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Usually, customers go to restaurants to order and try delicious foods. However, an eatery in Nagoya, Japan, called ‘Shachihoko-ya,’ offers a face-slapping service to customers who want to have an exciting time. This practice have sparked curiosity among people on the internet. While many restaurants around the world are figuring out how to attract customers […]
Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights are true wonders of nature. The dancing green lights above-snow-blanketed landscapes feel mesmerizing and otherworldly to behold. For Filipinos, this means traveling almost halfway across the world as they are only commonly observed in countries such as Iceland, northern parts of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. Until […]
Makati City’s skyscrapers, skyline, and the street signs of Ayala Avenue and Makati Avenue, got featured in Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine. Local Facebook fan page Detective Conan PH: Anime and Manga shared screenshots from the latest film adaptation of the hit anime and manga series, where the anti-hero Vermouth flies to the Philippines and […]
Most trading cards feature pop culture references like Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, or even entertainment and sporting greats. But Japan is changing the game with the release of Japanese scientists and researchers’ trading cards. 74 researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) were featured in their own trading cards at the […]
As the number of Japan’s ‘akiya’ or ‘ghost houses’ (vacant houses) is growing rapidly, a vacation rental company is planning to convince owners to sell them and remodel each one into tourist lodgings According to the government’s Housing and Land Survey in 2018, a survey conducted every five years, Japan has almost 8.5 million akiya. […]
Japanese artist AiNA THE END released her new single ‘Diana’ on November 28. The track was written as the theme song for the reality series ‘Love Like a K-Drama’, which began streaming exclusively on Netflix globally the same day. The music and lyrics were composed by AiNA THE END, with arrangement by Shingo Suzuki. It […]
Japanese lyricist Yoshiko Miura passed away last November 6 due to pneumonia at the age of 74, as confirmed by reports from Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun. A funeral was held in her memory with her close relatives attending the ceremony. Within the anime fandom, the lyricist is well known for her works featured in […]
Following the “Attack on Titan” manga’s 11-year run from 2009 to 2021, the anime adaptation of Isayama Hajime’s magnum opus finally reached its end on November 4, 2023, with a feature-length finale that filled its fans around the world with tears, pride, and closure. The finale episode, titled “The Final Chapters (Part 2),” began with […]
If you were on X (formerly Twitter) earlier today and are on the side of anime Twitter, then you might have already heard about this one. MAPPA, the studio behind the anime adaptations of ‘Attack on Titan: The Final Season,’ ‘Jujutsu Kaisen,’ ‘Yuri!!! On Ice,’ and ‘Vinland Saga Season 2,’ is currently under fire following […]
