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Ghibli’s Miyazaki hints at possible Nausicaa sequel
For all of Studio Ghibli’s acclaim, the famed House That Miyazaki Built has never once put out a direct sequel to one of its works. While various thematic threads run through all of Miyazaki’s films,...
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Zombies and vampires are out, anime witches are in, according to this wildly...
Little Witch Academia went live on YouTube in March of this year and quickly amassed over 600,000 views, instantly placing the Japanese Trigger Studios’ anime creation onto the radars of anime fans...
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JoJo’s All-Star Battle Train to promote Jojo’s bizarre new fighting game
On August 29, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle will become available on PlayStation 3. It’s a fighting game that features all of the major players from the immensely popular manga series...
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Dangan Ronpa and Ted come together for some bear-y cute naughtiness!
Though Ted may be the most-well-known naughty teddy bear in the world, he is by no means the only one. We imagine that Monokuma, of the murder-mystery game/manga/anime Dangan Ronpa, may be a close...
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Photos of the JoJo train are finally here and it’s not just the outside that...
Earlier this week, we told you about the Yamanote Line train that will be decked out with the characters from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle (coming to PS3 on August 29). At the time, we...
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Ginza’s Evangelion exhibit is amazing! We are (not) surprised
From August 7 through to the 26th, the Matsuya Department Store in Ginza held a large exhibit on their 8th floor, celebrating the creation and overwhelming success of the new Evangelion movie series....
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Gundam-themed Toyota doesn’t come with beam saber, is awesome anyway
Sometimes, despite the director’s best efforts otherwise, the villain of a movie or TV series ends up stealing the show. Luke Skywalker became the archetypical example of a pure-hearted but bland...
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Do you remember giant robots? Full-scale Macross Valkyrie lands in Yokohama
The deployment of anime mecha to Yokohama continues. Earlier this month the Ingram from police story Patlabor made an appearance in the bayside city, and now comes a life-size VF-25 Valkyrie from...
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Top 10 series that got Japanese fans hooked on anime
As the birthplace of modern anime culture, Japan has more than its fair share of hardcore anime fans, or otaku. But what starts someone out on the potential path to wall-to-wall DVD box sets, shelves...
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Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle limited edition boxset in our...
It’s finally here, the video game that anime and manga fans have been drooling over for months: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle. And better yet, our resident manga fan and gamer...
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Fans become melancholic themselves over the announcement of the end of the...
The manga for the fan favorite series, “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu), drawn by Gaku Tsugano, will release its final chapter in the next edition of the monthly manga...
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Language of the otaku has infiltrated our Internet forums
I’m sure that many of our readers are acquainted with the Japanese word otaku and its assimilation into English. For those that aren’t, it is a special label given to people who are especially...
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Attack on Titan beauty product will keep you better-looking than series’...
For the most part, people in Japan take pride in being well-groomed. Skin care gets particular priority, and individuals especially concerned about looking their best carry around packs of...
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Photo lends credibility to theory that anime character Totoro really exists
Animation fans around the world were saddened this week by the announcement that legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki has decided to retire from filmmaking. A photo posted to Twitter seems to...
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Attack on Titan’s author causes a stir with his less-than-stellar sketches
On September 1, fans flocked to the Utsunomiya branch of Animate to attend an autograph event for Shingeki no Kyojin: Attack on Titan‘s author, Hajime Isayama. During his Shinkansen train ride to...
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World-class fan art mistaken for designs from the new Sailor Moon anime, goes...
Fans have been pretty patient with the production team for the upcoming newest installment in the Sailor Moon anime franchise. After all, the previous animated TV series wrapped in 1997, so the sudden...
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2013 Fall Anime Preview – Part 1
It’s almost that time again! The Fall 2013 anime season is absolutely jam-packed with something for every kind of fan. There’s no way you can watch all of these though, so have a skim through this list...
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2013 Fall Anime Preview – Part 2
Carrying on from Part 1, here’s the rest of the Fall anime line-up! We hope you’ve brought your notebooks! ◆Gingitsune Starts October 6 Saeki is from a family with the ability to see spirits, so she...
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Amazing! This 3-D itasha looks like a portal into the anime world
A true symbol of status for a whole lot of folks is the kind of car they drive. So what does it say about a person when a larger-than-life magical girl is bursting out the back of their van?! Someone...
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Happy birthday Hatsune Miku! Fan celebrates with amazingly detailed Vocaloid...
Given the massive popularity of virtual idol Hatsune Miku, it’s easy to forget that she really hasn’t been around that long. The singing computer construct only recently celebrated her sixth birthday,...
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