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Question: Anime has been around for a long time in Japan, longer than video games at least. But in America and Japan video games have grown to have

Question: A lot of anime focuses on people in the military or ex-military personnel. Shows like Ghost in the Shell, Rurouni Kenshin, Peacemaker, Full Metal Panic, Blood+, Galaxy

Question: There exists a scenario often found in romantic comedy or “harem” situations. Stated briefly, the actions of a school government official towards “maintaining a standard of moral

Question: What is your opinion of the Spice and Wolf Yen Press novel cover backlash?

Question: Would you say that there is a formula or common occurrences in anime that reaches America versus anime that just stays in Japan?

Question: I was thinking since I know some anime have stopped production before or have been canceled do to financial problems. Would it be possible for a studio

Question: Even though the Soul Eater anime was extremely faithful to the manga in it’s beginnings, it abruptly changed and ended rather uneventfully. The latest chapter release has

Question: I’ve noticed the use of the word “monagatari” in quite a few anime in this year alone. Here is a list of the titles I am aware

Question: Tentacles, rape, bondage and similar fetishes seem to constitute the overwhelming majority of adult anime that reach Region 1 via legitinate distribution. Is there any indication from

Question: With a movie like Transformers, which has giant robots, do you think they will ever do a feature film on Gundam?

Question: In today’s world fansubs are quite common for licensed and sadly unlicensed shows. But worst of all, often times this ventures off into outright piracy and bootlegging.

Question: In respect to the original CARDCAPTOR SAKURA, aside from the shounen-ai elements, which were minimized as far as possible in the English Language adaptation – either by

Question: Interestingly otaku themselves don’t agree on what constitutes moe. Japan’s male otaku mostly believe moe characters must be female – therefore they considered Mamoru-kun ni Megami no

Question: What are the chances of Pixar doing a CG remake of Grave of the Fireflies for kids?

Question: Many of the manga I buy in the United States cost about $10, but a similar volume in Japan costs only $5 or less. I know that