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*Update: Congratulations to Natalie Flowers on winning the Anime Military Association’s Challenge Coin Design Contest for A-Kon 24.
Design the A-Kon 24 Military Launch Coin. The Anime Military Association wants your help to design one side of our one-of-a-kind custom challenge coin for our Military Lunch at A-Kon 24.

The following item was originally published on 7 September 2012 on Helen McCarthy: A Face Made for Radio and is republished here with the kind permission of the author. Yuko Omori doesn’t want kimono to die out. The fashion stylist and TV costume designer has launched her own kimono line, Double Maison, to encourage young Japanese women to put their own spin on...