Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo was crowded with fans on the first day of the “Big Dengeki Bunko Exhibition” held from April 27 to May 10.
“Sanrio Character Ranking 2013” is currently underway. The popular character general election features Hello Kitty and other characters from the familiar company, Sanrio.
In the June 2013 issue of the shoujo manga magazine Ribon, a column to introduce readers to the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku called “Hatsune Miku × Ribon Broadcasting Station.com” began serializing.
This time, we interviewed Yoshimi OHTANI who is in charge of the main visual for the “Sakura Exhibition,” an exhibition for promoting illustrators, about her work.
On April 27, an event for the currently airing anime *The Flowers of Evil* called “The Flowers of Evil: Hana ga Saitayo Assembly” was held in Ginza, Tokyo.
Bandai has announced a T-shirt called “Ora Ora Border T” that uses augmented reality (AR) and is themed after Hirohiko Araki’s *JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure*