If you’ve ever played Grand Theft Auto, Yakuza or the like, you’re going to get a kick out of this. A group of Tokyo YouTubers called Komazawa Isolation have taken advantage of Tokyo’s relatively empty streets to create a hilarious parody of GTA-style games. The …Read more »
Last month we posted about Shibuya aiming to crack down on alcohol during the upcoming Halloween festivities. At the time, the proposed ban on public drinking was just that, but as of today the bill has officially passed. According to an update from Nippon News 24, the …Read more »
Ever wanted your haircut to look like it popped straight out of Steins;Gate? Now’s your chance. Wille, a hair salon in Shibuya, Tokyo, is offering up a special Steins;Gate 0 menu, with cuts based on Kurisu, Mayuki, Moeka and others. There are seven styles in …Read more »
Tokyo, meet Neo-Tokyo. In the latest of our social media clips, we take a trip to Shibuya, where in recent months, a mural celebrating the Katsuhiro Otomo classic Akira has appeared. The giant mural wraps around the construction site of Parco, a department store being …Read more »
After a successful 11-year run in Weekly Shonen Magazine, Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail came to a close this July. Over its decade-plus in publication, the fantasy manga had made more than a few fans, who are currently paying tribute to the manga in the form …Read more »
You want Nico? You’ve got Nico. The pop-up shop in Shibuya devoted to last season’s Kiznaiver may be gone, but in its place is another Kiznaiver attraction: this time it’s a mini-exhibition of key frames from the studio Trigger series. And if you were a …Read more »
For the month of June, at least, Tokyo's fashion capital Shibuya gave Akihabara a run for its otaku money. Aside from the recent opening of Production I.G’s retail store , this month Shibuya was also host to no less than three anime-related shops, devoted to …Read more »
Production I.G, the anime studio behind Ghost in the Shell , Kuroko’s Basketball and Psycho-Pass , has gotten into the retail game. The I.G Store, which opened April 16 in Shibuya’s Marui building, is up and cranking and is full of merch from I.G’s most …Read more »
Production I.G, the studio behind anime like Ghost in the Shell , Psycho-Pass and Blood: The Last Vampire , will open a store based around their properties in hip Tokyo neighborhood Shibuya, reports Anime Anime. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to visit. The …Read more »
Now this is cool. As we mentioned of our review of The Boy and the Beast , the new Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children , Summer Wars ) film, one of the film’s primary locations is Shibuya, the real-life Tokyo ‘hood famed for its shopping, …Read more »
Life is pretty good for American fast food junkies living in Tokyo. We’ve got McDonald’s, natch, Burger King, KFC and even Wendy’s, which relaunched recently after a Wendyless spell in the late naughts. But Taco Bell is one fast food franchise expats have been only …Read more »
As Americans who dig Japanese animation, do you ever wonder what kind of American animation catches on in Japan? While Disney releases like Frozen and Big Hero 6 rule the big screen, lately the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time seems to be doing well with …Read more »
It’s been a big week for Godzilla in his hometown of Tokyo. We reported the other day in a giant Godzilla statue that’s been set up in a park in Tokyo, and the new Godzilla film is finally opening in Japan this Friday. Well, thanks …Read more »
Close your eyes for a minute and make a mental picture of Tokyo. Does it involve a crowded crosswalk flanked on all sides by tall buildings, giant screens and colorful ads? That's Shibuya, the quintessential bustling Tokyo neighborhood, a youth culture mecca that's served as …Read more »
It's been some time now since Japanese band Thee Michelle Gun Elephant split up, dialing the clock about six years back to October 11, 2003, when the breakup was first announced. Considering until that point they had been together since 1991, that's certainly not a …Read more »
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