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Spirited away volume 2
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English
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After meeting the arachnoid Kamaji and the slug girl Lin, Chihiro encounters the giant, all-powerful sorceress Yu-baaba, who renames Chihiro "Sen."
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Food plays an important role in anime, whether it is briefly shown in a slice-of-life scene or the entire plotline of an episode or even a series, and popular anime food creator Nadine Estero has perfectly captured these favorite food moments. In The Anime Chef Cookbook, she brings 75 appetizers, mains, desserts, and drinks from the screen to your table so that you can enjoy the same foods as your favorite characters.
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"For fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this expanded and updated edition of Patrick Drazen's now-classic guide offers an engaging tour of the world of Japanese animation, from older artistic traditions to the works of modern creators like Miyazaki, Otomo, Kon, and CLAMP. Examined are all of anime's major themes, styles, and conventions, plus the familiar tropes of giant robots, samurai, furry beasts, high school heroines, and gay/girl/fanboy...
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Keep your hands off Eizouken! volume 2
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"Impressed by their debut film, Shibahama High's Robot Club has commissioned Eizouken to make an anime showing off their robot...fighting a monster! Fine concept, but where will they find the monster? Their penchant for hands-on research leads them into the deepest depths of the campus...where the dangers are great, but nothing compared to the produciton issues that await them in the surface world!""--
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日本語
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You saw it too, didn't you? The Red Mirage. It is said that each generation of Muramasa swordsmiths creates one weapon so powerful that it spawns a legend of its own. These cursed weapons have haunted the Tokugawa clan for three generations, and now one of them serves as the prize for the Shogun's tournament. Benitora enters to prove his independence from the Tokugawa family, but his first opponent is none other than Demon Eyes Kyo. Even though...
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日本語
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In 2013, Academy Award-winning film director and animator Hayao Miyazaki suddenly announced his retirement at the age of 72. But he can't shake his burning desire to create. After an encounter with young CGI animators, Miyazaki embarks on a new project to utilize CGI for the first time. But he confronts many challenges that threaten to cancel the film. This program goes behind the scenes over two years as Miyazaki overcomes struggles to create his...
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Dramacon volume 1
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English
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"When amateur writer Christie settles in the artist alley of her first-ever anime convention, she sees it as an opportunity to promote the manga she had started with her artist boyfriend. But when she unexpectedly falls for a mysterious cosplayer, things become complicated. What do you do when you love someone who is going miles away from you in just a couple of days?! Web-comic vet Svetlana Chmakova gives us a funny, romantic, behind-the-scenes look...
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"A fully illustrated book that reviews each Studio Ghibli movie from the animation studio. Providing background information on how the films were made and considered film-fan reactions to the works themselves. Illustrated with stills and posters, portraits of the creative team and the studio itself. A comprehensive guide to the complex, mysterious and entertaining worlds of the Oscar-winning animation company"--Publisher's description.
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Nana Suzuki's grandfather discovers a crytal that will separate the light from a rainbow into its seven basic colors. He is baking the experiment when Nana accidentally opens the microwave and becomes multiplied into seven different Nanas, one grumpy, one giggly, a crybaby, a slowpoke, a cool Nana, one slightly strange, and the original. Each of the seven Nanas take turns going to school, using their particular gifts. The original Nana is trying to...
37) Memories
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日本語
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The masters of anime join forces to create a visually dazzling collection of three short films.
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"Become an anime and manga expert with this must-have 100% unofficial guide! Packed with recaps, character backgrounds, plot theories, backstories, trivia, and so much more... Anime and manga fans will not want to miss out!" -- page [4] of cover
"From One Piece to Sailor Moon, Haikyuu to Spy x Family, the Anime and Manga Mega Handbook has everything you need to know about amazing anime and manga! Full of recaps, character backgrounds, plot theories,...
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"Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI"--Container....
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Slouching towards middle age, Porco Rosso makes his living by flying about in his red bi-plane and fighting sky bandits who prey on cruise ships sailing the Adriatic. When he's not engaging in dog fights, this pilot lives on a deserted island retreat. Porco was once a strapping young man, but after his entire squadron was wiped out, he is mysteriously transformed into a pig. Then he is defeated in a dogfight against a dashing American rival, who has...