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There’s plenty of skin on display, but not from where most people were expecting.
Instead of eating the eggs, owner parlays annual circle-of-life phenomenon into expansion of his social circle.
Ghibli fans have used their fertile imaginations to come up with multiple nightmare scenarios for the theme park based on the anime studio’s movies.
Realise your dreams of becoming your favourite food or drink with six new weird and crazy flavours to soak in.
Bears say only we can prevent forest fires, but they’ll help out when preventing robberies.
When asked to look back on his week, this kid got full marks for cool bravado, but probably only partial credit for the assignment.
The former Victoria’s Secret model hams it up for the camera in this weird and wonderful Japanese song about kissing.
Discovered in an otaku mecca and seemingly protected by the Nintendo franchise’s legendary Triforce.
Lost his real-life penguin wife, gained an anime waifu.
The Olympian’s bright blue underarms makes it hard to concentrate on her stunning performance.
Anime fans search for the earliest example of what some consider a harbinger hairdo, but how did it get started?
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