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Added on the 15/01/2023 07:40:17 - Copyright : Euronews EN
The second edition of the Eko Anime festival took place in Nigeria this weekend, with thousands of fans attending the event in Lagos. It is one of the few anime conventions in Africa despite the genre's growing popularity on the continent.
Two decades after "One Piece" introduced the world to a swashbuckling pirate in a straw hat, French fans of the Japanese cartoon series are excitedly lining up at a movie theatre in Paris to watch the 1,000th episode.
Anime lover and artist Jinnipha Nivasabut has painted 50 portraits of her favourite dead anime characters to explore the impact of the death of fictional characters on the audience. The oil paintings caught the eye of a curator and fellow anime lover who commissioned Jinnipha's work and launched the '2D Afterlife' exhibition. Here, anime anime fans can pay respect to their beloved heroes and villains with a twist of Thai funeral rituals where sandalwood flowers and red Fanta are used as offerings to the dead.
Feline fans prowl through Tokyo for the annual ghost cat festival. Rough Cut - no reporter narration.
Residents of the predominantly Muslim city of Kano celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan with the traditional Durbar festival, a carnival of horse riding and displays led by the Emir, the spiritual and traditional leader of the commercial city. The Durbar procession showcases the rich culture of the Hausa ethnic group which is rooted in Islamic tradition.
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