According to his shirt, this guy isn’t just “huge in Japan”, he’s huge somewhere else too.
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Channel your favourite character on the Central Perk couch with special menu items and Japan-exclusive goods.
Aika Okita surprises everyone with a very different look offscreen.
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The forgotten tactile pleasure of turning a clicky dial to change the television channel can be had again!
The production house behind Korea’s hit kid’s show Pororo the Little Penguin recently announced a partnership with a developer to release an augmented reality game called Pororo Go.
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