After working on My Neighbour Totoro, animator Akemi Miyazaki steps out from her husband’s shadow to show us Totoro’s real-world birthplace.
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Industry veteran blames Internet talent scouting for massive young adult literature rewrites by people who aren’t supposed to be writing.
From useful notes to funny doodles, these used books have all kinds of charming features that netizens love.
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Poor sexual performance, heavy debts considered punishable by death in website-inspired Husband Death Note.
One fan of both anime and horror saw an opportunity here and created a spooky new visage in the Japanese style.
You’ve seen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective as a dog, a girl, and even Benedict Cumberbatch’s turn as the character as its own manga. A character of near infallible logic is transforming again, this time into an android.
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