Halloween isn’t typically celebrated in Japan, but it doesn’t stop anime artists and manga artists from drawing your favorite anime casts in Halloween costumes! And plus, these artists come up with awesome Halloween costume designs that you wouldn’t probably see in the real world…because they’re complex! More »

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With Japan being the second largest music producer behind the United States, the Japanese music market has a variety of artists to listen to. In the Jpop scene there are huge and popular groups like AKB48 or ARASHI. While big and popular groups have alot of talent to offer, like a variety of singing pitches and personalities, solo artists tend to get overshadowed, but these five Jpop female solo artists have managed to break through and become well known in the Jpop scene: More »

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From Girlybubble: Today’s feature of Cute Phone Charms presents the Square Enix Kingdom Hearts Avatar Cell Phone Strap (Cloud)! Are you a fan of Kingdom Hearts? More specifically Cloud? Then perhaps you should check this cute cell phone strap out! The charm is in Cloud’s likeness and even comes with his signature sword. Though the face kinda scares me but it’s cute nonetheless. More »

Apparently, Kingdom Hearts producer Tetsuya Nomura, gave a little hints during an interview that the ending of Kingdom Hearts 3D might actually lead into the story of Kingdom Hearts III. In 3D, players will be able to control Sora and Riku, and looking at some screenshots, they seem seem to look as they were in the original Kingdom Hearts. Why? Nomura refuses to reveal the reason why, saying that it is a secret. Guess we’ll have to wait until the game comes out to find out! On a less mysterious note, the gameplay system are all complete, they are now running through some trial phases. Hopefully, we will be able to see this game on the market very soon! More »

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From Wirebot:

Gizmodo Japan has captured some great shots of the Square-Enix booth at this year’s Tokyo Toy Show. As any kind friend would do, I am passing them along to all of you. My personal favorites are the Slime silverware and the Kingdom Hearts chibi statues. More »

From Ningin: A survey was conducted in Japan, asking 3,000 gamers what they’re favorite Square Enix game franchise was. Some titles that made it to the top 10 were surprising while others were predictable. More »

From Ningin: In August Square Enix will ship out these totally cute Kingdom Hearts figurines for us to hold, showoff, play or whatever you do with your figures. More »

From Wirebot: The director of the highly popular Kingdom Hearts franchise, Tetsuya Nomura, recently mentioned in an interview that three additional Kingdom Hearts games are currently in the works. More »

From Ningin: This cosplay of Ventus and Aqua from Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep is brilliant. The lighting, the angle, the costumes- I love just about everything in this crafty photo. More »

From Ningin: There were many awesome games that were released this past decade and it was hard for me to choose which ones to put on this list. But I limited myself to games that came from Asia (more specifically Japan) and here is the list that I have come up with. Keep in mind that I have limited access to game consoles, excluding my Playstation 2. So most of the games on this list are from the PS2. More »