Character News from Asia / Japan
Since April 1st, Karadanote and StylingLife Holdings Plaza Style Company has been collaborating with Barbapapa, carrying out a limited-time campaign with original goods and special web page.
Its mission is to support family health, increase more smiles, and deploy tool applications and media for pregnant and parenting mothers.
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A limited collaboration tie-up with the two major national characters, “Crayon Shin-chan” and “Hello Kitty” from April 4 in DHC corporation is underway.
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Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. announced its first official baby brand “monpoké” from popular Pokemon is born.
Targeting a new generation of moms and dad, the concept is “Hi-Sense”, “High Quality”, “Designs the Adults want”, and “Gifts”.
Expand design and quality products that can be used by parents and children, targeting maternity mothers to children around 36 months.
The main visual expresses Pokemon with a soft and soft impression for the brand.
The brand logo is a colorful and fun impression, yet it has an elegant design that can be held easily by adults.
It is a logo that symbolizes the new Pokemon brand combined with simple typography.
“Cacdo” will be in charge of development for brand naming and logo design, and special collaborations such as product packaging and product design will be developed in the future.
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・monpoké Official site：https://monpoke.jp/
Bandai’s official shopping site “Premium Bandai” has started to accep reservation for “LE BIZZARRE AVVENTURE DI GIOGIO Parte5 VENTO AUREO × VANS” on March 27th.
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On 8th Jan 2019, one of the leading travel information website in China, Mafengwo, together with the Japan Anime Tourism Association, announced to start providing information about anime pilgrimage to Chinese tourists, which makes anime pilgrimage becomes the hot topic again recently.
So what is anime pilgrimage?
As an anime giant nation, there are quite a lot of anime and comic stories take place in the real world locations in Japan. The fans would treat these locations as ‘holy sites’ and visit them frequently, to enjoy the feeling of ‘being a part of the anime’. The anime pilgrimage successfully attracted many tourists to visit the sites and already developed into a mature industry chain. According to the research carried out by Hankyu Travel in 2018 about the most popular buzzwords related to traveling, anime pilgrimage has become the first place (the second is the mysterious tour and the third is night pool). This reflects the popularity of anime pilgrimage in Japan.
Don Quijote opens “MARVEL Limited Shop by Don Quijote”, which deals with popular character items of MARVEL, from April 2 Open at a total of 49 Don Quijote stores nationwide.
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Cafe-comme ca is the cafe saving cake with seasonal delicious fruits from around Japan.
This time, to commemorate the [EVANGELION Illust collection book 2007-2017] reproduction exhibition, collaboration menu will be released from 5th-23th April,2019 at Cafe-comme ca Shibuya shop.
gelato pique cafe bio concept started collaboration cafe named “gelato pique cafe meets with RiLAKKUMA” from 12th March at Tokyo.
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The character “Transformers” created by Takara Tomy celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2019.
As the 35th anniversary and new movie film “Bumblebee” that is new series of “Transformers” was released, the collaboration cafe named “Bumblebee Cafe” was opened at Ikebukuro PARCO during the period from 8th to 31th March.
“Street Fighter II” was Launched in 1991 and recorded a big hit in the all over word,and “Street Fighter V” which shows global excitement in e-sports and attracts attention from all over the world recently.
This time ”Street Fighter” collaborate with UNIQLO graphic T-shirt brand “UT”
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Kirito in Musashi Miyamoto dressing appears.
The Kokura Castle in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, Japan would have the grand reopen on 30th Mar, with the collaboration with anime ‘Sword Art Online’ (SAO).
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Produced by New Line Cinema, worldwide distribution by Warner Bros..
Sanrio and Warner Bros. announced that, as the first one among Sanrio characters, Hello Kitty is going to have a worldwide distributing movie. The project would be produced by New Line Cinema under Warner Bros., which is famous for the production of the worldwide famous movie ‘Lord of the Ring’.
