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Spring Preview, NicoNico Style
No, this isn't my full-on spring preview-- that'll be coming up in the next week-ish. But Japanator has this cool video swiped from NicoNico that is a video intro to upcoming series, which you can use as a starting point for what you'll want to read up on when I've ...
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Taiwan Murders Mimicking Battle Angel?
Boy, how long has it been since we've seen some kind of violence blamed on a franchise other than Death Note? Not that I'm expressing any kind of relief-- this is an awful story. An ANN reader tipped them off to Taiwanese newspaper reports that a man had killed a ...
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Dragonball Evolution: The Launch
The moment we all waited for is coming near-- the world premiere of Dragonball Evolution occurred yesterday (err...today, but Tokyo time, which was yesterday for us), and it'll open up in theaters in Japan and Hong Kong on March 13. (It doesn't open until April 8 in the US-- and ...
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Tintin-san wa Manga ni Natta
Man, making a manga drawing of a beloved classic western cartoon or comic-- like, say, the Simpsons or Peanuts –is proving a great way for artists to get attention! I'm not sure if the artist who created this is French or Belgian, but since the Tintin comics were created by ...
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Rumor Squad: Bleach's Diamonds, Kodansha's Manga
A couple of different rumors on the Internet this morning. In BOTH cases, these are completely unconfirmed. I have e-mails out to VIZ and Kodansha about them, so if I'm ...
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Nyan Nyan, Nyan Nyan, Nyan Koi
No, Nyan Koi is not a manga about an obsessive fan of Nyan Nyan singer Ranka Lee. It's a bit more unique than that: the lead, a high school boy ...
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The Daily Shin Buun 03/09/09
Let's see... Anime: A Nodame Cantabile OVA is being released along with the 22 volume of the manga this summer. What a great way to celebrate mangaka Tomoko Ninomiya's return! ...
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Loli in Trouble in Jolly Old England
A while ago I reported on a bill in the UK that would ban “extreme pornography,” which could include a fair bit of hentai. But that wasn't the end of ...
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Naruto & Lelouch get Laid Off, Ichigo gets Promoted
Sharp-eyed readers at ANN reported in on the latest Adult Swim schedule-- which is conspicuously lacking in new episodes of both Naruto (long held up as a relatively mainstream anime, ...
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Gundam 00 Now On YouTube...In America, Anyway
FYI, the Gundam 00 eps that were uploaded onto YouTube recently are now actually accessible, taking American fans up to episode three of the first season, and it's available in ...
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Reading Japanese is Freakin' Difficult
Japanese is a fairly easy language to gain a basic speaking ability in. Unlike languages like, say, English, it's relatively consistant: there are only two irregular verbs in the entire ...
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Sunrise x Pizza Hut Love Still Goin' Strong
Probably all of you remember C.C.'s love for Pizza Hut in Code Geass. And oh, there was a lot of love: I even got a little Pizza Hut foldable box ...
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Yatterman and Doraemon Double-Team Japanese Audiences
I haven't generally kept up the Listurday feature, but let's go back and check in on this weekend's movies in Japan, shall we? I admit, my excitement for this week's ...
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Don't Forget Your Homework!
In case any of you weren't paying attention over the weekend, I wanted to give you a heads-up that along with the return of Required Reading, I added a new ...
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Let's Go Play with Asobi ni Iku Yo!
The light novel series Asobi ni Iku Yo (which translates to Let's Go Play, by the way) is going to be adapted into an anime, according to Moon Phase. Okina ...
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Shoko Nakagawa Speaks: Pi Pi-chuu Chuu!
If you're on this site, odds are pretty good that you have a fondness for Pokemon and/or otaku queen/Jpop idol/seiyuu/camgirl/blogger/mangaka-turned-animeka Shoko “Shoko-tan” Nakagawa. (Okay, I'm sure some of you don't ...
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More Manga Movies In The Works
Right on the heels of the International Film Channel declaring that anime films are outright impossible, ANN catches word of a new production company called Cerenzie-Peters (after founders Michael Cerenzie ...
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IFC's Not Sure About Live-Action 'Bebob' Movie
Not my typo, theirs. Seriously. “Scarier is the way that highly regarded modern classics like "Cowboy Bebob" have suddenly become the inspiration for major feature films, with A-list actors like ...
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New FUNi Blu-Ray Pending: Tsubasa, DBZ, Trinity Blood
Anime on DVD has word of new FUNimation titles coming out on Blu-Ray-- dated where we have the information; the rest haven't been specified yet. Blue Gender TV/Movie Set 4/14Tsubasa ...
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Required Reading: The Comeback...?
I'm actually a big fan of this feature, and I've always been annoyed with myself that it dropped off of my Saturday to-do list. So I'm going to make an ...
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Haruhi Watch: Trickling Tidbits
Haruhi fans in Japan are tasting a bitter soup seasoned with just enough hope to lead to a number of conspiracy theories. The wording of recent Newtype articles about the ...
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Greatest Pairing Ever: X Japan x Hello Kitty
It is a long-established fact that there is a Hello Kitty everything. Rice cookers, vibrators, you name it. But admittedly, Hello Kitty Jrock bands are admittedly in short order. Luckily, ...
