I stumbled upon a CGI fan film developed by Monty Oum featuring an epic battle between female characters from Final Fantasy and the Dead or Alive video game series. Worth watching!

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There's something about the young male psyche that loves the idea of jumping inside a hulking humanoid war machine and wreaking havoc. It's not too surprising that mecha stories are some of the most popular and common franchises in the anime and manga industries. But which ones stand at the top of the mecha mountain?

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Speed Grapher has been a bit of a cult favorite amongst anime fans for a while. Last week the DVD box set was released in the states, but with not a lot of fanfare. IGN recently posted a nice trailer for the series.

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The folks hosting the San Francisco Asian American Film festival will be showing the first Death Note movie at 2pm on March 22.

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Anime Network has a great idea: full episodes of dubbed anime online for free, with commercials. The problem is their site sucks ass.

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Aquarion Part One will be available in stores on March 11th. It's directed by Shoji Kawamori from Macross Plus. With music anime soundtrack legend Yoko Kanno, this is one of the big anticipated US anime DVD releases of the year.

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Okay, so I'll admit that I've been lax on cleaning up the comment spam. Hopefully that's all better now, and Protaku will be relatively spam free.

The official Star Wars site has a comparison of the Japanese Manga and Marvel adaptations of the original Star Wars stories. Their verdict? The manga version wins.

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