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New Japanese capsule toys answer question: What if bread had legs?

• Master Blaster
  Dec 7, 2021
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Night of the Living Bread.

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• Japan
• (bread • capsule toys • cute • figures • food • Hatena • Ikiteru Pan • Living Bread • Qualia • toys)

Famous Japanese writers get a new life as cats in weird gacha capsule toy range

• Oona McGee
  Dec 6, 2021

Ever wondered what literary greats like Natsume Soseki and Osamu Dazai would look like as felines?

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• Japan
• (animals • books • capsule toys • cats • cool • cute. cats • figures • gacha • literary genius • literature • Natsume Soseki • Osamu Dazai • reading • weird • writers • wtf)

Studio Ghibli releases My Neighbour Totoro gacha capsule toys

• Oona McGee
  Nov 30, 2021

A collection where the capsules are just as cute as their contents.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • movies • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • piggy bank • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Studio Ghibli’s new Nostalgic Piggy Bank series adds anime magic to your savings

• Oona McGee
  Nov 20, 2021

“Trust us! We will guard your money!”

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • merchandise • movies • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • piggy bank • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

Premium Bandai drops details for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind gunship and glider models

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 16, 2021

The LED-emitting gunship and Mehve/Möwe glider are faithful recreations of the aircraft found in Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved 1984 film.

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• Japan
• (anime • figures • mehve • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • Premium Bandai • Studio Ghibli • toy • toys)

If anime silhouette capsule toys look this awesome, they need to be more of a thing ASAP【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 5, 2021

Lupin III and his gang of thieves capture the imagination with new shadow figure series.

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• Japan
• (anime • Bandai • capsule toys • COK • cool • figures • gachapon • lupin III • Lupin the Third • manga • SNJO • vending machine toys)

Studio Ghibli’s first anime heroine (no, not Nausicaa) gets an awesome new figure【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2021

Ghibli fans with an eye for background art details will recognize this tough and beautiful young lady.

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• Japan
• (anime • Castle in the Sky • cool • Dola • Donguri Kyowakoku • figures • Hayao Miyazaki • Laputa • movies • Studio Ghibli)

Hilariously low-quality Attack on Titan Levi figures lead fans to start petition for replacements

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 14, 2021

Look what they did to fans’ best boy.

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• Japan
• (anime • Attack on Titan • figures • funny • Levi • manga • petition)

Praise the super-deformed sun! Dark Souls cast becomes adorable SD figures【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 18, 2021

Even in their new adorable forms, the video game stars still represent a mysterious and potential challenge.

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• Japan
• (cool • cute • Dark Souls • figures • From Software • funny • video games)

Amazing stop-motion artist recreates Akira anime’s most famous sequence with figures【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 8, 2021

The slide seen ‘round the world looks awesome in a whole new way with some clever practical effects.

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• Japan
• (AKIRA • anime • cool • figures • manga • stop motion • video)

Celebrate famous works of art AND cats with these adorably clever “Cats in Art” capsule toys

• Dale Roll
  Aug 17, 2021

Collect all five and create your own “Nyanko Museum!”

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• Japan
• (art • Bandai • capsule toys • cats • COK • culture • cute • figures • funny • gachapon • Japanese paintings • paintings • SNJO • vending machine toys)

Daiso has awesome, and super-affordable, background boards for your anime figure photos!【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 27, 2021

Japan’s favorite 100 yen shop helps solve an otaku problem (two if you count leaving us with more cash to buy new figures).

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• Japan
• (100-yen stores • anime • clever • COK • cool • Daiso • figures • otaku • photos • SNJO)

Naomi Osaka’s dream of having her own Barbie doll comes true

• Shannon
  Jul 16, 2021

The designer got the Olympic athlete right down to her freckles.

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• Japan, USA
• (Barbie • dolls • figures • Japanese athlete • Mattel • Naomi Osaka • sports • tennis)

Animals weighing themselves are Japan’s newest line of strangely relatable capsule toys figures

• SoraNews24
  Jun 16, 2021

We know how you feel, panda.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • cool • crazy • cute • diet • figures • funny • gachapon • SNJO • toys • weight • weird)

Rice-farming Rei figure is here to help recreate one of the most memorable scenes from Evangelion

• Casey Baseel
  May 28, 2021

Stoic mecha pilot goes from the cockpit to the fields in posable figure.

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• Japan
• (anime • Evangelion • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time • farming • figures • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • Rei Ayanami • rice • Thrice Upon a Time)

Gorgeous gold Gundams are good-God expensive【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 3, 2021

For the discerning, deep-pocketed fan who wants to go from Gunpla to Gungold.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • expenive • figures • gold • Gundam • mecha • Mobile Suit Gundam • robots • Zaku)

Chucky and Friends save Easter

• Master Blaster
  Apr 12, 2021

When these Good Guys are around, having a fun Easter in Japan is child’s play!

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • Child’s Play • Chucky • Easter • figures • gacha gacha • Horror)

Life-size AND posable Rei Ayanami Evangelion figure could be yours for a small fortune【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2021

It’s not the first full-scale figure of the Eva pilot, but it’s the first one you can pose.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • crazy • Evangelion • figures • life-size figure • otaku • Rei Ayanami)

Want to design your own anime figure and have it shipped to you? Online program lets you do just that

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2021

Pixiv-powered program turns otaku daydreams into on-your-desk-reality, and here’s how it works.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • design • figures • Pixiv • SNJO)

You can now buy a life-size Rei Ayanami figure for $17,500, plus an even more expensive Eva【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2021

“The cutest Rei Ayanami” and glowing Unit-01 don’t come cheap, but they offer serious impact for truly hard-core Evangelion fans.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • Evangelion • Evangelion Unit 01 • figures • life-size figure • otaku • Rei Ayanami)

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