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#Remake: Neon Genesis Evangelion is an influential anime series for many reasons: it's unique story (for its time), interesting characters (for its time), and exciting mecha designs (for its time). The re...

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#weird news: Behind every great work lies an inspirational trigger, and in the case of Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized artists in history, one of those triggers is Japanese hentai.The Picasso Museum...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: In his defense, this is labeled a "beginner" drawing lesson.Woof.I'll just let you take care of this in the comments. I just...that hand...wow. "Beautiful" indeed.Watch this (...

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#art: Of things in the world that classify as pimp, there are many different levels. There's kind of pimp, like a purple satin handkerchief just poking ever so slightly out of your jacket pocket. There...

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#japan: See that image up there? It's causing a big stir with the Advertising Standards Authority, reports the BBC. According to them, the Bizazza ad (it's a tile company) implies that "sexual viole...

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#japan: I've always had a strong interest in Japanese history, and I must say that traditional artwork and scrolls have always held an interest. That's partially why when I've considered grad school, I c...

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#books: Want a coffee table book that's sure to disturb your guests and make them feel uncomfortable for the rest of the night?Look no further than Last Gasp's upcoming book Onikage: The Art of Toshio Sa...

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#weird news: Google Earth and maps can be used to see a number of fun things, like your own house. Among other things, Google Earth can see "Earth-kun," the mascot of the Tokyo Metropolitan Sewerage...

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#manga: There were two announcements that came out of the bowels of Portland's own Kumoricon, and Mecha Mecha Media was there to give us the word. The first announcement is in regards to Jason Thompson's...

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#sayonara zetsubou sensei: Right out of the gate, our community blogs have been producing some awesome material. You might remember Roody's 2010 Baccano! calendar that we posted about a while back, and now he's onto a new ...

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#Vertical: Our friends at Vertical want to get you involved with Black Jack. While they have yet to pair up with a medical school to teach you how to be as awesome a doctor as Mr. Jack, they are giving you ...

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#wii: Potentially Work UnsafeTwo things sell: sex and violence. As such, folks who wish to sell more are often wont to work a little of one or the other (or both) into their product promotions. In viol...

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#weird news: Time flies, and even precious things come and go in what seems like the blink of an eye. It is the same with the life-size Gundam statue at Odaiba, which is, tragically, destined to come down in ...

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#weird news: This is almost too good to be true. Do you know someone who is about to do something stupid? Or dangerous? Or maybe just bizarre? Then this is the papercraft for you! All you have to have is a Ph...

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#weird news: If you can't make it to the Odaiba Gundam wedding, then just sit back and log onto Nico Nico Douga to watch famed artist Yoshitaka Amano do a live drawing of famous ASCII art from 2ch.I'm betting...

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#art: People all over the world mourned Michael Jackson's death. Some wore it on their sleeve -- quite literally -- with t-shirts and wearable paraphenalia just days after his death. There was plenty o...

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#manga: If you've been looking for an excuse to go to San Francisco's Japantown district, tomorrow would be a great time, to do so, as manga artist Junko Mizuno will be signing copies of her latest graph...

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#San Francisco: Last weekend marked the grand openning of the NEW PEOPLE J-Pop culture complex in San Fransisco's Japan Town. Reportedly there were lines of people waiting to get in. The open...

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#weird news: Insect collecting is so passe. Sure, collecting bugs and mounting them on pins is pretty cool, but then you have to find glass cases for them, deal with PETA getting all up in your craw for your ...

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#mecha: This book is amazing. Released on the 13th and picked up by some at Otakon, it's a technical manual for one of the most iconic mecha models of all time, Macross' Variable Fighter VF-1 "Valkyrie."...

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#San Diego Comic Con: It must be nice to be Square Enix. They can snap their fingers and have manga's biggest and best do custom work for their fancy little showcase here. We checked out Square Enix's offerings a...

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#Sex: Attention horny men (and maybe women?)! Have we got the most awesome Japanese figure for you! André Peter, an enterprising fan of Junji Ito's super sexy Gyo manga, has channeled his barely...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: Face it. You are probably never going to see the coolest anime fan-dom creation of our lifetime up close and personal. Because you're poor and spend all your time and money buying silly little pl...

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#japan: C'mon, you have to admit that, at first sight, you would expect this piece to have come straight out of Gurren Lagann. It looks just like Lagann, after all. This "Kappa Machine" is actu...

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#mecha: The Nebuta festival is really something else. Those giant, awesome illuminated floats put the cheesy car-mounted stages you usually see at American parades to shame. They look like huge, 3D rec...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: Rice may be something you eat with every Japanese meal you have but to you, it’s only there to be eaten. Leave it up to Japan to be creative with their very own rice fields. I can’t e...

