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Maon Kurosaki, Akiba Goddess at Anime Expo (with video)
Maon Kurosaki, what a goddess! The whole Club Nokia was totally fired up by her awesome performance. Yes, she was 神 (kami), divine! Akiba Godess! Akiba diva 秋葉 Akiba (Akiha) means “Autumn Leaves,” a...
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Nirgilis at Anime Expo 2011: The Electronic Blast (With Video)
The best things in life are pleasant surprises. Nirgilis, a band I’d never heard of prior to this year’s Anime Expo, is one of them. There has been a band called Nirgilis since the 1990s, apparently....
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Nico Nico: A Closer Look and Interview with James Spahn, CEO
Nico Nico Douga, one of the largest sites in Japan, recently opened an English beta of their website. With its famed running on-screen captions over videos, it’s a cornerstone of otaku culture in...
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Anime Expo 2011 — “Skull Girls” Interview!
A few years ago, when I was employed with a video game magazine, one of my more enjoyable duties was meeting and making contacts with new upcoming artists. I would wander the artist alley at...
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Maon Kurosaki Interview – AX 2011 Press Junket
At long last, the first of our numerous junket interviews with Japanese Guests of Honor! Up first is Maon Kurosaki, the Akiba idol and singer of the ending themes for High School of the Dead. We ask...
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Nirgilis Interview – Anime Expo 2011 Junket
Anime Diet interviews the J-rock band Nirgilis at Anime Expo 2011′s press junket! We talk to them about their music, magical girls, herbivore men, and more. Nirgilis is perhaps best known as the...
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Toshiyuki Morikawa Interview – AX 2011 Press Junket
Anime Diet’s exclusive interview with Toshiyuki Morikawa, best known as the voice of Griffith in “Berserk” and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children! He also has been the Japanese dub...
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Izumi Matsumoto (Kimagure Orange Road) Interview – AX 2011 Press Junket
Anime Diet interviews Izumi Matsumoto, the original manga artist of Kimagure Orange Road! We ask him about what inspired that legendary manga, what he wished he’d seen in the anime version, and the...
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Hatsune Miku: Mikunopolis 2011 Concert Videos
Well, everyone, the wait is over! We discovered that we indeed have permission to post our concert footage online, so long as we host it ourselves. And that’s what we’re doing here: posting all 6...
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Conventional Wisdom: The Year of Our Con 2011 (Part 1)
These cons were definitely big, all right. By any objective measure, this has been Anime Diet’s best press year ever. In the month of July alone this site covered Anime Expo 2011, AM2‘s press junket,...
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Conventional Wisdom: The Year of Our Con 2011 (Part 2: The Miku War)
In the end, we got the the Miku videos up. You can see them here. But the road there was long and circuitous. II: The Miku War She told us, the nice girl at the press booth, that we needed to a sign a...
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Conventional Wisdom: The Year of Our Con 2011 (Part 4: I ♥ ABTS)
Conventions, at least in America, are social events. It’s rare to find anyone going to a major convention all by him or herself. Always, there is a group of friends, cosplayers, or (in our case) staff....
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