Did you know in anime?


  • That Akemi Takada, the character designer for Orange Road, Creamy Mami, Patlabor and Urusei Yatsura, among others, used to be married to Kazunori Ito, script-writer for Patlabor, among others?
  • That there is a museum for Osamu Tezuka, who is considered the father of manga?
  • That on average, the Japanese take twenty minutes to read three hundred pages of manga?
  • That the last names of the characters in Maison Ikkoku are those of subway stops in Tokyo?
  • That Mononoke Hime became the highest grossing film of all time in Japan, above such classics like E.T.?
  •  That Neon Genesis Evangelion was the first anime to win the Anime Grand Prix three times in a row?

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