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The best cosplayers from Day 2 of Summer Comiket 2022【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Aug 17, 2022
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Meet the colourful cast of characters and cosplayers who brought the heat to this summer’s otaku celebrations. 

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • COK • Comiket • Comiket 100 • cosplay • cosplayers • Hatsune Miku • HoloLive • Isekai no Ojisan • Love Live Sunshine!! • manga • Puella Magi Madoka Magica • SNJO • summer Comiket 2022 • Uma Musume Pretty Derby • Uncle from Another World • video games)

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)

Stay in Love Live! Sunshine!!’s Mari’s glamorous room, relax like an anime schoolgirl idol

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 3, 2020

Die-hard fans of the series can once more sleep in Mari Ohara’s bed, dry off with her monogrammed towels, and take her room key home as a souvenir.

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• Japan
• (anime • Awashima • expensive • hotels • Love Live Sunshine!! • Mari Ohara • otaku • tourism • Wyndham Grand Awashima)

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)

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)

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)

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!!)

Japanese police make third arrest in connection with Love Live! anime manhole vandalism spree

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 26, 2018

Officers establish connection with one other vandal, show there’s nowhere for law-breaking otaku to hide.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • manhole covers • Numazu • otaku • vandalism)

Two teen boys in Japan arrested for vandalizing Love Live! anime manhole cover

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 4, 2018

There’re dumb otaku, and then there are dumb otaku who need to make a 300-kilometer (186-mile) trip just to get arrested.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • manhole covers • Numazu)

Senegalese soccer team’s dance moves go perfectly with Japanese idol music, fan discovers【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 27, 2018

As Senegal’s players shine on the field, famous anime anthem asks if their hearts are shining too.

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• Africa, Japan
• (anime • cool • dance • FIFA World Cup • funny • idol singers • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • soccer • sports • video • World Cup • World Cup 2018)

Bomb threats against Love Live! concert lead to arrest of 17-year-old boy in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 12, 2018

Social media posts about “limitless explosions” draw police response.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • idol singers • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • Love Livers)

Fun’s over—Japanese city removes anime girl manhole covers after repeated vandalism

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 8, 2018

Love Live! tie-up in seaside town is dead for now.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • manhole covers • manholes • Numazu • travel • vandalism)

Hater lets world know he hates Love Live! by spray-painting over anime manhole covers in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 7, 2018

Real-life town where anime’s second arc takes place experiences hateful vandalism.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • manhole • manhole covers • Numazu • vandalism • video)

Love Live! Sunshine!! debuts sailor uniform rucksacks and pouches that look like an anime girl’s torso

• Katy Kelly
  May 31, 2018

The idol anime mega franchise has a new set of stylish bags to prove your devotion to Uranohoshi High, but they might be daunting to wear outside.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • Cosplay Fashion • cute • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • weird)

AKB48, Love Live! idol supergroups to perform live in Los Angeles this summer

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2018

Three-concert series welcomes some of the biggest names in the anime/idol music world to the city of angels.

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• Japan
• (AKB48 • anime • anime conventions • Anime Expo • Anime Expo 2018 • Anisong World Matsuri • concerts • Idols • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • music)

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