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Japanese Comic Ranking, November 21-27

Anime Spotlight - Beyond the Boundary
This last Anime Spotlight is a little late, but here ya go anyway. 2013-10-11

ANN 15th Anniversary - Win A Trip to Japan!
ANN is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and we want to give someone the chance to win a trip to Japan! 2013-10-10

Anime News Nina! - 2013-10-09
We begin to say farewell to Anime News Nina with this first of four final strips. 2013-10-09

The Fall 2013 Anime Preview Guide
The Fall 2013 Preview Guide has begun! Check back every day for previews of the latest shows.
Available Now - Galilei Donna - Samurai Flamenco - My Mental Choices, Coppelion ep 2, BlazBlue: Alter Memory - Tokyo Ravens - Unbreakable Machine Girl - Non Non Biyori - Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Yowapeda - Gundam Build Fighters - Yozakura Quartet 2 - White Album 2 - Walkure Romance - And More! 2013-10-08

The List - 7 Spookiest Places
These are the last places you want to book your summer vacations. 2013-10-12

ANNCast - No Matter How I Look At It, It's Just A Podcast
Paul Chapman, Gerald Rathkolb and Hope Chapman stop by ANNCast to talk WATAMOTE. It's the most fun you'll ever have talking about crippling social anxiety, paranoia and narcissism! 2013-10-11

New York Comic Con 2013
It's New York Comic-Con weekend! Check back daily for panel reports and more.
Available Now: Neon Alley - Yen Press - The X Button Day One - Wikia Live - From Light Novels to Anime and Manga - Viz Media - Kodansha - Funimation - Vertical - Sunrise 2013-10-11

Answerman - Some People Can't Carry iTunes
Lots of questions about iTunes and the world of legal anime on the internet this week! 2013-10-11

rain
Rain is not aggressive, and it is certainly not intrusive, the TV screen like a window onto a rain-swept street, something we observe, but only barely interact with.

Love Lab Episodes 1-13 Streaming
At its best when devising weird new delusions for its cast of romance obsessives to explore, reveling in Maki's sheer strangeness, or just lining up gags about family, friends, and schoolgirl life.

The Future Diary Complete Series DVD
Snowballs from one bad decision to another, not content to be only merely bad but really most sincerely bad, and by the end, it is irrevocably memorable.

Fantasista Doll Episodes 1-12 Streaming
Earnest and cute, Fantasista is magical girl entertainment aimed squarely at actual girls. It wanders for quite a while through the usual fluff, but pulls together nicely towards the end.

AKB0048: Season 1 Blu-Ray
This 2012 series about a far-future incarnation of Japanese idol group sensation AKB48 is basically a fanciful advertising vehicle for the current group, but the series has good enough storytelling and production values to hold the interest of newcomers.

Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
There's an easy case for why they've released two EO games this year: they're both excellent.

Sunday Without God
Don't let the über–moe heroine fool you; this is actually a high-concept series which takes a surprisingly thoughtful, emotional, and even occasionally beautiful approach to exploring one of the most intriguing worlds in recent memory.

Daily Lives of High School Boys Blu-Ray
Daily Lives of High School Boys is one of the funnier shows to get an English-language release recently.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Episodes 1-6 Streaming
Neptunia may be about the least promising series to ever be barfed out by the gaming/anime complex, but once it gets its legs under it, it's a surprisingly engaging little adventure.

Voice Over! Seiyu Academy GN 1
Voice Over is off to a good start with a story that gets increasingly interesting as the book goes on and a heroine who is easy to get behind.

Shakugan no Shana Season 1 BD+DVD
Two subsequent seasons of diminishing returns have taken some of the shine off of Shana, but it's still a fine example of how to do genre entertainment right: with skill, with intelligence, and most of all, with heart.