From useful notes to funny doodles, these used books have all kinds of charming features that netizens love.
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With private booths, showers and a women’s-only floor, this is one of the best places to stay in Tokyo.
Poor sexual performance, heavy debts considered punishable by death in website-inspired Husband Death Note.
One fan of both anime and horror saw an opportunity here and created a spooky new visage in the Japanese style.
You’ve seen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective as a dog, a girl, and even Benedict Cumberbatch’s turn as the character as its own manga. A character of near infallible logic is transforming again, this time into an android.
Other books leave out key phrases like “Isn’t the president of your company a Reptilian?”, but not this one!
Watch as a flat stack of paper springs to life like magic, instantly becoming a three-dimensional penguin in the blink of an eye.
Looking at round breasts and furry felines is said to generate maximum feelings of pleasure.
Publisher nixes two of the most common storytelling tricks in the anime playbook in attempt to create something adults can enjoy.
Love of anime, light novels, and/or costuming essential, desire to actually sleep optional.
Drawing inspiration from an internationally beloved children’s book, chef creates a hybrid pancake/cookie.
This brand new space has 5,000 books for guests to read, a special bar stocked with local beers, and bunks inside the shelves to sleep in.

















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