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While the look and feel of an anime series is largely defined by its director, writer, character designer and the rest of the cast and crew, it’s also undeniable that each anime studio has its own distinctive stamp. With that in mind, Japanese site Gakumado …Read more »
“I know I’m supposed to hate this guy… but I can’t!” So howled (or so we’d like to imagine, anyway) the fans who filled out the latest poll from data wizards Charapedia, who, for the latest round of anime polling, have asked their followers, “who’re …Read more »
This is a question that’s kept us up many a night, tossing and turning: just who are the 20 hottest guys in anime? Thankfully, pollsters Charapedia have come to the rescue, asking their readers to vote for their favorite hunks. The key point in this …Read more »
Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate , the highly-anticipated continuation of Food Wars! , is set to hit screens in July, and the musical groups handling the opening and ending themes have now been announced. SCREEN mode will perform the opening, which is titled “Rough …Read more »
Japanese polling site Charapedia is getting inventive. For its 114th anime-and-manga-related poll, it’s asked its readers, “what two characters from totally unrelated shows have you always thought would make a good couple?” Or, in short, Charapedia has officially sanctioned some serious shipping. What characters did …Read more »
Production I.G, the studio behind anime like Ghost in the Shell , Psycho-Pass and Blood: The Last Vampire , will open a store based around their properties in hip Tokyo neighborhood Shibuya, reports Anime Anime. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to visit. The …Read more »
Teiko Junior High Basketball Club ( Kuroko's Basketball ) Certain Polling Site Charapedia has cooked up an interesting question for its readers this week about that enduring genre of anime and manga set in high school clubs. Whether sports, music, dance or student council, anime …Read more »
Be still our six-pack-loving hearts. The PR machine for the Fairy Tail stage play (man, is there any anime that doesn’t have a stage adaptation these days?) has revealed its first visual, a photo of Shuuto Miyazaki as Natsu Dragneel. And it’s ab-tacular. Miyazaki is …Read more »
Thought you were done with end-of-year lists, did you? Just one more, we promise: this one was too interesting to pass up. We bring you a lot of lists sharing the opinions of your Japanese anime-watching peers, but they’re often limited to rankings of characters …Read more »
Ah, end-of-year lists. Many, they are. Our favorite pollmasters Charapedia have gotten in on the end-of-year game by asking their readers: who were the best characters of 2015? The rules were pretty simple: the characters didn’t have to be new, they simply had to appear …Read more »
Anime fans’ first taste of the complicated honorific style of Japanese speech known as keigo often comes in the form of titles attached to the end of one’s name. One of the most respectful of these titles is “sama,” which is often translated as “sir” …Read more »
Charapedia, the Japanese site making a name for itself throughout the internet for its relentless polling of the anime fan populous is at it again, and has asked its readers this time, “who are anime’s most negative characters?” Through good times and bad, these characters’ …Read more »
Fairy Tail 's Happy. You know the ones. Those anime and manga characters where you can’t help thinking, “man, that is some high-level kawaii.” If you’ve ever wondered if your taste in cute mascot characters – be they animal, fairy, robot, god, whatever – matches …Read more »
Remember that old phrase about fury and women and scorn and stuff? Anime ranking site Charapedia were probably thinking along those lines when they set up their latest survey, asking pollees the question, “what anime woman would you most scared of upsetting?” There’s no shortage …Read more »
"Who, me?" Japanophiles may be aware that despite great strides, gender equality in Japan still isn’t quite where it is in the western world. That’s well-exemplified in a new word that appeared in Japanese around 2009: jōshiryoku, or “women’s power.” Where in the States “women’s …Read more »
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