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#satoshi kon: Satoshi Kon has been working on a new film for a while, however it was kept under surprisingly tight wraps. But thanks to a heads up from our pals at twitchfilm.net, we've seen that the official ...

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#Macross: Alot of people like Macross Frontier. And alot of people like the characters in it. Ranka? Sure, cute. Sheryl? Okay, she's not bad. Klan Klan? Heck, I wouldn't pass her up. But most people miss t...

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#trailers: I had only heard bits and pieces about upcoming "high suspense" anime Durarara!! up until now, but thanks to a post over at Animenation, I've now seen an incredible twelve minute stream...

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#ZOMGWTFBBQ: Now many of you avoid fan fiction, and I commend you. There's very few things worse in this world than reading about Reed Richards and Turtwig getting it on in a tree, but sometimes there are thi...

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#anime: Other than its planned 2011 opening, that's all you really need to know. For Christ's sake, it's called Mini-skirt Space Pirates!Fine. If you're that obsessive type who's into things like "i...

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#fate/stay night: The Fate/stay night TV anime ended some time ago, but Type-Moon and Studio DEEN are reworking the show into a special rerelease to mark the theatrical debut of the Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade...

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#K-On: WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Do not hit play if you are at work! Mio? Dearest? Is something wrong? I can't quite see what's going on there, but it looks like you're bouncing up and down? Are you i...

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#Japanator Original: Hey there, Drossel! Do you have a moment? I have something I'd like to talk to you about. Hmm, what's that? How did I get inside your mansion? Well, to be honest, your security system kind of suc...

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#yen press: Did you watch Soul Eater the other day when FUNimation had it streaming? I hope so. What did you think?If you enjoyed it and know it's one you have to get your hands on, FUNimation has announced ...

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#naruto: After writing my article on why Haruhi should be over, I realized that I like telling people that their favorite series should take a dirt nap. I don't know why; it must have been something in th...

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#Macross: With the new Macross Frontier film opening in just one week, Big West is pulling out all the stops in their advertising campaign. Among other things, this PR blitz includes human-sized images of ...

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#top stories: [Since yesterday was Idol Day, I figured this would be the perfect time to beg for my favorite anime involving idols to be licensed.]You know what we haven't had in a while? A good, old-fashioned...

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#YouTube: Fumiko's Confession is an independent anime short that's been all the rage on Nico Nico and YouTube lately. Cute characters and great animation aside, this clip's most exceptional quality is its ...

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#Neon Genesis Evangelion: It's less than a week until Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone is released, but who can wait that long? If the 17th sounds too far away, and you need some You Are (Not) Alone goodness now, there...

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#yen press: FUNimation's making it so that at least anime fans are having a lucky time on Friday the 13th.  That's because at 11:00 A.M. CST tomorrow morning they'll be streaming the first four dub...

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#top stories: Not counting OPs and EDs, little Cafe has only appeared in one episode: Yumeiro Patissiere episode 6. Some would say that I'm moving too fast; that maybe I should wait until he's spoken more than...

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#The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi: It's time for more Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya news! The official website for the film has confirmed that Haruhi will disappear for 150 minutes, on the previously announced date of February ...

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#DVD: Remember the bad old days of the sub/dub wars, before the dual-language DVD became ubiquitous?  When there was actually a need to pick one over the other, because you couldn't have both on V...

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#otaku culture: I can't show you the rest of this Queen's Blade mousepad, because it's just wrong. I can, however, tell you that you see the rest and buy it at J-List for $52, and that they describe it as "...

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#review: Of all the cool stuff I picked up at NYAF this year, Collateral Damage was by far the coolest.  I had no intention of buying a board game at the convention, but once I heard the concept for ...

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#trailers: There's few things in this world more awesome than Gintama. Alot of us like the anime and manga, but a full blown movie? It sounded like the BEST THING EVER when it was announced. And now we have...

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#top stories: [We love it when you disagree with us. And so lyfeforce felt strongly enough about Karen's Haruhi artlce that he just had to respond, and came up with a fantastic counterpoint to her article. Let...

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#Tsundere: Summary: Part girl. Part railgun. All awesome.I'm going to be honest: the only reason I started watching A Certain Scientific Railgun is because it had "railgun" in the title. As a sci-...

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#top stories: [I always learn something new from you readers. And in the case of Irothtin, that would be about Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. I have a feeling I'll have to seek out a bunch of new series to watch and...

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#manga entertainment: Ichiro Itano's 1989 OVA Angel Cop is anime at its absolute worst. It's an explotation piece attempting to masquerade as social commentary, rife with over-the-top violence, extreme gore, nationali...