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#learn japanese: Jean Snow picked up word on the latest release from White Rabbit Press, along with a coupon available for the big ol' kanji poster you can see above. The company, known for their kanji flashcards...

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#weird news: To signal Edmond Honda's conquest of Glorious Nippon, the borders of his empire-to-be have been marked by a series of mysterious stickers. Over 87 of the seals have been found in Ginza district a...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: Imagine your forehead. If you need help, use a mirror. Then imagine an IV bag, the same sort they use to administer fluids to hospital patients, along with its attendant tube and needle. Now take...

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#art: Ever find yourself sitting in a long, boring meeting, all slumped over in your chair, aimlessly doodling away in the margins of the latest action-item report? Does your OCD kick in, compelling yo...

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#japan: Professional blogging, transcription, and data entry jobs just got a lot sexier. Online retailer E☆2 (pronouned "etsu") is now taking orders for ita-keyboards featuring illustrations ...

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#Tokyo: If you happen to be in Tokyo tomorrow (or technically later tonight if you're reading this post from over there), you owe it to yourself to head on over to Naked Tokyo, an art exhibit going on fo...

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#gunpla: Oh dear. It seems like a day full of unholy hell-spawn. Hybrids fused through twisted mind-rays shot forth from the skulls of horribly lonely shut-ins and maniacal over-fiends.Now we've got this ...

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#sale: Blah blah blah, text text words blah. I know, you're only here to look at the awesome Hello Kitty and Star Wars mash up. I don't blame you. I mean, after all, that's why I'm posting this in the f...

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#weird news: If you're unfamiliar with the history of the tanuki, you may have been a bit shocked if you saw the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko and saw them unfurl their testicles for use as a sitting mat, parac...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: Yeah yeah I know, we've all already heard about the big, "life-sized" Gundam. We've all been amazed and awed like crazy.Well, get ready to have that all happen again, only times a milli...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: The new cover of the conservative publication National Review seems to depict the Catholic, Puerto Rican descended, 100% American, born and raised in the Bronx, Princeton and Yale educated female...

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#weird news: The man who is largely responsible for breathing life into a million Sadako spin-offs and long haired wanna-bes is taking his newest work into a slight new direction. Straight to the toilet. Thou...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: Fish guts, tentacles stretched across bruised faces, deer-men, women bathing in frogs, flesh. What else would you expect from the self-described "perverted master of fish and girls?" An...

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#Otaku Goods: Ben Huber had to create a 12 month calendar for his final project in his Presentation Techniques class. Like any normal otaku who is presented with such a daunting task, Ben decided to base it of...

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#otaku culture: Start thinking of Japanese stereotypes. You've got the otaku, the OL and salaryman, the yakuza guy, the idol...the list goes on. Now look at the page called 51JapaneseCharacters.com and browse th...

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#San Francisco: San Francisco will soon see a new attraction in Japantown, coming from the minds at Viz Pictures and the J-pop Center Project. NEW PEOPLE is a entertainment destination (shown above) that houses ...

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#YA HA!!!!: Eden of the East Tribute from Ace0fClub5 on Vimeo.You know that great ending for Eden of the East, the one with the crazy stop-motion paper animation? Well, Japanator reader and guest blogger A...

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#music: Takashi Murakami, designer, illustrator, papercraft subject, bling bringer and BFF of Kanye West, is obviously no stranger to making cash money. His profile is higher than Snoop Dog on any day o...

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#TV and Film: OK sure, so maybe the cute and cuddly (except for maybe that lingering "undersea" smell) character Ponyo is, in fact, not a hellish soul sucking demon from the dark, crushing abyss. I c...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: I find it hilarious that a UFO invades Japanese airspace, and the only thing otaku do is make funny pictures about it. Yes, this is a real photo (I hope), though it is unconfirmed that this actua...

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#technology: Is your carpet boring, dead, useless fibers made of plastic that absorb your cheetos crumbs like a black hole? Well, it doesn’t have to be thanks to the work of Japanese flower based artist...

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#japan: The Tottori Sand Dunes of Tottori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan have come alive with creatures from fairy tales. That's because the theme of this year's World Sand Sculpture Festival is "fairy t...

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#TV and Film: The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) was in a bit of a pinch when the star of their commercials informing the public about the upcoming transition to digital TV in J...

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#technology: Normally netbooks aren't worth a crap. Light and cheap are the selling points, but they leave out the ugly and slow. This custom netbook may still suffer from the slows, but it's probably the mo...

