Anime design ticket
Tobu Railway and Chichibu Railway have started to sell a ticket designed a popular anime "Raki Suta (Lucky Star)" and "Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (We still don't know the name of the flower we saw that day) on Jan. 21 2012.
Japanese toy maker Bandai is to release a toy doll of popular anime, One Piece on Jan. 23.
Ohta Publishing has released the official book of a girl idol group, Momoiro Clover Z on Sep. 30 2011.
DJ Hello Kitty to play sometimes.
Sanrio is to open its new shop, named CLUB KT shibuya, at Shibuya 109, a popular fashion spot among young generation on Sep. 22 2011.
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Namco Bandai Games released an automotive navigation system featuring a popular anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam, as an iPhone application on July 29 2011. The product is called Gundam Navi.
Charlotte shows up in episode 3.
Japanese cartoon character merchandise maker Movic is to sell stuffed toys of popular animation, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" in fall 2011 at Animate and Gamers shops countrywide.
Atsuko Maeda as tomato girl.
Popular Japanese girls pop group AKB48, picked for the main character of vegetable juice by Japanese food company Kagome, has been appearing a web-based clock service called "Bijin Tokei" since July 4 2011.
AKB 48 Atsuko Maeda's official app. (C)太田プロダクション/(C)2011CYBIRD
Cybird has started releasing iPhone and Android application featuring four members of AKB 48 on June 10 2011. Atsuko Maeda, a winner of the third AKB 48 election, as well as Yuko Oshima, Rie Kitahara, Rino Sashihara are chosen for apps.
Shiori's voice is by popular voice actress, Nozomi Sasaki.
Otobank has developed and released an iPhone application, which a character anime girl reads cheering messages to recover from a catastrophe of Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11 2011.
Card-only illustration
Sumitomo Mitsui Card has issued an original credit card with a design of popular communication game, Love Plus. The company started to accept applications on Feb. 4 2011.
Serious political story turns to be comical.
Libre Publishing released a new comic book on Oct. 29 2010, which personalizes Japanese political parties as its original characters.
Shito is on a cake.
Chain convenience store Lawson is to sell a chocolate cake for Christmas called Evangelion cake (SHITO chocolate cake). Lawson started to accept an order on Sep. 28 2010, at its 8,671 stores around the nation.
Actor and singer Manabu Oshio was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison by Tokyo District Court on Sep. 17 2010. The court judged Oshio giving a woman named Kaori Tanaka the synthetic drug MDMA, which caused Tanaka's death. Oshio was accused of failing to fulfill a responsibility as a guardian when she took a drug and got very sick.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan defeated rival Ichiro Ozawa in the presidential election of ruling Democratic Party of Japan on Sep. 14 2010. Kan received 721 points while Ozawa had 491 points at the election. While Kan was strongly helped by party's supporters, Ozawa acquired 400 out of 812 DPJ's Diet members.
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Pony Canyon, a major company of Japanese music industry, released a CD with 2 songs of popular TV anime K-On!! The songs are used at the episode 20 of K-On's second season, which a band, composed of the anime's main characters, plays in a story.