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- Design Your Own Brave (Sep 23)
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- Win a Signed Copy of Space Dandy! (Aug 26)
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- Win The Tale of the Princess Kaguya on Blu-ray! (Jul 16)
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Competition - Winners Announced! (May 18)
- Win a Blu-ray of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water! (May 12)
- Anime Snowman And Winter Crafts Contest (Dec 19)
- Cowboy Bebop Scavenger Hunt (Dec 2)
- What does Sailor Moon mean to you? (Jun 19)
- Guess the Hanabee Titles (Feb 13)
- Anime: A History Competition Winners Announced! (Jan 13)
- ANNual Pumpkin Carving Contest (Oct 18)
- Wagnaria!! Season 2 Ask & Win Contest (Oct 15)
- ANN 15th Anniversary - Win A Trip to Japan! (Oct 10)
- Little Witch Academia Ask & Win Contest (Jun 19)
- Daily Lives of High School Boys Ask & Win Contest (May 2)
- Princess and the Pilot Ask & Win Contest (Feb 7)
- Rose of Versailles Haiku Contest (Nov 9)
- Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl Ask & Win Contest (Oct 16)
- ANNual Pumpkin Carving Contest (Oct 12)
- Natsume's Book of Friends Ask It & Win It Contest (Jun 30)
- Bunny Drop: Ask A Question, Win A Script (May 9)
- Tiger & Bunny: Build Your Own Hero Contest (Oct 24)
- New York Comic Con / Anime Festival Photo Shoot (Oct 13)
- Rurouni Kenshin Haiku Contest (Aug 14)
- Anime Expo Cosplay Contest (Jun 29)
- Eden of the East Creative Contest Entries and Winners (May 3)
- Eden of the East Creative Contest (Apr 11)
- togainu no chi ~Bloody Curs~ Cosplay Winner (Feb 22)
- Oreimo Fan Art Contest Winner (Jan 30)
- Win a Trip to Japan with Pop Japan Travel, Aniplex and ANN (Nov 17)
- Design our Icons (Jul 12)
- Win tickets to see Destiny: Promised Legacy THIS WEEKEND! (Jan 20)
- ANN 2009 Holiday Logo Contest (Dec 16)
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- Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk Competition (Jun 22)
- Anime News Network 2008 Holiday Logo Contest (Dec 8)
- Vocaloid: Hatsune Miku 1/8 PVC Giveaway and Fan-art Contest (Nov 15)
- Giant Annual ANN Pumpkin Carving Contest (Nov 6)
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- Bleach: The Blade of Fate Contest (Nov 15)
- ANNual Pumpkin Carving Contest (Oct 26)
- Hell Girl Win it Before you Can Buy it Contest (Oct 17)
- Witchblade Win it before you can Buy it. (Sep 13)
- New York Anime Festival Contest (May 25)
- Guess the Geneon License Contest #2 (Mar 2)
- Guess the Geneon License (Jan 8)
- Anime News Network 2006 Holiday Logo Contest (Dec 15)
- Paradise Kiss Fashion Design Contest 2006 (Nov 15)
- Full Metal Panic! TSR - Win it before you can buy it! (Nov 9)
- ANN Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest (Oct 27)
- Tales of the Abyss (Oct 27)
- Naruto Director's Chair Contest (Sep 25)
- Survey (Sep 12)
- Enchanted Arms Contest (Aug 23)
- Kyo Kara Maoh Fanart Contest (May 30)
- Patlabor: No School like the Old School Contest! (May 17)
- Samurai 7 on IFC (May 9)
- Naruto Build-A-Ninja Sweepstakes! (Feb 26)
- 2005 Holiday Logo Contest (Dec 7)
- Top the Fuccons Contest (Dec 6)
- Naughty or Nice Holiday Contest (Dec 3)
- Big GIANT Halloween Contest (Oct 22)
- Kakurenbo Hide & Seek Contest (Oct 5)
- Tetsujin 28 Contest (Sep 20)
- Le Portrait de Petite Cossette Contest (Aug 25)
- Astro Boy DVD Set Contest (Apr 13)
- 2004 Holiday Season (Dec 8)
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- Ninja Scroll - 10th Anniversary Special Edition Contest (Oct 24)
- Risky Safety Volume 2 DVD Contest (Oct 4)
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- Yu Yu Hakusho vol. 16 contest (Sep 2)
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- BAAF Anagram Contest (Oct 1)
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Interview: Assassination Classroom's Yusei Matsui
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The creator of Korosensei, that iconic grinning yellow face from the smash hit manga and anime Assassination Classroom, sits down to discuss his career, his influences, and his thoughts on classroom bullying.
