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KILL LA KILL, PANTY AND STOCKING Opening Crossover ‘Amazing’
On February 22, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt/Kill la Kill animation director and character designer Sushio tweeted a fan made crossover opening, adding that the 30 second video created by...
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Absurd Cosplay of the Week: Miyazaki
Miyazaki cosplay isn’t uncommon. Peppered throughout any anime convention are a bevy of Totoros, Sens, No Faces, Sheetas, and Kikis spread about a chaotic showroom floor. However, there’s one Miyazaki […]
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To the Otaku: Upgrading to Chopsticks
Japanese cuisine is actually much more varied and a lot more nutritionally balanced than a Japanese restaurant in America might lead one to believe. It contains vegetables that are not […]
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KILL LA KILL Inspired Menu Coming to Tokyo’s Cure Maid Cafe
Popular anime series Kill La Kill may have filled your heart with joy, but not your stomach. Akihabara’s Cure Maid Cafe will be launching a new Kill La Kill themed […]
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SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK Review: Anime’s Ultimate Bad Boy Returns with...
Legendary anime/manga creator Leiji Matsumoto perfected dystopian before the rest of the world even knew what it was. His vast universe is rife with it, from Space Battleship Yamato‘s dying […]
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COWBOY BEBOP and SAMURAI CHAMPLOO Heavyweights Collaborating on New Series
What could be cooler than director Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Kids on the Slope, Space Dandy, Samurai Champloo), composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Kids on the Slope), and […]
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New Anime — April
Anime March 30 – April 5 Angel Blade — Complete Collection Dragon Ball Z — Season 3 Ebiten: Ebisugawa Public High School’s Tenmonbu — Complete Collection Evangelion 3.22: You Can […]
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RAMEN FIGHTER MIKI Review: Misadventures with Ramen
Muteki Kanban Musume, otherwise known as Ramen Fighter Miki, is a comedic anime based on a manga written by Sadogawa Jun. The anime was released shortly after the last manga […]
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The Amazing Story of a Grassroots Anime Convention
Organizing a convention is a Herculean undertaking. Planning takes months, set up slightly less. The day itself requires constant management: everything from registration to food and housekeeping to...
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To The Otaku: Face Masks and Cough Drops
Most of us probably don’t give much thought to it until it happens, but getting sick from time to time is a part of life. I’m sure I’m not the […]
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SHIN SEKAI YORI Review: A Whole New World of Plot Holes and Scientific...
Shin Sekai Yori, or From the New World, is an anime based on a novel written by Kishi Yusuke. The anime adaptation was handled by A-1 pictures. You may remember them […]
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NORAGAMI Review: Best of Winter 2014
With all the new anime from the winter 2014 season wrapping up, the internet is abuzz with praise for Noragami” Adapted from the 2010 manga, Bones and Funimation have brought […]
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47 RONIN: Movie Review
When previews for Universal’s 47 Ronin started appearing last year, the reaction was, at best, cautiously pessimistic. Purists bemoaned the added mysticism, the politically corrected sniffed at having...
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ONE OUTS Review: Games Within Games
One Outs was a baseball manga written by Kaitani Shinobu. It was adapted into an anime by our old friends at Madhouse, who brought us such classics as Black Lagoon, Petshop of Horrors and Rideback. […]
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Shutocon 2014: Cosplayers, Shenanigans and Fandoms
Shutocon this year was a wonderful experience! Anime conventions have plenty to offer with different bands and panels showing different things such as how to sew or how to pose for […]
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Absurd Cosplay of the Week: Case Closed
Filed under: Absurd Cosplay of the Week Tagged: Anime, Case Closed, Case Closed Cosplay, Cosplay, Manga, Strange Cosplay, Weird Cosplay
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STREET FIGHTER II MOVIE Review: Ultimate Hyper X Edition
Let me preface this review by saying that I don’t have the same problems with Capcom that a lot of gamers do. However, one legitimate complaint that always comes up […]
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ANCIENT BOOK OF Ys Review: Six Books for Seven Swords
The Ys franchise may or may not be known to you. Basically, it’s a series of action RPGs that helped define the genre back in the late 80s. It’s also Falcom’s best […]
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New Anime — May
May 11-17 Deltora Quest — The Complete Series Dragon Ball Z — Season 4 Fate/Zero — Collection 1 The Book of Bantorra — Complete Collection Yu-Gi-Oh! — Season 5 Volume […]
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GODZILLA Review: Japan’s Famous Monster Makes a Triumphant Return
Overview No movie this summer has bigger shoes to fill than Godzilla. The original is more than a film classic; it’s both a cultural and historical statement. It speaks to […]
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