Search Results for: Harajuku
One of the local spots featured in the Love Live! Superstar!! anime promotional material is a real-life café in Harajuku, but it’s a good idea to make sure you have likeness rights before working an actual place into your art and story. Unfortunately, it appears …Read more »
Join Rito, Mari, and Kotoko in their crusade against the Scoopers, a malevolent race of aliens bent on sucking all the culture out of Harajuku, the fashion capital of Japan. The girls know how important Harajuku is to them and everyone else in the world …Read more »
Based on Crunchyroll’s PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team! webcomic, which has been running since May 2015 with writing by Otaku USA‘s own Patrick Macias and art by the amazing Mugi Tanaka, the URAHARA anime is almost upon us. The series is set to make its debut …Read more »
There was an interview a while back with Your Name director Makoto Shinkai in which he lamented he could no longer visit some of his favorite places in Tokyo because he’d put them in the movie and now they’re permanently occupied by Your Name fans. …Read more »
Crunchyroll recently announced plans to team up with Chinese video sharing site Bilibili on a brand new TV anime project, and now we have more details on the results. Based on the webcomic PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team! —which has been running on Crunchyroll since May …Read more »
Starting next week, fans of Digimon Adventure tri. in Japan will be able to swing by toy store Kiddy Land to pick up some exclusive merchandise. It’s all a part of what’s being called the Digimon Adventure tri. Matsuri in Kiddy Land, which runs from …Read more »
It’s been 10 years since Hideaki Anno, creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion , co-director of Shin Godzilla and all-around otaku genius, left Gainax and founded his own studio, Khara. To celebrate its 10th, Khara has pulled out all the stops for a massive exhibition in …Read more »
Does adorably designed food in manga and anime make you go squee? Do you need something to eat while you’re pounding the pavement playing Pokémon Go? Do you enjoy whipping up your own food? Then The Pokémon Cookbook is probably for you. Written by nutritionist …Read more »
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto’s Evangelion manga finally ended earlier this year, and the 14th and final volume hit bookstores in Japan just a few days ago. So why not celebrate with some Eva -themed sneakers? We’ve already talked about stuff like those amazing Jojo’s sneakers , and …Read more »
“This is Japanese culture!” wails a drunken May’n fan next to me, crushing a Chu-hi tallboy can in his fist. This was the scene at yesterday’s Moshi Moshi Nippon Festival , an “initiative to help improve tourism and promote Japanese Pop Culture throughout the world” …Read more »
Sunday, July 27th, 2014, Tokyo: I get off the train at Akihabara station, exiting not at Electronic Town, the usual otaku departure point, but Showa Street, a downright normal-looking road lined with offices and convenience stores. I double-check Google maps and head down a nondescript …Read more »
Remember a few weeks ago when CNN sent Otaku USA readers into a froth by completely misrepresenting manga and its readership as child pornographers? Well, they’re not done with “weird Japan” stories, apparently. This time they’ve done a profile of one Hideaki Kobayashi, a 51-year …Read more »
Kyary don’t stop. Currently in the midst of a world tour, Ms. Pamyu Pamyu, ambassador of Harajuku kawaii and pon pon poning, has dropped a video for her new single, “Yume no Hajima Ring Ring,” and it can best be described as “very Pamyu.” A …Read more »
Tis the season for mistletoe, resolutions, and lots and lots of end-of-year lists. Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has weighed in with its own list on the state of Japan 2013, listing the country’s top 20 products of the year and the top ten “signs of …Read more »
San Francisco's 5th annual J-Pop Summit Festival is getting ready to take place July 27-28 across Japantown, and the lineup that's been trickling out over the past months is full of live music, films, and more. Now that the programming has been detailed, it's time …Read more »
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