Doraemon is Japan’s most watched movie franchise

Movie distribution company Toho announced Tuesday that the Doraemon movie series has became the most watched in Japanese movie history.

Since the release of Doraemon: Nobita’s Dinosaur in 1980 to this year’s Doraemon: Nobita’s Secret Gadget Museum (teaser above), the Doraemon movie series (34 in total) has now attracted over 100 million viewers, toppling the previous record set by Godzilla which sold 99 million tickets in 28 movies.

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Maki Horikita Weekly Big Comic Spirits

Japanese actress Maki Horikita in No.16 (2013) issue of Weekly Big Comic Spirits Magazine. They branded her as “the woman like a flower.”

Maki Horikita Weekly Big Comic Spirits

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Hayate The Combat Butler! Cutie PV

Promotion video for Japanese anime series Hayate the Combat Butler! Cutie, coming soon in April 2013.

Instead of following a story arc in the manga, the anime features stories of Hayate with one of the cuties in each episode.

It’s not a direct sequel to the two previous instalments.

Read a bit of my extra thoughts from an earlier post here.

Scandal Singapore autograph session video

J-Pop band Scandal’s autograph session in Singapore on Friday. The all-girl-quartet will hold two concerts at the *SCAPE Warehouse this weekend.

Jpop girl band Scandal Singapore

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Nendoroid Petite: Hatsune Miku Selection

Picture for Nendoroid Petite: Hatsune Miku Selection.

Nendoroid Petite Hatsune Miku Selection

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