Anime Links
Anime is the term applied to Japanese animation. (even as 'manga' applies to their printed comics) These are collections of pages, ftp sites, and gopher connections that you can make to get more information about series or look over an old favorite perhaps.
Japanese Animation (a very general introduction to Japanese animation)
News and Magazine Sites
- Anihabara
- Anime Fringe
- Anime Grove
- Anime News Network
- Anime Next
- Anime on DVD
- Anime Prime
- Destroy All Monsters (Asian-American Pop Culture)
- EX: The Online World of Anime and Manga
- FantastiCon
- The Hayao Miyazaki Web
- Mangajin (Wasabi Brothers Trading Company: Mostly a site on learning Japanese)
- New Type
- Otaku Illustrated (anime E-zine)
Companies
- A.D. Vision
- Anime International Company Inc. (seemingly related to Pioneer Animation)
- Anime Madness (collectable card game)
- Animeigo
- Central Park Media (U.S. Manga Corps / Anime 18 / CPM Comics)
- Studio IronCat (Manga)
- Manga Entertainment, Inc.
- Pioneer Animation (English version)
- Software Sculptors (they have made some anime screen savers)
- Super Techno Arts
- Urban Vision Entertainment
- Viz
- Animanga
- Animania!
- Animate
- Anime Assault
- Anime Castle
- Anime-Cel.com
- Anime Crash
- Anime Depot
- Anime Dojo
- Anime Kakumei
- AnimeNation
- Anime Online
- Anime Otaku
- Anime Playground
- Anime Plus
- Anime Taro
- Anime Village
- Anime and Other Videos
- Anime World
- Asylum Anime
- Banzai Anime
- Banzai Video Games and Anime
- Big Bad Toy Store
- Book Mart (manga)
- Celmates
- Comix Connection's Anime Page (tapes only, but a good selection)
- Digital Discs Anime
- Drooling Anime Fan Sales
- DVD Planet (formerly Ken Crane's)
- Express.com (DVD site. Has anime DVDs listed under their own genre)
- First State Comics (this is their manga & anime index)
- Fujisan.com (English and Japanese)
- Gainax (Japanese site, but has English pages)
- Hobby Link Japan (models mostly, but there are resin figures as well in the 'figures' link from the main page .. you won't beat the prices for what they do have though)
- House of Anime
- Ichiban Anime Shop
- Image Anime (toys and collectibles)
- Japanese Internet Goods Shop
- JapaneseSnacks.com
- The Jasper Cosplay Closet (excellent costumes)
- Joy's Japanination
- Just Be Toys
- Kaseijin Anime
- Manga Center
- Mangaya (a Japanese store despite the fact that the link is not a Japanese site. Tons of stuff, but be warned that little or none of the products are translated. this is a -direct- link to purchases in Japan)
- