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Figures based on anime, manga and bishōjo game characters are often sold as dolls in Japan. Collecting them is a popular hobby amongst Otakus . The term moe is otaku slang for the love of characters in video games, anime, or manga, whereas zoku is a post-World War II term for tribe, clan or family.
He started making garage kits and now works for Kaiyodo, [1] a Japanese company that specialises in anime-related figurines. Bome's work has proved sufficiently popular and successful for Kaiyodo to release a Monsieur Bome Collection, including figures from such popular anime and video games as GunBuster, Full Metal Panic, Dead or Alive, Kiddy ...
The kits include a soft form of Play-Doh, a 3D styling tool and a base such as a vanity set for the children to decorate. The Play-Doh comes in tubes which fit into the styling tool and are then extruded from a nozzle to make shapes in a similar manner to frosting cakes. [2] It is similar to the 3Doodler except uses Play-Doh instead of plastic. [3]
Produced during Murakami's so-called "bodily fluids" period, the 9.45 ft-tall (288 cm) statue depicts an anime-inspired figure ejaculating a large strand of semen. Like its companion piece Hiropon , My Lonesome Cowboy is an example of superflat art, an art movement founded by Murakami in the 1990s to criticize Japanese consumer culture.
The first anime and traditionally animated winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Spirited Away at the 75th Academy Awards. They would later win this award for a second time with The Boy and the Heron at the 96th Academy Awards, marking the second time a traditionally animated film won the award.
A custom model of French soldier Jean Nicolas Sénot (fr:Jean Nicolas Sénot). A model figure is a scale model representing a human, monster or other creature. Human figures may be either a generic figure of a type (such as "World War II Luftwaffe pilot"), a historical personage (such as "King Henry VIII"), or a fictional character (such as "Conan").
Hot Toys Limited is a Hong Kong production house for designing, developing, and manufacturing highly detailed collectible merchandise to worldwide markets. They are known for their high end 1/6th scale figurines of licensed properties, like Marvel and Star Wars, which must be preordered.
The so-called "dogū with palms pressed together" (合掌土偶, gasshō dogū) is a Japanese dogū or clay figurine of the late Jōmon period (c. 2000–1000 BC).Excavated from the Kazahari I Site in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, it is exhibited at the nearby Korekawa Jōmon Kan.