The 68th Annual Sapporo Snow Festival began in Sapporo today, and the snow sculptures look amazing! The Sapporo Snow Festival is one of Japan’s largest winter events, and every year about 2 Million people see about 250 creative ice sculptures. Event if you are not in Japan, you can enjoy some of the great ice sculptures here! The Sapporo Snow Festival runs from February 6 … Continue reading Sapporo Snow Festival Sculptures!
Studio Ghibli has done it again. Their animated film “The Red Turtle” has won Best Indie Feature at the 44th Annie Awards. Studio Ghibli already has an amazing history of creating some of the most iconic animated films of all time. And if you are a fan of anime, then you have probably seen at least one of their films–but I hope it is more … Continue reading Studio Ghibli’s “The Red Turtle” Wins Annie Award!
Hello everyone!! We are excited to introduce our new manga–Gaikokujin! This is an original manga about two brothers who begin a new life in Japan. They will get into many crazy and fun adventures, so we hope you enjoy reading it! Continue reading Gaikokujin Chapter 1–New Beginnings
Kimi No Nawa (Your Name), the record-breaking anime, will make its North America release in April 2017! The release will be made on at least 200 screens beginning April 7, 2017. Of course, I’m lucky enough to be able to see it in Japan, so if you want to see it before April head to Tokyo! –Sal Continue reading Kimi No Nawa Will Come To America In April!
Japan has selected some of its 2020 Tokyo Olympics Ambassadors, and I am happy to say they are anime characters! That’s right, Goku, Naruto, Luffy, Sailor Moon, and more will welcome the world to Tokyo! The Olympic Channel introduced the ambassadors in the clip below: These are not all of the ambassadors for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, so if you don’t see your favorite anime … Continue reading 2020 Tokyo Olympics Introduces Anime Ambassadors!
Beginning today, the popular “Super Mario Run” mobile game will be getting a new “Gold Goombas” event. In this event, you will see Gold Goombas appear in the game. Each Gold Goomba will be worth 30 coins, and will fill a space in a stamp card you get. The more stamps you collect, the better the in-game prizes. One Gold Goomba stamp gives a you … Continue reading Super Mario Run Gold Goomba Event!
On February 1, 2017, Japanese mobile phone company “Au” and Transformers started the “au x Transformers” project. The project hopes to bring mobile phones which transform into Transformers! There will be three types of phones: “Infobar Optimus Prime” “Infobar Megatron” “Infobar Bumblebee” The phones will have Bluetooth and will come with a mini-phone while in Transformers mode. The project is currently looking for supporters on … Continue reading Mobile Phone Transformers in Japan!
Courage-Create Co. in Japan is selling Heart-Shaped Strawberries, which are perfect for Valentine’s Day! The strawberries are known as “Ichigokoro”–which combines the words “ichigo” (strawberry) and “kokoro” (heart). The box of strawberries sells for 1,270 yen ($11 US Dollars), but can only be bought in limited quantities of 100 units per day. It took four years to develop the product, and they actually first went … Continue reading Heart-Shaped Strawberries in Japan!
Square Enix has just revealed its new “Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Ultimate Wine Crystal Edition.” This wine set will sell for $950! Yup, its a pretty hefty price tag. It includes a thirty-year old bottle of Chateau Myney red wine, and two Final Fantasy wine glasses with Swarovski crystals. May be this would be a good gift for Valentine’s Day? Though I’m sure you could … Continue reading New Final Fantasy Wine Set!
JapanSauce.Net 