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| Auto racing |
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Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or car racing) is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports.
Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful petrol-fueled automobiles....
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Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明, Toriyama Akira) (born on April 5, 1955, in Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan) is a widely known and acclaimed Japanese manga artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984. It is difficult to pinpoint the source of Toriyama's...
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| Bubblegum Crisis |
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Bubblegum Crisis (バブルガムクライシス, Baburugamu Kuraishisu) is a cyberpunk anime set in a future, post-earthquake Tokyo, called "Mega Tokyo". The show's title is a metaphor for a world in a critical situation in which the creator relates to gum being to...
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Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983. It...
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Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδία, komodia) as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the...
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| Cowboy Bebop |
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カウボーイビバップ |
Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ, Kaubōi Bibappu) is a 1998 Japanese anime series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. Its 26 episodes comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the...
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| Drama |
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα, dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: δράω, dráō). The enactment of drama in theatre,...
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Digital Video Disk |
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was invented in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage. DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs (CDs), but store more than...
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| Dragon Ball Z |
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Dragonball Z |
is an anime series produced by Toei Doga (now Toei Animation). Dragon Ball Z is the sequel to the ''Dragon Ball'' anime, which covers the first 16 volumes of a 42 volume ''Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama, while Dragon Ball Z...
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| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam W (新機動戦記ガンダムW, Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu), is an anime series in the mecha genre, and is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline....
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| Ghost in the Shell |
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Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊, Kōkaku Kidōtai, literally "Mobile Armored Riot Police") is a Japanese multimedia franchise composed of manga, animated films, anime series, video games and novels. It focuses on the activities of the fictional counter...
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Horror Movie |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human...
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Martial arts or fighting arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Martial arts all have a very similar objective: defend oneself or others from physical threat. In addition, some martial arts are linked to...
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| Masamune Shirow |
Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗, Shirō Masamune) is an internationally renowned manga artist, born Masanori Ota (太田 まさのり Ōta Masanori) on November 23, 1961.
Masamune Shirow is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. He is best known for the manga...
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| Mobile Suit Gundam |
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Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム, Kidō Senshi Gandamu, lit. Mobile Soldier Gundam, also known as First Gundam, Gundam 0079 or simply 0079) is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan...
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| Mecha |
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Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in anime, science fiction, or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element. Mecha are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal, with arms,...
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| Neon Genesis Evangelion |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion, lit. New Century Evangelion), commonly referred to as NGE, Eva, or Evangelion, is a commercially and critically successful, influential, and controversial Japanese anime that began in...
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Pokemon |
Pokémon (ポケモン, Pokemon, English pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkeɪmɒn/) is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing...
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| Ranma ½ |
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Ranma 1/2 |
Ranma ½ (らんま½, Ranma Nibun-no-Ichi, pronounced Ranma One-Half) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi with an anime adaptation. The story revolves around a 16-year old boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from...
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| Rumiko Takahashi |
Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko) born October 10, 1957 is a Japanese mangaka.
Takahashi is one of the wealthiest individuals, and the most affluent mangaka in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in...
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Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, esp, and time travel,...
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A school (from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure", and also "that in which leisure is employed", "school"), is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers. Most...
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| Serial Experiments Lain |
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Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda (credited as production 2nd) for Triangle Staff. It was...
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Shonen |
Shōnen manga (少年漫画) refers to manga marketed to a male audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. Examples include Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Flame of Recca,, Detective Conan,...
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Shojo |
The term Shōjo, shojo, or shoujo manga (少女漫画, shōjo manga) refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 (shōjo), literally: "young girl". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in...
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| Wuxia | Martial Arts Heroes |
Wuxia or Wǔxiá (simplified Chinese: 武侠; traditional Chinese: 武俠 Wǔxiá, Mandarin: [ùɕjǎ]; Cantonese Pinyin: Mou5 Hap6: Taiwanese/Hokkien: Bu Kiap) is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists usually set in ancient...
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Gandamu |
Gundam (ガンダム, Gandamu) is a metaseries of Japanese anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Gundam". The metaseries started in April 7, 1979 as a serial TV show called Mobile Suit Gundam. That first TV series...
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| Noir |
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Noir (ノワール, Nowāru) is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2001 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed Noir, it was written by Ryoe Tsukimura, and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura. The DVD version...
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| Yaoi |
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Yaoi (やおい) (aka Boys' Love) is a popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by female authors. Originally referring to a specific type of dōjinshi (self-published...
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The term supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature") pertains of being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena. Religious miracles are typically supernatural claims, as are spells...
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| Battle Angel Alita |
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Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as Gunnm (銃夢, Ganmu, literally - "Gun / Dream"), is a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990 and originally published in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine. Two of the nine-volume comics were adapted into...
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| Yukito Kishiro |
Yukito Kishiro (木城 ゆきと, Kishiro Yukito) is a Japanese manga artist, born March 20, 1967 in Tokyo, Japan.
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| Sunrise |
Sunrise, Inc. (株式会社サンライズ, Kabushiki-gaisha Sanraizu) is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai. Its former name was Nippon Sunrise, and prior to that, Sunrise Studios.
Among Japan's largest and most...
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| Shōnen-ai | Shonen-ai |
Shōnen-ai (少年愛, boy-love (paiderastia)) is a term that is applied to anime or manga that deals with love between young men, especially of the bishōnen (美少年, bishōnen) variety. The genre itself dealt with romanticized but non-sexual relationships...
