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Attention: The cast of Naruto is now cats【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 13, 2020 - Tweet
Anime ninja Naruto turns into Nyaruto for adorable figure line.
What would Dragon Quest look like in real life? Fan’s Slime travel photo series shows us【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 29, 2020
Come on, Slime! We’re going for a walk.
- Japan
- (cool • Dragon Quest • figures • funny • slime • Square Enix • video games)
It’s Pennywise remade as busty anime girl figure strikes fear in heart, funny feelings elsewhere
- Casey Baseel
May 13, 2020
We’re all kawaii down here.
- Japan
- (anime • clowns • cool • figures • Horror Bishoujo • IT • Kotobukiya • movies • Pennywise • scary • toys • weird)
Japanese kitty sculptor creates a new topical meme figure: a cat in a face-mask
- Katy Kelly
Feb 15, 2020
The man who makes memes manifest makes his latest masked masterpiece known.
- China, Japan
- (cats • cute • face mask • face masks • figures • health and safety • masks • meetisai • memes • surgical masks)
Japanese public phones are immortalized in this utterly perfect miniature model
- Katy Kelly
Jan 28, 2020
This capsule toy model of a Japanese public telephone got a great reception on Twitter!
- Japan
- (capsule toys • figures • gachapon • Japanese public telephone • miniatures • Re-Ment • Takara Tomy Arts • toys)
It’s under 9,000 (yen)! Testing out luck with the Dragon Ball figure lucky bag【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 8, 2020
All we knew was that the bag contained Dragon Ball anime figures, and that was all we needed to know.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • Dragon Ball • figures • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2020 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Lucky Bags • manga • SNJO • Son Goku)
Hello Kitty would look cute even if you peeled away all her flesh, new toy line shows us【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2019
Did you know the Sanrio star’s muscles are apparently made out of sweet-tasting fruit?
Cat maid doll Miyou is ready to serve your collection with her soft, feline features
- Krista Rogers
Oct 8, 2019
Miyou is a perfect blend of cat and maid uniform for all of you cat lovers and maid moe fans out there.
Masturbatory aid brand Tenga teams up with two seminal anime robots in Tenga Robo expansion
- Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2019
If you’re old enough to be a Mazinger Z fan, you’re old enough to do what you want with your man parts.
- Japan
- (anime • crazy • figures • funny • Getter Robo • Go Nagai • Mazinger Z • robots • Tenga • weird)
Naughty anime tentacles are on their way to Japanese capsule toy machines – in six cute colors!
- Casey Baseel
Jul 5, 2019
Manufacturer promises “many ways to play with them.”
- Japan
- (anime • capsule toys • crazy • figures • gacha toys • gachapon • gross • tentacles • vending machine toys • weird)
Kyoto anime store shuts down suspected Chinese reseller’s attempted Evangelion bulk-order
- Casey Baseel
Jun 26, 2019
High-grade Eva figure could equal high profits for resellers.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • figures • resellers • toys • Yodobashi Camera)
Mini rice cooker cases: The newest Japanese capsule toys we never knew we needed until just now
- Casey Baseel
Jun 18, 2019
Realistic cases are great for storing coins, creating scenes of home life for scale anime figures.
- Japan
- (capsule toys • COK • cool • figures • gachapon • Kitan Club • rice cookers • SNOJ • toys • weird)
Photo of “melted” anime figure is an important reminder about summertime otaku merch safety
- Casey Baseel
Jun 1, 2019
Beloved anime cat Doraemon appears as a pile of blue goo.
Otaku’s beloved anime-style doll kidnapped, maybe murdered by bird of prey at Japanese beach
- Casey Baseel
May 18, 2019
Doll otaku community asks anyone with information to help reunite Sakura-chan with her owner, who’s loved her for more than 20 years.
Kyoto man arrested for selling super-sexy modified Love Live! anime figures
- Casey Baseel
Feb 25, 2019
”Devil modifications” lead to arrest in multi-prefecture investigation.
Batman as a samurai ningyo figure is trans-Pacific time-tripping awesomeness
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2019
The world’s greatest detective swaps his cowl for a kabuto in tie-up with 208-year-old Tokyo crafting company.
- Japan
- (awesome • Batman • comic books • cool • culture • dolls • figures • ningyo • Superheroes)
Tokyo anime toymaker has the world’s coolest office entrance【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 2, 2019
The spirit of anime runs strong through Bandai Spirits’ office culture, where just going to the conference room is a dramatic experience.
Awesome self-building Gundam model video shows every anime mecha fan’s dream come true【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2019
Stop-motion masterpiece is a whole new kind of Gundam animation.
We get more than we bargained for with this Akihabara lucky bag
- Master Blaster
Jan 4, 2019
A seemingly innocent bag of random anime and game merch became the trigger for a peculiar addiction.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • COK • figures • Flying Mascot • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2019 • funny • liberty • Lucky Bags • lucky Bags 2019 • SNOJ • Sumikkogurashi • toys)
Foreign traveler’s heart broken as he learns his image of Akihabara is too good to be true
- Casey Baseel
Oct 12, 2018
Even in the biggest otaku mecca in the world, there’s a limit to how big the anime salutes are.
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