Yeah, was cool in person. Just looked like a mess of metal at first, but then it turned into Conan as I moved, and realised it was probably one of double sculptures.

It’s real.

Sometimes

The anime is already past where the movie diverges.

Would have made more sense to wait until I could have understood it fully...

His spoilers go no further than the current part of the anime, wrt to the coma?

This is my true form!

Chihayafuru live action seemed okay! Then again, I didn’t understand a good chunk of it (JP not good enough), and emotional responses were primed from the anime version.

Saw a random TV show at new year about a girl who really liked Ramen (she was having a Ramen battle with the popular boy in school...). Turned out it was a manga adaptation.

Managed to locate this:

Twitter agrees with you. There’s already fan art out there.

At first I thought maybe it was a cute local name for Happy Meals.

Different regional ads, voiced by different AKB girls (I assume from each region). Works in their region’s slang / vocal tics.

It’s usually pretty packed! They have some special areas set aside for the cosplayers.

Goth-loli-sama approves.

If the video looks familiar, the studio has done plenty of other ads, like for Puzzle & Dragons.

Extra regional ads (from ANN http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-…)

Kansai:

They still do! Was quite a surprise to learn this too

Don’t forget there are different versions for the different regions of Japan, which work in each of their vocal tics.

And of course one of them is dressed as Kirito.