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World’s first moaning hiragana character either a stroke of genius or just plain weird【Video】
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Koh Ruide
Apr 7, 2018
Foam shaped into hiragana word reacts to massaging, stroking, and poking with eye-raising exclamations.
Nintendo gives Pikachu a deep, manly voice for the newest Pokémon game 【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Jan 27, 2016
Upcoming video game promises “a Pikachu like you’ve never seen before,” but we’ve never heard one that sounds like this either.
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