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Studio Ghibli adds new Mother’s Day gift sets to its anime collection in Japan

Say I love you with the magical charm of characters from My Neighbour Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

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Mysterious light-up rainy night-sound Totoro figure doesn’t actually show a scene from the anime

If you’re a Ghibli fan, you’ve definitely seen this scene before, just not during the classic anime film.

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Final Fantasy XIV’s Ul’dah city-state recreated in real world in massive diorama【Video】

Starter city’s tall towers, tiny details all look amazing thanks to Shizuoka creative team.

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The entire Pokémon Red and Blue Kanto region map, built as a 3-D diorama, looks amazing【Photos】

Crazy talented Pokémon fan accomplishes childhood dream, fills us all with childlike wonder.

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We build miniature Japanese samurai warrior armour out of metal

This palm-sized warrior tries our patience in all sorts of ways.

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We build a miniature Japanese oden stall with gorgeous results

The amount of detail in this little yatai food cart will instantly transport you to the streets of Japan.

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You might not think you have enough space in your home to display all these anime and movie robots, but you’re wrong.

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Japanese gamer recreates battle screen from Dragon Quest – using 15,000 cotton swabs

The impressive five-piece handmade set also includes an adorable Slime!

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Hang a Japanese city on your wall with these amazingly detailed 3-D printed maps

These beautiful scaled dioramas let you walk the streets of Tokyo or Hiroshima again and again.

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A tiny, epic ode to Nintendo: Zelda and Super Mario 64’s worlds recreated as miniature dioramas

We all know that Japan does “small” well. Whether it’s microtechnology, tiny houses or bonsai, the Japanese are known for their dexterity and being attentive to the tiniest detail.

But a hobbyist and Niconico Douga user known simply as “A” takes attention to detail to a whole new level. In a homage to the three-dimensional worlds created by video game giants Nintendo, A has constructed an ultra-detailed diorama based on the first level of Nintendo 64 classic Super Mario 64 and even recreated the entire world map from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on a scale so small we could barely believe our eyes when we first saw it.

How small are we talking? Find out after the jump!

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Luxembourg-based hobbyist’s video game dioramas are epic, wonderfully nerdy, and not for sale

“I’m from Luxembourg and I have a retro hobby. I make 3D paper dioramas of classic videogames.”

Hobbyist Wuppes’ self-introduction is refreshingly humble for someone displaying their creations online, but it hardly does them justice. Made from paper and card, these dioramas of worlds, scenes and characters from 16-bit video games are created with breathtaking attention to detail, with not a single pixel misrepresented, raising the once flat images up to give gamers the world over something new to pore over and wish they could own.

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