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Cosplay talent agency launches in Japan, offers representation to foreign cosplayers too

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 10, 2018
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Dwango, the operators of Japan’s Nico Nico Douga streaming service, want to connect passionate cosplayers with paying jobs.

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• Japan
• (anime • cosplay • Dwango • otaku • video games • working in Japan)

Anime Love Live! makes good on April Fools’ promise by actually creating giant panty-clad figure

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 3, 2018

Does that make the giant inflatable schoolgirl idol an April Geniuses’ gag?
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• Japan
• (anime • april fools • awesome • crazy • figures • love live • Love Live Sunshine!! • otaku • weird)

Love great anime and the great outdoors? Then you need an anime girl ita-tent

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2018

Tokyo college kid is ahead of the merchandising curve as he goes beyond itasha to show his love for this season’s hit camping anime.

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• Japan
• (anime • camping • cool • itasha • Laid-Back Camp • nature • otaku • Yuru Camp)

Home of Japan’s anime-loving penguin has new tie-up event, may create another animal otaku

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2018

Kemono Friends returns to zoo where Grape-kun fell in love with his personal best girl.

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• Japan
• (animals • anime • Grape-kun • Kemono Friends • otaku • penguins • Tobu Zoo • zoos)

Akihabara restaurant predates any anime TV series, is closing for good as neighborhood modernizes

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 7, 2018

As Tokyo’s otaku mecca continues to transform, a part of its past will fade away this month.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • food • history • otaku • restaurants • teishoku • Tokyo)

Pro claims many of Japan’s light novel authors can’t write, aren’t the ones creating their books

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2018

Industry veteran blames Internet talent scouting for massive young adult literature rewrites by people who aren’t supposed to be writing.

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• Japan
• (anime • books • light novels • otaku)

Survey asks Japan’s ex-NEETs if they miss their lazy, carefree days after finally getting a job

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 13, 2018

Japanese people not in employment or education have said “If you get a job, you lose!” but how do they feel once they actually join the workforce?

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• Japan
• (business • COK • hikikomori • jobs • NEET • otaku • society)

Beautiful Japanese cosplayer reveals how she earns well over a thousand dollars in a single hour

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2018

Enako continues to make jaws drop not just with her gorgeous appearance, but also with her amazing economic powers.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful women • Comiket • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • models • otaku)

New virtual currency Otaku Coin easy to earn, changes the way fans influence anime

• Koh Ruide
  Feb 11, 2018

Empowers fans of anime to further support and preserve the industry.

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• Japan
• (anime • cryptocurrency • otaku • project • video • virtual currency)

Otaku crowd control could be changing with new “anime character voice” megaphones

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2018

Device seeks to fire your voice straight at the bull’s eye in anime fans’ selective attention.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime conventions • Comiket • cool • otaku • technology • video • vocie actors • voice actresses • weird • Wonder Festival)

Anime girl virtual YouTuber unmasked as middle-age male otaku, loses some fans, gains others【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2018

Technical glitch during live stream may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

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• Japan
• (anime • funny • otaku • video • virtual YouTubers • vocaloids • YouTubers)

You can now buy breast implants for anime huggy pillows in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2018

Fluffy add-ons seem like they’d make the pillows less comfortable for sleeping, yet better equipped for their primary purpose.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime pillows • crazy • dakimakura • huggy pillows • otaku • weird)

Viral Facebook post may see couple name their child after Dragon Ball character

• Richard Simmonds
  Jan 31, 2018

Father-to-be from Arizona gets more than the one million Facebook likes needed to persuade his wife to call their newborn Son Goku.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • babies • Dragon Ball • funny • manga • otaku • parents • Son Goku)

New Japanese dictionary acknowledges that otaku aren’t “lacking common social intelligence”

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 20, 2018

Still says they’re “abnormal” in their passion, though.

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• Japan
• (anime • dictionaries • Japanese language • Kojien • linguistics • otaku • society)

【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】Animate’s awesome set has over 70 anime goodies for under 30 bucks

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 4, 2018

A near-unbeatable equation for anime otaku to start the new year with.

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• Japan
• (Animate • anime • COK • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • otaku • SNOJ)

Researcher claims North Korea’s Kim Jong-un loved manga, got bad grades as a teen

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 3, 2018

Plus, his familial connection to Sailor Moon fandom.

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• Japan, North Korea
• (anime • COK • Dragon Ball • Kim Jong-un • manga • otaku • Sailor Moon • Slam Dunk)

Hardcore anime fan rides bike 250 miles to Tokyo to attend Comiket convention

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2017

Who needs the bullet train when you’re a fan with legs of steel?

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• Japan
• (awesome • bicycles • Comiket • cool • crazy • cycling • mama chari • otaku • travel)

30-minute protest march held in downtown Tokyo by dateless men opposing Christmas Eve dates

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 26, 2017

“Destroy Christmas!” chants Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men as it takes to the streets in annual demonstration.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas Eve • crazy • dating • funny • otaku • protest • relationships • video • weird)

Star Trek’s William Shatner picks best girl in idol anime Love Live!, sets off fan debate

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 21, 2017

The ever-headstrong Captain Kirk will not be swayed by haters who disagree with his choice of school idol.

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• Internet, Japan, USA
• (anime • Captain Kirk • celebrities • Idols • love live • otaku • Star Trek • Umi Sonoda • William Shatner)

Otaku woman in Japan finds herself target of strange fake shoplifting scam, netizens urge caution

• Dale Roll
  Dec 20, 2017

Never let anyone you don’t know look through your bag, regardless of where you are.

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• Japan
• (anime • crime • otaku • scams)

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