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#TV and Film: Musashi Miyamoto is the original dual-wielder. Founding the Hyoho Niten Ichiryu swordsmanship style and writing the strategy treatise Book of the Five Rings, Musashi is one of the classic great w...

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#TV and Film: Yoshitaka Amano's Toy Story-esque story about the secret life of vegetables in a New York kitchen will be making its way to the big screen. This is actually the first I'm hearing about ...

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#manga: It's morning. You're running late, and then BAM! You smack into her. Or she falls out of a time portal. Or the sky. Or through your bathroom mirror. Or your plumbing. However you meet them, most ...

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#top stories: You don't hear a whole lot of requests for Casablanca 2.It's just not something people ask for. People aren't on pins and needles to find out what else Rick can hide from the authorities in Sam...

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#top stories: The headline of this feature could be considered pretty sad, but I'm a confident guy, and I feel like I can proceed with this wishlist of 2D-to-3D transformation without worry of ridicule. I take...

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#First Impressions: Summary: Excellent story and art based on classic Japanese literature, but don't expect to be feeling happy when it's all over.Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature) has been an anime to pay attention to ...

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#Viz Media: Quick update for all you Monster fans. If you're having a PSTriple party (way cooler than those Windows 7 launch parties) and want to break out some awesome anime, Viz has you set.I mean, sure, t...

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#one piece: We've all gotten accustomed to our new time shift by now (at least I'd like to think so), and we continue on about our lives after Daylight Savings Time. Yet Japan rebels, refusing to acknowledge...

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#shoujo: Summary: A clumsy girl who's always been the screw-up of her family gets admitted to an elite chef school. This show can be evaluated in two ways: as a shoujo anime, or as a brilliant piece of pr...

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#top stories: From the first moment I laid eyes on you,  Sebastian, I was simply enamored. Of course, who wouldn't be -- you're the type of guy who seems to be SO together. I mean, that Ciel is such a bot...

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#Whats Manga up to: We know you guys love funny fansubs -- our original article on them is still one of our most popular. The beautiful thing about fansubbing is, it keeps happening, and along with it, our favorite ...

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#videos:  Have you ever wanted to know all about '90s anime sensation Sailor Moon, but didn't feel like watching 200 episodes of unicorns, sparkles, and an army of under-aged girls running around i...

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#News: So you've just finished watching your imported Ponyo DVD, and you need your Ghibli fix. You could pull out your Miyazaki DVD collection and watch his films for the hundreth time... or you could h...

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#videos: We told you about the anime Princess Robot Bubblegum in The Ballad of Gay Tony, the latest part of the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Well, Destructoid's Conrad Zimmerman was kind enough to record t...

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#top stories: Britian's Got Talent, sure, but it has no place in anime. We'll let this one slide, mostly because it's hilarious.Surely you've heard of Susan Boyle. Most of the world fell in love with this ugly...

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#Industy affairs: Despite some feel-good mantras implying the opposite, there ARE benefits to being on the top of the heap. One of those is having them come to you.Funimation's in that position right now, as it is...

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#weird news: Looking for some exercises to do? Well, you could go ahead and just start walking, or jogging, or lifting weights, or any number of things. But hey, you're a busy guy, and all that anime isn't go...

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#The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi: As many of you may recall, the final episode of Haruhi's second season contained an announcement for the upcoming Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya film. Now, it seems as if the film will be premi...

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#OVA: Okay so this isn't exactly a full length animated film, but it's the next best thing. Saiyuki Gaiden, the previously manga-only prequel to the Kazuya Minekura classic, Saiyuki, is appar...

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#cosplay: Another day, another gallery of cosplay for you to feast your eyes on! From Houston, Texas, where you'd expect people to ride horses more than actually participate in cosplay, is the annual Onico...

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#videos:  Eden of the East is so damned good. It reeks of quality from the very first frame of the very first episode. I blasted through the series and nearly chewed my nails off when I realized how ...

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#Viz Media: Details are sketchy, but it seems as though Gin Tama fans are in for a treat, and I'm not talking about just another OVA. Orichon is apparently reporting that the series will ...

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#News: It's been about 4 years since the last season of D.C. ~Da Capo~ aired on Chiba TV, but it looks as though another season might be hitting the air sometime next year. Reportedly, Circus--a studio ...

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#Viz Media: New People and its VIZ cinema movie theater are really tearing the scene up as an otaku destination. Before that San Francisco's Japantown neighborhood was really something of a wash most days. A...

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#cosplay: Yesterday, Onicon 2009 kicked off this Halloween weekend down here in Houston, Texas. The annual convention was held at the Houston Marriot Westchase on Westheimer, a very different scene from th...

