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Family Mart’s newest drink campaign shoots for the moon and promises a rainbow of dreamy starshine flavors.
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.
New father makes mental note of the economic upside of breastfeeding, passes those savings on to his beloved wife.
As Space World becomes a part of the past, the park’s remains are starting to look like part of an apocalyptic future.
Anime itself may have gone all-digital, but you can still use amazing practical effects as the finishing touch for your cosplay photos.
Contents are actually an ironic jab at Japan’s holier-than-though critics of digital media consumption.
An amazingly simply but cool idea to really help your itasha anime characters’ eyes “pop.”
Possibly the world’s first knife where the soft grip wrapping and slicing edge are made of the same thing.
When you stop and think about it, putting pictures of cockroaches on a product for people who hate them is kind of a weird strategy.
Samurai-style swordsmithing techniques can be used to create a professional knife from just about anything.
Twitter user makes mind-blowing discovery playing around with puzzle pieces of Japan’s 47 prefectures.
Nothing makes for a cosier interior than a lizard spitting out radioactive heat rays over you and your house guests.
The future is here, but some residents aren’t prepared to accept an artificially intelligent mayor so soon.
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