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Free Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest Valentine’s cards available online from Square Enix【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2023 - Tweet
Forget Cupid. This year let Chocobo and Slime deliver your message of love.
- Japan
- (cards • Chocobo • COK • crafts • cute • Dragon Quest • Final Fantasy • Moogle • romance • slime • SNO • Square Enix • Valentine's Day • video games • white day)
How to make edible slime with just two ingredients
- Oona McGee
May 22, 2022
This easy food hack from Japan is just waiting to go viral.
- Japan
- (COK • cooking hack • food hack • food trends • Go Hatori • hacks • Masanuki Sunakoma • Meiji • slime • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • weird • weird food • wow • yoghurt)
Japan’s Slime ice cream will Heal you since it’s a Dragon Quest tie-up with Baskin-Robbins Japan
- Casey Baseel
Apr 30, 2022
Slimes draw near! Command? Eat them, of course!
- Japan
- (Baskin Robbins • Baskin-Robbins Japan • Dragon Quest • food • ice cream • slime • Square Enix • sweets • video games)
Japan’s new old-school Dragon Quest sweets are Slime-like in more ways than one【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2022
Maybe we should have been eating Slimes instead of fighting them all this time.
- Japan
- (COK • Dragon Quest • dragon quest walk • food • mochi • slime • SNJO • sweet • taste test • uiro)
Best random JRPG encounter ever? When giant 3-D Dragon Quest Slimes appear in Tokyo!【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 20, 2021
If you’re looking to bump into a pack of Slimes, Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood is the place to do it.
- Japan
- (3-D • ads • awesome • cool • Cross Shinjuku Vision • cute • Dragon Quest • shinjuku • slime • Square Enix • video billboards • video games)
Pikachu, Kirby, Slime and Miffy served up as delicious dumpling delights【Pics, Video】
- Ingrid Tsai
Mar 9, 2021
Popular characters made edible by one talented Japanese netizen.
- Japan
- (cute • Dragon Quest • dumplings • gyoza • Kirby • Miffy • Pikachu • Pokemon • slime • twitter • video games)
Dragon Quest town and adventure RPG attraction coming to Japanese theme park
- Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2020
Dragon Quest Island sends you and your companion Slime on a quest to defeat the evil Zoma.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • Dragon Quest • Dragon Quest Island • Nijigen no Mori • slime • theme parks • video games)
Japan’s Dragon Quest Slime fish cakes draw near, and possibly for free【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 24, 2020
It’s time to treat yourself to a new experience point with some extra-adorable Slime and She-slime kamaboko.
- Japan
- (COK • cute • Dragon Quest • fish cakes • fish sausage • food • kamaboko • Odawara • slime • SNJO • taste test • video games)
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)
Japanese mom’s hand-made Slime masks draw near, boost kid’s cuteness and protection stats【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 19, 2020
Kids (or you) not happy about having to wear a mask? Turn it into cute Dragon Quest cosplay instead.
- Japan
- (clever • coronavirus • cute • Dragon Quest • face masks • kids • masks • slime • video games)
Enjoy some slime tea time with the Dragon Quest kyusu teapot from the Square Enix e-Shop【Photos】
- Katy Kelly
Apr 13, 2020
Disclaimer: This teapot will not make your tea taste like slime or otherwise imbue it with evil energies.
- Japan
- (Dragon Quest • goods • kyusu • merchandise • slime • Square Enix • tea • teapot)
Slime bread arrives in Japanese convenience stores and in our Dragon Quest-loving bellies
- Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2019
”Slime-flavored” pastry teaches us that the famous video game monsters are actually delicious!
- Japan
- (bread • COK • convenience stores • Dragon Quest • food • Lawson • slime • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
A slime appears…in real-life Japan! Command? Watch this adorable video【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 31, 2019
Is…is Dragon Quest real?!?
- Japan
- (cool • cute • Dragon Quest • flowers • funny • slime • video • video games)
Proof that Japanese Twitter users have Dragon Quest on the brain 【Pictures】
- Richard Simmonds
Aug 22, 2017
Brain-addled fans of the hugely popular Dragon Quest game series see it in everything around them.
- Japan
- (dragon quest builders • DragonQuest • Japanese Twitter • slime • twitter • video games • weird)
Humongous Dragon Quest Slimes appear at park in Japan【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2016
Slimes draw near following conclusion of rice field art project.
- Japan
- (art • awesome • cool • Dragon Quest • rice field art • slime • straw • video games)
Celebrate Dragon Quest’s 30th anniversary by suppressing slimes on your smartphone
- Krista Rogers
May 27, 2016
The limited-time game has you and the rest of the world pitted against the franchise’s ooey-gooey mascot character–100 million of them, in fact!
- Games & Tech, Japan
- (anniversary • Dragon Quest • mobile games • slime • Smartphones • video games)
Slime-y guitar is not something you will find in a Dragon Quest game, but you can in real life
- KK Miller
Mar 5, 2016
This fan’s custom guitar job will have all the Dragon Quest fans rocking out.
We try bright blue Dragon Quest slime curry, live to tell the tale
- Jessica
Oct 1, 2014
A few weeks ago, we told you about Village Vanguard’s launch of Slime Curry, a rather curious blue foodstuff inspired by the bad-guy blobs of the Dragon Quest series. Not content with just informing you of its existence, one of the Japanese reporters at our sister site Pouch bravely volunteered to try the curry for herself and report back if she survived. Here’s what she had to say.
- Japan
- (Dragon Quest • food • slime • video games • weird)
Mr. Sato shows up in costume, is the first to purchase an iPhone 6 Plus, meets Ken Watanabe AGAIN
- Michelle Lynn Dinh
Sep 20, 2014
With the goal of being the first in line to purchase an iPhone 6 Plus, Mr. Sato, our most outlandish reporter, parked himself in front of the Marunouchi Docomo store on September 15. After several nights living on the streets, finally the day had come! On the morning of September 19 at 8am, Mr. Sato, blue slime costume and all, purchased his coveted Apple gadget, but not before meeting famous actors and taking center stage in an interview. Here is his story.
- Japan
- (Apple Store • Docomo • iPhone 6 • Ken Watanabe • line • release • slime)
Newsflash: Silver “Dragon Quest Metal Slime Edition” PlayStation 4 unveiled by Sony 【Updated】
- Philip Kendall
Sep 1, 2014
If the standard black and Destiny-themed white models of PlayStation 4 aren’t quite exotic enough for you, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan might have just the thing. That is, of course, providing you like your gaming with a dose of slime…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, say hello to the Dragon Quest “Metal Slime Edition” PlayStation 4.
- Japan
- (Dragon Quest • playstation • slime • Sony • video games)
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