Ash has a whole new set of pals for Everybody’s Story, but his old friends are nowhere to be seen.
If you guessed the prank is that the model in this picture is actually a man, he makes no secret about that, and the real trick is something else.
Months after the Logan Paul scandal, a Japanese YouTube personality offers free hugs at Aokigahara in video that claims to show a life being saved.
From this day forward, all math professors should be called “fantasistas of number theory.”
Real cherry blossoms wither after a week, but flowers on this plastic tree will last a very long time.
Unprepared tourists find themselves ice skating for their lives on the famous World Heritage Site.
Foam shaped into hiragana word reacts to massaging, stroking, and poking with eye-raising exclamations.
Actor’s arrest parallels his character’s story arc, and also has elements from Cinderella.
A grim mortality rate for pachinko parlor management companies shines a light on the poor health of the industry.
American-born Japanese celebrity Pakkun’s comparison doesn’t go over well, but one commenter has a better food analogy.
In today’s world of obfuscating anime titles, the straightforward Butt Detective is a puff of fresh air.
Anime veteran leaves behind a legacy of more than 50 years of landmark anime including Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, Pom Poko, and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
Instead he’s been tweeted all over the world for his (partially) convincing transformation into a pretty girl.



















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