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Japanese gamer creates anime Your Name’s rural town in Minecraft, and it’s mind-blowing【Video】

• Meg Murphy
  Mar 17, 2017
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Explore the film’s magical world for yourself in a whole new way.

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• Japan
• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • Minecraft • video • video games • your name.)

Japanese illustrator transforms super-rough CD jacket concept sketch into gorgeous art

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2017

A few scribbles and bullet points were all this amazing artist needed.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • before and after • illustration • J-Pop • music • video • vocaloids)

Giant mecha spotted on Japanese highway by anime fan motorist【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2017

Patlabor’s Ingram is out on patrol.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cars • cool • Ingram • Patlabor • robots • statues • video)

Tuning the RocketNews24 company car to sound like one of our reporters moaning in ecstasy 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2017

Because if you can’t make your car go fast, you can at least make it sound crazy.

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• Japan
• (cars • crazy • funnyGo Hattori • RocketCar • video • weid)

Japanese master craftsman builds stunning tiny house on wheels【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2017

Featuring all-natural materials and even a built-in fireplace, this tiny home is filled with clever design details.

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• Japan
• (design • tiny homes • tiny house • tiny house movement • tiny houses • travel • video)

East meets West in Singaporean music group’s beautiful rendition of classic Disney songs【Video】

• KK Miller
  Mar 13, 2017

A tale as old as time played on some instruments invented in olden times.

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• SE Asia
• (arrangements • Disney • music • The TENG Ensemble • video)

High school swimming club makes a splash with their synchronized performances【Video】

• KK Miller
  Mar 11, 2017

The pool might be shallow, but their show has a lot of depth!

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• Internet, Japan
• (Elsa • frozen • funny • high school • Let It Go • swimming • synchronized • video)

Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson reveals that he’s an anime fan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2017

And it’s not just the tame stuff he’s into either.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • celebrities • funny • Samuel L. Jackson • video)

Mythbuster’s Adam Savage explores Ghost in the Shell’s coolest practical effects【Video】

• KK Miller
  Mar 5, 2017

The Hollywood Ghost in the Shell turned to master prop makers from Weta Workshop to achieve their detailed practical looks.

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• Internet
• (Adam Savage • geisha • Ghost in the Shell • movies • porcelain • special effects • Tested • video)

Here’s the first trailer for the Pokémon reboot/remake anime movie【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2017

Pokémon’s 20th theatrical feature is shaping up to be an emotional, lavishly animated look back to the series’ very start.

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• Japan
• (anime • movies • Pikachu • Pokemon • reboot • remake • video)

Hatsune Miku becomes charming tour guide of Japan in “Oishii” trip music video【Video】

• KK Miller
  Mar 2, 2017

All in the name of promoting Japanese culture and Japanese food!
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• Japan
• (food • Hatsune Miku • Japanese food • travel • video • vocaloids)

Japanese Android OBJECT project might soon be taking your life to the 22nd century

• KK Miller
  Mar 2, 2017

Android experiment OBJECT took over 200 submissions for ideas and produced these four futuristic products.

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• Japan
• (Android • app • cool • OBJECT experiment • technology • video)

Instead of waiting for Nintendo’s Switch, this awesome gamer made his own portable Super Famicom

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 2, 2017

Sure, Nintendo’s upcoming hybrid system looks cool, but retro gamers are already gushing over this cool customization of a classic console.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • nintendo • retro games • Super Famicom • Super NES • technology • video • video games)

British artist gives us awesome 3-D art of life-like Pokémon! 【Pics & Video】

• Kay
  Feb 26, 2017

So this is what Pokémon might look like in real life!

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• Europe, Japan
• (anime • art • fan art • game • Pokemon • video)

Japanese student breaks Guinness record for fastest finger snapping

• Master Blaster
  Feb 20, 2017

Beating this record certain wasn’t a snap for Satoyuki Fujimura – it was 296 snaps.

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• Japan
• (awesome • funny • Guinness Word Record • snap • talent • Tante! Knightscoop • video)

Over 80 new Pocket Monsters being added to Pokémon GO this week【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 16, 2017

The Johto region is coming to Pokémon GO this week in the game’s biggest update yet.

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• Global, Internet, Japan, USA
• (Johto region • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokémon Gold and Silver • video • video games)

Every new English song for anime hit Your Name previewed in teaser video【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2017

”Zenzenzense” isn’t the only song getting new English vocals from original Japanese singer Yojiro Noda.

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• Canada, Japan, USA
• (anime • J-Pop • Makoto Shinkai • movies • music • Radwimps • video • your name. • Yujiro Noda)

Experience Doraemon’s Anywhere Door in virtual reality【 Video】

• Corey Gold
  Feb 15, 2017

Ever dreamed of having a Doraemon Anywhere Door? Read More

• Japan
• (anime • Doraemon • manga • Tokyo • video • virtual reality • VR)

Video of water hose shooting ice cylinders like a machine gun shows how freaky cold Japan can get

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2017

Spring can’t come soon enough for this employee on morning cleaning duty.

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• Japan
• (cold • crazy • funny • ice • video • winter)

There’s one thing that really bugs me about the live-action Ghost in the Shell trailer【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 14, 2017

There’s been plenty of controversy about the casting and plot, but something else jumps out at me in the latest preview.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • Ghost in the Shell • Japanese language • linguistics • Live action • Mamoru Oshii • manga • movies • Scarlet Johansson • video)

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