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#Promoted Stories: [BGFUSAB has solicited the community in trying to develop Japanator's own top 25 anime characters list, and we want to help him out. Check out what he has planned down below, and be sure to cast ...

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#videos: Someone had to do it, right?I wouldn't say that this MAD is particularly good, but it's a K-On!-ized "Macarena," so I had to share it.There's less dancing than there probably should be...

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#contest: Let me explain what my average week is like around the office: I write about stuff that makes me happy and that I love, and then once a week, I get a huge box of anime, manga or both. This sounds...

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#Japanator Original: Summary: Now I'm watching the sky for my very own Pet-class Angel Android.Summing up Sora no Otoshimono as one of stories where a hot alien/angel/robot subservient girl happens to pop up in the l...

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#releases: Section 23 Films has announced list of titles -- both anime and live action -- that will be released in January. Some of these are complete sets, and others are season box sets, so this...

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#Japanator Original: Summary: An episodic series about treating peoples' problems that make me question storytelling itself each time I watch the show.I tend to not have a lot of time to watch shows, and so I tend to...

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#Japanator Original: [--While its broadcast season is technically over, we felt that the days leading up to Halloween were an especially appropriate time to beg for this anime to be released--]Despite the amazing div...

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#Video games: "Why are you so upset? Is it because your father threw you off a cliff?""Tomorrow I'm killing my father.""I know the rabbit wasn't happy to get eaten."These are som...

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#otaku culture: Yesterday, October 28th, was the 8th annual International Animation Day... and I completely missed it. *facepalm*International Animation Day was first celebrated in 2002, and organized by the Int...

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#Japanator Original: Summary: Exactly what I expected, but that's not looking down on Shonen anime. Fairy Tail is actually a lot of fun.Either you have a stick up your ass about shonen stuff or you don't. I don't, an...

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#anime: IGN has decided to throw up a list of what they consider to be the top 25 anime characters of all time. As you can imagine, with any such list comes a wave of reaction from the denizens of the in...

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#internet: It seems that asking people nicely to stop downloading illegal anime isn't enough. Since approximately 40,000 anime are illegally distributed online on a monthly basis, this is a serious concern ...

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#Video games: Besides Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, Japan has one other RPG mega-franchise, and that's Namco Bandai's Tales series. I have I have yet to actually play a post-PS1 entry of the series, though I...

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#music: What do you get when you cross a last name and Twitter with a zillion mindless moe-humping drones? In the words of genius musician Susumu Hirasawa, "a nightmare."See, there's some anime...

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#videos: And you know what? It looks good. The trailer just hit for Production I.G.'s new project Loups Garous (werewolf in French), Based on a novel that Viz announced it will be publishing back at NYAF ...

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#anime: So, I missed word that Kaichou wa Maid-sama is getting an anime adaptation back at the end of August, but now they've actually announced some details about the production! Tokyopop announced lice...

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#no fair!: But...but it looks fine in animated form?Why does it look like the face of all evil, terror incarnate, everything that should live under your bed and more in real life?Discuss.[Via Danny Choo]

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#TV and Film: We're talking a lot about box offices today, aren't we? Well, over the weekend word came in that Ponyo hit the $15 million mark in US theatres, pulling itself above Spirited Away's $10 million gr...

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#Video games: Well, would you look at that? It seems everyone's favorite anime about flying panties is going to be seeing some PSP action. Well, I don't really know what Sora no Otoshimono is about, but that's...

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#fan art: You may recall that we showed you the very first stirrings of a Doctor Who anime project earlier this year. Well, creator Paul "OtaKing" Johnson has kept at it, releasing a couple more ...

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#Japanator Original: Summary: A loli elf. Sword and sorcery. It's like Thursday night D&D all over again.The Sacred Blacksmith takes place in and around the "Independent Trade City of Housman" (pictured...

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#anime: Hey Japanator, I'd like to talk with you for a minute. Now, as you might've noticed, I finally worked up the courage to tell Kagami how I feel about her. I thought things would go great. I mean, ...

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#weird news: Topless Robot just doesn't get it. First that thing with Robotech v. Macross, now this with a Lucky Star depiction of the Decepticons. It's awesome, and after the recent movies they're frankly...

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#Viz Media: The new anime Monster, based on the manga by Naoki Urasawa, has been on the SyFy Channel's Ani-Monday block these last two weeks.  Not many anime get chosen for this, so it's giving Monster ...

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#Japanator Original: Summary: There's talking cats -- what else do you want?In my seasonal anime lineup, I always try to work in one silly, off-the-wall title. For me, this season, Nyankoi! is it. But that's not to d...