
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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China’s campaign of intimidation against nations daring to acknowledge that one of its political prisoners received a Nobel Peace Prize is in full swing, with China telling Japan bluntly not to allow its ambassador to attend the awards ceremony and warning that there will be “consequences” for European nations who do attend.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 3, 2010 06:43 JST
- Tags: Awards, China, Events, Idol, Marketing, Mass Media, Miss Japan, Norway, Politics

China is being accused of rigging the Miss World 2010 competition to ensure a loss for Norway, the nation which it holds responsible for awarding one of its political prisoners a Nobel Peace Prize.
Additionally, the Chinese audience refused to acknowledge Miss Japan, and a Miss Taiwan was out of the question.
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- Author: Quen
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2010 15:45 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Awards, Haruhi, Hatsune Miku, K-ON!, Movies, Music, OP, TV

Animation Kobe, an event run by the city of Kobe for the promotion of work in the various fields of animation, has announced the winners of its 15th Kobe Animation Awards for 2010 (the 2009 award are visible here.)
Some of the more notable winners include Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu for Best Movie, K-ON!! as Best TV Anime, Hatsune Miku’s 39’s Giving Day Concert for the mysterious “Network” Award, and To Aru Kagaku’s “only my railgun” for Best Theme Song.
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