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Meet Cakes with Faces at MCM Birmingham Comic Con November 2014, incorporating Memorabilia at the NEC on 22-23 November. We’re just back from Hyper Japan and next weekend is our last event of the year, and our last show for a while (remember our online shop is always open!). MCM Birmingham is a complete geek fest – it includes the Memorabilia

Things to Do at Hyper Japan! 10 things to do at Hyper Japan Christmas market next weekend! It’s our favourite show of the year – we can’t wait! Hyper Japan Tickets If you haven’t got your tickets yet, you can get them on the Hyper Japan website. Floor Plan Come and see us on the ground floor on stand D07.

The fourth episode in our Japan video series: All the Best Stuff is from Japan. In this video: Sushi Dating Japanese sushi dating sim game Love Sushi Rangers, in which the men are sushi ingredients – whaaaat? It’s free to download on iOS and Android, in English (credits required if you want to play more than 2-3 minutes a day).

Congratulations to NEO Magazine, who are celebrating their 10th anniversary! NEO is a UK anime and manga magazine, which also covers asian films, games and Japanese music. NEO Magazine Daily Giveaway To celebrate their 10th anniversary, NEO are holding a daily giveaway every day this month. We love NEO magazine, so to celebrate their birthday, you’ll have the chance to

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos: MCM Expo London Comic Con Video Here’s what we got up to at MCM London Comic Con! Lots of cosplays, fun stuff from around the show and the story of our weekend as exhibitors. Plus sneaky after hours footage of MCM when everyone’s gone home and the aisles are empty. Hope you like

Watch the third video in our YouTube series about funny, cute and interesting stories from Japan! We’ve had some great feedback on our YouTube channel so far – thank you so much to everyone who’s watched our videos and subscribed. We’re new to making videos, so the quality of the audio and the filming gets better over the next few episodes!

Thank you to everyone who’s subscribed to our new YouTube channel so far. We hope you’re enjoying our new All the Best Stuff is from Japan video series! We’ve had some really lovely comments so far – thank you! Episode 2 is out today – featuring cute hamsters, ramen noodles and Japanese hornets (they’re huge!). Hamsters Hamsters are definitely the

We’re really excited to finally be launching our YouTube channel! We’ve been working really hard on a series of YouTube videos called All the Best Stuff is from Japan, all about funny and interesting stories from Japan, our favourite place in the world. Our First Video This is the first video we’ve ever made, and it’s been a lot of

We were very excited to spot our stall on TV in the background on Gadget Man on Channel 4! Richard Ayoade went to MCM London Comic Con to test action and exercise gadgets, including a climbing wall and a crossbow for your phone. The theme of the show was Staying In – all about whether you can live your life

It’s National Cupcake Week! There’s only one good way to celebrate: wear your Cakes with Face cake t-shirts and feast on cupcakes! We’ve collected some fun cupcake facts to read while you’re munching on cake: 1) Micro Cupcakes The world’s smallest cupcake is said to have been created by a British bakery and is only 1.5cm wide and 3cm tall – the

Hyper Japan is back this November with a special show for Christmas shopping: Hyper Japan Christmas Market! Come and see us at Olympia in London on the weekend of 14-16 November for a chance to get your Christmas shopping done early, picking up unique Christmas gifts for your friends and family, as well as enjoying Japanese food and maybe one or

It’s the UK’s largest comic con and we’ll be there at MCM Expo London Comic Con on 24-26 October 2014. Last time over 100,000 people came along to London Comic Con and it was a really great show. If you haven’t been before, or have missed a few years, it’s got better and better. There’s a Pop Asia section with

Cat Watch in Cats Protection Magazine The Cats Protection League featured our cute Neko Cat watch in The Cat magazine! The Cat is their official quarterly magazine for subscribers. The magazine covers everything related to cats – cat stories, tips for owners, pictures and even celebrities’ cats! Our Neko Cat watch was featured in their Favourite Things section, along with other

It’s rare for Bryan Lee O’Malley to be in the UK and even more rare for him to give a talk, so I was very excited to get tickets for his talk at the British Library, which was part of Comica Comiket. He did a short tour of the UK, with signings at comic book shops to promote his new graphic

Fast food is a fashion trend for this summer – we can’t believe it! As well as french fries and burgers, fashion magazines and catwalks are full of bright and colourful fruit prints – including watermelon bags, shoes and accessories, that complement our own Juicy Watermelon watch perfectly. We like to create our own style, rather than following trends and replacing our

Great Iced Shark is famous! We’re very excited, but he still doesn’t look too impressed… Our t-shirt’s been featured in NEO magazine issue 127, on the Stuff page: a collection of the coolest merchandise of the month. NEO is the UK’s anime and manga magazine. We love reading NEO – it has reviews and features of anime, manga, Asian films and music.

We had a fantastic time at Hyper Japan – the show was even better than last year, with lots of cuteness, colourful Japanese fashion, sushi-eating and a gig from one of our favourite Japanese bands, Broken Doll! We took so many photos and bought a few awesome things too. The show was sectioned into several areas: Hyper Kawaii, Hyper Game

Our Neko Cat Watch is famous! Our cute watch has been featured by Your Cat magazine, the UK magazine for cat owners. It’s on their “Catwalk” shopping page in the August 2014 issue, alongside a lovely collection of feline-themed t-shirts, dresses and accessories, and a cute section “for kiddycats”. We love the cat rainbow t-shirts, and the cute pink retro dress!

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con, especially everyone who queued in the rain on Saturday – you are dedicated geeks and cosplayers indeed! MCM Comic Con is a great show for anyone who likes geeky things – anime, manga, games, cosplay and comics. You can watch panels, get autographs from actors from

Small Business Saturday Launch Cakes with Faces was invited to exhibit at the launch of Small Business Saturday 2014 at the British Library in London. A handful of businesses from last year’s Small Business Saturday 100 were invited to represent the variety of small businesses in the UK at the launch event. Small Business Saturday Small Business Saturday is a