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Official Studio Ghibli anime skateboards offered at brand-new Ghibli specialty shop in Tokyo【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 20, 2020
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A whole new way to ride the Catbus.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • GBL • Hayao Miyazaki • movies • skateboards • Studio Ghibli)

Celebrate summer in style with a cold drink in these color-changing firework glasses【Video】

• Dale Roll
  Jul 17, 2020

You don’t have to be in a crowd to enjoy fireworks this summer!

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• Japan
• (beautiful • clever • color-changing • cool • drinks • drinkware • fireworks • glassware • Marumo Takagi • sake • sake cups • stylish • summer • video)

Testing Japan’s gacha capsule toy calligraphy brushes – tranquility for just 200 yen【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 15, 2020

Paired with a mini goshuincho, this is a small-size, small-price way to experience the inner calm of traditional Japanese arts.

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• Japan
• (art • calligraphy • capsule toys • COK • cool • culture • gacha • gachapon • goshuincho • shuji • SNJO • vending machine toys)

There’s a Lego Nintendo Entertainment System on the way…and it’s playable?!?

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 14, 2020

Teaser video takes teasing to the ultimate level as we’re dying to know more.

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• Global, Japan
• (awesome • cool • LEGO • NES • nintendo • Nintendo Entertainment System • retro games • toys • video • video games)

Posable “Nude” vending machine capsule toy is a better choice for artists than perverts

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 13, 2020

Gacha mannequin makes for a compact and affordable reference tool.

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• Japan
• (art • capsule toys • cool • figures • gacha • gahapon • vending machine toys)

China is getting its own Gundam life-size anime robot statue

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 13, 2020

18.03-meter (59.2-foot) statue will be the first outside of Japan.

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• China, Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Freedom Gundam • Gundam • Gundam SEED • life-size Gundam • robots • Shanghai • statues)

Tokyo in 60 frames-per-second, 107 years in the past, looks amazing【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 11, 2020

AI-restored video opens a hyper-realistic window to the Japan of a century ago.

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• Japan
• (AI • beautful • cool • history • Taisho Era • Tokyo • video • video restoration)

10-second Japanese katsu curry – Is this the world’s most amazing instant food?【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 11, 2020

Blows minds, stimulates appetites.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • crazy • curry • food • instant food • katsu curry • video)

Japanese mom praises hard-studying teenage son…for his Pokémon notes?!?

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 11, 2020

Scholarly approach makes it look like he’s been hitting the books, but really he’s just trying to catch ‘em all.

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• Japan
• (aweomse • cool • education • funny • Parenting • parents • Pikachu • Pokemon • students • video games)

Japan’s All-Alone Tents see skyrocketing demand during coronavirus pandemic

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 10, 2020

Bocchi Tent provides psychological benefits for Japan’s thousands of new telecommuters.

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• Japan
• (Bocchi Tent • cool • interior • society • telecommuting • tents • weird • working from home)

Want your own Japanese coronavirus quarantine room? Cardboard cubicles on sale to general public

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 10, 2020

Absolutely no tools, tape, or glue required for construction.

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• Japan
• (cardboard • clever • cool • coronavirus • interior)

Japanese vending machines will now let your buy things using your face

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2020

Smile for the camera (and the drink).

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cool • drinks • Dydo • facial recognition • technology • vending machines)

New light-up Japanese bar sign capsule toys make drinking at home feel like a night on the town

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2020

Get the look of five types of Tokyo’s back-alley bars in the comfort of your kitchen.

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• Japan
• (bars • capsule toys • clever • COK • cool • gachapon • interior • magnets • vending machine toys)

Amazingly beautiful cakes inside fruit – Our newest Japanese dessert obsession【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2020

Marugoto fruit cake series is designed to appeal to all five of your senses.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • cakes • cool • crazy • food • fruits • melon • sweets)

Studio Ghibli releases new plush characters that turn into eco-friendly reusable shopping bags

• Oona McGee
  Jul 4, 2020

Say goodbye to plastic with anime characters that sit on your shoulder as you shop.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • bags • Castle in the Sky Laputa • COK • cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • eco bag • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • Laputa • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • movies • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)

Authentic kimono fashions await you in Animal Crossing from Kyoto furisode tailor Chiso【Pics】

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 3, 2020

The custom design function in Animal Crossing: New Horizons allows Chiso to share their 2020 furisode kimono line-up with the masses.

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• Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Animal Crossing: New Horizons • Chiso • cool • cute • furisode • kimono • Kyoto • pretty • video games)

Japanese architecture firm creates luxurious “Cat High-Rise Condominium” cat tree【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 1, 2020

For different floor for four different aspects of your kitty’s lifestyle.

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• Japan
• (animals • cat trees • cats • clever • condominiums • cool • cute • interior • pets • video)

You can now get stick-on salon masks for haircuts in the coronavirus age in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2020

See-through and strapless, the new masks help getting a haircut in the new normal feel a little more like it did in the old normal.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • coronavirus • hair salons • haircuts • hairstyling • masks)

The Evangelion Tamagotchi is here, so let’s raise an Angel!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2020

We learn a hard lesson about being good parents while trying to take care of our little Angel.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • Evangelion • Evatchi • Mr. Sato • SNJO • Tamagotchi • toys • virtual pets • weird)

Sailor Moon Wedding Dress Collection lets you dress like Usagi, Tuxedo Mask as you say I do【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2020

Rental wedding dresses, tuxedos, and even Sailor Senshi gowns for bridesmaids all inspired by the manga/anime hit.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • dresses • fashion • manga • marriage • Sailor Moon • Wedding • wedding dresses)

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