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Galaxxxy Fashion Brand Collaborates With Adventure Time
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Japanese fashion label Galaxxxy is no stranger to collaborations with famous works of Japanese popular culture. The brand already teamed up with Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Sailor Moon, Dr. Slump, Nanbaka, and even the Sega Dreamcast. But this time, the company is joining forces with the American animated series Adventure Time to release a new line of shirts. The shirts features characters like Finn, Baby Finn, Jake, Cake, Marshall Lee, Fionna, and BMO.
Galaxxxy announced the collaboration in July. Advance sales of the shirts began on Friday at Tokyo's Shinjuku Marui Annex and Shibuya Marui stores as well as on Galaxxxy's website. The shirts cost 5,800 yen (about US$56) each.
Special Galaxxxy shops will also offer a Halloween-inspired line of collaborative goods. Halloween T-shirts cost 3,600 yen (US$35) each, and tin badges cost 400 yen (US$4).
The second volume of the Japanese version of the Adventure Time comic will ship in Japan on October 19. A related calendar and note pad will each cost 1,200 yen (US$12). These items are available at the collaboration's special shops in Tokyo, and the shops will run until October 31.
The Shinjuku Fashion Stage event will host Shirō Saitō (Sankarea's Jogorō, Kingdom's Hyōkō), the voice of Jake in the animated series' Japanese dub, as part of a fashion and talk show in the Shibuya Marui store on October 22. The show's Japanese version also stars Romi Park (Shaman King's Ren, Bleach's Hitsugaya, Persona 4's Naoto) as Finn, Rie Tanaka (Persona 3's Mitsuru, Chobits' Chi) as Princess Bubblegum, and Miyuki Sawashiro (Persona 3's Elizabeth & Chidori, Sword Art Online II's Sion) as the Flame Princess. The series airs on NHK BS Premium, Tokyo MX, and Cartoon Network in Japan.
Adventure Time inspired a special shop and exhibit at the Animate store in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district in January 2015. The exhibit highlighted the "Food Chain" episode directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Ping Pong, Kick-Heart, The Tatami Galaxy). That episode premiered in Japan in July 2015.
[Via Kai-You]
