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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) […]

We’ve gone over different types of figures before – but we didn’t cover Ultra Detail Figures. And with an epic

We could make a real bad joke here about the safest places to keep your stuff. But this isn’t a

Some movie names don’t survive the translation from English to Japanese. ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ somehow became ‘Bus Man’. The whole ‘Fast

The 2018 Sanrio Character Ranking marked the 33rd time they’d asked us all to vote. When we posted this, voting

Q-pot is where real-looking fake food, kawaii-ness, and girly fashion jewellery meet. Don’t contain(er) your excitement, share it The Q-pot

When you love cats and you love cosplay, combining the 2 makes sense. Someone else put that idea into action

DEJAPAN Staff / February 19, 2018

Sanrio characters number in the hundreds. Over 200, last time we counted. Trust us on that figure, ’cause we aren’t

DEJAPAN Staff / February 12, 2018

It’s easy to recognise a Pikachu. The bright yellow-ness, the ears, the lightning bolts that come out of those cute

DEJAPAN Staff / December 11, 2017

Being a cat seems super easy, from the way some house cats act all day. Lie in a sunbeam, meow,

DEJAPAN Staff / November 27, 2017

Pokemon Centres have saved our Pokemon (and our butts) many, many times – and they’re real-world lifelines for Poke-fans around

DEJAPAN Staff / October 26, 2017

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