byJames Busby
Published: Jul 15, 2026, 09:26
Crunchyroll
Anime fans have a new pilgrimage spot this summer, as a giant piece of anime girl artwork has appeared in a Japanese rice field.
From a life-size Ghost in the Shell figure that costs over $7,000 to gigantic Umamusume plushies, anime fans aren’t exactly short on ways to rep their favorite waifus.
However, this Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid rice field mural has easily taken the top spot for being the biggest and most ambitious we’ve seen this year.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid rice field art appears
On June 6, 2026, around 300 people took part in an annual rice planting event to help transform fields in Japan’s Koshigaya city into enormous anime girl illustrations that can be seen from the sky.
This year’s artwork depicts Tohru and Kanna, the devious dragon girl duo from the popular anime and manga Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid. The larger-than-life artwork is also particularly apt, given that Koshigaya serves as the real-world inspiration for the city featured in the show.
As for how organizers went about creating an image that looks like it’s been torn straight out of the manga, that comes down to the types of rice they used.
今週の稲の生育状況はコチラ！
下段の生長が進み、カンナちゃんの顔も少しずつ見やすくなってきました！いよいよ来週ごろには見頃を迎えられそうです…！#田んぼアート#小林さんちのメイドラゴン#越谷メイドラゴンpic.twitter.com/YOEnxvLmSU— 越谷市観光協会｜埼玉県越谷市の魅力を紹介 (@koshigayakanko) July 14, 2026
During the process, attendees planted rice with subtly different colored leaves in a pixel art-like pattern to create the aerial image you can see below. As time passes, more details of the monolithic anime girls appear, with the display expected to be at its best from late July through mid-August.
