models

The amazing independent artist anime figure creations of Wonder Festival【Photos】

Wonderful fan creations that you can’t find anywhere else.

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A massive photo collection of the coolest anime figures from Winter Wonder Festival

Photos from the floor of Japan’s biggest convention for anime and video game figures

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Insanely detailed 900-plus-piece Japanese model kit is…a 1:1-scale sesame dumpling【Photos】

Model maker Syuto continues to push the detail envelope in its food kits.

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Newest Gundam anime robot model kit is made with green tea leaves, smells like green tea

Bandai offers the chance to make a mecha that looks cool and smells nice.

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Jamiroquai doll from Japan lets you control your own Virtual Insanity 【Video】

The realism here is off the charts.

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Who the heck is this dancing foreigner advertising products in Japan?

The mystery deepens once you enter this store.

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Last Samurai star Ken Watanabe cooks with daughter Anne in viral YouTube video

Once-strained relationship looks very different now, as Anne starts a new life overseas. 

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What’s it like to pole dance on a rooftop in Tokyo?

The truth behind these photos is not as glamorous as it seems.

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Japan’s plastic model capital installs working plastic model-style payphones【Photos】

Plastic Model-ization Plan welcomes its newest public art pieces.

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Cosplay costume room tour by Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako is an eye-opener【Video】

A look at the anime and manga character costumes that earn Enako millions of yen.

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A room so huge it’s more like a warehouse.

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Is it still cosplay if you can’t even see the costume anymore?

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Miss Universe 2021 Japan entry slammed for wearing “dead person’s kimono”

“Cool Japan” take on national costume criticised as an “insult” to Japanese culture. 

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Which is the real piece of sushi, and which is Japan’s insane 429-piece plastic model sushi kit?

Plastic sushi reaches a new level of craziness with the new ikura gunkan model.

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When life doesn’t give you expensive tuna, build a tuna fishing vessel plastic model instead

We wanted to eat fresh-from-the-boat tuna but couldn’t, so we did the next most logical thing and built a realistic tuna fishing boat instead.

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Enako’s first “no-cosplay” photo book promises to be her “biggest exposure in history”.

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Japanese stores create clever anti-scalper policies for Pokémon cards, Gundam model kits

Making sure they end up in the hands of Pokémon Trainers and mobile suit fans, not resellers.

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Japanese actress Yui Aragaki stars in new H&M campaign

Gakki steps into summer as the ambassador for a new sustainable fashion line.

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This crazy plastic sushi model has 366 pieces, which actually makes a lot of sense【Photos】

No detail is too small for this amazingly complex kit.

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Virtual and real Japanese models collab for makeup commercial – but who’s the real one?

It’s easy to tell once you already know who’s who, but not so much if you don’t.

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