If this particular anime pilgrimage spot was on your bucket list, you won’t be able to cross it off anymore (well, at least in its original location).
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Start the next chapter of your love life, real-world or otherwise, with a new hairdo from the Heartbreak Salon.
Living Appraisal service helps family decide what to do with all the Blu-rays, figures, and plushies that departed otaku can’t take with them.
Love Liver stretches his anime idols out for a relaxing ride, but online critics aren’t a fan of his manners.
Discovery of Rekka Katakiri’s erogame contributions cause venue to pull plug on event less then three weeks before it was scheduled to be held.
Sweetly suggestive cleaning staff takes good care of Japanese traveler’s anime goods in New York hotel.
”Devil modifications” lead to arrest in multi-prefecture investigation.
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