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The Art That Makes Vagabond Ache - Takehiko Inoue’s Mastery of Expression
How Vagabond reveals its sorrow through restraint rather than spectacle.

She’s So Hot I Wanna Clean Her Room - 3D Mapped Bedroom Chaos
Messy rooms scanned in 3D become love letters to chaos.

EZ’s Cyborg Wardrobe - The Dream of a Modular Body
EZ blurs body and machine until fashion becomes emotional armor.

A Man of Crocs - Yutaro Saito’s Fashion Diary #3
Yutaro Saito’s third column finds quiet strength in Crocs.

The Most Important Game In NPB History - “Dirty” Egawa’s Final Stand
A career marked by brilliance controversy and one final defeat.

KIDILL and Seppuku Pistols - Japan’s Gone Mad, and that’s the Point
A collaboration that explored identity through fashion, music, and performance.

In the Mist of Twin Peaks Mania in Japan
Cherry pie, eerie silence, and Japan couldn’t look away again.

Children Full of Life – What It Means to Grow Up Human
How one teacher made crying in class completely make sense.

Sketching Punk Energy – Ore’s World Between Berlin and Tokyo
Ore sketches loose lines packed with punk mood and manga heart.

Peterparker69 × Yoji Noda – Neon-lit Heartbreak Meets Emotional Glitch in ‘Hey phone’
Peterparker69 turns digital static into something strangely beautiful and sad.

Breaking Boundaries - Masaaki Yuasa and the Wild Grammar of Animation
Where most follow rules, Yuasa finds freedom in distortion.

The Sophisticated Minimalism of Tokyo’s Uniforms And Suits
Precision and subtlety define the understated power of Tokyo’s uniforms.

Onitsuka Tiger - A Legend Laced in Dust and Blood
Born in post-war Kobe, reborn on Tarantino’s blood-soaked set.

SONOKO - The Underrated, Ethereal Album 'La Debutante'
A Kyoto-born whisper drifts through Paris, elegant and eerily unresolved.

Hallucinatory Japan - The Psychedelic World of Keiichi Tanaami
Postwar trauma and pop culture collide in Tanaami’s vivid dreamscape.

Ai Yazawa and Vivienne Westwood - Where Punk Meets Manga
Yazawa’s manga wears its heart out loud, stitched in Westwood’s tartan.

Brutal Zen – The Raw Poetry of Japanese Brutalism
Paul Tulett photographs quiet concrete forms hiding in plain sight.

The Karaoke Torii Gate - Heaven’s Sound System
A sacred gate turned into an interactive sound installation.

Tokyo Compression - The Faces of Tokyo’s Commute
Through glass and stillness, Wolf frames the cost of movement.

From Tokyo to Florence - The Jewelry of Kato Rikiya
Kato brings Japanese craftsmanship into Florence’s centuries-old jewelry tradition.
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Yutaro Saito’s third column finds quiet strength in Crocs.