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Want to look good while staying safe? Put CUM on your face!
Preorders for all five types of CUM have already begun! Sadly, we are far from out of the woods when it comes to COVID-19 in Japan, and that has really spurred companies of all kinds to develop their...
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Japanese schoolgirl struggles to comprehend the shocking truth that her mom...
Sometimes, the glory of our greatest accomplishments is lost on our kids. Japanese Twitter user and mom @natsuki_lo_ol_’s daughter is four years old, and being enrolled in preschool means she has...
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Japan to amp up its “Electronic Warfare Force,” which pleases tokusatsu fans
Bad news for aggressive foreign nations and Demon King Banriki. According to preliminary budget reports the Japanese government is planning to establish a dedicated Electronic Warfare Force (Denshi...
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Godzilla vs. Dry Indoor Air
Let them fight. In perhaps the biggest pivot from heel to face in cinematic history, the mass-destruction causing radioactive monster Godzilla went from humanity’s greatest threat to greatest hope as...
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Here it is: the first look at the new Ultraman movie from Evangelion creator...
First came Shin Godzilla, and now comes Shin Ultraman! Watching Evangelion, you might notice that its fights feel different from other giant robot anime. That’s because Eva draws most heavily not from...
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First-ever Super Sentai Restaurant opens in Tokyo thanks to high-end karaoke...
Power Ranger fans, it’s snackin’ time! One of the most recognizable TV shows to ever come out of Japan is Power Rangers, known as Super Sentai in Japan. Though outside of Japan Power Rangers is often...
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Kamen Rider Revi’s hoverbike is a real thing that’s on sale now, delivery by...
By far the most expensive toy the long-running series has ever featured. On September 5, the latest iteration of the 50-year Kamen Rider tokusatsu series began. Called Kamen Rider Revice, the series...
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The often untold story of cleaning up dead kaiju finally coming to theaters...
♫Where do daikaiju go when they dieeeee?♪ The tokusatsu genre in which giant monsters of “kaiju” do battle and cause widespread destruction in the process, has been undergoing a bit of a Renaissance...
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The anime cosplay DJ in Tokyo’s crazy Nakagin Capsule Tower apartment【Photos】
Koe finds the perfect space in which to find her creative voice. There’s no other apartment building quite like Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, and you’d be right in assuming a complex that unusual has...
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Hideaki Anno’s Shin Ultraman gets May 2022 release date, new preview video
That’s only 72,086 Ultraman fights away! At the beginning of 2021, we reported on the upcoming Shin Ultraman film, based on the classic tokusatsu Ultra series. At the time, we mentioned that it was...
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New McDonald’s burgers pay homage to an icon of the kaiju genre
A favourite returns…with some surprising new ingredients. McDonald’s has a revolving roster of menu items that reappear for a limited time every year in Japan, and the Chicken Tatsuta is one of them....
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Ultraman title logo generator set up online by McDonald’s Japan
What’s old is Shin again! As we reported previously, McDonald’s Japan has re-released the hugely popular Chicken Tatsuta burgers. However, this time it’s a collaboration with the release of the new...
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1:1-scale Ultraman artwork appears on headquarters of Japan’s biggest...
Other anime and tokusatsu heroes can be seen on the sidewalk below. With so many of Japan’s anime series taking place in Tokyo, fans might half-expect to suddenly find themselves walking past their...
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No CG here! Clever camera trick has Ultraman towering over the buildings of a...
The tokusatsu icon gets a visual boost from a Yokohama landmark. As the star of one of the original tokusatsu/kaiju series, Ultraman is never far from the popular imagination in Japan. This month,...
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The new Shin Ultraman movie is out, and here’s what both an Ultraman fan and...
Is the new film something only for fans, or can anyone enjoy it? Ultraman is a tokusatsu franchise that has been around for almost sixty years now. Ranking among the likes of Godzilla, Super Sentai...
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Godzilla, Evangelion, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider have formed a giant robot in...
Witness the birth of Shin Universe Robo! What do Godzilla, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider all have in common? The most obvious thing is that they’re all pioneers of the tokusatsu special-effects genre who...
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Tokyo has an anime character-themed perfume shop, and we stopped by to talk...
Fairy Tail takes inspiration from anime’s biggest series and stars and turns them into unique fragrances for fans. From its name, you can probably guess that Tokyo fragrance company Fairy Tail draws...
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Black-bun Squid Devil Burger set to shock Japan with tokusatsu-inspired...
Dom Dom goes devilish with Kamen Rider crossover. It’s tough to describe Dom Dom Burger. It’s both Japan’s oldest and most often overlooked hamburger chain, and yet it consistently creates shocking...
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Dom Dom’s Squid Devil Burger is here to shake up the gourmet scene like a...
Join us as we go head to head with Japan’s baddest black burger. In Japan, big-name burger chains like McDonald’s and Mos Burger tend to get all the glory, but if you’re in Japan right now, Dom Dom...
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Cosplay in front of explosions and flames at the upcoming fiery Baku Festival
Experience the thrill of being an action movie star while posing in front of professionally controlled explosions. On April 28, the third annual Baku [Explosion] Festival (爆フェス) will take place in...
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