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Question: What is the significance of friend/foe relationships between protagonists and other characters in some series? Take for instance Ranma and Ryoga or Goku and Piccolo. Why is

Question: Why is fanservice called fanservice? I know exactly what this is, but when a friend of mine asked me this question, I couldn’t answer him.

Question: What is the signifigance of the cross-shaped scar? Good characters and bad characters have them such as Kenshin (Ruroni Kenshin) on his face and Vash (Trigun) on

Question: Is there more Sorcerer on the Rocks coming to DVD or in manga form?

Question: Why in Love Hina do they sometimes call the school Keitaro wants to go to Tokyo U and sometimes they call TouDai? And does Tokyo U really

Question: Why is anime so copiously produced? Is it marketability, advances in cinematography and computer graphics, easy distribution or accessibility?

Question: My question is on Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie. I heard a lot of talk about being another movie that continues where that last scence where

Question: What’s the deal with eccentric lab coat clad guys in anime. Specific ones I can recall are Seta from Love Hina, Icchan from Angelic Layer, and the

Question: Anime, by far, is the most controversial brand of art I have seen being both defended and slashed by those who are in favor or against this

Question: How much Trigun manga is out there? I have been told that there is 2 or 3 series of Trigun manga. Is this true? Also, has anyone

Question: I had this notion, that you might choose to import the sort of titles that other distributors tend to neglect. In other words, titles that ought to

Question: Do people in Japan really talk like they do in anime? Is it common to use words like “baka,” “kuso,” “gomen nasai,” the I form “ore,” and

Question: Is Cardcaptors the movie 2 going to be released in U.S? When? In English? And is the distributor of the English version going to complete the series

Question: When it comes to the word “Ronin,” it usually means repeating 2 or more times to get into college, like Love Hina. But then we have Ronin

Question: What’s with anime characters and smoking. I know it’s supposed to show that they have an edge or dark past, but an anime character can still be