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Japan’s Pikachu Outbreak 2016! Pokémon get wet and wild in Yokohama【Photos & Four Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2016
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Well, wet and adorable, anyway.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • cute • events • Kanagawa • Pikachu • Pokemon • video • video games • Yokohama)

Soy Shape saucers add a third dimension to your sushi experience

• Michelle Hughes
  Aug 13, 2016

These dishes make playing with your food look classy and intelligent.

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• (art • beautiful • cool • food • Kickstarter • soy sauce)

Starbucks branch gives blended ice welcome to Pokémon GO players with cool Pokémon Frappuccinos

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 12, 2016

A variety of adorable Pocket Monsters have already served as the inspiration for delicious-looking drinks.

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• (anime • cafes • cool • drinks • Frappuccino • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Starbucks • sweets • video games)

Artist visualizes Pokémon as real animals for Poké-tastic results

• KK Miller
  Aug 12, 2016

We would definitely be willing to spend a lifetime catching all of these.

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• (anime • art • cool • fan art • Pikachu • Pokemon • video games)

As Pokémon GO takes over your smartphone, why not give it an awesome Pokédex-style case? 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 12, 2016

It not only looks cool, it’ll help you catch slippery Pokémon too!

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• (anime • cool • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • smartphone cases • Smartphones • video • video games)

South Korean “Poktanju Ajumma” wows with her cocktail party tricks【Videos】

• Joan Coello
  Aug 10, 2016

Poktanju, sometimes known as Soju Bomb in English, is a cocktail popular in South Korea, and this lady is the queen of making them pop.

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• (ajumma • alcoholic beverages • cocktail • cool • soju)

New documentary reveals the world of Japanese denim【Video】

• Andrew Kane
  Aug 8, 2016

This movie shows why Japanese jeans are widely considered the best in the world.

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• (cool • denim • documentary • fashion)

What is this weird train spotted at a Japanese railway station?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 7, 2016

Can you guess what the bizarre-looking vehicle is used for?

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• (bizarre • cool • East Japan Railway Company • Inspection vehicle • JR East • technology • Tokyo • train stations • trains • twitter • unusual • weird • Yamanote)

Amazing circular rainbow spotted in Tokyo【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2016

Here’s the potentially awesome upside of rain on the day you’re going up Tokyo’s tallest structure.

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• (awesome • beautiful • cool • nature • rainbow • Skytree • Tokyo • video)

Tokyo’s new samurai photo studio sends you to Japan’s feudal era with awesome digital backdrops

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2016

And poses from Kill Bill’s fight choreographer ensure you’ll look fearsome when you get there.

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• (awesome • cool • cosplay • history • photo studio • photogrophy • samurai • Tokyo)

Turns out you can draw all four original starter Pokémon with just three colored pencils【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2016

And no, black isn’t even one of them.

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• (anime • art • cool • fan art • Pokemon • video • video games)

Japan’s grimoire smartphone case will let you work mobile magic in style【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2016

Fashionable case will appeal to fans of the occult, anime, and video games.

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• (anime • cool • cosplay • fashion • Persona • Smartphones • video games)

The original Godzilla would look positively tiny attacking modern-day Tokyo【Pictures】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 3, 2016

Photos show just how much the capital of Japan and the King of the Monsters have grown in 60 years.

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• (cool • funny • Godzilla • kaiju • monters • movies • shinjuku • Tokyo)

Jaw-dropping anime-style paper craft fan art is the ultimate otaku origami【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 2, 2016

Best of all, you can fold your own for just a couple of bucks.

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• (anime • art • awesome • cool • fan art • Hong Kong • manga • paper craft • video games)

Evangelion Unit-01 morphs into Godzilla in exquisitely freaky crossover figure【Pictures】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2016

The King of the Monsters is lurking under the skin of modern anime’s most iconic mecha.

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• (anime • awesome • cool • Evangelion • figures • Godzilla • kaiju • scary)

Cosplay like a cool cat with an ultra-realistic, giant cat head from Japan!

• Oona McGee
  Jul 29, 2016

The surprising heads have an equally surprising price tag.

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• (animals • cats • cool • cosplay • Cosplay costume • Cosplay Fashion • cosplayers • cute • cute. cats • fashion • funny • LOL • masks • pets • wtf)

Dragon Quest celebrates anniversary with enormous rice paddy art in Gyoda, Japan【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jul 29, 2016

The Guinness World record-holding game joins up with the Guinness World record-holding rice paddy to create a Dragon Quest artwork on a massive scale.

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• (anime • art • cool • Dragon Quest • gamers • games • gaming • Gyoda • rice • rice field art • rice paddy art • Saitama • video games)

Pokémon Go players can now keep phones charged with hand-made Poké Ball portable battery charger

• Oona McGee
  Jul 27, 2016

Japanese gamers weigh in on the device, sharing their first impressions.

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• Japan
• (battery charger • cool • cute • Etsy • gamers • games • gaming • nintendo • phone charger • phones • Poké Ball • Pokemon • Pokémon GO)

Cosplay ideals vs. reality, part 5: Props gone wild edition【Photos】

• Joan Coello
  Jul 20, 2016

Sometimes it’s not about the quality of your props, but how you use them.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • cool • cosplay • funny • manga • photography)

This chubby robot puppy from Japan is equal parts amazing and adorable【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 16, 2016

Osaka University’s PnueHound looks as excited to see us as we are to see it.

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• Japan
• (cool • cute • dogs • robots • science • technology • video)

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