
Anime fans have provided a suitably incendiary ranking of the “crappiest” anime they can report having had the misfortune to watch.
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Shonen manga fans offer up their opinions as to the most overrated titles to feature in Shonen Jump – resulting in a ranking sure to upset fans of a certain blockbuster pirate manga.
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Painstaking analysis of 2ch thread activity has revealed just who their favourite manga characters are, with none other than the sexiest non-ero-manga of all time dominating all comers, quite literally as it happens.
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Busty Taiwanese cosplayer Sunny Lin has been attracting no small attention with her extraordinarily sexy depiction of Boa Hancock, herself widely acknowledged as one of One Piece’s sexiest girls.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Aug 20, 2011 23:18 JST
- Tags: Bleach, K-ON!, Naruto, One Piece, Rankings, Shonen, Shonen Jump, Shoujo, USA

American publishing industry figures for the top selling manga franchises help underline the superior taste of American audiences when it comes to manga, and (rather more surprisingly) the fact that US manga fans have apparently forsaken the shonen manga holy trinity…
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Haters of bad anime provide a ranking of what they regard as the worst anime around, or at least the ones they dislike intensely enough to vote against en masse (or possibly just those whose fans they want to spite).
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Whether giant slabs of metal or girly effete rapiers, no action anime is complete without some kind of pretentiously named sword for the protagonist to talk about at length whilst engaged in a deadly confrontation – fans supply their favourites.
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Shonen Jump readers asked about just which titles it is they buy the magazine for supply an unsurprisingly one-sided list of shonen blockbusters.
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The Japanese masses offer a ranking of their favourite One Piece characters (or at least those who count themselves members of Luffy’s crew), for once providing a ranking not determined by breast size.
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One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda has given an interview explaining his dissatisfaction with the fact that there are no ranks amongst mangaka, and that there is no special title other than plain “mangaka” available to demonstrate he is no mere mangaka.
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Japanese anime and manga fans asked which brother and sister characters they consider to exhibit the tightest familial bonds provide a list refreshingly devoid of the improbable quasi-incestuous relationships so beloved of late-night anime and ecchi manga.
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As part of the celebrations for its 200,000,000th sale, the One Piece manga is taking over the trains and stations of Tokyo in an extravagant and doubtless extraordinarily expensive advertising campaign.
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