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- Are Artists Apologizing and Self-Censoring More These Days? ()
- How Did Christmas in Japan Become A Thing? ()
- Who Decides Which Ecchi Manga Get Shrinkwrapped? ()
- Do Companies Ever Go Back And Dub Shows They Released Subtitled? ()
- Is Netflix Good For Anime? ()
- What exactly does a “manga editor” do? ()
- Do You Have To Be Outgoing To Work In The Industry? ()
- Why Do I Hear Echoes of Japanese Voices in Dubs of Old Anime? ()
- Why Do Some Shojo Publishers Use The Same Spine Design For Every Series? ()
- What's With The Multiple Versions of Kiki's Delivery Service? ()
- Is It Safe To Replace My Discs With Streaming? ()
- How Many Manga Magazines Are There In Japan? ()
- Is There A Point In Suggesting Titles for Licensing to Publishers? ()
- What Are Japanese "Family Restaurants" Like? ()
- How Can I Preserve My Aging Manga Collection? ()
- What Unique Sodas Are Sold in Japan? ()
- Why Did Crunchyroll and Funimation Divorce? ()
- Why Don't More Japanese Manga Artists Come to North American Conventions? ()
- When Is It OK To Adapt An Anime Dub Script? ()
- Why Are DVDs and Blu-rays Sold As Combo Packs? ()
- Who Was Cloverway, And What Were They Doing With Anime? ()
- Why Do Edited for TV Dubs Change An Anime's Music? ()
- How Do Censorship Rules Work for Hentai? ()
- Why Don't Publishers Announce License Renewals? ()
- Why Do Guys In Anime Raise A Pinky Finger When Talking About Girls? ()
- What Tools Does A Mangaka Use To Make Manga? ()
- Why Are Old People In Anime And Manga So Short? ()
- What Makes A Great English Translation? ()
- Why Do Anime Students Always Sit In The Same Seat? ()
- What's The Difference Between A License And A Distribution Deal? ()
- Is the Distinction Between Manga And "Manga-Style Comics" Going Away? ()
- What Are The Different Types of Ramen? ()
- Why Aren't Licensed Anime T-Shirts Nicer? ()
- Can those "how to draw manga" books really teach someone how to become a manga artist? ()
- Why Don't Anime Companies Release Sales And Viewership Numbers? ()
- How Is Funimation Producing So Many Simuldubs? ()
- How Come Only Some Manga Use Honorifics? ()
- What Does It Cost To Remaster A Classic Anime? ()
- Why Doesn't Anime Record Voices Before Animating? ()
- What Determines Whether An Older Show Should Be Released as SD-BD? ()
- Why Do Colors Look Different In Remastered Classic Anime? ()
- How Come Some Manga Are Still Published "Flopped"? ()
- Why Aren't There More Video Game-Based Anime? ()
- How Do Manga Based On Original Anime Get Made? ()
- Since When Can Publishers Other Than Viz Publish Jump Titles? ()
- How Does A New Distributor Get Permission To Reuse Old Dubs? ()
- Why Isn't Idol Culture Bigger In America? ()
- Digital, Print or Both? How Do Manga Publishers Decide? ()
- Could Patreon Be "Better For The Industry" Than Crunchyroll? ()
- Why Do Sports Anime Bomb In North America? ()
- Why Don't More Manga Publishers Use Kickstarter? ()
- Why Do Dubs Cast Men As Boy Characters, while Japan Casts Women? ()
- Why Are Teen Sex Comedies Only Acceptable When They're Live Action? ()
- Why is Summer the Season for Spooky Stories in Manga? ()
- What Will Become Of Takahata's Legacy? ()
- Are Dub Crew Members Taking Over Voice Actors' Jobs? ()
- Do Foreign Manga Sales Matter to North American Publishers? ()
- Why Are Big Hollywood Studios Buying Anime Distributors? ()
- Why And How Was Fist Of The North Star Censored? ()
- Is It Common For Mangaka To Have A Lot Of Uncredited Assistants? ()
- How Do Anime Staff Feel About Working On Controversial Anime? ()
- How Do Lucky And Unlucky Numbers Factor Into Anime? ()
- Why Isn't My Favorite Manga Licensed In America? ()
- Is Ecchi Anime As Controversial In Japan As In America? ()
- Why Don't More Publishers Take A Chance On Older Titles? ()
- Why Are American Manga Publishers So Coy About Licenses? ()
- Why Did US Anime Publishers Experiment With Western Cartoons? ()
- Who Dominated Dubs Before Funimation? ()
