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Want easy access to Shakespeare’s work? Try the manga version!

Wow, we’re having British Day?! From BBC News – One new UK publishing house, Self Made Hero, is offering “Manga Shakespeare” – cut-down versions of…

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Move over, Shakespeare! Here comes Barefoot Gen!

From Anime Corporation – You want art films? Forget King Lear! The British Museum will be launching a film series on September 7, entitled “Late…

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Pizza Hut: First We Take Code Geass. Then We Take Evangeliiiiionnnn

(Sorry for the Leonard Cohen reference.) Anime News Network reports: Pizza Hut has launched a campaign tied to the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone…

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The Otaking Does the (Anime) Blog Diet and Wins!

Toshio Okada–one of the founders of Gainax, and the self-proclaimed “Otaking”–used to look like this: But now he looks like this!

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Makoto Shinkai Makes a Commercial

No, it’s not the ef–a tale of memories OP. It’s an actual commercial, for the Shinano Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. It’s only 15 seconds, it’s got…

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Hey, Anno-san: the Country of Children Made You #1.

From Anime News Network: The first of four Evangelion science fiction movie remakes, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, opened to packed houses to take…

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