AnimeJapan 2016

Premium Collaboration

Traditional Crafts × Anime

“Tradition and Anime in our daily life” is our new theme. Popular anime series and traditional Japanese crafts will offer this limited collaboration works, both on display and for sale!
Traditional crafts have always been the reason Japanese culture was passed on and loved by many. Now, collaborating with anime, AnimeJapan 2016 creates special items only available here.
*Some products are made-to-order. We ask for your kind acceptance that an additional fee for the shipment will be applied and the delivery of the product may take longer than expected.

The Traditional Craft x Anime Collaboration Goods on sale at AnimeJapan 2016 are all handcrafted and are only for display on-site.
In order for to make the Traditional Craft x Anime Collaboration Goods available for purchase to every customer, we have set the following sales arrangement.

●Sales Arrangement
Sales Order for all items will be taken at the venue. Ordered items will be posted to your address.
We will stop taking sales order when we reach the maximum quantity.
*Kindly note that postage fee will be additionally charged.
*No sales after the event is planned.

●Sales Order Quantity
One customer is limited to buy only one variations from each item.

Please refrain from contacting the craftsmen for inquiry.
Thank you for your kind understanding about the limitation of the quantity.

    “THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS” × “GIFU-WAGASA (Gifu Prefecture)”
    Japanese Umbrella (Sae Kobayakawa “Hana Kanzashi” Ver./Work Collaboration “Into the Dream” Ver.)

    Reference Products
    * Exhibition only

    “Hana Kanzashi (hair accessories)” are made with the concept of “that which would look good on Sae Kobayakawa.” “Yume no Saki e (Beyond Dreams)” is conceptualized taking 14 persons from the Cinderella Project and expressing them as shining stars. Both are detailed and beautiful wagasa (traditional Japanese umbrellas).

    Regarding the work of art “GIFU-WAGASA” Kano District, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, is the main producing region. The process is known to be the most complex among many other sophisticated craftworks. Each process is divided down into small segments, which are done by manual labor. This traditional craftwork is well known as the special product of Minokuni since Edo period.

    “Rascal” × “KAGAWA-SHIKKI (Kagawa Prefecture)”
    Small Plate (Vermilion Ver. Black Ver.)

    Price
    \4,900 (tax included) each

    Small cute, attractive plates with patterns featuring the anime character Rascal and flower designs. A beautiful combination of the characteristic features of KAGAWA-SHIKKI and Rascal.

    Regarding the work of art “KAGAWA-SHIKKI” It started from researching lacquer ware techniques that have been derived from Thailand or China during the latter half of the Edo era, and then creating a new method by adding to that the techniques from ancient Japan.

  • “Mr.Osomatsu” × “KYO-YUZEN (Kyoto Prefecture)”
    Handkerchief

    Price
    \3,500(tax included)

    A beautiful handkerchief with a pattern of pines with the mutsugo sextuplets characters and cute, deformed dot design which is colored carefully one color at a time using paper mold and brush.

    Regarding the work of art “KYO-YUZEN” This is a dying technique devised by the painter Yuzensai Miyazaki during the Genroku era. Even while using many colors, a beautiful sense breathes in the dignified and graceful Kyoyuzen, cultivated by the history of Kyoto.

    “MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS” × “KYO-KUMIHIMO (Kyoto Prefecture)”
    Strap (“Tekkadan” Ver./ “Gjallarhorn” Ver.)

    Price
    \3,200(tax included) each

    This is a handmade strap created using single strands carefully twined by the craftsmen. The design is visualized using the images of Tekkadan and Gjallarhorn and the marks of each group are imprinted on a wooden tag taking red and blue as the base colors.

    Regarding the work of art “KYO-KUMIHIMO” From the Heian era, these have been widely used in home shrines/Buddhist altars, the armor of warriors, the cords for attaching swords to scabbards, etc. There are more than 40 basic ways of weaving, and each individual strand is a part of the weave.

  • “Armored Trooper Votoms” × “SHIGARAKI-YAKI (Shiga Prefecture)”
    Sake bottle&Sake cup Set

    Price
    \9,800(tax included)

    A quaint sake bottle and cup set with a design in the image of the world of Votoms and incorporates the [R] mark of Red Shoulder. This “Armored Trooper Votoms” brand sake is without doubt the perfect accompaniment to the ”lowest of the low”.

