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Japanese Film Festival 2025 📅 When: Ongoing until Feb. 9 📍 Where: Shangri-La Plaza Red Carpet Cinema, Mandaluyong City ...

Going beyond entertainment, most anime shows explore themes of identity, resilience, Japanese culture and the human condition. Despite being fictional, the characters are extremely relatable. So, ...

With the return of Trainer's Pokemon, fans can now collect new cards with both their favorite Trainers and Pokemon in one.

Charizard cemented its place alongside Pikachu as two of the most recognizable icons in pop culture, with hundreds of ...

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Per day. Which is how much one Japanese player has been spending as he celebrates acquiring his 50,000th card. The person responsible, as reported by Automaton, is Japanese YouTuber Hajimesyacho.

Regional variants are among the most popular themes in Pokemon fan art, as they give artists the freedom to reimagine popular critters with alternative types, often coming up with impressive results.

I'd just finished installing the final art work in my Animal Crossing museum ... By chucking in the Battleships-style digs, players get a better sense of the role that luck plays, I think.

Claw Zone, which claims to be Kentucky's first Japanese-style claw machine arcade, is slated to open in early spring, business owner Jack Zheng said. The arcade will be located at 5629 Outer Loop ...

Here, the orders this café takes range from coffee and sweets to childcare, shopping, teaching Japanese to foreign students, etc. It's mostly tasks unbefitting of Lycoris. The free-spirited and ...