Day 216: Kamen Rider (Masked Rider)

Kamen Rider (Masked Rider) is a weekly science fiction story created by Japanese manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. It debuted as a tokusatsu television series on April 3, 1971 and ran until February 10, 1973, airing on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and NET TV (now TV Asahi). A manga adaptation was also featured in Shōnen Magazine around the same period. The series has spawned many sequels and evolved into a franchise. The cultural impact of the series in Japan resulted in Akimasa Nakamura naming two minor planets in honor of the series: 12408 Fujioka, after actor Hiroshi Fujioka, known for his portrayal of Takeshi Hongo/Kamen Rider #1, and 12796 Kamenrider, after the series itself.

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Reader's submission: Domo by Richard Young

Two Domo figures contributed by our long-time reader Richard Young.

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Day 208: Kuromi

Kuromi is a fictional character from Sanrio, the Japanese company best known as the creator of Hello Kitty. Kuromi is the rival of My Melody from the anime Onegai My Melody. She is a white rabbit or imp-like creature, wearing a black jester's hat with a pink skull on the front and a black "devil" tail in the place of a normal rabbit's tail.

Kuromi's birthday is on October 31 (Halloween).

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Day 207: Gloomy Bear

Gloomy Bear is a fictional character created by Mori Chack, a Japanese graphic designer. A 2m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans, Gloomy Bear is an antithesis to the excessively cute products produced by Disney, Sanrio's Hello Kitty, and other companies. Mori Chack believes that humans and animals are incompatible, and an animal is wild by nature. This is expressed most pronouncedly by the Gloomy Bear, which is often shown blood stained and attacking humans.

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Day 156: Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game character and the protagonist of the Sonic video game series released by Sega, as well as in numerous spin-off comics, cartoons and books. The first Sonic game was released on June 23, 1991, in order to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo's flagship character Mario. Since then, Sonic has become one of the world's best-known video game characters, with his series having sold 50 million copies. In 2005, Sonic was one of the first game character inductees into the Walk of Game, alongside Mario and Link.

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Day 147 & 148: Little Twin Stars

Little Twin Stars is a pair of characters made by Sanrio. The little brother is called Kiki while the elder sister is called Lala. Kiki has blue hair, while Lala has pink hair (sometimes, Kiki's hair is brown, while Lala's hair is blonde). Both have a birthday of December 24. They were introduced in 1975 and enjoyed popularity in the early 1980's.

The characters make cameo appearances in 2004 on the front cover of Tommy February6's second album Tommy Airline and in her video for the song "MaGic in youR Eyes", and in one of the Sanrio Unico movies.

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Day 145: Mega Man

Mega Man, also known as Rockman in Japan, is a video game character, created and developed by Capcom since 1987. Since then, he has become one of the company's primary original characters and continues to be one of the video game industry's most recognizable icons. Having appeared on many gaming systems since the Nintendo Entertainment System, Mega Man has had a wide gaming audience, and his games continue to evolve with the ever-changing hardware demands of modern gaming systems.

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Day 141: Naruto

Naruto is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.

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Day 104: Megatron

Megatron is the founder of the Decepticon uprising, and their most well-known and feared leader. As a young, charismatic leader forged in battle and the heritage of war, he began to believe in a grand purpose for his race—it is the Transformers' glorious destiny to rule an empire which will span the universe. The opposite of his mortal enemy Optimus Prime, he feels great contempt for other Transformers who, he feels, betray their proud heritage by demanding peace and cooperation with weaker life forms.

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Day 99: Pikachu (Pokémon)

Pikachu is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise — a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. As do all Pokémon, Pikachu fights other Pokémon in battles central to the anime, manga, and games of the series. Pikachu is widely considered the most popular Pokémon, and is regarded as the official mascot of the Pokémon franchise.

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Day 56: Ultraman

Ultraman is a fictional character featured in tokusatsu, or "special effects" television programs. Ultraman made his debut in the tokusatsu SF/kaiju/superhero TV series, Ultraman, a follow-up to the television series Ultra Q. The show was produced by Tokyo Broadcasting System and Tsuburaya Productions, and was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System from July 17, 1966 to April 9, 1967, with a total of 39 episodes.

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Day 53: Gundam (RX-78-2)

The RX-78 Gundam is a series of fictional testbed mobile suits in the Gundam Universal Century developed by the Earth Federation. The titular mobile suit of the series, the RX-78-2 Gundam, is a member of this series. The RX-78-2 Gundam serves as the iconic symbol of the Gundam universe and sparked the creation of its multiple sequels and spinoffs.

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Day 48: Doraemon

Doraemon (ドラえもん) is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) which later became an anime series and Asian franchise. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi.

In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first "anime" ambassador.

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Day 26: Speed Racer (Mach GoGoGo)

Mach GoGoGo, which centered on automobile racing, was first created and designed by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida (1932–1977) as a manga series in the 1960s and made the jump to TV as an anime series in 1967. The English rights to Mach GoGoGo were acquired by American syndicator Trans-Lux. The main character Gō Mifune was given the name "Speed Racer" in the English version. It was adapted into a live action film, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, who also serve as co-producers, in 2008.

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Day 7: Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty is a simply drawn character who was created in 1974 by the Sanrio Company in Tokyo, Japan. It has been marketed in the United States from the beginning and has held the position of U.S. children's ambassador for UNICEF since 1983. The brand rose to greater prominence during the late 1990s when several celebrities such as Mariah Carey adopted Hello Kitty as a fashion statement.

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Day 4: Astro Girl

Astro Girl (known as Uran in the Japanese version) is Astro's little sister. She is very mischievous and tends to get into trouble all the time. Physically, she is almost as strong as Astro, but she cannot fly. She can be a real brat at times but the bond between Uran and Astro is strong. Each has demonstrated that they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the other's safety. Uran was known as "Astrogirl" in the original black and white series.

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