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The Häagen-Dazs Japan fukubukuro lucky bag is filled with…ice creams from 2023

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2025
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A unique way to get a taste of limited-edition flavours from the past.

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• Japan
• (COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • Gotemba • Gotemba Premium Outlets • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese ice cream • konbini • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO)

Family Mart releases a fukubukuro lucky bag packed with cool Convenience Wear

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2025

Chain’s viral fashion now comes in a convenient limited-edition pack that fans are scrambling for.

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• Japan
• (clothes • COK • combini • convenience stores • Convenience Wear • Family mart • fashion • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO • socks • taste test)

Animate Akihabara releases a lucky bag for the first time in years, and it’s amazing

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2025

Giant store draws huge crowd of anime and manga fans in Tokyo’s otaku neighbourhood.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Animate • anime • COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO)

Why doesn’t every Japanese bakery sell this amazing anime-only bread we just made?【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2022

Anime idols show us the light with this mouthwatering carb-on-carb spin on yakisoba bread.

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• Japan
• (bread • carbonara • COK • food • love live • Love Live Superstar • pasta • SNJO • SoraKitchen • yakisoba bread)

Trial ends for Shizuoka man who stole school equipment to recreate Love Live! classroom at home

• Master Blaster
  Jun 18, 2022

Aqours would not approve.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • crime • desks • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • schools • Shizuoka • theft • weird)

The new Love Live! anime isn’t about virtual YouTubers…probably【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2022

Teaser video for Love Live! Virtual School Idol promises a shakeup to the hit anime/game’s formula.

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• Japan
• (anime • idol singers • Idols • love live • Love Live Virtual School Idol • video • video games)

Man breaks into Japanese high school, steals desk to “get taste of the world of Love Live” anime

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2022

Breaking into a high school is never a smart idea, but some motives are dumber than others.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • crime • love live • video • weird)

Host King Roland goes to Akihabara disguised as a foreign otaku 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 23, 2021

“James” looks more like a lumberjack than a geeky anime nerd.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • anime • funny • Handsome men • host bars • hosts • King of the Hosts • love live • otaku • Roland • Sega • video)

Overseas otaku make huge donation of masks to real-life Japanese Love Live! town

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2020

Love Livers also turn down any compensation for their generosity.

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• China, Japan
• (anime • coronavirus • donation • idol singers • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • masks • moving • otaku • touching)

Roland, king of Japan’s host club scene, shows us his self-isolation routine【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  May 9, 2020

The King of Hosts shows us his daily routine now that he can’t greet his clients…and also tells us who his favorite Love Live! girl is.

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• Japan
• (funny • Handsome men • host bars • hosts • King of the Hosts • love live • Roland • stay home • video)

Love Live! fans clash with feminists again over controversial poster, this time advertising tea

• Dale Roll
  Apr 2, 2020

Sexy schoolgirl or stylized kimono-clad character? Which is better for advertising agricultural products?

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• Japan
• (ad • agriculture • anime • art • controversy • feminism • kimono • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • Love Livers • poster • tea)

How would Love Live! look as an early-‘80s post-apocalyptic anime? Awesome, video reboot shows

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 2, 2020

Fist of the school idol festival?

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • Fist of the North Star • idol singers • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • video)

“Single women only” say rules for anime voice actress auditions for new Love Live! series

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 27, 2020

No married women allowed, but 15-year-olds are A-OK.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • controversy • idol singers • Idols • love live • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

Love Live! character with controversial skirt to continue as orange spokesperson, petitioner says

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 24, 2020

Change.org petition organizer says agricultural group has pledged their continued support to the anime schoolgirl idol.

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• Japan
• (anime • controversy • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • mikan • Numazu • oranges)

460-year-old human sacrifice victim chimes in on Love Live! controversy

• Master Blaster
  Feb 24, 2020

Teenage girl who was ritualistically buried alive during the Middle Ages says she can relate.

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• Japan
• (Gifu • Gujo • Gujo Hachiman • hitobashira • human pillar • love live • moe • Oyoshi-chan • ritual sacrifice)

Love Live! poster showing anime schoolgirl in see-through skirt divides public opinion in Japan

• SoraNews24
  Feb 19, 2020

Otaku, artists, feminists, and a Tokyo assemblyman weigh in on the controversial crotch-revealing image.

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• Japan
• (anime • controversy • feminism • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • manga • mikan • Numazu • otaku • voice actresses)

New anime train and bus ready to receive the love of Love Live! Sunshine!! fans in Shizuoka

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 27, 2019

Public transportation network welcomes otaku to one of modern anime’s holy sites.

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• Japan
• (anime • busses • itasha • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • Numazu • Shizuoka • trains • travel)

What would idol series Love Live! have looked like as a late 1980s anime? Awesome, fan art shows

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 26, 2019

Love Live! Sunshine!! voice actress gives her school idol character an old-school makeover.

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• Japan
• (anime • fan art • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • voice actresses)

50-year-old Japanese man arrested for selling naked Love Live! anime pillow covers

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 14, 2019

Investigators say multi-year operation earned him millions of yen.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • dakimakura • huggy pillows • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!!)

50-year-old Japanese woman pulls off amazing Love Live! anime idol cosplay【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 3, 2019

More than three times the age of the schoolgirl she’s cosplaying as? No problem!

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplayers • Idols • Kotori Minami • love live)

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