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Thats because France has a huge indigenous comic market of which manga represents about a third of it. The biggest comic convention outside of japan is in France. They are a bigger market so they get everything sooner (and cheaper too). Also the english releases for Blade of the Immortal are...

Also bear in mind that many US shops are getting very very picky about accepting Pay Pal, or any oher payment escrow service where the provider can choose to keep all the money in your account for whatever reason. Also many specialist anime/manga shops in the US require ridiculous levels of...

That series has an awful reputation. Really ugly, bad animation, and a mediocre plot. Its the kind of show that is designed to cheaply fill a timeslot and get hated by anime fans. On japanese forums for instance this gets horribly trashed, and it escalated when they made a second series...

Yes of course, because you deliberately avoid checking. Listen just piss off with the pro-pirate arguments. Don't try and fake innocence. Most people who go bargain hunting online at least double check that what is advertised is a bootleg or not. There are a number of easy ways to do this. The...

Its Okay, I am in another country anyway, so flight expenses would probably raise my fee from £10 to £10+expenses. That list of anime is a pretty impressive the word on most of them is that they are worth buying. Especially FMP! 2nd Raid, Ergo Proxy, Noein & Black Lagoon. If you had to save...

No its got a lot of names; typically chibi-style or super-deformed style. Or a number of others. Generally the characters are drawn in a stunted caricatures of themselves for comic or dramatic effect. If you don't like it, blame Osamu Tezuka. While the technique wasn't unknown when he was on...

Whoa! You were actually considering buying it? Listen, for a tenner, I will call over to your house if I am in the area and kick you in the nuts. The pain will disappear much quicker than 13 x 25 minutes of Yamiboshi, and you will save yourself £160. Deal? :lol It was fansubbed by some crew...

I probably spend more on manga now than on anime - it can get a bit rough allright. Bear in mind that opportunities to cut corners on price don't really exist with manga either. With DVDs I can go online and save a bit, or import, and eventually older DVDs start being released in budget...

Its rubbish. It kinda started off ok but wierd, and the character designs are interesting, the main lead is pretty cool. There was an interesting sexiness about it. But its utterly barmy, the story is totally different to the game (to the point that game fans didn't know what was going on)...

They are in fact almost totally different. The primary distribution of manga in Japan is the anthology. A large magasine, released regularly, that has many different stories being serialised at the same time on a chapter by chapter basis. The secondary distribution method is the collected...

The Planetes anime is one of the best of all time. It built up slowly and then become this awe-inspiring story, made all the more powerful for being very believable. The anime spun a larger story, and a continuous story out of the episodic and fairly independent manga story elements...

Its pretty good. Though the volumes that came out after the anime seem to have just drifted off aimlessly.

They are *all* under discussion. And personally there is no real discernable pattern between number of episodes released and license announcement. It varies by licensee, property holder, title everything. The one thing that is true is that discussions start way before the airing date. You...

Use SPOILER TAGs!!!!!

People log out? I have always liked the simplicity and directness of animeuknews. Unlike many anime forums that throw in useless bells and whistles to tempt a few page views, most of the main community features here actually work quite well. I really thought that the user profile was an...

I don't think it is fair to compare the two. In Gunslinger Girl, the reasons are fairly well explained - the technology isn't perfect and it works best on the young. Also, the girls aren't monsters, they are conditioned to obey orders, the conditioning being more technical that hypnotic, but...

Mushishi unlicensed? Never mind that, super-popular, super-famous stuff like Ouran High School Host Club, Haruhi Suzumiya, Air Gear, xxxHolic and Nana are all unlicensed. I know FUNi (IIRC, maybe Media Blasters) has registered a mushishi domain name, and Del Rey licensed the manga recently...

And in Naruto, that character has to be Naruto. The cast is freakin' huge, and Naruto is the only one you see consistently enough of. There are some excellent side characters and some brilliant enemies (fan favourites Rock Lee & Gaara), but Naruto is the only one that you see enough of to...

I don't know anyone who watched it. You would have to dig deep on blogsuki or the fansubbers forums. But its a wierd one. However its a JC Staff anime. They are practically the specialists in this field.

The word on Beet the Vandel Buster is that it is fairly standard Shonen fare but fun. Given a choice between say Kenshin, Bleach, Inu Yasha, Hunter X Hunter or Beet, Beet would probably be your last choice but its fun all the same. Its probably truer to its manga roots than say Naruto. Its fans...