Interest - April 2011
- Variety Runs Ad for Planned Cobra the Space Pirate Film ()
- New K-On, Gundam Hawaiian Shirts for Sale in Japan ()
- Madoka Magica's Kyubey Face Marshmallows Sold ()
- Hanasaku Iroha's Working Phone Now Takes 'Reservations' ()
- Daily Cosplay: Hetalia: Axis Powers' Spain ()
- Tokyopop Artists Comment on Rights to Their Works ()
- Totoro, Doraemon, Bakugan Shown Free in Quake Areas ()
- Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Designs for Dantalian ()
- Daily Cosplay: Umineko no Naku Koro ni's Chiester 45 ()
- Tokyopop to Hold 'Garage Sale' in Los Angeles ()
- Square Enix Offers iOS Game to Teach English Dialogue ()
- Yu Kobayashi Animated for Maria Holic Alive Music Video ()
- Daily Cosplay: Afro Samurai's Afro ()
- Gainax, Last Airbender Artists Sell Quake Charity Book ()
- Microsoft to Start Cloud Girl Manga for Windows Azure ()
- Sega to Unveil New Hatsune Miku Project on Thursday ()
- Wii's Successor Ships in 2012, Playable Demos at E3 ()
- Nuclear Job Applicant: I Saw Madoka Magica's End, So I'm Not Worried ()
- Cobs' Poll: What Kind of Otaku to Have as Boyfriend ()
- Love Hina, ComiPo! Creators Discuss Future of Manga ()
- Madoka Magica's Kyubey Plush Toy, Cosplay Suit Offered ()
- Nico Nico Douga to Stream From Sakura-Con Live ()
- Madoka Magica Fans Get Ready for Anime Series Finale ()
- Skip Beat Creator to Draw Reader-Submitted Idea in Manga ()
- Good Smile, Bandai Namco Make Nendoroid Generation Videogame ()
- Japan's Nico Nico Douga Video Site Starts English Beta ()
- Anime no Jikan Android App Alerts When Episodes Air ()
- Haruhi Suzumiya Teaches English Vocabulary in New Books ()
- Poll: Which Anime Characters Should Form a Musical Duo ()
- Daily Cosplay: Naruto Shippuden's Sakura ()
- Star Trek Actor Petitions Against Akira 'Whitewashing' ()
- Daily Cosplay: To Love-Ru's Lala Satalin Deviluke ()
- Voice Actress Group Sphere Gets Own TV Show in July ()
- Voice Actress Fumie Mizusawa Announces Marriage ()
- Daily Video: Heavy Metal Cover of Totoro Theme ()
- Poll: Biglobe's Most Popular Winter 2011 Anime ()
- Daily Cosplay: Detroit Metal City's Krauser & Manager ()
- Daily Cosplay: Gintama's Kagura & Kamui ()
- Daily Video: New Haruhi Suzumiya PS3/PSP Game Promo ()
- Girugamesh, New People Center Hold Quake Fundraisers ()
- Kanye West's Custom Akira Motorcycle Listed for Sale ()
- Ghibli Museum to Unveil Adult-Sized Catbus in June ()
- Live-Action Arakawa Under The Bridge Cast ()
- Daily Cosplay: Gurren Lagann's Darry ()
- Madoka Magica Fans Plan Bus Tour to Catch Finale ()
- X Japan's Yoshiki to Hold Quake Charity Auctions ()
- Akihabara's Pedestrian Paradise to Return on Sunday ()
- Daily Cosplay: Air Gear's Simca ()
- Voice Actresses Raise 2+ Million Yen for Quake Charity ()
- Daily Video: Mashup Cover of Madoka Magica Song ()
- Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara Projected to Win 4th Term ()
- Mayonaka TV Ad Runs for Persona 4 Teaser Site ()
- Kenshin, FMA Sketches Auctioned for Quake Fund ()
- CLAMP, Toriyama, Anno Post Wallpapers for Quake Fund ()
- Daily Cosplay: Code Geass' Euphemia li Britannia ()
- Good Smile Sells Hatsune Miku Charity Toy Overseas ()
- Daily Video: Key's Rewrite Visual Novel Opening ()
- Daily Cosplay: Angel Beats' Yuri Nakamura ()
- Ender's Game Author Praises Cowboy Bebop ()
- Aya Hirano: Prohibited From Acting in New Anime Works ()
- Hanasaku Iroha Shows Characters' Working Phone Number ()
- Daily Cosplay: Ghost in the Shell's Major Kusanagi ()
- Vagabond Samurai Manga's Inoue Paints in Cup Noodles Ads ()
- Twilight's Pattinson Downplays Akira Casting Report ()
- Keanu Reeves: Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Still Uncertain ()
- Evangelion's Anno Produces Kantoku Shikkaku Film ()
- Voice Actors Raise 2.5 Million Yen in Akiba for Quake Victims ()
- Daily Cosplay: Ashita no Nadja's Nadja ()
- Funimation, Game Companies Launch Charity Auctions ()
- Bakemonogatari, Boogiepop Authors Pen JoJo's Novels ()
- Daily Cosplay: Digimon's Seraphimon ()
- Heroes Cast Voices Marvel Anime, Thundercats' Snarf Voiced in Japan ()
- Tokyopop to Relaunch Website, Remove User Content ()
- Kaiji Creator Gives 30 Million Yen to Quake Victims ()
- Dengeki's Most Anticipated April Anime Survey ()
- Sailor Moon's Takeuchi Draws Messages for Quake Area ()
- Marilyn Manson, X Japan's Yoshiki Unite for Quake Fund ()
- MangaGamer to Release Kotori Love ExP Compilation Game ()
- Daily Video: Hori's Hatsune Miku Controller Tested ()
- Daily Cosplay: Guilty Gear's Bridget ()
- Free Hugs Championship Cancelled ()
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The List - 7 Brother-Sister Romances That Went Too Far
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Things get incestuous in this edition of The List, with seven couples who might be a little TOO close for comfort.
