What would idol series Love Live! have looked like as a late 1980s anime?...
Love Live! Sunshine!! voice actress gives her school idol character an old-school makeover. The Love Live! franchise is a very modern anime success story. Hard-core fans who treat the fictional teen...
View ArticleUniqlo’s shockingly sexy new clothing item inspires selfies and anime-style...
New addition to Extra Warm line gets very hot below the hips. Uniqlo is Japan’s most popular casual clothing brand, and with good reason. Its clothes are well-made, reasonably priced, comfortable, and...
View ArticleBest Secret of Mana fan art ever? Jaw-dropping project took over a year,...
And, naturally, the combined strength of three heroes. A simple way of explaining the difference in video game graphics between now and the 16-bit era is that modern games look like CG and classic ones...
View ArticleEevee cafes and Pokémon therapy: Artists imagine “living with Pokémon”...
Japanese fan artists give us a glimpse of what a normal life would be like in the amazing world of Pokémon. Part of what makes the Pokémon world so special is that unlike some other fantasy stories,...
View ArticleModern Hollywood movies get a ‘70s/’80s Japan makeover with awesome retro...
Talented fan takes John Wick, Pikachu, and Marvel heroes back to the golden era of Japanese poster graphic design. In our modern world, online trailers and video teasers are the way to drum up interest...
View ArticleJapanese graphic designer finds his wife’s old notebook doodles, wows the...
The pages are filled with intricate etchings of everything from talk-show guests to Shadow of the Colossus to Coraline. Japanese Twitter user @barusu_xxx is a graphic designer and part-time...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy super fan recreates the Buster Sword in a single pencil lead to...
Big love for Cloud’s giant sword comes in a small package. Last week video game publisher Square Enix finally released Final Fantasy VII Remake, a complete overhaul in terms of both graphics and...
View ArticleAwesome Nintendo fan craft idea: Power up your cloth face mask into a...
A few simple changes let you wear your love of Nintendo on your figurative sleeve and literal face. Once upon a time (three months ago), paper face masks used to be easy to find. All you had to do was...
View ArticleTerrifying Pokémon fan art fails to win card design contest, succeeds at...
Do NOT look directly into the eyes of this Pikachu and Charizard! While Nintendo serves as publisher for the Pokémon home console video games, the company is not, in fact, the developer. That work is...
View ArticleJapanese anime/manga pros join Sailor Moon Redraw online movement, redesign...
Global movement shows us an anime star we’ve seen many times, but in ways we’ve never seen before. Sailor Moon is one of those anime characters that just about anyone can instantly bring up a mental...
View ArticleOne Piece creator waives copyright for LINE stamps, allows fans to post,...
“Of course all the money is yours to keep!” says Eiichiro Oda while announcing temporary free-for-all. One Piece is a tale of pirates, but that doesn’t mean the franchise takes a lenient stance towards...
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Please refrain from making Evangelion fan porn, anime studio officially asks
Studio Khara’s fan work guidelines want artists to keep it at least a little classy. It’s less than a month until the release of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, the long-awaited fourth...
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20-year fan artist retires from Rei art after studio’s “No Evangelion fan...
End of the line for Mogudan. Anime production company Studio Khara is pretty busy these days, what with the long-awaited release of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time just a few weeks away. But on...
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Nier Automata’s creator is confused by Square Enix’s new fan art guidelines
Maybe for another series it wouldn’t be a headscratcher, but Yoko Taro is surprised about one request. For pretty much as long as the industries have been around, video game and anime publishers in...
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Japanese fan artist kid redraws entire collected volume of Attack on Titan...
Awesome art project took a long time. Japanese Twitter user @moriteppei sounds like a pretty generous guy. He runs his own private library, loaning out books to people in his community, and he even...
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Free official Evangelion coloring book-style art released, fans share new...
What would Asuka look like if she jumped ship from Evangelion to Gundam or Demon Slayer? With the long-delayed Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time having finally made it to theaters, and the anime...
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This “shiitake mushroom” is one of the most mind-blowing pieces of Nintendo...
It may not be Mario, but you can practically hear the character shout “It’s me!” Japan is a great place for fungiphiles, what with all of its gourmet mushrooms. Among them, the shiitake is especially...
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Embroidered Laputa: Castle in the Sky clock catches the attention of Studio...
Anime fan’s year-long embroidery project gets a magical ending. Studio Ghibli is famous for its old-school ways, preferring hand-drawn animation techniques over computer generated ones. The process...
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How would Pokémon Scarlet and Violet look with pixel art? Awesome. Japanese...
And it’d sound great with the Nintendo DS sound suite too. With the release of Pokémon X and Y in 2013, the series’ left bitmapped visuals behind and went to polygonal models. It’s a switch most other...
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Fist of the North Star manga artist draws Mad Max’s Furiosa, presents artwork...
It’s a lovely day as two post-apocalyptic storytelling legends talk with each other for the first time. It’s often the case that Hollywood movies hit theaters in Japan only after their American, and...
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