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#Viz Media: We've been covering a number of titles from SigIKKI for the past week now, and so to cap off our coverage of it, I figured that it might be a good time to sit down and talk with someone at Viz ab...

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#Monthly Musings: [Got your own story to share? Check out our Monthly Musing topic and then go and tell it in our community blogs section. You might wind up on the front page yourself! -- Brad] It takes many diffe...

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#seiyuu: That's right, we still have stuff to talk about when it comes to the New York Anime Fest! I got a chance to sit down with Yui Makino after Jeff covered her panels. Ms. Makino is a prodigy-of-all-...

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#Vertical: After Vertical made its announcements at New York Anime Fest, I wanted to get a bit deeper into things. After all, Chi's Sweet Home, Peepo Choo, Spica and Needle are all fairly different titles. ...

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#The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi: It appears that even The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's masters at Kyoto Animation weren't all confident about making the show's currently-running "Endless Eight" story arc, if an inte...

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#Otakon: Music, manga, singing, songwriting, guitar playing...Portland native Rebecca Hollcraft (aka Becca) is a full multi-media package. A musician since childhood, she found a friend and eventual a col...

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#Vertical: At AnimeNEXT, Ed Chavez took the stage in front of a few dozen people. It created a bit of despair for the panel -- one of the industry's smaller publishers was put into the largest panel room (F...

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#music: As you may have heard, Kalafina paid a visit to Anime Boston at the end of May to promote their first full length album. The did a little Q&A, a meet & greet and a live performance. By al...

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#music: It's hard to believe, but in 1990, I was 13 years old. That was the year that the original Final Fantasy for the Nintendo Entertainment System was first released. That was also the year that I i...

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#required reading: Hikaru Utada, or Utada as known in the West, is coming out with a new CD, This Is the One, to be released in the US. Jtor scored an in-person interview with this international pop star to get dow...

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#manga: With his hair tied back, Hiroki Otsuka stood upon a step-ladder, painting the tail-end of a mermaid, surrounded by islands. My entry goes unnoticed by Otsuka and his assistant, but Ms. Yamamoto, ...

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#Interview: We got in at the very tail end of an interview opportunity to interview otaku queen Shoko Nakagawa. This Japanese idol, singer, television celebrity, super blogger, voice actress, and illustrator...

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#music: Budo Grape kicked off their US concert line up in Dallas, Texas this past weekend, and we had a chance to meet with them to talk about their premiere performance at A-Kon 19. Tachi Grape (drums),...

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#Video games: [Editor's Note: Japanator Guest Editor Jayson Napolitano conducted this awesome interview with the composer of Speed Racer: The Videogame, Winifred Phillips. Check it out!] With the recent reviva...

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#Old school: I love the hosts of the Anime World Order podcast. They're some of my favorite people on the planet. Gerald, Daryl, and Clarissa - all fine, upstanding examples of humanity, and beacons of shinin...

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#Interview: IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sure, it's getting a little old now, but it's easily one of my favorite memes of all time. Recently, I had the chance to interview the mastermind behind tha...

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#music: We mentioned a while back that Takanori Nishikawa aka TM Revolution would be making an appearance at this year's New York Comic Con. They were also looking to fans to send in questions for the ...

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#music: I know I've said it once or twice before, but the past month has been a busy one for Japanese pop-punk group ketchup mania. They played a long string of shows in America as part of the Japan Nite...

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#music: The past couple years have been busy, to say the least, for Japan's pop-punkers Ketchup Mania. In 2007 they were voted "Best Japanese Punk Group" in Shojo Beat, released both their U....

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#music: It's been a good month for tokyo pinsalocks. First their new album was released on JapanFiles.com, and then on March 21st they played their first show in American at Anime Boston.I recently had a...

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#music: We recently reported on the upcoming BLOOD tour. They'll be hitting up four clubs in the States, one after another, from February 1st to the 4th. The tour is organized by radio show/production co...

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#News: ICv2 has a two-part interview Gen Fukunaga, CEO and founder of America's largest anime company, FUNimation. Among the many topics covered, he discusses the American anime DVD market, the illegal ...

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#Tokyopop: Here's an interesting little video from PBS' Docubloggers show. It's an interview with Tokyopop's artist Rivkah, who does an ameri-manga called Steady Beat. According to the book&...

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#otaku culture: Jason Thompson is a manga master, a self-proclaimed manga-kage of our hidden ninja village. The Comics Journal has an interview up with this man who is the author of the forthcoming book, Manga:...

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#Interview: Gunota Headlines had underwent the pleasure of translating two different interviews with Gundam 00’s director Seiji Mizushima in both Newtype and Animage magazines for those of us who do not ...

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#Interview: While at AnimeNEXT yesterday, I got the chance to sit down with Toyo Ikeda, who is the animation producer for Romeo x Juliet, and Daisuke Gomi, who's a producer for animation and live action pr...

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#Interview: That's me own back on the left, a few billion fangirls in a long multi-hall wraparound line, and a generous chunk of the reason they're all there writing his e-mail for me on the right: 'tis Vi...

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#Interview: Brazilian journalist Sandra Monte, provides us westerns with a super-special treat, an interview with Satoshi Kon. Satoshi Kon is the man who brought you Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Paran...

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#Interview: The Japan Times put up an article with Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell, talking about some of his beliefs in life. Oshii's a big fan of animal rights, and loves his pets dearly, so...

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#otaku culture: There aren't many people who can say that they've walked the streets of Tokyo in a full set of Stormtrooper armor. There are fewer still that can say they've had several Japanese TV shows and...

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#live-action: As you might already know, Mushishi is to become a live-action movie. But what you don’t know is that is has already been screened in America, twice. At the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, it...