Our visiting Japanese reporter shares her thoughts on the Spanish capital’s tribute to Japanese culture in its various forms.
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Watch these Gokus dish out the biggest energy attack in history, entering the Guinness World Records in the process.
With hundreds of banners and posters already set up, everyone’s pitching in to help with the biggest anime convention in the world.
This month Kantai Con, ‘the anime convention on an aircraft carrier’, was held aboard the USS Yorktown in South Carolina, and attracted some fabulous cosplayers dressed up as the hottest warships in town.
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