    Regarding the work of art “SHIGARAKI-YAKI” This includes pottery that is made in the village of Shigaraki in the south of Shiga Prefecture. Counted as one of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan, it has a history of 1250 years and is famous as the ornament of raccoon dogs. It has the characteristic of a simple beauty that gives life to so-called unlacquered surfaces of sober refinement and patina. While being plain, it has a novel attractiveness.

    “Touken Ranbu-ONLINE-” × “TAMAMUSHI-NURI (Miyagi Prefecture)”
    Hand mirror(Kiyomitsu Kashu Ver. / Uguisumaru Ver. / Kanesada Kasen Ver.)

    Price
    \2,800 (tax included) each

    A beautiful and glamorous hand mirror with a design in the image of the various Touken Danshi (sword warriors) dyed in vermillion, green, and purple colors topped with a “crest” pattern designed in gold.

    Regarding the work of art “TAMAMUSHI-NURI” With the characteristics of charming luster and flamboyant tone, this Lacquer ware is widely used in Sendai/Miyagi. The beautiful feeling that changes shades by modifying light has been named so because it resembles the blades of a jewel beetle.

    “NARUTO SHIPPUDEN” × “IGA-YAKI (Mie Prefecture)”
    Bowl

    Price
    \6,900 (tax included)

    A bowl with Kinoha mark and the Hokage “fire” mark and a wooden box.
    The solid shape and color combinations characteristic of IGA-YAKI are a perfect match for the world view of “NARUTO.”

    Regarding the work of art “IGA-YAKI” Fired with relatively large pebbles mixed in, it has the characteristic of being similar to the goby (the stones, etc., melt and rise to the surface). A rustic charm, the strong shape of the object itself, and solid colors are characteristics of IGA-YAKI.

  • “Fate/Grand Order” × “KANAZAWA-HAKU (Ishikawa Prefecture)”
    Gilgamesh designed ballpoint pen

    Price
    \16,800 (tax included)

    This is a beautiful, glamorous ballpoint pen designed taking as a base the color “gold”, the image color of Gilgamesh with a pattern of command spells and armor incorporated in “blue”. The KANAZAWA-HAKU is designed using “blue foil” in the blue portions.

    Regarding the work of art “KANAZAWA-HAKU” This a curtain for light and is gold foil where the thickness is just 1/10,000 of a millimeter or two. Adding to the climate of Kanazawa, experience and inventiveness have cultivated foil production techniques, and these have been passed down to the present day. A flexible and beautiful gold or silver foil that emits light has given life to works of applied arts and has supported the culture of the Kaga Domain, which famously boasts “one million koku.”

    “Bungo Stray Dogs” × “KOSHU-INDEN (Yamanashi Prefecture)”
    Pen case

    Price
    \9,800 (tax included)

    This is a superior quality pen case designed using the patterns of a manuscript paper on which letters from “No Longer Human,” a special ability of “Osamu Dazai” and motifs of his birth flower “rose” are used to create a design. This is an elegant pen case with designs in lacquer on deerskin.

    Regarding the work of art “KOSHU-INDEN” With the characteristic of a pattern imprinted with Japanese lacquer on deerskin, the deerskin conforms to the body, and because they provided strength, in the civil war era, they were actively used with weapons. There was a diversification of handbags, etc., in the Taisho era, and they have been brought forward to today.

*Kindly note that photographic image is used and they are subject to changes.

Fashion × Anime

Supported by SuperGroupies, collaboration works by popular anime and fashion will be on display and on sale!
We are offering anime tradition that have class. They will fit well in your daily cloths, and also shows a sense of characters it is designed off of.

Mode Textile Dress  Produced by SuperGroupies

「The iDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS」special dress is produced by SuperGroupies with ASUKA YAMAMOTO, Taeko Isu and ASUKA WATANABE, the three world-famous creators. Hope you to enjoy our work combined with mode fashion and anime, which has never been seen before.

©BNEI/PROJECT CINDERELLA 

About Dress Design

This gorgeous but uncommon patterned all over wedding dress is made in airy satin, organdie and shantung, decorated with velvet in deep blue and SWAROVSKI.

About Textile Design

Idols, who have infinite possibilities, are dancing in the sky,softly,joyfully.Colorful stars and rainbow are bouncing on the fabric called space fantasy. The dress is not only CUTE but also COOL and full of PASSION, just like the story of CINDERELLA GIRLS.

