
The K-ON! Movie has been awarded an Academy Award – if only Japan’s knock-off domestic version, although this is still being hailed as quite the accomplishment.
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An 8-year-old girl has won the Japan’s junior Gundam World Cup and will be representing her country at the world finals, creating quite a stir with her diorama of a mobile suit blasting and smashing various tanks.
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Japanese scientists are uncelebrating the fact that their nation can now claim the dubious distinction of having received an Ig Nobel Prize for 5 years running, having achieved resounding success in everything from teaching amoeba to navigate mazes to novel uses for panda dung.
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Anime fans are aghast at the news that the Guangxi government has given its highest award for cultural excellence to a Chinese moral indoctrination anime widely derided as a complete rip-off of 5cm Per Second.
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Video rental store employees provide a rather entertaining ranking of their favourite anime of 2010, displaying a welcome balance of moe, gag and ero anime.
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Manga fans craving a ranking blissfully devoid of One Piece need look no further than the 2011 Manga Taisho (“Manga Awards”), instead based around the concept of “manga you could recommend to your friends” as selected by various manga publishing industry figures.
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Seiyuu Aki Toyosaki’s popularity seems to have reached its peak – not only is she the top seiyuu wife, now she has swept the 5th Seiyuu Awards, garnering two awards and the top spot.
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The 2011 Tokyo Anime Fair has seen fit to grant a damning Ishihara seal of approval to K-ON!, an insult if ever there were one.
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Anime rag Animedia has compiled a comprehensive set of anime character awards for 2010, covering everything from the sexiest to the clumsiest.
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A ranking of the best manga covers of 2010 seeks to identify the year’s most stunning examples of graphic design and artwork in the medium of manga covers, with some striking selections presented.
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It seems Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XIII have finally received the recognition they deserve.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 12, 2010 22:58 JST
- Tags: Awards, Bioware, Events, FPS, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, RPG, Wii, Xbox 360

The winners of the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards have been announced to much fanfare and plenty of juicy acrimony over who the winners are and why they are all so manly.
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