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Crimvael’s Super-Thick Sausage is ready to leave a special taste in the mouth of fans of the fantasy anime series. While it may or may not be the most popular anime of the new TV season, In…
It’s a topic that Twitter user @phie_hardison brought up online recently, with a tweet labelled “Learning Japanese gotta be rough”. Included with the tweet is the message “Japanese you learn at …
Japanese fan artists give us a glimpse of what a normal life would be like in the amazing world of Pokémon. Part of what makes the Pokémon world so special is that unlike some other fantasy stor…
The names of the toys – Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard; Fun-To-Drive Dashboard – might not ring any bells. Cue reams of nostalgic commenters flung back into their playground days, when k…
The life of a manga artist is one of nonstop work, painful failures, and cutthroat competition. However, looking at a comic that Japanese manga artist and Twitter user @kohara_motoshi recently p…
Generations ago, Japan decided to flip the script on Valentine’s Day and it became a custom for girls to give gifts, usually chocolate, to guys in the country. Making chocolate yourself takes mo…
Valentine’s Day in Japan is as much about the chocolate as it is about romance. But just as there are all sorts of romantic feelings, from a simple crush to a love that you feel from the bottom …
Kao-moji look like little faces, typically made with parentheses, and they express a huge variety of emotions. And one such international app, Simeji with over 10 million installs, recently…
Bear in mind that these are the types of emoji often used in Japanese texting which usually depict a face between two parenthesis making up the head, such as: ( •_•). So without further ado, her…
Part-hotel, part-shopping center, and part-recreational facility, the new Miyashita Park aims to be a communal space incorporating a rooftop park as its centerpiece. ▼ The former …
