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Anime and Manga

These pages haven't been (and probably won't be) updated in ages!

COMMERCIAL - FANFIC - REFERENCE - TRANSLATIONS

Commercial

One of the largest Japanese manga publishers is Shogakukan (English) and there's also Shueisha, Kadokawa and Kodansha (English).

Acclimate Solutions sell inofficial manga translations and manga AND used manga; Bookmart only the latter.

Raw anime, as well as music, you can get from CD Japan or JIGS.

The more pervert among you may find J-list worth a visit; they sell various Japanese things of a more or less pornographic nature (I also recommend their e-newsletter, since Peter tends to include various amusing anecdotes about Japan and Japanese).

My manga, I usually get from Sun Ai OCS (the Japanese bookstore in Stockholm). If it's English-translated manga you want (in Sweden), I recommend Staffars Serier, which has most translated manga (and other foreign (american) comics) for sale. You might also look at Alvglans, with good subscription services, and somewhat cheaper prices than Staffars, but a less wide range.

JFK shop: Japanese food and kitchen supplies in Sweden.

Reference

The best general jump-site is, without doubt, the Anime Web Turnpike. There's hordes of links to everything imaginable - personal homepages, fan art, fan fiction, companies, magazines - you name it!

For a dictionary, you might be best off using a program locally - JDIC can be found either at Monash Nihongo or Jim Breen's Japanese Page. If you don't have time to download, though, there's a really great online version - Jim Breen's WWWJDIC.

The place to go for information on seiyuu (voice actors) is Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Index, which I use a lot myself.

The major reference pages I most prefer for various series: Berserk, Gundam, Slam Dunk, Slayers, Tokimeki Memorial.

Ultimate Manga Guide is a very extensive manga database that's sprang out of the old Usenet Manga Guide; I recommended it, and use it extensively myself (though it's gotten as bad about updating as this page...). Also, I tend to check Mangapac's new publications list.

Mangakai, the Swedish manga organization, isn't really all that well-organized, but at least they occasionaly have showings, and the page is well done. I am, of course, a member.

For the recipies I know all you Ranma fans desperately seach, visit Ukyou's Okonomiyaki Recipes, and for more food, try the Tokyo Food Page.

Translations

Manga translations? Sure. These need to be organized into a table, or put on a separate page. I'll do that In My Copious Free Time (ie, most likely never ^_^). If you have any links that would fit here, I'd appreciate them greatly.

(Since I find myself needing translations less and less, this link collection will probably never be as thorough as it used to be. Sorry.)

3x3 Eyes 3x3 Eyes Translations Page, Ronny's (mine), Ishikawa Kazuo.

Angel Dust

Angelic Layer

Ayashi no Ceres Lina Inverse, Ayashi no Translations, ANC Translation Project.

Card Captor Sakura

Devil & Devil

DNA²

Dragonball DBZ Vault, Pete's Translated Dragonball, Kaine's DBMT,

Dragon Half Dragon Half manga translations, Dragon Half, Ronny's (mine), Dragon Half In English.

Eat Man

Escaflowne