TIGER&BUNNY 2 Part 2 Commemorative Friend Rice Event

To celebrate the release of TIGER&BUNNY 2 Part 2, we again invite you all to cook up some fried rice or any other food featured in the series! To grab some inspiration, you can check out the original event gallery. If you’ve never cooked fried rice before and don’t know where to start, we have translated Kotetsu’s own fried rice recipe. If rice isn’t your fancy, how about baking some Samantha’s pound cake or cooking some chicken and broccoli in Thomas’s style? Or if you want to order a Happy Meal Happiness Set to serve to the twins, that’s between you and the hamburger restaurant.

How to take part:

  1. Prepare some delicious food featured in TIGER&BUNNY. (Practice first if needed, Barnaby practiced too!)
  2. Take a picture that includes both TIGER&BUNNY and your culinary creation.
    • You may use screencaps from anime, official merchandise, cosplay, and fan art of your own making for your picture.
    • Your submission must be SFW.
  3. Submit your picture either through the form (requires a Google account) or directly by email to mail[at]thisissternbild.com. You may make multiple submissions!

The submissions are open until Thursday October 6th, 2022 at 14:00 GMT.

After the submission form closes, the pictures will be posted as a gallery for everyone to view. (We’ll have the gallery up as soon as possible, but it depends on how much you’ve cooked!)

We can’t wait to see what you cook up this time!

Disclaimer: Submission data will be kept for a week after the gallery is published just in case something needs fixing, after that it will be deleted. No emails or personal data are collected through the form, but signing in is required for submitting a file.

A Brief History of Friend Rice

If you’re a new fan brought in with S2, friend rice may sound weird to you. “Friend rice” is a typo that originated in the T&B threads on 4chan in 2011, and it became a meme in the fandom. The first Friend Rice Event was held during the week between episodes 24 and 25 airing, when everyone was unsure if a certain character would even survive. It was a very spontaneous thing, we posted on Twitter that we would cook fried rice during the week and suddenly, everyone else wanted to join in on it too. It turned into a deluge of pictures of fried rice (on average 50 pictures per day!) and a massive thank you to the creators of the series.

Since then, smaller and more planned Friend Rice Events have taken place, the previous one was in 2021 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series. With these events we hope that people have some fun cooking and showing their love for TIGER&BUNNY and their favorite characters.

Text by derpchan, graphics by jazzy, art by Lizzie.

Wild Birthday Party Gallery 2022!

Thanks and thanks again everyone who took part on Kotetsu’s birthday event both here on This is Sternbild and on the Twitter hashtag #wildbirthdayparty! Also big thanks to Tania for creating the art for our event banners.

Without further ado…

Wild Birthday Party Gallery 2022

Pssst… Same again next year?

Submission form data will be saved until August 21st in case something needs fixing, after that it will be deleted. If there are errors in the gallery, please contact us either by email or through Discord.

Wild Tiger’s Birthday Events

August 14th sees a bunch of events to celebrate the birthday of Kotetsu T. Kaburagi / Wild Tiger. Below are the ones we currently know of, let us know if we missed any!

Official Event

There’s a WILD TIGER Special Birthday Party live stream on August 14th, with Hiroaki Hirata (Kotetsu), Masakazu Morita (Barnaby), Kenji Tominaga (Wild Tiger’s suit actor for The Live) and Hikaru Takahashi (Sky High’s suit actor). The stream is paid, 2800 JPY + 100 JPY fee, and the archive will be available until August 28th. Fans can send birthday wishes and submit questions through a webform (in Japanese) to Hirata and Tominaga, and also leave other messages for the series creators, or request specific merchandise to be made.

Japanese Fan Event

The Japanese fans are arranging an event on Twitter, and tweeting birthday messages and fan art to Kotetsu using the hashtag #ワイルドタイガー生誕祭2022.

This is Sternbild Event

And of course there’s our own event, Wild Birthday Party! Please check the link for details, we’ll have both a gallery event (Friend Rice style, if you took part in those in the past you know the drill), and a Twitter hashtag #wildbirthdayparty for the celebrations.

Let’s party WILDLY!

Wild Birthday Party!

In case you haven’t heard it yet, August 14th is the birthday of Kotetsu T. Kaburagi a.k.a. Wild Tiger. And we’re here to celebrate it with a bang!

HOW TO TAKE PART:

Create something to celebrate the Hero of the day! Fan art, crafts, cosplay, cooking something in friend rice event style, anything goes! For inspiration you can check the gallery from 2013 fan birthday event or Barnaby’s birthday event from 2011.

Event Gallery:

  • Submit a picture of your creation. You may make multiple submissions. Your submission must be birthday themed and feature Kotetsu/Wild Tiger in some way, and it must be SFW. DEADLINE EXTENDED: The webform is open until August 14th at 5:00 AM GMT. The pictures will be posted as a gallery for everyone to view on August 14th.

Twitter:

  • Tweet your birthday message using the hashtag #wildbirthdayparty during August 14th!

If you have any questions, we can be reached on Twitter, Discord or by email at mail[at]thisissternbild.com.

Let’s celebrate WILDLY!

Art by Tania, graphics by Jazzy, text by derpchan.

10th Anniversary Friend Rice Event Gallery

This_is_Sternbild_Gallery_banner_-_AKI_ver.1_4Thank you, and again thank you everyone for taking part in the 10th Anniversary Rice Event!

Some of you we recognized from the first event 10 years ago, so it was amazing to see you taking part once again, along with the new fans that have joined in for the 1st time. With season 2 slowly on the horizon, who knows what will come out from it, that maybe we’ll be able to celebrate it for the 20th anniversary…? Whatever happens, we can’t wait to see!

Without further ado, you can find all the pictures here in the gallery.

Submission form data will be saved until April 11th in case something needs fixing, after that it will be deleted.