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How to most effectively use your itasha anime car windows for a clever trick
What happens after you roll up this car’s window is bound to give you a good laugh, courtesy of Madoka Magica‘s Mami Tomoe. Itasha come in all shapes and sizes, from our very own Mr. Sato car to...
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Anime figures get their own line of sex toys in Japan
Dozens of pieces, including urine stream, bundled in set of adult goods for anime figures to pose and play with. Ostensibly, companies make and sell anime figures so that fans of a certain series or...
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Anime-themed Japan Self-Defense Forces recruitment campaign makes odd poster...
Child soldier magician encourages people to join the real-life JSDF. It’s not an entirely new tactic for Japan’s Self-Defense Forces to use anime imagery in their recruiting materials. Over the last...
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Y-shaped naked anime girl pillow cover features spreadable legs【Pics】
An unabashed recognition that buyers probably aren’t going to stop at just hugging. Look, let’s be honest here. The target market for huggy pillows with half-naked, or fully naked, anime girls on them...
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New way for anime fans to make out with their favorite character: special...
French press meets French kiss. Many anime and manga series owe their success to the charisma of their characters, and in some cases hard-core fans may develop such an intense attachment to their...
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Japan’s anime-loving penguin loses his 2-D waifu temporarily, breaks our...
Human otaku offer their sympathies and encouragement during the animal’s difficult time. A typhoon recently swept across Japan, washing out many people’s plans for the three-day weekend. It wasn’t just...
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Otaku dating service advises singles to have interests other than anime
Tough love from Akihabara-based matchmaking service reflects the changing nature of anime fandom. Earlier this year Tora no Ana, one of Japan’s most popular anime and manga specialty shops, launched a...
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School in Tokyo lets students study with cute maids as they learn programming...
Institution aims to please maid fans and help maids prepare for eventual career changes. As the center of Japan’s academic and economic spheres, Tokyo has many trade schools where adult students can...
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Lust-filled faces from erotic manga and anime now available to buy in...
Show your love of erotic manga and anime, and disdain of social conventions, with a T-shirt! Anime or manga T-shirts, like band T-shirts, are a popular way of announcing to the rest of the world your...
View ArticleAccording to this encyclopedia of Japanese otaku fashion, which one are you?
Are you the one in a shirt from junior school, the who wears an all-black outfit, or someone else? Otaku are known for their fierce dedication to their fandom and always giving 100 percent into...
View ArticleSupporting anime/idol crush tops Japanese teen girls’ New Year’s cash...
For those who aren’t planning to hang on to their monetary presents from grandma and grandpa, advancing their oshi is the top plan. In Japan, New Year’s is traditionally celebrated by a trip back to...
View ArticleThe anime crush savings plan: Woman explains how to save thousands of...
Having an anime crush usually drains your wallet, but here’s how your 2-D passion can make you richer instead. Hard-core anime fans will be the first to tell you that while the hobby has a positive...
View ArticleJapanese otaku finds way to get the smell of a high school girl in his car...
Mother’s comment turns out to be the best endorsement for strange product. For many otaku, getting close to their anime idol crush is a dream worth spending big money on. It’s the reason why Japan has...
View ArticleLove Live! poster showing anime schoolgirl in see-through skirt divides...
Otaku, artists, feminists, and a Tokyo assemblyman weigh in on the controversial crotch-revealing image. Late last year, the issue of too-sexy anime characters busting out in full view of the public...
View ArticleOsaka cancels one of Japan’s biggest anime cosplay events over coronavirus fears
Nipppombashi Street Festa regularly draws over 200,000 people to city’s Denden Town neighborhood, but not this year. As you might expect, Japan has a lot of cosplay events, but few can match the scale...
View ArticleA new way to get smelly otaku to take a shower: Trap sexy anime girls inside...
A suggestive suggestion to shower more frequently. An obsessive love of a particular hobby is the defining characteristic of otaku, but some anime and video game otaku also develop an aversion…to...
View ArticleOtaku in Western Art: Hilarious viral hashtag finds geeks hiding in classic...
Otaku struggles are real and they’ve been right under our noses for centuries. In Japan, being an otaku doesn’t necessarily mean you’re just into manga and anime. Here there are train otaku, figurine...
View ArticleComiket cancelled as coronavirus knocks off Tokyo’s biggest otaku celebration
Continuing outbreak causes organizers to call off dojinshi event for the first time in its 45-year-history. Twice a year, Tokyo’s Big Sight convention center hosts Comiket, Japan’s largest celebration...
View Article20-year-old anime cakes sell online for an eye-popping price
These Azumanga Daioh sweets are older than many anime fans, and they’re not the only uneaten collectors’ food otaku have hung on to. Japan loves both anime and sweets, so from a marketing standpoint...
View ArticleOtaku shine bright with Japan’s #otaku glow-up championship 2020【Photos】
Why grow out of being an otaku when you can glow up into being a beautiful one? Most fans of anime, cosplay, and other otaku-oriented fields come into the community in their teens. As with a lot of...
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