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Life-size Monster Hunter dragon statues to be built at Japanese shopping mall
- Casey Baseel
Oct 30, 2026 - Tweet
Here there be dragons and bargains.
- Japan
- (.outlet malls • awesome • Capcom • COK • cool • Fukuoka • Japan travel • Mitsui Outlet Park • Monster Hunter • shopping • shopping malls • travel.tourism • video games)
Awesome cosplayers and impressive demos from Tokyo Game Show【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 2, 2025
Our reporter hits the floor of TGS to see the sights and play the games.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Outlanders • Resident Evil • Resident Evil Requiem • SNJO • Tokyo Game Show • Tokyo Game Show 2025 • video games)
Final Fantasy furniture, Monster Hunter pieces too, coming from Japanese houseware company
- Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2025
Nitori wans to provide everything you could need for your home, including your gaming space.
- Japan
- (Capcom • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • furniture • gaming furniture • interior • Monster Hunter • Nitori • Square Enix • Street Fighter • video games)
Monster Hunter’s grossest monster is now a cute super-deformed room lamp【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2025
Designers say Khezu will not electrocute you, but no promises about him not freaking your guests out.
- Japan
- (Capcom • crazy • gross • interior • Khezu • Monster Hunter • video games • weird)
New Monster Hunter plushies let you be a Monster Hugger instead【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2025
Monster Hunter Wilds newcomers and freaky faces from the past all part of new video game plushie lineup from Capcom.
The Great Capcom Exhibition is coming to Osaka this spring
- Master Blaster
Mar 8, 2025
All the Capcom characters are here, from Ryu to the other Ryu!
- Japan
- (Capcom • Devil May Cry • events • exhibitions • Great Capcom Exhibition • Monster Hunter • Nakanoshima Museum of Art • Osaka • Resident Evil • Street Fighter • video games)
Monster Hunter Wilds leads to explosion in popularity of one dish at Tokyo restaurant
- Casey Baseel
Mar 7, 2025
“Thank you so much, Monster Hunter!” says Nepalese restaurant in west Tokyo.
- Japan
- (Capcom • food • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Wilds • naan • restaurants • video games)
Uniqlo built a giant, playable arcade game to celebrate its new line of Capcom T-shirts
- Casey Baseel
Mar 21, 2024
Gamers can play the massive machine later this month in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (Capcom • crazy • fashion • Monster Hunter • Resident Evil • shirts • Street Fighter • t-shirts • Uniqlo • video games)
Curry while gaming – Nissin creates special mug to hold curry rice in collaboration with Capcom
- Casey Baseel
Oct 3, 2023
And they’ve made a Monster Hunter Weapon Spoon for you to eat with too.
- Japan
- (Capcom • COK • curry • Curry Meshi • curry rice • food • instant curry • Monster Hunter • Nissin • video games)
The 12 Days of Universal Studios Japan’s winter holiday attractions 【Photos】
- Master Blaster
Nov 15, 2022
These 12 things are a lot better than french hens and lords a-leaping.
- Japan
- (holidays • Jujutsu Kaisen • Minions • Monster Hunter • Osaka • Super Mario • Super Nintendo World • theme parks • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • video games • winter)
Capcom Cafe releases menu for limited-time Monster Hunter: Sunbreak cafe
- Shannon
Aug 24, 2022
Ever wanted to eat a Fluffy Bunny Dango? Now’s your chance.
- Japan
- (Capcom • Capcom Cafe • COK • collaboration cafe • cool • drinks • food • Ikebukuro • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Sunbreak • restaurants • Saitama • themed restaurants • video games)
Furious Monster Hunter monster wants to sleep next to you in your home【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2022
Furious Rajang, awesome bedmate?
- Japan
- (Capcom • cool • crazy • cushion • Furious Rajang • huggy pillows • interior • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Rise • Monster Hunter Sunbreak • video games • weird)
Monster Hunter’s Malzeno invades Tokyo via incredible 3-D video
- Katie Pask
Jul 4, 2022
The Elder Dragon is making a fearsome appearance in Shinjuku for a limited time only.
- Japan
- (3-D • 3-D billboard • cool • Cross Shinjuku Vision • malzeno • Monster Hunter • shinjuku • technology • Tokyo • video games)
Multi-purpose meat cushions, raw and cooked, are now here for ravenous Monster Hunter fans【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 22, 2022
Non-food-based monster brooches also let you show your love for the Capcom video game series.
- Japan
- (accessories • Capcom • cool • crazy • interior • meat • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Rise • video games)
New Monster Hunter attraction at Universal Studios Japan lets you hunt monsters in VR
- Casey Baseel
Nov 1, 2021
Free-walk VR game gives you your choice of Monster Hunter weapons to swing as you track and fight Velkhana.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • awesome • Capcom • COK • cool • Monster Hunter • theme parks • Universal Cool Japan • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • VR)
A sound you hear all the time in Monster Hunter was made with a Japanese schoolkid’s backpack
- Casey Baseel
May 15, 2021
The sounds Kamura Hunters hear also include a common vegetable you might have in your fridge right now.
- Japan
- (backpacks • clever • cool • funny • Monster Hunter • Monster Hunter Rise • randoseru • video games)
Pokémon fan chef’s Psyduck sweets are so cute they’re making our head hurt【Photos/Video】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 16, 2021
Creative confectioner also makes edible Eevee evolutions and Monster Hunter dragon.
- Japan
- (anime • Eevee • food • Monster Hunter • Pokemon • Psyduck • sweets • video • video games)
Monster Hunter movie line to be removed globally following backlash in China
- Casey Baseel
Dec 10, 2020
Actors clarify there was no intent to evoke offensive rhyme.
- China, Global
- (Capcom • controversy • Live action • Monster Hunter • movies • video games)
Monster Hunter movie gets pulled from Chinese theaters in less than a day over “knees” pun
- Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2020
Critics say 10-second scene is racially insensitive.
- China
- (Capcom • controversy • Live action • Monster Hunter • movies • video games)
Attack on Titan roller coaster, Monster Hunter VR hunt to open at Universal Studios Japan!
- Casey Baseel
Nov 13, 2019
You won’t find attractions like these at Tokyo Disneyland.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • anime • Attack on Titan • Detective Conan • lupin III • manga • Monster Hunter • theme parks • Universal Cool Japan • Universal Studios Japan • video games)
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