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Clam chowder and chili dips also available, and are enticing alternatives to Japanese pizza with mayo.
Perplexing perspectives: when left is right, and right is right, our brains melt but we’re impressed nonetheless.
She has trouble standing and taking a bow after her performance, but her hands glide like the wind across the keys.
Anime becomes reality with help from the creator of the original Gundam, and it even has a strange, hard-to-pronounce anime mecha-style name!
Beautiful mother/son work of art meets a bittersweet end at the hands of the one enemy it can’t defeat.
Hardcore cosplayers make their own costumes, and for Reika Saiki, that includes building her body to get Chun-Li’s thighs.
Anime itself may have gone all-digital, but you can still use amazing practical effects as the finishing touch for your cosplay photos.
Possibly the world’s first knife where the soft grip wrapping and slicing edge are made of the same thing.
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