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Merry Christmas — Anime Style (Part V)

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:

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Hidekaz Himaruya (Hetalia)

Aya Hirakawa (Kunisaki Izumo no Jijō)

Shizuku Ichigono (Strawberry Tril, Ichigo no Hishosama)

Juichi Iogi (Reinō Tantei Miko)

Yasuhiro Irie (Code:Breaker)

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). Here was last year's roundup. Merry Christmas!