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| Yuri |
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Yuri (百合), also known by the wasei-eigo construction Girls Love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media. Yuri can focus either on the sexual or...
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| Dragon Ball |
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Dragonball |
Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール, Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42...
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| Love Hina |
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Love Hina (ラブ ひな, Rabu Hina) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha from October 21, 1998 to October 31, 2001 and was published in 14 tankōbon volumes by...
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| The Super Dimension Fortress Macross |
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The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (超時空要塞マクロス, Chō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu, lit. "Super Spacetime Fortress Macross") is an anime television series. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great...
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| Oh My Goddess! |
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Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Ā Megami-sama), also known as Ah! My Goddess!, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima. A spin-off of Fujishima's previous series You're Under Arrest!, it premiered in the September...
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| Laputa: Castle in the Sky |
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Laputa: Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ, Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta) (re-titled Castle in the Sky for release in the United States) is a 1986 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli. Laputa:...
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| Kaiji Kawaguchi |
Kaiji Kawaguchi (川口 開治 or かわぐち かいじ, Kawaguchi Kaiji, born July 27, 1948) is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He...
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| Takehiko Inoue |
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Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦, Inoue Takehiko, born 12 January 1967 in Okuchi, Kagoshima) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk, which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball...
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| Videotape |
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Videotape is a means of recording images and sound on to magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram. In most cases, a helical scan video...
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| Studio Ghibli |
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Studio Ghibli, Inc. (株式会社スタジオジブリ, Kabushiki-kaisha Sutajio Jiburi) is a Japanese animation film studio. The company's logo features the character Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro.
Several anime features created by Studio Ghibli...
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| Ai Yazawa |
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Ai Yazawa (矢沢あい, Yazawa Ai) (born March 7, 1967 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga author. Her pen name comes from Japanese singer Eikichi Yazawa, of whom she is a fan.
Yazawa started her manga publishing life in 1985. She studied in a...
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| Fruits Basket |
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Fruits Basket (フルーツバスケット, Furūtsu Basuketto), sometimes abbreviated Furuba (フルバ), is a Japanese manga series by Natsuki Takaya. It was serialized in the semi-monthly Japanese magazine Hana to Yume, published by Hakusensha, from 1999 to 2006. The...
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| The Amazing 3 |
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The Amazing 3, known in Japan as W3 or Wonder 3 (ワンダー3, Wandā Surī), is an Osamu Tezuka manga and a black and white anime series. It involves the adventures of three agents from outer space who are sent to Earth to determine whether the planet, a...
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| Martian Successor Nadesico |
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Martian Successor Nadesico or Mobile Battleship Nadesico (機動戦艦ナデシコ, Kidō Senkan Nadeshiko) (often shortened to Nadesico) is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by...
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| YuYu Hakusho |
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Yu Yu Hakusho |
YuYu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書, Yū Yū Hakusho, lit. "Ghost Files" or "Poltergeist Report") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi with an anime adaptation. The name of the series is spelled Yu Yu Hakusho in Funimation...
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| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア, Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Gyakushū no Shā) is a 1988 anime film set in the primary Universal Century timeline of Gundam, taking place in U.C. 0093.
Making its theatrical debut on March 12, 1988,...
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| Hellsing |
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Hellsing (ヘルシング, Herushingu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano with an anime adaptation. Hellsing chronicles the efforts of the mysterious and secret Royal Order of Protestant Knights, Hellsing, as it combats...
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| InuYasha |
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InuYasha (犬夜叉 , also romanized as Inuyasha) is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in the manga and anime series InuYasha created by Rumiko Takahashi.
According to interviews with the author, the style for InuYasha's clothing was based...
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| Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam |
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ｚガンダム, Kidō Senshi Zēta Gandamu) (aired 1985–1986) is a television anime, part of the Gundam series and a sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam. The show was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with character...
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| FLCL |
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FLCL (フリクリ, Furi Kuri, sometimes known in North America as Fooly Cooly) is an original video animation series written by Yōji Enokido, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I.G,...
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| Astro Boy |
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Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム, Tetsuwan Atomu, lit. "Mighty Atom") is a Japanese manga series first published in 1952 and television program first broadcast in Japan in 1963. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy and a selection...
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| Kimba the White Lion |
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Jungle Emperor (ジャングル大帝, Janguru Taitei), known in the United States as Kimba the White Lion, is a Japanese anime series from the 1960s. Created by Osamu Tezuka and based on his manga of the same title which began publication in 1950, it was the...
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| Rurouni Kenshin |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (るろうに剣心 明治剣客浪漫譚, Rurō ni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Romantan), also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting...
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| Edutainment |
Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.
It can be argued that edutainment has existed for millennia in the form of parables and fables that promoted...
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Gainax Company, Limited (株式会社ガイナックス, Kabushiki-gaisha Gainakkusu) is a Japanese anime studio famous for productions such as The Wings of Honneamise, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann which...
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| Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou |
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Kare Kano (彼氏彼女の事情, Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō, lit. "His and Her Circumstances"), is a manga series by Masami Tsuda. It was serialized in LaLa from 1996 to 2005 and collected in 21 tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha. It depicts the romance between "perfect...
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