic makeover

KK Miller
Dec 11, 2015

After 17 years of rigorous popping and music-ing, the franchise needed to make a change to keep from going stale. It’s just not the change that fans expected.

Japan
(characters • Konami • Pop'n Music • rhythm games • video games)

Barbapapa opens its first cafe in Japan with exclusive menu of cute characters

Oona McGee
Nov 16, 2015

Joining the amazing anime café openings this month is Café Barbapapa in Saitama Prefecture, with a gorgeous lineup of sweets, sandwiches and drinks all featuring cute character details from the series.

Japan
(Barbapapa • cafes • characters • cute • restaurants • Saitama)

Play an edible Tsum Tsum mobile game with individually wrapped Pino ice creams!

Oona McGee
Nov 11, 2015

If you love Japan’s bite-sized Pino ice creams as much as you love Disney’s range of adorable Tsum Tsum characters, then this special collaboration is sure to bring you joy this holiday season.

Japan
(characters • Disney • ice cream • line • mobile game • Pino • sweets • tsum tsum)

Six types of Japanese people you’ll meet while living in Japan — An illustrated guide

Evie Nyan
Nov 4, 2015

A while back, we had some fun talking about five of the more noteworthy types of foreigners you’ll meet in Japan, based upon observations drawn from our time spent working and living here in the Land of the Rising Sun. Whether you’re a Plastic Sensei, Hateimus Japanicus, Secret Ninja, Bubble Dweller or Kid in a Candy Store (or indeed, all of these at different times), we reckon there’s probably quite a lot foreign residents can find to nod their heads at when considering each of those five extreme types.

But what about the flip side of the coin? Spend enough time as a foreigner in a country like Japan—a place that’s 98.5% ethnically Japanese—and you’ll be sure to notice that Japanese people will approach you, the foreigner, in a number of different ways. Today we’d like to share our thoughts on six kinds of Japanese people foreigners might meet during their time in Japan. See how many of them you’ve come across during your time traveling or living in the country!

Japan
(characters • culture • foreigners in Japan • gaijin • life in japan • Living in Japan • society)

Japanese netizens unsure about Dhalism’s new look in Street Fighter V

Jamie Koide
Nov 3, 2015

Leading up to the much-anticipated release of Street Fighter V early next year, trailers showcasing the roster of characters have gradually been popping up online. The most recent of which revealed that Dhalsim, the stretchy yoga master with a penchant for fire, would be making a comeback, something which left some players feeling rather underwhelmed since he’s not exactly a crowd favorite in Japan or abroad.

But whether or you’re a fan of the character or not, few could deny that Dhalsim’s new look is a little bit confusing.

Internet, Japan
(Capcom • characters • Dhalsim • PS4 • reactions • Street Fighter V • video games)

One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions

Jamie Koide
Oct 1, 2015

One of the great things about the One Piece series is how intricate the world it’s set in is. Loosely based on historical colonial times, it’s familiar enough for readers to feel comfortable with, yet different enough to create a sense of magic and intrigue. Though originally written in Japanese, the manga hints that characters in the series also speak English, Spanish, French, and a handful of other languages.

It might not seem too farfetched, then, that some fans were curious about what nationalities the characters would have been had the story taken place in our world instead, and this is exactly what one reader asked the creator of the series. The answer they received wasn’t quite what some fans had in mind, though…

Internet, Japan
(2channel • characters • Eiichiro Oda • manga • nationalities • One Piece • straw hat pirates)

Roll cake-headed town mascot character attacked by group of men, woman inside injured

Jamie Koide
Sep 30, 2015

Upon arriving in Japan, one of the first things you’ll probably notice is the large army of characters being used to sell anything from services to stationary to automobiles, or giving tips on being a good citizen like when it comes to separating your trash or picking up your dog’s poop after it finishes doing its duty. Most of them are cute, but some are downright scary.

In recent years, yurukyara, literally “weaker mascot characters”, have slowly been taking over the country, with more and more cities and businesses allocating funds to coming up with the prefect representative character costume each year. Aside from being hot and stuffy inside, being a yurukyara seems like a pretty awesome job. Kids are happy to see you, people are clamoring to get a picture of you, and generally everyone loves you…

Or at least that’s the impression we got until news of a mascot character in a small Ehime Prefecture town getting attacked.