Your company is paying for you to take a pleasure trip! Awesome! You’ll be spending all weekend with your boss and coworkers! Not so awesome.
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Critics are calling the modern anime aesthetics “inappropriate,” but publisher says they’re missing the point.
These new train safety ads tell travelers that any friends who’d drop you for a late response aren’t friends at all.
It might sound like a match made in heaven (or at least a lovey-dovey romance anime), but two otaku don’t always make the right combination.
Pretty much everyone agrees that soy sauce for fish is a must, but what about the most popular kind of non-seafood sushi?
“These people have no love or respect for the Shibuya neighborhood.”
The fires of hard-core anime fans’ passions burn bright, but that doesn’t mean they always last forever.
Result also show a huge gap in in-shower urination attitudes between men and women for one age set.
English-language video sparks tweet in which she worries about pressure to “kill the person I am.”
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