Evangelion Store Tokyo-01 Hosts Evangelion Racing Week

The Evangelion Store Tokyo-01 in Harajuku will be holding a special “Evangelion Racing Week” from 16th to 31st March 2012.

Kochi Indies Manga Magazine Open to Overseas Submissions

Kochi Indies Magazine is an independent publication whose main purpose is to nurture young artists with aims of joining the manga industry.

Adidas To Release Giant Killing East Tokyo United Gear

Proudly sporting the three stripes, the limited East Tokyo United jerseys, scarves, and headgear are scheduled for release in April.

Vocaloid Race Queens 2012 Edition Out Soon!

To celebrate their wins at the Japan GT300 series and the Japan Race Queen Award (narrowly beating out the candidate from EVA Racing), GSC is releasing a new Puchi Nendroid Vocaloid Race Queen set featuring Miku, Rin, and Luka.

Nekomimi Hoodies from the EVANGELION STORE TOKYO-01

Travelling to Tokyo this spring? You might want to drop by the EVANGELION STORE TOKYO-01 in Harajuku for some of these reversible nekomimi hoodies

Snow Miku x Family Mart Yuki Matsuri Collaboration

Hokkaido stores of the Japanese Family Mart convenience store chain will be participating on a special Snow Miku promotion, during Sapporo’s Yuki Matsuri.

Let Shining Blade’s maidens protect your PSP

Sega’s upcoming PSP RPG, Shining Blade, has maidens designed by the legendary Tony Taka (T2 Art Works). In the game, those maidens will protect your player character either through enchantment songs (think Macross), or transforming into blades that you can… Read More »

Japanese Publisher Releases “A Worry-Free First-Time Guide to Cosplay”

A new how-to book published by Omusha Ltd. walks cosplay novices through the intricacies of the hobby. Omusha is better known for its guides and how-to’s on more scientific pursuits such as electrical engineering and satellite construction.

Autographed Cosplay for a Cause Calendar Up on Ebay

With the multiple disasters that struck Japan in March 2011, cosplayers from all over the world have come together to support the country’s recovery efforts. The result of this collaboration is Cosplay for a Cause.

Cool Japan Month launches in Singapore

Today, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan has adopted “COOL JAPAN tactics promotional project” which supports Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in overseas market cultivation of Japanese cultural business. The Cool Japan Projects 2011 for Singapore begins today with its three key focus areas -“Food from Tohoku”, “Fashion” and “Content business”. More after the jump