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#TV and Film: SRW Hotnews found some awesome scans that sample some of the art in Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance, set to be released in theaters June 27th. These images were found in the newest issue of...

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#Japanator Original:   As some of you readers may or may not know, I was recently privileged enough to be able to travel around Italy a couple weeks ago. While checking out some of the offerings of the local m...

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#robots: There is nothing better than a Gundam model that is well put together, airbrushed, and miraculously detailed. Wait, there is one thing that is better; custom colors. Can anyone tell me what is be...

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#Papercraft: Sometimes these things just write themselves: "this is my new happy papercraft tribute to japanese 1970's generic, 'pinky violence' terrifying high school boss girls. it is called 'high sch...

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#News: You'd think that people in Japan would know better than to bring their porn and potato chips onto the subway. But according to a recent campaign sweeping through the Japanese railway system, some...

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#art: Here's a quick little one for all of you: grabbed off of AICNAnime's twitter, Chip Kidd (of Black Jack and Batmanga! fame) and a cadre of others in the creative field are getting together for Shi...

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#News: We all know and heard of Shuffle! because it's a well-known eroge game for the PC. It seems the artist behind the series has been selected to draw a picture for the Star Wars Art Collection that ...

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#yaoi: In Japan, along with doujinshi, many fans make and sell stationary based on their drawings. However, it seems that China has taken the lead in being able to sell off official boy love goods. Don'...

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#New York: I had the pleasure of attending the opening night reception of KRAZY! in NYC, an art exhibition featuring some key slices of contemporary Japanese anime/game/manga culture, this past week. It's h...

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#yaoi: Sorry guys, maybe yaoi isn't your thing but the ladies sure love it! I don't know how you feel about strip poker (that's a lie -- I probably do), but the idea of rubbing two cards together to cre...

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#japan: Here's a cute little bit I found off of C|Net Japan: A bunch of artists on pixiv, a Japanese deviantart of sorts, got together and had an event called pixiv Festa. The event took place from Febru...

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#otaku culture: I finally realized what my true calling is within in this dimension, and that is to become the world’s greatest Valentine’s Day cards artisan. I don’t know how I came to this co...

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#art: “What are we going to do about this?” asked Dr. Fernwood as he slapped the stack of papers within his grip. He took the fist paper in the stack and tossed it onto the desk that was op...

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#otaku culture: Today is the day that Obama Kamina was sworn into office (along with Vice President Bright as you remember.) To help celebrate this momentous occasion, I decided to litter Japanator with “O...

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#magazines: As I was browsing the magazine section of the local Borders bookstore I found a copy of the newest issue of Computer Arts Projects. It is a UK based magazine that has numerous tutorials, designs,...

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#TV and Film: We've seen the Boy in motion, but only briefly. For some of us, his new 2000-style upgrade is a little less than inspiring, what with his rather shiny and user friendly/Pixar look. The recently r...

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#videos: Imagine Tron, only stretched out and wrapped around your face, and you might come close to the experience of being at one of two recent shows held in Japan. The sound, provided by 8-bit maestro S...

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#otaku culture: Over on the blog of the always high-minded Henry Jenkins there currently resides a collection of photos by Brain Berman. While Jenkins is well known for his deep dissection of massive culture mov...

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#mashup: Danny Choo stumbled upon some very, very hot stuff as he partied with Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki. It was a treasure trove of Star Wars related merchandise, collected by Okazaki-sensei h...

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#art: Jinyoung Shin says of her own work:"Through my work, I want to reach the mind of a person with a transparent appearance, who displays all of himself without hiding. His mind is an infinite ...

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#art: One of Japans' biggest pop art sensations Takaeshi Murakami will be expanding his empire in the summer of '09. That's right, the man who brought us Mr. DOB's death grin and Hiropan's free flowi...

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#weird news: I feel like we've tread this territory before, but god help me if I can't find the trail. I know people have been attempting to do the "real life anime" thing in the past, with mixed re...

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#manga: I go through life in a low haze. My general reaction to things is either "meh" or "ung" or "zzz" or "goddammit!" It's either that, or a blazing fire of tot...

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#otaku culture: It’s Halloween in the real world and in the world of the otaku as well. This is the time to help appease or animated masters by taking out our Pumpkin Scissors and carving our favorite char...

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#Video games: I've ranted and raved quite a bit about the greatness of Tubbypaws. From our favorite illustration of super-blogger Shokotan, some creepy ganguro girls, papercraft photo booths and these two cool...