Category Archives: Anime & Manga

B-LABO: Doraemon Pen Case

  – What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –   Today’s interesting stationery from B-LABO is a Doraemon pen case. This is something extra for a young children’s magazine.    

Maid Cafe : More Than Coffee

  Cafes can be found all over the world. But in Japan, a unique cafe experience can be found; the maid cafe. A maid cafe is one of the cosplay…

Create Your “Hokusai” Japanese Art Online

  I want to introduce this interesting browser tool that you can make [W:Hokusai] like Japanese wood prints! It is called Hokusai Manga Construction Kit. It is quite simple. You…

Hakone Kowakien Yunessun – Hot Spring Amusement Park & Spa Resort

Hakone Kowakien Yunessun is a hot spring amusement park and a spar resort in Hakone, [W:Kanagawa Prefecture]. The mountainous town is famous as a traditional onsen (hot spring) town, and…

Heian Themed SF Manga Created by a JAPAN Style Reader

  Today, I want to share a beautiful manga work that has created by one of JAPAN Style readers. It has been one year since I started this blog, and…

Wasabi Stories vol.177: “Tune in to The Other Person First”

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Tune in to The Other Person First” Today’s story-teller is movie director Koji Wakamatsu. Firstly, Wakamatsu says, “I get offensive against snobbish people….

Chara-Hobby C3 x HOBBY 2010

Last weekend, Japan’s biggest characters and hobby event, “Chara-Hobby C3xHOBBY” was held at Makuhari Messe in [W:Chiba]. The venue had a lot of booths that exhibit and sell figures, toys,…

Make Your Photos like Japanese Manga Comics!!

Do you like Japanese manga comics? Japanese manga sometimes uses special effects like this.     Action lines, big and bold letters. So dynamic!!

Fusion of Hello Kitty and Daruma Doll!?

      I asked my friend who is from another country and lives in Japan, “what is your favorite Japanese character?” and she answered quickly, “Hello Kitty.” Hello Kitty…

Fun Beverages in Japan

When you go to a Japanese convenience store, you find strange drinks in the refrigerators.   For example; “Slime Heal Drink” “Slime” is a character from a video game series…

Welcome Back ! 1/1 Scale Gundam in Shizuoka

  IMGP7696s posted by (C)タスカのY田   Do you remember him? The 1/1 scale Gundam that attracted more than four million people in Tokyo last year? If this is the first…

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