Anyone would be excited for the birth of their own child, but this taxi driver elevated the special event into a scene worthy of an action movie.
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There are no wrong answers, as long as you’ve got the right question.
Leaping into action and clearing Japan’s already high bar for customer service in an amazing way.
The mere sight of this feudal Japanese shadow hero will strike fear into the hearts of criminals.
”You wanna be my friend?” the songs asks, and the answer seems to be “Yes!”
Which do you think costs more, the most expensive taco in the world or the entire video and musical anthology of magical girl anime franchise Pretty Cure?
Programmer from overseas leaves change out in public to test Japanese honesty, ends up with more money than he started with.
Video shot in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station shows the elusive kirikusha in the wild.
Decades’ worth of anime moms assemble for amazing group shot that even features an Undertale shout-out.
Breathtaking artwork form Hiroshima artist looks more like photography than oil paintings.
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.
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