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Anime Review: 'Grave of the Fireflies'

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:02:50 +0000

On any list of undisputed classics of anime, there are a few titles that recur regularly: Akira, for instance, or My Neighbor Totoro. Grave of the Fireflies belongs on that very short list, although for the last few years it suffered from being out of print no thanks to the demise of its American distributor, Central Park Media.

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Vote in the About.Com Anime Reader's Choice Awards

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:06:40 +0000

Every year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards showcase the best products, people, organizations, and services in multiple categories, from technology to hobbies to parenting to religion, and yes, manga and anime too!

Your nominations have been tallied, and now it's time to vote on your favorite anime, anime distributors, and streaming services from between February 22 through March 21. Note that in order to vote you'll need to sign in with either a Facebook or About.com account, to keep the voting fair.

Here's the Readers' Choice Awards schedule:

Nominations: January 18 - February 15, 2012 [closed]
Voting: February 22 - March 21, 2012 [ongoing]
Winners announced: March 30, 2012

Vote now and be heard!

Anime Review: 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica Volume 1'

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:53:11 +0000

Longtime anime fans know the "magical girl" concept like the backs of their hands. An ordinary girl is offered the opportunity to wield great power against bad guys, transforming from her everyday appearance into a doubly-cute avatar of all that's good and innocent.

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Anime Review: 'Oh! Edo Rocket'

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:32:20 +0000

Welcome to Edo -- Tokyo, that is, circa 1840 -- where fireworks are banned and so are many other forms of fun. What's Seikichi Tamiya, the town's scrappiest and most ambitious fireworks-maker, to do? Break the rules, and in the ballsiest way possible. He's building a rocket which can reach the moon -- all for the sake of the pretty young girl he met the other night who's, well, not from around here, to put it mildly.

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Anime Review: 'B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time'

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:57:36 +0000

When Yamada makes up her mind to do something, nothing with deter her. And her new mission is nothing less than to lose her virginity to one of her classmates -- who hasn't the faintest idea what he's in for.

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Anime Review: 'First Squad: The Moment of Truth'

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:09:33 +0000

World War II, it is said, has a shadow history. Behind the front lines, in darkened rooms and secret laboratories, occultists on all sides of the war sought to use arcane powers to tip the battle in their favor.

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Anime Review: 'The Dirty Pair: OVA Series'

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:53:27 +0000

They're back! And it's still not their fault!

Last year, I was thrilled to report the English-language DVD premiere of The Dirty Pair, the original 1980s TV series that gave us the riotous misadventures of Kei and Yuri, far-future "troubleshooters" who get called in to clean up the messes no one else wants to touch ... and who leave behind even bigger ones.

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Anime Review: 'The World God Only Knows'

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:05:11 +0000

Keima Katsuragi's a lover of women -- but not real-world women. Rather, he's a serial seducer of the women he encounters in a peculiar subgenre of video game called "dating sims," where his score is based on how effectively he wins over a woman's heart.

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Anime Review: 'Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You), Part 1'

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:26:02 +0000

It's never easy being the dark horse of the class. Sawako knows all too well what that's like -- she's such a dark horse that the other kids call her "Sadako", after the malevolent ghost in The Ring. So what's a girl to do when she's barely able to say hello -- and then finds herself befriended, almost by accident, by one of the most outgoing and popular boys in her class?

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Nominations Open for 2012 About.com Anime Readers' Choice Awards

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:36:10 +0000

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