San Diego Comic Con is famous for getting all the big announcements and sneak peaks about new projects, but New York Comic Con is getting large enough that major news stories are being broken at the East Coast convention. Some of the biggest news over the weekend for anime fans was the announcement of a live-action Hollywood film adaptation of Tiger & Bunny. With such a mammoth announcement, it didn’t take much time for someone to come along and fan-cast the entire series. Judging by looks alone, we are pretty impressed with their choices and while we probably won’t see so many amazing actors come together for one movie, it’s always nice to dream.
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- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
- Starbucks reopens at Shibuya Scramble Crossing with new look and design concept
- Is the new Shinkansen Train Desk ticket worth it?
- “Half-naked men only in loincloths” drum battle returns to Hida festival for first time in five years
- Our reporter takes her 71-year-old mother to a visual kei concert for the first time
- Foreign English teachers in Japan pick their favorite Japanese-language phrases【Survey】
- Osaka’s creepy cute mascot speaks for first time, adds more fuel the creepy OR cute debate【Video】
- Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
- New Studio Ghibli bedding sets are cool in all senses of the word
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- Disney princesses get official manga makeovers for Manga Princess Cafe opening in Tokyo
- We try out “Chan Ramen”, an underground type of ramen popular in the ramen community
- Foreign English teachers in Japan pick their favorite Japanese-language phrases【Survey】
- Beautiful new Final Fantasy T-shirt collection on the way from Uniqlo【Photos】
- There’s a park inside Japan where you can also see Japan inside the park
- New Studio Ghibli bedding sets are cool in all senses of the word
- Japanese convenience store packs a whole bento into an onigiri rice ball
- Hanton rice — a delicious regional food even most Japanese people don’t know about, but more should
- New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
- Hamburg and Hamburg Shibuya: A Japanese restaurant you need to put on your Tokyo itinerary
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- Studio Ghibli releases Kiki’s Delivery Service chocolate cake pouches in Japan
- Japan’s bone-breaking and record-breaking roller coaster is permanently shutting down
- New definition of “Japanese whiskey” goes into effect to prevent fakes from fooling overseas buyers
- Foreign passenger shoves conductor on one of the last full runs for Japan’s Thunderbird train
- Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things
- Kyoto bans tourists from geisha alleys in Gion, with fines for those who don’t follow rules
- Studio Ghibli unveils Mother’s Day gift set that captures the love in My Neighbour Totoro
- Domino’s Japan now sells…pizza ears?
- New Japanese KitKat flavour stars Sanrio characters, including Hello Kitty
- Kyoto creates new for-tourist buses to address overtourism with higher prices, faster rides
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- Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
- Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
- Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s
- Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
- Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
- Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
- One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
- We asked a Uniqlo employee what four things we should buy and their suggestions didn’t disappoint
- Princesses, fruits, and blacksmiths: Study reveals the 30 most unusual family names in Japan
- Studio Ghibli’s new desktop Howl’s Moving Castle will take your stationery on an adventure
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