A 3.2 by 2.1 meter pixel art of Astro Boy made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets by volunteers was on display at the Shinjuku Takashima Store to mark the opening of Tokyo’s new Fukutoshin subway line.

The Astro Boy art was a follow up of four reproductions of world famous paintings using 320,000 train tickets end of last year by employees at the Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka. The employees actually sacrificed their breaks and free time for three months to complete Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa one of the famous painting rendition.

3 more pics of the Astro Boy art made of 138,000 recycled train tickets after the jump.

Source: Pink Tentacle

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Anime is a symbol of Japanese culture and fans of anime even embrace their cars with anime stickers in this latest craze trend. Some of them does look pretty cool while others are blatantly overdone.

Check out 8 more pics of anime sticker automobiles after the jump.

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Earlier on we had the realistic makeover for South Park, well this time we have the anime makeover for the Simpsons by Space Coyote of Deviant Art. Every character is captured in a near perfect style from its original. Check out the original Simpsons pic after the jump.

If you liked this, you would like Space Coyote’s anime treatment of Futurama as well. Simpsonzu rose Vancouver artist Nina Matsumoto aka Space Coyote to instant fame after appearing on sites like digg and here’s the article by The Star about her. She even had offers from Matt Groening’s comics company and Fox!

Source: Deviant Art

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Totally love this anime music video using Kokia’s Arigatou with the anime ‘The Place Promised In Our Early Days’ (Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho). Kokia is a relatively lesser known Japanese singer who knew how to express her feelings by sound in her early childhood and her third single ‘Arigatou’ used in this anime music video won the third place in the International Popular Music Award in Hong Kong. 1 videoclip after the jump.

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The manga DragonBall by Akira Tokiyama is hugely popular over the world and he has inspired some of the current hugely popular manga artists in Japan. Here are some Dragon Ball illustrations by other artists from the likes of Eiichiro Oda of ‘One Piece’, Tite Kubo of ‘Belach’, Masashi Kishimoto of ‘Naruto’ and others. 17 more pics after the jump. Source: Daizex

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Here’s a great photoshop tutorial to change real life stuff into anime style.

Link: Tutorial Dash

A series of pictures showing step by step construct for a sexy anime bikini mod case. The guy who build this is Katsuya Matsumura. Definitely a mod case for lonely geeks.

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French publisher Ubisoft has acquired a non-exclusive licensing agreement with TV Tokyo to allow development of games based on the Naruto anime series. The game is going to be released in 2007 on the Xbox 360. It will feature all the popular characters from the anime series including Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi.

Source: TechTree

You can see this cool Final Fantasy VII advent children 850 x 4072 digital art at Image Shack.

Source: Image Shack

Here are some of the best Final Fantasy cosplays pictures that you can find online. See your favourite characters come to life.

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This is a Flash game on Shinichiro Watanabe’s anime Samurai Champloo. This is a beautiful game and is one of the best Flash games based on anime (Games based on movies, anime tend to be crap). The controls are not perfect though however this can be overlooked once you get used to it. It is basically a hack and slash game. Collect 100 coins to get an extra life.

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Here is a video of Bleach Myu musical skit where actors act out the characters in the anime Bleach. A must watch for Bleach fans. Isaka Tatsuya acting as Kurosaki Ichigo is pretty not bad. The video is in Japanese but if you have watched the anime you will roughly get what they are saying.

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This is a simple but fun Doraemon fishing game where you fish for different fishes. Each type of fish has their own point score. Although the game is in Japanese, you don’t have to be Japanese-literate to play this game. Just move your mouse to where you want to drop the hook. Don’t fish out Nobita or score will be deducted. Fish out the shark and its game over. Overall mediocre game but if you love Doraemon, this game is a must play.

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The country with weird ideas, Japan has come up with anime looking mannequins. With big round eyes and its anime appeal, it will definitely be nice to look at rather than the plain old mannequins. It would even be more great if they are based on famous hits anime like Dragonball, Bleach, etc. 1 more pic after the jump.

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