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Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (English Dub)
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Black Butler's feature film debut brings titanic stakes to the big screen, but its animation quality might leave you somewhat high and dry. Rose Bridges has the details on this English dub premiere.
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The Spring 2017 Manga Guide
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Looking for new manga to read? Our first-ever Spring Manga Guide has you covered!
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Uncovering the Animation of The Eccentric Family in Nakano Broadway
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Kim Morrissy & Callum May check out the stunning artwork behind P.A. Works' sleeper hit before the exhibit's closing time.
― The Eccentric Family is perhaps the very definition of a sleeper hit. This quirky drama about a family of talking tanuki was inaugurated as a Kyoto Special Goodwill Ambassador earlier this year thanks to its faithful recreations of the real-life locations of Japan's former capi...
Answerman - Why Is It Socially Unacceptable To Be An Otaku In Japan?
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Generally speaking, Japanese society still shuns the otaku - why is that? Justin has a few ideas.
― James asks: I have seen a rather large number of anime and manga series in recent years in which a character (either male of female) is extremely popular and successful at school and with their friends, but hides the fact that they are an otaku (approximately the Japanese equivalent of a nerd in weste...
Rakugo Shinju, Kabukibu and The Traditional Arts of Japan
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From Touken Ranbu to Kabukibu to Rakugo Shinju, anime has been embracing Japanese traditional arts more than ever. Lynzee Loveridge examines the phenomenon.
― Japan is a country with a very old cultural history, dating back millennia before what we consider modern U.S. history. Those millennia produced a wealth of traditional art forms, ranging from the graceful strokes of shodo (calligraphy) to the ...
Dreamin' Sun GN 1
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This earlier work from the creator of Orange isn't quite as polished, but it combines an honest look at depression and anger with shoujo romance tropes in interesting ways. Rebecca Silverman has the details.
― Originally published in Margaret magazine in 2007, a transfer of rights to a new publisher has resulted in a re-release of Ichigo Takano's Dreamin' Sun and its translation into English. (Takano...
Fans Young & Old Come Out for Tokyo Toy Show 2017
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Tokyo Big Sight is overrun with players of all kinds to check out the latest and greatest toys on the market. Yes, they have fidget spinners.
― Tokyo Big Sight, June 3, 2017. 9:00 am Japan Standard Time. The 2017 International Tokyo Toy Show had just begun, and the line of entry snaked all the way across the enormous venue. The children paced around and tugged at their parents’ sleeves, unable to con...
The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of May 27-June 2
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My Hero Academia races up the charts as the Spring 2017 season starts to wind down! Find out how your favorites performed in our weekly user rankings.
― Our team of reviewers are following 27 anime series of the Spring 2017 season and readers are rating each episode as the reviews go up. So let's have a look at what ANN readers consider the best (and worst) of the season. Keep in mind that these ran...
This Week in Games - The Modest Life of Virtual Console
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In the calm before the E3 storm, Dustin considers the legacy and future of Nintendo's Virtual Console service. PLUS: Pokemon, Final Fantasy Dissidia, more old Mega Man games and much more!
― Good god, E3 starts next week. Though I'm fortunate enough to not be going to LA, there's still a hint of dread mixed in with all the excitement for what's coming. It's a flood a-coming, one which comes in the af...
Prince of Stride: Alternative BD+DVD
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This otome game adaptation eschews most reverse harem tropes in a surprisingly fun story about a bizarre blend of track and parkour. Rebecca Silverman gets into this show's Stride.
― If you were wondering, the “alternative” in Prince of Stride Alternative comes from the fact that this 2016 series is based on a 2015 otome game simply called Prince of Stride. That's mildly surprising, because the show ...
Answerman - Why Isn't More Anime Shown On American TV?
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There are countless hours of US cable television programming to fill, and yet only a few hours a week are filled with anime. Why is that? Justin gets into it.
― Kyle asks: How come some English dubbed anime only get released straight to DVD here in the US and never air on American TV? I know that a handful of them do air on Anime-only channels, such as the FUNimation Channel and Neon Alley, and also...
Adventures in the Yuri!!! on Ice Café
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― Katsudon is a Japanese rice dish made with deep-fried pork cutlets, egg, and vegetables. If you prepare it with just the right blend and consistency, it's absolutely mouth-watering stuff. It's common enough that you'll find it served on just about every street corner in Tokyo,...
How Polygon Pictures is Changing the 3D Anime Industry
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― At 10:00 PM in the Polygon Pictures studio, the lights turn off for the night. Polygon Pictures is like few other animation studios in Japan. In an industry where working overnight is painfully normal, a studio turn...
Horus: Prince of the Sun (Little Norse Prince) Blu-Ray
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― Also known in English as Little Norse Prince Valiant, this 1968 movie holds a place in anime history for two important reasons. It marks the directorial debut of Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata and his first collaboration with Hayao Miyazaki, who i...