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Free drink promoting new anime series has cleverly designed bottle that could become new way for otaku to express their love for their 2-D crushes.
The unusually-named restaurant battles against the robots of Kabukicho with spooky spirits and staff that look like creepy androids.
Golgo 13 has spent his life putting bullets in people, and now you can put your life in him.
Shows up exactly seven and a half years after the tragic earthquake and tsunami in a town half-way across the country.
Got some leftover change after a day of pop culture treasure-hunting? Then this JR station has a vending machine you’ll want to check out.
“A little” shanking is requested, but that’s not the only weird thing about the baffling bits of Japanese flavor text.
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