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Located in Arcadia, Asayoru is LA’s only brick-and-mortar Maid Cafe. Aiming to bring the Akihabara experience to LA, they serve cute and delicious food and drinks with moe moe maid magic! With the magic in maids’ hearts, they hope to bring happiness to their mundane everyday life!
BOOKOFF is one of the largest used bookstores in Japan and has a variety of book genres from education to anime. Currently, there are over 800 stores in Japan and you will find one easily if you visit Japan. Not only books but also DVDs, furniture, clothes, etc are sold and BOOKOFF buy your stuff that you don’t need anymore. there…
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An Educator Who Overcame Hierarchy with the Power of Learning and Supported Japan’s Modernization
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JapanUp! is proudly pleased to introduce Japanese companies that liven up Anime Expo 2022 in Los Angeles! Before we celebrate the event in July, Let’s get to know well about this event and the vendors and be ready for having an amazing time there! Anime/Manga lovers, you CAN’T miss out this series!!
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Miracle Girls is a Magical Girl Japanese manga and anime released in 1993. Tokyopop licensed the manga for English release in North America.
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The incident created quite a stir at a time when samurai virtues had seemingly been forgotten during the long peaceful years of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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You can now better imagine the horsemen and archers in their period costumes, on their beautiful and colorful steeds dating back to the Heian period.
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Even if you didn’t grow up in the 80s and 90s you can now watch many of these series on RetroCrush which is a streaming service dedicated to the Golden era of anime.
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An angry Oda Nobunaga surrounded Matsunaga in Shigisan Castle and demanded his head. A tea enthusiast, he also sought a very valuable tea item that was in Matsunaga’s possession, the Hiragumo.
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Originally, it is a day to celebrate a growth and good fortune of boys.
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Including other types of noodles, it is common to eat ramen while making the sound of slurping noodles. By slurping noodles, it is said that the soup is more easily intertwined with the soup and the aroma is
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3rd Shogun of Edo
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