Commonly used kanji’s components don’t make a lot of sense nowadays, but once upon a time…
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It’s not the first full-scale figure of the Eva pilot, but it’s the first one you can pose.
“The cutest Rei Ayanami” and glowing Unit-01 don’t come cheap, but they offer serious impact for truly hard-core Evangelion fans.
If Donald Trump called you on the phone asking for cash in broken Japanese, would you give him a single yen?
Pokémon Masters will need to spend an entire day traveling from Tokyo to spot the rarest of Gen I Pokémon and the evolved forms of the original three starters.
Oversleep and miss your stop on this train and you’ll be stranded in the middle of nowhere, which might just be the start of a beautiful adventure.
It turns out there’s a division of labor between who comes up with the words and who writes them on the papers.
Kids in Hikari are raised under Boob Childrearing concepts.
After one too many lazy Saturdays, we find ourselves standing at the foot of an ice cold waterfall.
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