Unique hair accessories are part of 30th anniversary art exhibit for the hit anime/manga mystery series.
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Kyo Ani artists made sure that the anime heroines’ emotionally evocative locks are possible in real life too.
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Our mild-mannered reporter gets hooked up with the king of bad-boy haircuts in Japan, the “regent.”
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