It was announced on Nov. 30, 2012 that Team Rocket’s Meowth will be coming to the Nintendo DS games *Pokemon Black Version 2* and *Pokemon White Version 2*.

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A new cafe collaboration in Akihabara is born!

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Japan Media Arts Festival 2012 began on Dec. 8, 2012 at ArtisTree in Hong Kong. The event is all about Japanese pop culture and isn’t planned to end until the beginning of January, 2013.

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Today, Comic Market #83, the popular winter otaku culture event, came to an end......

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One Piece and G-Shock's second collaboration model watch "Straw Hat Pirates Limited Edition" is now on sale and limited to only 3000.

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Matching up with the release of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, the “Evangelion & Japanese Swords Exhibit” is now open at the Okazaki Castle in the Aichi prefecture as well as the Iyeyasu and Mikawa Bushi Museum.

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Jigoku Youchien Project (original concept by Sugiyama, storyboard by Rintaro Otsuka), a group effort by Kadokawa Shoten, ASCII Media Works, Enterbrain, and Fujimi Shobo, is set to begin.

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SEGA’s *Initial D Arcade Stage* is a popular series of competitive racing games that reproduce the world of the anime and manga *Initial D* by Shuichi Shigeno.

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Milla Sainio and Tomi Turunen seem like your average otaku couple. Since childhood, they loved Japanese anime and manga......

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During the ninth episode of the popular anime, “Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!”, which aired on Tokyo MX on Nov. 28, 2012, a commercial aired for the new anime “Tamako Market”, which is scheduled to begin broadcasting on Tokyo MX in January 2013.

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The PS Vita port of the PS2 game “Fate/stay night [Réalta Nua]” went on sale on Nov. 29, 2012.

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Hayate the Combat Butler is a hugely popular manga currently serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday.

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Yahoo! Japan, the world’s largest search engine site, has released its list of most popular searches for 2012.

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Currently in Japan, the Nintendo 3DS is taking the gaming industry by storm. So far, the handheld gaming device has sold more than 8.5 million units.

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Recently in Japan, a trend has been growing in the world of latte art to use milk foam to create 3D images......

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Hatsune Miku is a worldwide phenomenon! Since her influence and presence spans several forms of media, it seems like she is always being talked about.

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Kyoto Animation is known for producing hit anime such as “ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi”, “Clannad”, and “K-On!”.

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“Geten no Hana” is a romance adventure game being developed by the Tecmo Koei Games division, Ruby Party, who are known for producing romance adventure games targeted at a female audience, such as "Angelique" and "Harukanaru Toki no Naka de".

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The PS Vita game "Fate/stay night [Realta Nua]" was released on Nov. 29, 2012. The game is a port of the 2007 PS2 game of the same name.

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The best Gundam builders in the world have been decided! Here is the latest news on Bandai's Gunpla Builders World Cup 2012.

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