It’s Cosplay time as the Nipponbashi Street Festival hits Osaka (and Twitter) again this year!
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Respect the Venusaur, and don’t blink while you’re doing it.
The characters from the dead-serious magical girl franchise show off their bunny ears, flowery dresses, and egg-shaped soul gems.
If you’ve got a favorite series from the hit fantasy series, odds are he’s in the huge cast of this new stage version.
Beautifully drawn anime ad shows the emotional friendships that can come from a part-time job.
TOONZ Studio Ghibli Version will be available as a free download starting Saturday March 26.
Yes, Togashi-sensei is finally getting back to work, with the hit manga Hunter x Hunter returning to the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in April!
Have a few thousand dollars just lying around? Well then these giant anime figures are just the thing for you!
New frontier in otaku tech smashes crowdfunding goal, set to ship soon.
Trades the tiara for a blazer, and also seems to have acquired a punishing overtime schedule and some passive-aggressive friends.
Hardcore fans brave the elements and the crowds by lining up hours before start of dojinshi comic event.
Experiment provides crucial information in the important field of panty shot research.
A new figurine modeled after the star of Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro toys with the rumor of Totoro actually being a death god.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. And why don’t we do it all with Love Live, while we’re at it?
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