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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 »
In this ever-changing world in which we live in, it can be hard not to become a cynic. So all the more power to these 20 anime characters, who Japanese fans have chosen as anime’s purest. Believing in the people around them, these characters, for …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 »
Yesterday, Japanese TV station NHK announced starting next year, they will be showing reruns of Love Live! , the popular series about idols who team up to prevent their school from shutting down. That and a weird conflux of other otaku-related topics, prompted a wave …Read more »
Our favorite anime and manga pollsters, Charapedia, are at it again this week with another question for the anime-loving Japanese masses, and their subject this time is a doozy: anime’s most shogekiteki na kamigata : shocking hairstyles. This is our favorite poll in a while. …Read more »
There are perhaps no more important 90 seconds in an anime series than its opening or ending theme song. Either setting the tone for the entire series to come or serving to wrap up episode after episode, the best opening and ending themes are destined …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 »
Believe it or not, this didn't even make the top 10. If there’s one thing more important than how an anime or manga begins, it’s how it ends. That final impression that lingers after the final episode or chapter does a lot to shape how …Read more »
Death! Morbid as it may be, it’s a frequent enough conversation between friends and family: what’s the last thing you want to eat? The last person you want to see? The last anime you want to watch? Okay, I’ve never thought about that last one. …Read more »
Japanese anime survey site Charapedia polled 10,000 anime fans for their latest survey, aiming to list the most anticipated spring 2015 anime. Registered users were surveyed between February 26 and March 4, with 55.3% of those surveyed being male and 84.6% in their teens and …Read more »
Lists. Is there anything the internet collectively loves more? (Cats, maybe…) The latest list from Japanese ranking website Goo is a ranking of the 16 best idol anime series of all time, as decided by 500 anime fans. Idols, from Seiko Matsuda to AKB48 to …Read more »
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