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Sleeping next to your celebrity crush hug pillow not enough? Now you can peel...
We recently looked at the physical and psychological benefits of sleeping with hug pillows, or dakimakura as they’re known in Japan. But while that discussion was limited to plain, undecorated...
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Sandwiched Between Twintails Pillow: For if you don’t know to hug your pillow...
We’ve talked before about Japan’s love affair with gigantic hug pillows. Even if they’re not covered with pictures of your anime or celebrity crush, dakimakura, as they’re called in Japanese, have a...
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Huge six-meter (19.7-foot) anime hug pillow will prove you’re a great big...
When you look at them a certain way, huggy pillows with pictures of cute anime girls on them are kind of creepy. Well, actually, they’re creepy in several ways, but for right now, let’s limit our...
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Cosplay in your sleep with this giant anime-style “pigtails pillow”【Pics &...
The creative team at Bibi Lab have been at it again. The inventive brand dedicated to bringing weird and wonderful items out into the world have delighted us with life-sized human-shaped pillows,...
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Anime huggy pillows make mainstream inroads with appearance in Cartoon...
The American broadcaster’s We Bare Bears features a panda, a grizzly, and a polar bear…and in its most recent episode, also an anime schoolgirl pillowcase. Created by Daniel Chong, Cartoon Network’s...
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Anime girl huggy pillows that talk and gasp when you stroke them now...
New frontier in otaku tech smashes crowdfunding goal, set to ship soon. It’s been about a year since Japanese technology developer Koichi Uchimura launched a crowdfunding project for his vision of the...
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“Resident Weeaboo”– Swiss otaku’s parody of horror series features anime...
Swiss super otaku Melonpan might just be the most bonkers Resident Evil fan on the internet… As a fan of the Resident Evil series for almost 20 years, I was caught between excitement and trepidation...
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Y-shaped naked anime girl pillow cover features spreadable legs【Pics】
An unabashed recognition that buyers probably aren’t going to stop at just hugging. Look, let’s be honest here. The target market for huggy pillows with half-naked, or fully naked, anime girls on them...
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Japan’s Cotton Wife and Husband huggie pillows evolve into downsized versions
“Cotton Kids” in everything but name. A few years back Japan’s Bibi Lab released the Cotton Wife and Cotton Husband. Human-shaped, human-sized huggy pillows, the Cotton Wife and Husband were billed as...
View ArticlePopular new Japanese love pillows seem dirty but promise to smell clean
Well, wouldn’t you know it? Just because app developers are releasing a program which would allow otaku the interactive experience of sleeping next to Hatsune Miku doesn’t mean that Japan’s commonly...
View ArticleNow trending in Japan: Duct-taped hug pillows
Back in my teaching days, some of my more hormonally afflicted students would take great pleasure in asking me whatever inappropriate or perverted questions popped into their heads, often wrongly...
View ArticleFinally, a chance to cuddle up to Japan’s “No. 1 Cosplayer”, Enako
Fans of cosplay star Enako will now be able to get their hands on her, or at least her new dakimakura cuddle pillow. While Enako, who claims to be making up up to a million yen (US$8,854) a month,...
View ArticleYou can now buy breast implants for anime huggy pillows in Japan
Fluffy add-ons seem like they’d make the pillows less comfortable for sleeping, yet better equipped for their primary purpose. Making anime huggy pillows might seem like an easy line of work. Take a...
View ArticleAmerican otaku attends college graduation accompanied by his anime girl huggy...
Young man in Southern California has a degree, and also a very clear opinion on who Love Live!’s best girl is. I didn’t attend my college graduation ceremony. My school has separate ceremonies for each...
View Article50-year-old Japanese man arrested for selling naked Love Live! anime pillow...
Investigators say multi-year operation earned him millions of yen. Some mainstream anime franchises are perfectly willing to openly acknowledge that fans have sexual fantasies about their favorite...
View ArticleHALOP: The Japanese huggy pillow for people who already have a human...
A new kind of dakimakura designed to provide fantasies that are actually based in reality. It’s pretty widely assumed that the primary market for huggy pillows, or dakimakura, as they’re called in...
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Giant Pokémon huggy pillow is a dakimakura version of a sweet that’s too cute...
Mega-size Tokyo Banana Eevee is here to nourish us with warm fuzzy feelings. Whenever Japan comes out with a new adorable character-themed dessert, we have a bit of an internal conflict. Yes, we’re...
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Japanese police file charges against illegal anime girl huggy pillow cover...
Prosecutors plan to throw the book, not the pillows, at him. On Tuesday, the Kanagawa Prefectural Police filed charges with the Yokohama public prosecutor’s office against a 44-year-old man. The crime...
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Anime girl hizamakura body pillow/ASMR voice combo offers wide variety of uses
Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World presented with multiple options. You can probably guess from the title, but the intended appeal of anime Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World is the female...
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Fans looking for naked Hatsune Miku faced with naked dog instead
Hatsune Miku fans eager to order the “Naked Hatsune Miku Love Pillow Cover” were faced with quite an unexpected image on the product’s Amazon JP page! (This post contains images that may not be safe...
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