Light the candles on the cake, because three decades ago this week, Japan’ most ironically named video game franchise was born.
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Final Fantasy celebrates 30th anniversary with fan tributes from cosplayers, artists, musicians
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Casey Baseel
Dec 22, 2017 - Tweet
- Japan
- (cosplay • fan art • Final Fantasy • illustration • Square Enix • tributes • video games)
Studio Ghibli in Real Life video beautifully combines the worlds of reality and Hayao Miyazaki
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Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2017
The characters of Ghibli’s anime films live in our hearts, and in this amazing video, they live in our towns too.
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