― Yusei Matsui does wonders with weird creatures. His widely successful Assassination Classroom poses an inventive battle: misfit students take on a Koro-sensei, a grinning yellow alien who thr...
Vice & Luna Bonus Round
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Vice's scary story falls short, so it's up to Luna to bring the real terror!
― Editor's Note: Vice & Luna will return to regular story pages next week!
Blood Blockade Battlefront BD+DVD
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Now that a limited edition release has finally made its way stateside, how does Studio Bones' ambitiously bizarre action series hold up? Jacob Chapman takes a look.
― It seems like an impossible task to pick out the one strangest thing about Blood Blockade Battlefront, even if you limited yourself to the very first episode. The show kicks off by ripping open its universe and ushering every supernatur...
Answerman - Why Is Japan's Population Declining?
Japan's declining population comes up from time to time in anime - but why is it happening? Justin gets into the basics, and how it impacts the anime industry.
― Jake asks: One thing I have heard about for well over a decade is that Japans population as a whole has been shrinking since the end of the 1980's. That fewer people are getting married and having less, if any, children than there parents a...
Shelf Life - The Perfect Insider
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Is the Perfect Insider a perfect mystery or just a perfect mess? Paul Jensen weighs in. Plus, all this week's new anime releases!
― I had a literal "Shelf Life" moment this week: I put together a small bookcase that I'd bought for my apartment a while ago. It looks pretty decent as long as you ignore the fact that I put the fake wood back piece on backwards so the cheesy cardboard side faces out. Cl...
Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water [Limited Edition] Blu-Ray 1
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The Asterisk War anime was the first version of this story to reach the west, but is it the best one? Rebecca Silverman weighs in.
― The first version of The Asterisk War to make it to the west is also the last one to see a physical release – the 2015 anime series. Aniplex of America's release of the first six episodes on Blu-Ray, which also includes a music CD of various BGM pieces remixed into a si...
The List - 7 Magical Girls that Fandom Forgot
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In the name of the moon, you shall be punished for forgetting these old-school magical girls existed! Of course, some anime may be better off left in the past after all...
― New magical girls have been seen a marked uptick in anime since Madoka Magica made them cool again. Certainly, some transforming teens have never left fandom's consciousness; Sailor Moon, the ongoing PreCure franchise, Cardcapto...
The Fall 2016 Anime Preview Guide
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The Fall 2016 Anime Preview Guide has begun! Check back daily for fresh previews of every new show this season!
Available Now: Girlish Number - Fall 2016 Short Anime - Magic of Stella - March comes in like a lion - Occultic; Nine - Poco's Udon World - Long Riders - ClassicaLoid - Kiss Him, Not Me! - Haikyu! Season 3 - Drifters - Lostorage incited WIXOSS - ALL OUT!! - Keijo!!!!!!! - FLIP FLAPPERS - Brave Witches - and much more!
Available Now: Girlish Number - Fall 2016 Short Anime - Magic of Stella - March comes in like a lion - Occultic; Nine - Poco's Udon World - Long Riders - ClassicaLoid - Kiss Him, Not Me! - Haikyu! Season 3 - Drifters - Lostorage incited WIXOSS - ALL OUT!! - Keijo!!!!!!! - FLIP FLAPPERS - Brave Witches - and much more!