- Do English-Language Publishers Ever Collaborate On Manga Releases? ()
- Why Are Some Old Anime Never Re-released? ()
- How Well Paid Are Dub Voice Actors? ()
- How Is A Dub Made in 5.1 When The Japanese Version Isn't? ()
- What Kind Of Raw Files Do Manga Publishers Work From? ()
- How Expensive Is Housing In Japan? ()
- How Do TV Ratings Apply To Anime? ()
- Why Did Yen Press Give Away The Latest Volume of Overlord? ()
- Is Cosplay Copyright Infringement? ()
- Why Are Some Fan Works OK, But Some Get Shut Down? ()
- Do's and Don'ts of Meeting Convention Guests from Japan ()
- Why Don't Drama CDs Get Released Outside of Japan? ()
- Why Do Credits Only Sometimes Get Translated? ()
- Can Mangaka Work With Multiple Publishers At Once? ()
- Does Getting Free Copies Of Stuff Sway Opinions Of Critics? ()
- Why Do Anime Conventions Have Raves? ()
- Why Do So Many Manga Artists Avoid Being Photographed? ()
- What Are Some Japanese Superstitions? ()
- Do They Ever Retouch Unpolished Manga? ()
- Why Aren't There Japanese Voice Actor Bloopers? ()
- Lightning Round ()
- How Do Manga Authors Get By When They're Not Publishing Something? ()
- Why Is It Such A Big Deal When Anime Characters Cut Their Hair? ()
- How Do Publishers Choose Which Older Shows To Re-License? ()
- Why Isn't All My Favorite Manga Available Digitally? ()
- Will The US Ever Get Stand-Alone Otaku Music Events? ()
- Why Is Some Merchandise So Hard To Find? ()
- Does Buying English-Language Manga Releases Support the Mangaka? ()
- What Is Golden Week? ()
- Are Japanese Offices Really That Horrible? ()
- Why Don't Anime Characters Go To Therapy? ()
- Are "Upscaled" Blu-Rays Worth The Upgrade? ()
- Who Are The Ainu People? ()
- Why Do Some Series Have Long Gaps Between Seasons? ()
- Is There Anything To Miss About Old School Subtitles? ()
- What "Editing" Needs To Be Done To Anime For US Release? ()
- Why Are People More Upset By Nudity Than Violence? ()
- Is It Really Illegal To Take Pictures Of People Without Permission? ()
- Why Aren't More Original Anime Made? ()
- Where Have All The Mechanical Designers Gone? ()
- What's A "Mainstream" Anime Fan? ()
- What Software Is Used In Anime Production? ()
- Why Do Streaming Sites Block VPNs? ()
- Is It A Big Deal When A Voice Actor Changes Agencies? ()
- Do I Need To Check All My Anime Blu-Rays For Errors? ()
- What Does An ADR Engineer Do? ()
- Is Anime Fandom More Dysfunctional Than In The Past? ()
- How Long Does An Anime Episode Take To Make? ()
- There's Bara Manga... Why Isn't There Bara Anime? ()
- What Makes A Manga Shonen Or Shoujo? ()
- Oops! All Quick Answers! ()
- Is It Now "Cool" To Be An Anime Fan? ()
- Is It Intimidating For Japanese Guests To Visit American Conventions? ()
- Why Are Anime Age Ratings So Inconsistent? ()
- Why Don't Dubs Cast Real Kids? ()
- Why Are Fat People Ridiculed In Anime? ()
- How Do Blu-Ray Subtitles Work? ()
- Are Streaming Revenues Improving The Lives Of Animators? ()
- What Is Gambling Like In Japan? ()
- Is It Worth Collecting Anime On VHS? ()
- Are American Comics Popular In Japan? ()
- What If I No Longer Like My Old Favorite Shows? ()
- Can Fans Ever License Obscure Shows Themselves? ()
- Why Do Discs Use Different Audio Formats? ()
- Where Do Anime Sound Effects Come From? ()
- Why Are So Many Live Action Anime Adaptations Terrible? ()
- Why Does Anime Rely So Much On Still Shots? ()
- Why Were TV Series Cut Into "Movies" For The US? ()
- Is Horror Anime Less Squeamish About Kids? ()
- Why Did Only Cartoon Network/Adult Swim Stick With Anime? ()
- Why Does Old TV Anime Have Jerky Splices? ()
- Why Do TV Networks Air Reboots Instead Of Originals? ()
- Why Did Anime Take So Long To Take Off In America? ()
- Why Is Anime Still Region Locked? ()
- Where Have All The Space Operas Gone? ()
- Did The Fans Kill Anime Strike? ()
- Even More Quick Answers ()
- How Do Original Anime Productions Become Manga? ()
- Do Anime Productions Have To Pay To Use Classical Music? ()