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Question: What are the costs and time production of making an anime. Could an individual put up the funds or only companies?

Question: I’ve been hearing the word “para para” a lot lately. Mainly, I’ve seen tons of music CDs and video games with “Para Para” in the title. For

Question: In your opinion, John, what do you think is the best anime series ever? In my opinion, I think Evangelion is the best.

Question: Anime movies that are based on a series tend to have little to do with the series. Many times they have a totally different tone altogether, like

Question: There are so many shows where the main character’s mother died while they were an infant/young child. Is there a reason for this?

Question: You said that Evangelion should not be blindly considered the greatest anime of all time [in the Ask John article from Monday, July 20, 2001]. In your

Question: What is your opinion of Agent Aika? Do you think it’s sleazy and/or perverted?

Question: I couldn’t help but notice the dramatic resemblance of The Big O to the American Batman cartoon series. Was there was any collaboration between the Japanese producers

Question: What’s the fascination with the Japanese giving their anime series weird titles like Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 or Cowboy Bebop or Serial Experiments Lain? If anything, they

Question: I was just wondering what would be a good anime that could be shown on TV that wouldn’t anger fans by having too much cut out. I

Question: When I say “adult” I don’t necessarily mean hentai anime. Pioneer gave us “Catnapped,” and recently Tokyopop gave us “Spring and Chaos,” but that’s about it. Why

Question: Every website I’ve seen has labelled “Amazing Nurse Nanako” as a fan-service anime, but I’m not so sure about that. This is just so outrageous that I

Question: I was wondering why some anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion or Dragon Ball aren’t afraid to push the envelope a little bit in terms of content, whereas

Question: Why do anime series like Trigun that are incredibly successful have only 26 episodes and no sequels or movies when they would easily make money?

Question: Do American Anime distributors only bring in anime that were famous in Japan? What were some of the most successful and popular anime in Japan? Like a