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The character and hobby festival Chara Hobby 2013 was held for two days, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, at Chiba's Makuhari Messe.

• 13 years ago

The master of Japanese animation officially announced his retirement with a smile.

• 13 years ago

What does “girly” mean? Illustrator Kazumi’s answer to this question is, “Wearing stylish and cute clothes”. She draws what she likes, and the girls on her illustrations are inlayed with her “style” and “cuteness”. We interviewed Kazumi, who pursues the image of such “girly” girls.

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S.H.Figuarts is a series of roughly 14-centimeter-tall (5.5 in) fully movable figures from major Japanese toy retailer, Bandai.

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For many, “Animelo Summer Live 2013 - Flag Nine-,” the world’s biggest anime song concert festival, has become a summer tradition. This humongous event was recently held at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan.

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Cosplayer Usako is pursuing the kind of cosplay that anyone who sees would think is cool.

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"Project Phoenix" is seeking backers from the crowdfunding site Kickstarter!

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Shibu Pop satisfies pop-culture fans with a variety of stores to browse.

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“The Basketball which Kuroko Plays Animate Fair” is being held until Aug. 25 in the anime speciality store Animate. The second season of the anime will begin this October.

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After the worldwide preliminaires, the World Cosplay Summit 2013 finals were held in Nagoya, Japan on Aug. 3.

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“Animelo Summer Live” is the world’s largest anime song concert event held yearly at the Saitama Super Arena.

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*Death Note*, a monumental work that symbolizes the ‘00s, isn’t your ordinary intellectual and cool suspense work. It is a reflection of the current age, a mixture of tragedy and comedy which gave birth to a closed off society.

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In our present age when anyone can freely upload information to the Internet, there is an increasing number of people who use the Internet as a means for promotion and advocacy as well as people who browse that information.

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The U.S theatrical release of *Blue Exorcist the Movie*, which was released in December 2012 in Japan, has been decided.

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Pop unit mimimemeMIMI is a good place to start asking questions.

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On Aug. 9, the product announcement event “MikXperience e.p. / Xperia feat. Hatsune Miku” was held at Sony’s main building.

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"...I’d like Overlap Bunko to emit more than anyone else a kind of talent that only we could be known to unearth."

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On Aug. 10, Comic Market 84, a three-day event that is the largest doujinshi distribution event in the world, began at Tokyo Big Sight.

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Nowadays, Japanese anime are very popular even abroad. But did you know that for most of them, there is an original work?

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On Aug 3, the Tokyo Otaku Mode sponsored two-part “First Latte Art Showdown” was held at the AppBank Store in Shinjuku.

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