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Hypnosis Mic: Shop Official Mer...
【J-SUB PROXY SHOPPING Introductions – Anime Popculture related Items】 Voice Actors×Rap×Anime Characters (声優×ラップ×キャラ) An unprecedented and ambitious multimedia project that started out on September 2nd, 2017! Although it was a completely unknown project at the time of launching, the first music video release「Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-」stormed right up to 3rd place in the YouTube ranking and elsewhere, creating quite a stir!
Splatoon Squid Cushions!
Splatoon is a video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The game centers around characters known as Inklings—beings that can transform between humanoid and squid forms, and hide or swim through colored ink sprayed on surfaces using gun or brush-based weaponry. Splatoon features several game modes, including 4-on-4 online multiplayer and a single player campaign. Splatoon players control characters called Inklings, who have the ability to shape-shift between human and s
Shogi, the Japanese chess!
Shogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game. Its earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century was brought to Japan where it spawned a number of variants. Two players, Sente (Black; more literally, person with the first move) and Gote (White; person with the second move), play on a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks (rows) by 9 files (columns).   The rectangles are undifferentiated by marking or color. The bo
Furikake!
Furikake is a Japanese topping which usually is a mixture of dried tuna, sesame seeds, salt, sliced or seasoned seaweed, etc. Furikake is mainly used to sprinkle over steamed rice and noodles, but it is also used for salads, soups, pasta and sushi rolls.   Here it goes a brief history… Around 1912, a pharmacist called Mr. Suekichi Yoshimaru of Futaba, came up with the idea to make a product with ground fish bones to compensate for a lack of calcium in the Japanese diet. Small fish w