YOU+MORE!: home goods, fashion, and randomness for animal lovers
You, plus more? What more could you need in your life? If the answer to that question was ‘a backrest
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So Kawaii!
The absolute cutest stuff – straight from Japan!
Animal Life: Toy Story meets the zoo, only in Japan
This figure collection sounds like a documentary. And looks like a hidden camera show you’d see on TV. The ‘Animal
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Charaction Cubes: your fave characters, with multiple twists
Well, it’s a great way to discover ‘new dimensions’ in characters you know and love… Go on then, what’s a
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Re-ment: cuteness in the palm of your hand
Blind boxes are a type of kawaii lucky dip. You know what the full set looks like, but not what’s
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Produce48 J-idols: who are you gonna pick?
We admit it, okay? We’re obsessed with Produce 48. And sure, maybe we were already very very very obsessed with
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This is a pencil: hand-drawn illustrations by Tomoya Mizoguchi
Y’know those cute designs you see all over Japanese goods? There’s a high chance they came from the mind (and sketchpad)
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Ultra Detail Figures: quality mini collections that deserve your attention
We’ve gone over different types of figures before – but we didn’t cover Ultra Detail Figures. And with an epic
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Japan’s crazy butt bags: let’s get to the bottom of this trend
We could make a real bad joke here about the safest places to keep your stuff. But this isn’t a
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Spoiler alert: The funniest Japanese names for Disney movies
Some movie names don’t survive the translation from English to Japanese. ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ somehow became ‘Bus Man’. The whole ‘Fast
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Rooting for the underdog, rabbit, and cat: less well-known Sanrio characters
The 2018 Sanrio Character Ranking marked the 33rd time they’d asked us all to vote. When we posted this, voting
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