Did you know in Anime?


  • That in Japan more than forty new anime appear on television per week?
  • That Yu Watase and Naoko Takeuchi are very close friends?
  • That in the French version of Sailor Moon, Haruka is voiced by a male while Sailor Uranus remains female?
  • That Megumi Hayashibara (voice of Ranma-chan, Rei Ayanami, Lina Inverse, Faye Valentine, and many more) is the most popular seiyu in Japan, having won the best seiyu category in the Anime Grand Prix a record nine times?
  • That the only reason the heroines of Cat's Eye wear bodysuits is because the author thought it was easier to draw?
  • That in Japan more paper is used for printing manga than for making toilet paper?
  • That there exist live movies of Maison Ikkoku, Lupin III, City Hunter (with Jackie Chan in the title role, no less), Cat's Eye and Versailles no Bara, the latter in English?
  • That the movie Tonari no Totoro became so famous in Japan that Studio Ghibli adopted Totoro as its mascot?
  •  That the Japanese voted Osamu Tezuka as one of the people they wanted to see the most on postage stamps?

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