No Face Soy Sauce Bottle And Rice Paddle Are Here To Spirit Your Cooking Away
You can always count on Japanese Studio Ghibli goods store Donguri Kyowakoku for some cool and quirky Spirited Away themed goods, including a No Face…
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These Creepy Japanese Polygon Animal Masks Will Give You Panda Nightmares
When it comes to adventurous headgear in Japan, very few things match up to these creepy hyper-realistic gigantic felt cat heads, but eccentric book and…
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[Part 5] Professional Anime Artist Turns His Sons’ Sketches Into Amazing Anime Characters
By now you may be familiar with the work of Tokyo-based French anime artist Thomas Romain (Symphogear, Space Dandy, Aria, Macross Delta, and Basquash!), who…
Japanese Animation Artist Brings Ukiyo-e Prints To Life With Charming Gifs And Back To The Future
Ukiyo-e, which translates to “image(s) of the floating world,” is a genre of Japanese art that thrived from the 17th to 19th centuries. Artists produced…
Got No Friends? Make Some Doge Buddies With These Adorable Shiba Inu Hanging Table Racks
Japanese online retailer Felissimo‘s YOU+MORE! series (a play on the pronunciation of “humor” in Japanese) tends to gravitate toward feline goods, such as scratch and…
Beloved Japanese Robot Pepper Is Now Performing Funeral Services
Japanese robot Pepper introduces robot funeral services in Japan. Japanese robotics can range from downright horrifying, such as this demonic poop robot that spews fecal…
Japanese Artist’s Traditional Handmade Cut Paper Art Brings Old Text And Beautiful Animals To Life
In that past, we’ve seen some incredibly intricate and beautiful work produced by the art form of kirie, or traditional Japanese paper cutting, which is…
Finnely-crafted Traditional Japanese Paper Art Takes A Step Further With A 3D-Look
“Kirie” is a type of art-form where one cuts paper to reveal beautiful patterns. It is one of Japanese traditional art, and is so fascinating…
Stingray Chowing Down On Squid At Japanese Aquarium Gives Visitors Inky Horror Show
Several Japanese aquariums structure their facilities as a lead-up to one big star-attraction tank, with several different types of sea creatures swimming along with each…
1,500 Pikachus Invade Yokohama For The Annual Pikachu Festival–This Time With Boats And Blimps!
In what has become an annual event in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai area, the The Pikachu Outbreak Festival runs for nearly a week long (8/9-8/15 this…
Japanese Designer And Welder Couple Team Up To Create Awesome Cardboard Mecha For Cat
We’ve seen some of Japan’s incredible cardboard artists apply their craft to feline goods, including an awesome DIY sushi restaurant house for their cat, as…
Long-Necked Exeggutor The Latest In Comically Big Pokemon Goods
When it comes to eccentric Pokemon merchandise, Snorlax seems to run a monopoly over it. The lethargic Pokemon’s most popular goods include slippers that snore…
Tokyo’s New Life-Size Gundam Will Be Bigger And Better, And Even Has A Moving Head
You might remember the bittersweet end to the 18 meter tall landmark Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba last march. The nostalgic life-size statue of the…
Japan’s New Enema Mascot Can’t Wait To Try Herself Out On You
Japan has a great love for yuru-kyara, or yuru-characters (“”gentle characters”) in the form of mascots. So much that they hold an annual contest to…
Demonic Eyed Japanese Poop Robot That Spews Diarrhea Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
Whether it’s the breathtakingly lifelike fish at Japan’s hotel staffed by robots, or Softbank’s cute domestic-assistant robot Pepper singing Beethoven in a choir, Japan’s constantly…