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Question: Is there an anime movie or TV series in which you thought that the opening and closing songs and images (both opening and closing) better reflected the

Question: What is your opinion about anime that is aimed for a foreign audience, like the Big O II? Technically, it is still anime, but would one consider

Question: What American product would you like to see made into an anime? I know this question is purely fanboy in nature, but I like to indulge now

Question: Do you think that the anime craze is finally starting to die down? Manga distributors are dropping titles left and right, which would seem to indicate something.

Question: I saw a program on TV about censorship going on with American movies and how the Director’s Guild of America is fighting back against companies who are

Question: I’ve been told by fans who follow the Naruto manga that the Naruto versus Sasuke battle (beginning around TV episode 130) reaches Dragonball Z levels of over-the-top

Question: Do you agree with people that think anime such as Sailor Moon and DragonBall Z are childish?

Question: Ever since the year 2000, anime has gone down the digital path, getting rid of traditional cel animation completely. And I’ve noticed that ever since this transition,

Question: I’ll admit that I’m a big Sailor Moon fan. But I’m also a fan of mahou shoujo in general, and there are other titles I like just

Question: I was recently disappointed at the number of episodes on the Gantz and Shamen King DVDs that I bought. Is this a current trend to package fewer

Question: Has there even been an anime you cried over or almost wanted cry but held it in?

Question: I have a collection of “Celebrity’s Just for Kids” video cassettes from the late 1980s or so. Who was responsible for this publishing? Whatever happened to them?

Question: Do you think that anime broadcasts can actually hurt the popularity of the manga series they are based on (in the case of anime based on manga?

Question: I recently saw Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 art film, Tenshi no Tamago, or Angel’s Egg. This film left me utterly confused. Yet, it also left me enchanted. This

Question: In a move that should perhaps shock no one, Viz “bastardized” the first volume of I’s by placing stars over the topless female lead. Do you have