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The best cosplayers from Day 2 of Summer Comiket 2023【Photos】
- Oona McGee
Aug 17, 2023 - Tweet
Spider-Man and Razor Ramon Hard Gay rub shoulders with some of the hottest characters in Japan!
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • C102 • COK • Comiket • Comiket 102 • cosplay • cosplayers • Hatsune Miku • HoloLive • manga • SNJO • Spider-Man • Summer Comiket 2023 • video games)
Four bikers dressed as Spider-Man arrested in Saga City
- Master Blaster
Sep 30, 2022
With bitchin’ bikes come bitchin’ responsibility.
- Japan
- (bikers • bosozoku • cosplay • crime • motorcycles • saga • Spider-Man)
Former sake brewery in Japan gets a new life as…whatever the heck this is
- Oona McGee
May 17, 2022
Looking for a weird place to visit in Japan? This spot ticks all the boxes.
- Japan
- (art • characters • COK • Kinnikuman • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mazinger Z • nostalgia • Saitama • sake brewery • Showa • SNJO • Spider-Man • statues • travel • weird • wtf)
Spider-Man: No Way Home Japanese dub voice actor is…our reporter P.K. Sanjun!
- Oona McGee
Jan 7, 2022
P.K. takes us behind the scenes and into the recording studio as he plays two characters in the latest film.
- Japan
- (acting • cool • Japanese Spider-Man • Marvel • movies • P.K. Sanjun • SNJO • Spider-Man • Spider-Man: No Way Home • voice acting • voice actors)
Marvel Culinary Universe coming to pop-up cafe in Osaka this September
- Master Blaster
Sep 2, 2021
Light lunch, assemble!
- Japan
- (Black Widow • Captain America • comic books • Iron Man • Marvel • Osaka • Paprikash • pop-up cafes • Spider-Man • Superheroes • Thor • Umeda)
Mr. Sato visits Gacha Gacha no Mori: The capsule toy store for adult women
- Master Blaster
Oct 23, 2020
And learns a little about the joys of womanhood.
- Japan
- (capsule toys • COK • Gacha Gacha no Mori • gacha toys • gachapon • Mr. Sato • Mu • SNJO • Spider-Man • women)
Tokyo Metropolitan Police say they’ve captured the Ame-zing Spider-Man
- Casey Baseel
Nov 9, 2019
Would J. Jonah Jameson be ame-zingly happy to see this menace off the streets?
- Japan
- (crazy • crime • funny • Marvel • rain • Spider-Man • Superheroes • Tokyo • weird)
Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Verse sequel promises Japanese Spider-Man is “already designed”
- Katy Kelly
Nov 8, 2019
And no, we aren’t talking about Peni Parker.
- Japan
- (comic books • Into the Spider-Verse • Japanese Spider-Man • Marvel • movies • Spider-Man • Toei • tokusatsu)
Shonen Jump and Marvel team up for two months of web comics
- Master Blaster
Sep 5, 2019
Titles featuring Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and more can be seen through the Shonen Jump+ app.
- Japan
- (Ant-Man • Avengers • comic books • Deadpool • Iron Man • Kazuki Takahashi • manga • Marvel • Shonen Jump • Spider-Man)
SoraNews24’s ultra-cheesy Spider-Man fan film has over 100 million views, and we have no idea why
- Casey Baseel
Jul 8, 2019
It took years for the Internet to notice our video, but now it’s a global hit, especially in one unexpected country.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • fan film • funny • Go Hatori • Marvel • SNOJ • Spider-Man • Superheroes • video • weird • YouTube)
Anime cosplayer burglar arrested in Japan, can’t stop dressing up/stealing
- Casey Baseel
Mar 15, 2019
”Get in the damn prison cell, Shinji!”
- Japan
- (anime • burglary • COK • cosplay • crazy • crime • Evangelion • Fukuoka • Spider-Man • weird)
Spider-Man’s black costume goes back to the past in this awesome samurai/ninja figure【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 18, 2018
Just your friendly Sengoku period fuedal fief Spider-Man.
- Japan
- (cool • figures • Marvel • Meisho Manga Realization • Ninja • samurai • Spider-Man • Superheroes • Tamashi Nations • toys)
With great power comes the responsibility to interview movie stars: We sit down with Tom Holland
- Dale Roll
May 3, 2018
The newest actor to play Spider-Man gives us insight into what it’s like to be a popular superhero.
- Japan
- (Avengers: Infinity War • interview • Marvel • movies • SNOJ • Spider-Man • The Avengers • Tom Holland)
Osaka authorities finally arrest “Spider Man”
- Master Blaster
Aug 18, 2017
Your unfriendly neighborhood wall-crawler currently facing several charges of theft.
Spider-Man cafe opens in Roppongi Hills to commemorate new film, offers spidery eats and drinks
- Meg Murphy
Jun 1, 2017
The limited-time cafe has our Spider-Senses, and taste buds, tingling!
- Japan
- (drink • food • Roppongi Hills • Spider-Man • themed cafes)
Spidey-cat “drops in” to check on its owner, saves the day with a dose of humor
- Jamie Koide
May 8, 2016
This cute superhero will stun you with his “kawaii-sense”.
- Cute, Internet, Japan
- (cats • cute • funny twitter post • lolcats • Spider-Man • Superheroes)
Look out! Here comes the Samurai Spider-Man
- Oona McGee
Apr 28, 2016
Bandai and Tamashii Nations have outdone themselves again with the latest addition to their samurai series of pop culture figurines.
- Entertainment, Japan
- (anime • Bandai • collectibles • cool • figurines • manga • Marvel • samurai • Spider-Man • Tamashii Nations)
Gundam robots and Marvel characters combine and make new art we definitely need 【Photos】
- KK Miller
Sep 11, 2015
When Japan got its hands on a Marvel property back in the 1970s, it added something that is now recognized as very Japanese: giant robots, which Japanese Supaidaman used to battle his foes like a web-slinging Gundam pilot (even though the original Mobile Suit Gundam wouldn’t make its debut until two years later).
Jump to today, and both Marvel and Gundam are going strong in their respective home countries. However, if Marvel ever wants to increase its market share in Japan, maybe they should be working to create Gundam robots versions of their most famous characters. If you’re having a hard time imagining that crossover, we’ve found some fan art that will have you writing letters to both companies to make this happen.
- Internet
- (anime • crossover art • fan art • Gundam • Iron Man • Marvel • robots • Spider-Man)
All we want for Christmas is a 1/6 model Spider-Man to take photos with
- Fran W
Dec 4, 2014
They say a dog is man’s best friend. But if these pictures are anything to go by, Spider-Man’s best friend is a cat.
Not only does this 1/6 scale Spider-Man come with a puffer vest, he’s also the perfect size to take all kinds of adorable pictures. Join us after the jump for Spider-Man hanging out with pets; tucked up in a cat bed; and showing what an awesome dad he is.
Spider-Man takes classes at the University of Tokyo
- Michelle Lynn Dinh
Nov 1, 2013
Spider-Man can apparently do whatever a spider can and that includes attending a class at the prestigious University of Tokyo. As he quietly sits in the front row of a regional geography lecture, we can’t help but wonder why his Spidey sense brought him to a boring lecture hall when he could have been swinging from the skyscrapers of Tokyo or turning into a dumpling.
- Japan
- (funny • Spider-Man • Tokyo University)
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