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No Face is hungry for coins and when he looks this animated eating them, we can’t stop feeding him!
Innovative awesomeness utilizes one simple trick.
Says Hayao Miyazaki’s fabled anime studio has dismissed roughly 200 animators during its cool-down period.
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Lost his real-life penguin wife, gained an anime waifu.
Publisher nixes two of the most common storytelling tricks in the anime playbook in attempt to create something adults can enjoy.
Series was phenomenally popular in Japan and Latin America, but will English-speaking audiences show up?
Everyone loves Ghibli movies, and for good reason. But since Miyazaki retired (or not, depending on how he feels this week), people have wondered – who will be his spiritual successor?
Groups of three players will team up to battle an Angel in recreation of the fun parts of the heavy-themed fighting robot anime.
Titled Mirai, new anime will be a return to the “human drama” elements of Wolf Children and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Unique design should be a hit with fashionistas and history buffs, and also hides a subtle anime cosplay secret.
Anime fans search for the earliest example of what some consider a harbinger hairdo, but how did it get started?
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