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After seeing Lucky Star it seems more and more people want to visit the shrine where Tsukasa and Kagami were at. Made some of the locals mad for a while too, though they seem to be embracing it since the Otaku are are really boosting the economy for them.
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Four of the biggest manga publishers in Japan have announced a partnership to offer their manga titles via the Nintendo Wii Ware channel.
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The IFMagazine.com entertainment website reports that film producer Erwin Stoff (The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly) is developing a live-action adaptation of Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop multi-genre action anime series for Fox.
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Anime Expo 08 is officially over and wow what was a weekend it was for fans in attendance or sitting at home following the news closely. A lot happened this weekend that didn’t involve Funimation though and so let’s get on with it…
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Remember the Animatrix? Well, a similar tie-in for the Batman franchise has been developed. While it completely fails at filling in the gaps between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, it provides some really interesting reworking on a classic character. What happens when Batman meets
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This blog you can get best anime characters.
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This manga, published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates” (マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語), in KoroKoro Comic, is a fascinating piece of history, and quite amusing to boot. As a piece of history, it harkens back to a time when Bill Gates was the Larry Page or Sergey Brin of his day, a dynamic
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Takashi Miike's live-action version of 70s cartoon Yatterman will be released in March 2009 and the full-scale version of Yatter-Bark used in the film has been unveiled. It took 3 months to build and cost about 30 million yen.
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What do you do with your used subway tickets? Most of us throw them away, right? Volunteers from Takashimaya and a few other Shinjuku-based businesses have kept theirs, all 138,000 of them, and built a huge mural of Astro Boy!
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Japan's biggest community site for cosplayers, "Cure", has grown to a very respectable 300,000 registered users. With English localization now in effect, the number of Cure users who are not Japanese (already 10%) is expected to grow substantially.
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"Let's Bible" is a Korean manga composed with mainly English captions for the Japanese market. It features a buxom female Jesus, a young fisherman who lusts after her (and cops a feel), Judas as a gothic lolita and a Mexican Devil. Lordy!
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A very interesting article from the LA times about the Otaku culture.
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Part 5 of Koichi's "Godzilla's New Life" series tells the story of the monster's arrival in the States, his struggle to find work, his inability to knock down American buildings (which are now too tall for even Godzilla), and his eventual fall to homelessness.
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Google in Japan has special logo for Astro Boy's Birthday
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Remember the cute & adorable OS-tans? Manga artist Timaking has extended the concept to the War On Terror, starring poor little Afuganisu-tan, Al-Nyaaida and the neighborhood's rich girl, Meriken.
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