Designer ASUKA YAMAMOTO

Worked as patterner for YOHJI YAMAMOTO for 6 years, after that, established the fashion brand「FUGAHAM」with art director AKIYOSHI MISHIMA in 2006 and release in Paris, Milan and Saudi Arabia. Director of 〈Picture Dress〉 featuring JAXA and SHUJI TERAYAMA. Also a costume designer.

Designer TAEKO ISU & ASUKA WATANABE

Multi-talented design unit works in many way. Illustration , space design, …etc. Manager of「PHYSICAL TEMPO」. Won TDC 2012 RGB prize for □□□(KUCHIRORO)CD art working. Won TDC 2015 RGB prize for SEIKO ITOU「SHINAUNARU」project. Management of unique decorated sweets series「Okashiiya」.

About SuperGroupies.

Online shop that offers collaboration works, inspired by popular anime. Our design is based on the brand concept「Anime≒Fashion」. Items of SuperGroupies are will-fitting in daily clothes and also show a sense of anime characters.

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Collab 10 Selection

This is a project that displays collaborative works between anime and other industries.
This year, we are selecting 10 of the most notable cross-industrial collaboration works in 2015.
At the venue, there will be a display of actual works and comments by those are involved in making them.
We dedicate this project to showcase the potential of collaboration business and how you do it.

  • “AMAGI BRILLIANT PARK NO-RIN GIRLS und PANZER” × “Tokyo Verdy FC GIFU MITO HOLLYHOCK”

    Animation × Soccer !!

    A collaboration between three J2 League clubs and three anime works.
    An “Anime Derby” was performed among three opposing clubs as well as product sales, etc., and the stadium was alive with excitement.

  • “MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM”× “Sagamiya Foods Co.,Ltd”

    MS-09 DOMTOFU BLACK TRI-STARS USE

    This is the “G Tofu” series that is a collaboration between tofu and “Mobile Suit Gundam.”
    The fifth installment, which is this latest work in the series, is “Triple Dom Tofu” with three chocolate flavors.

  • “MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM” × “TOYOTA「AURIS」”

    AURISII CHAR AZNABLE’S CUSTOM

    Toyota and ZEON’s heavy equipment company ZEONIC have made a joint development which is perfect for Ace Pilot Char・Aznable.
    The color is red, with horns(Blade antenna).

  • “Kuroshitsuji Book of Murder” × “SHARP”

    ANIPLEX + x SHARP Premium COCOROBO, the cleaning robot

    SHARP’s communicating “COCOROBO” cleaning robot has collaborated with “Black Butler.”
    A new voice of Sebastian (CV Daisuke Ono) was recorded.

  • “Ghost in the Shell: The Movie” × “INDEPENDENT”

    INDEPENDENT × Ghost in the Shell: The Movie Movie public memory Official collaboration chronograph
    Commemorating the release of “Ghost in the Shell

    The New Movie” and the 25th anniversary of “STAND ALONE COMPLEX,” Citizen ‘s popular brand “INDEPENDENT” watch collaborated. Comes with the case.
    A limited number of 2,500 items will be sold worldwide.

  • “ATTACK ON TITAN” × “7-Eleven”

    ATTACK ON TITAN × 7-Eleven

    A huge “Attack on Titan” campaign conducted with 7-Eleven as the stage.
    A variety of limited items have been developed, such as life-size figures of Eren and Levi, among others.

  • “CHIBI MARUKO CHAN” × “Konica Minolta Planetarium Co., Ltd.”

    CHIBI MARUKO CHAN,When you wish upon a star

    A collaboration between “Chibi Maruko-chan” and a planetarium.
    The Maruko-chan crew are drawn on the starry sky dome with full CG animation.

  • “NARUTO SHIPPUDEN” × “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai”

    Collaboration Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print with NARUTO

    The world of Japan’s world class traditional artworks/Ukiyoe have collaborated with the characters of “NARUTO” Every page is a product completely made to order by the artisans.

  • “Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-” × “The Rolling Stones”

    Bakumastsu Rock X The Rolling Stones by ROCK A THEATER

    An original project where illustrators throughout the world have collaborated with the Rolling Stones’ “Lips & Tongue.” “Bakumatsu Rock” is the first collaboration as an anime work.

  • “LoveLive!” × “Aomori Nebuta Festival,Hirosaki Neputa Festival, Goshogawara Tachineputa Festival”

    Nebuta&Neputa×LoveLive!

    The traditional Aomori festival “Nebuta, Neputa” and the school idol project “Love Live!” have collaborated. Nebuta float will appear at AnimeJapan 2016