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  Go Nagai exhibit at Osamu Tezuka Memorial Museum photos

  on December 13, 2012 12:20 pm

  Go Nagai's Mazinger Z was the first anime to put a person in the cockpit of a giant robot. We take a Continue reading…

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  Inside Comiket

  on August 21, 2012 10:14 am

  Comic Market or Comiket is the largest comic book convention in the world. Held twice annually in Continue reading…

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  Comiket: shopping for underground manga at the world's biggest comic book event

  By Jeff Blagdon on August 21, 2012 09:54 am + 49 comments

  A little over a week ago, I and 550,000 others took the train to Tokyo’s Big Sight convention Continue reading…

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  The Akira Project wants to create a live-action 'Akira' trailer

  By Andrew Webster on August 7, 2012 12:48 pm + 15 comments

  While Hollywood's live-action version of Akira appears to be dead in the water, a group of fans are Continue reading…

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  Evangelion comes to Android: hands-on with Sharp's NERV edition SH-06D

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 16, 2012 04:12 am + 44 comments

  Today at NTT Docomo’s summer lineup event we finally saw the company take the wraps off a working Continue reading…

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  Sharp NERV edition SH-06D hands-on gallery

  on May 16, 2012 03:47 am + 4 comments

  We take a look at the Evangelion variant of Sharp's SH-06D Android handset at NTT Docomo's summer Continue reading…

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  Otaku anthropology: exploring Japan's unique subculture

  By Jesse Hicks on May 9, 2012 01:10 pm + 66 comments

  Patrick Galbraith wants you to know that otaku isn’t just Japanese for "nerd." The Alaska-born Continue reading…

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  'Akira' creator Katsuhiro Otomo exhibits his life's work

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 13, 2012 11:29 am + 60 comments

  The man behind the seminal work in Japanimation is back with a 3,000-piece exhibition of original Continue reading…

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  Katsuhiro Otomo's Gengaten

  on April 13, 2012 10:30 am

  Katsuhiro Otomo, the man behind the genre-defining Akira anime and manga, is putting on a Continue reading…

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  Casio and Doraemon camera collaboration puts anime characters in your photos

  By Sam Byford on April 12, 2012 12:34 am + 6 comments

  It's obvious to all that the point-and-shoot camera's days are numbered — even point-and-shoot Continue reading…