Mash Style Lab is the world’s first and only “Sesame Street Market” that combines Sesame Workshop (Headquarters: New York, USA), a non-profit educational organization that produces Sesame Street, and Sesame Street’s official store, merchandise sales, cafes, and workshops. Mash Style Lab will be in charge of planning and managing the Sesame Street Market, which will open in November.
Akachan Honpo is now selling T-shirts designed in the world of Eric Carle, the author of the picture books “Nontan” series (published by Kaiseisha) and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (published by Kaiseisha) at the “Akachan Honpo” online shop.
San-X will release new items based on the theme of “Zasso to Yosei no Ohanabatake” from the popular character group “Sumikko Gurashi”, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, at retailers and online shops nationwide from around the end of April.
Bandai Namco Entertainment has launched the “SAO” Game 10th Anniversary Project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the “Sword Art Online” game series. In addition, a video commemorating the 10th anniversary of the “SAO” game series, the culmination of the SAO game series scheduled to be released on October 5, on PlayStation®5/PlayStation®4/Xbox Series X|S/Xbox One/STEAM® “SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection” latest PV is now released.
Pleasure Cast, a subsidiary of BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Co., Ltd., has opened a children’s playground “Crayon Shin-chan Ora no Asoberu Yume Park Hikari no Mori” (hereinafter referred to as “Yume Park”) with the theme of the popular character “Crayon Shin-chan” in the Kyushu area for the first time.
Cocone has been holding an event with “Rilakkuma”, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, on March 10th for smartphone apps “Pokekoro” and “Pokekoro Twin” that allow users to enjoy changing avatars and communicating with each other.
Village Vanguard Corporation, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, has decided to hold the Pop Up Shop “Tom and Jerry Nakayoshi Pop Up Shop” throughout Japan. From March 17th, the event will start at Aeon Mall Kumamoto.
Wonderfy has released a new video “Light Up, Pikachu!3” on the Official Pokemon Youtube channel.
The world’s cutest balance ball RODY, born in Italy, is now available with an original design based on the characters from “Shin Kamen Rider”. Passenger RODY and Mascot are now on sale at Toei ONLINE STORE.
MAGES. Announced that the release date has been decided on May 25 for the Nintendo Switch™/PlayStation®4 game “The Quintessential Quintuplets: Gotopazu Story”. In addition to the regular version, a luxurious illustration book set (5 types) and a five complete set will be released at the same time.
Toei Animation has announced that in collaboration with The Sandbox and Minto, on the blockchain-based metaverse “THE SANDBOX”, it will produce LAND in collaboration with the company’s IP.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the popular character “Rilakkuma” this year, San-X will hold a “Celebration Narikuma Ceremony” at the Daimaru Tokyo store from April 28th to May 16th.
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