- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 26, 2012 17:17 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Fate/Zero, Gundam, K-ON!, Movies, Oricon, Rankings, Statistics

The annual Oricon Blu-ray ranking for 2012 has revealed yet another year in which Japan’s Blu-ray sales have been completely dominated by anime – in this case with Gundam UC the best selling BD in Japan of the entire year, matched only by Fate/Zero (which sold fewer but made more money), with K-ON! coming a mere 4th in discs sold but still handily topping the movie BD charts.
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With the end of 2012 comes a chance for anime fans to reflect on the most entertaining titles of the year – and as usual their choices provide plenty of interest for those who may yet have missed out.
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Anime heretics supply a ranking of the blockbuster anime they cannot see what all the fuss was about, whether due to an excess of hype, an incomprehensible storyline or just plain moeblobbery – although it does not look as though their picks will be universally well received.
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Anime fans have rendered their verdict on the best executed anime deaths – in every sense of the word – for once resulting in a fatally epic Type A laden man-fest…
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Now that the spring 2012 anime season is finally over, anime fans have been reflecting on which title were the best – and as usual, a certain studio has ceased the victor’s laurels…
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Fate/Zero‘s Saber has been reduced to a Nendoroid figure by Good Smile Company, along with her bike and sword, riding her way to her release in October 2012.
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Chinese children look to have been getting an early education in their nation’s uniquely advanced understanding of copyright – media have been feting a schoolboy novelist, but it did not take long before someone noticed where he had filched his cover art from…
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Fate fans have been joyously proclaiming Fate/Zero to have experienced the most satisfying “conclusion” of any of the Fate series ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Jun 10, 2012 19:49 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, AV, Comparison, Cosplay, Fate/stay night, Fate/Zero, Image Gallery, Parody, TMA




After the notorious “Faith/stay knight” comes TMA’s latest Fate cosplay parody “Faith/ero,” which as its name suggests bears more than a passing resemblance to Fate/Zero, and both Fate and TMA fans are positively agape (or possibly aghast) at the amount of effort TMA has put into replicating the series…
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Some Fate fans are wishing for a return to the friendly penis monsters of old, so grotesquely exacting is the anatomical precision with which the latest chapter of Fate/Zero explores heads being smashed in.
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Anime fans have rendered their verdict on the spring 2012 season so far, marking a stunning if unsurprising return to form for Kyoto Animation and its mastery of the moeblob arts…
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Saber has been revealing that she can drain otaku of blood just as effectively as she can drain their wallets – Machi Asobi 8 saw a Saber and Fate/Zero blood donation drive, and the motivation of receiving an exclusive Saber poster saw masses of otaku queueing to give up their very life’s blood.
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