Recommended by Natsuru Springfield: It’s rare that you will ever get an event on the internet that gives you excitement and hope. Amist the controversies, amidst the foul play, amidst the internet arguments, and real world drama flooding in. Somehow a single game of Pokemon changed my perspective on humanity."

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Formerly known as Nico Nico Douga, this monumental bastion of Otaku fandoms and video remixing subculture went online eight years ago, and still to this day, it remains one of the most visited destinations on the Japanese web.

In this short clip from the 2013 documentary film Magic Camp, a young apprentice of wizardry at a magicians' summer camp summons a metal rod out of thin air and walks away with it.