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Merry Christmas — Anime Style (Part XVI)

posted on by Egan Loo
Greetings from Yasunori Mitsuda, Kenichi Yoshida, Yuruyuri, Yuzusoft, & Biker Santas

Instead of with family, couples in Japan celebrate Christmas together as one of their most important nights of the year, right alongside Valentine's Day. Here are some of the ways that anime/manga/game fans and professionals have been celebrating Christmas this year:

(Click on the thumbnail images to see the original!)

Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Xenosaga, Inazuma Eleven)

Mitsuda's website is streaming the piece "KiRite to Kotonoha" from the stage play Five Seasons of KiRite
Via Destructoid, Crunchyroll

Kenichi Yoshida

Thanks to Sam Murai for the tip!

Yuruyuri


"Yuri Christmas!"


Yuzusoft



Finally, a pack of over 50 biker Santas roared through the intersections next to Tokyo's Shibuya station on Christmas Eve. [Via Nishitanyade, RocketNews24, My Game News Flash]

There are many more anime/manga Christmas greetings and messages out there, so if you know of one we've missed, feel free to let us know in our forums or by email (newsroom at animenewsnetwork.com). Merry Christmas!


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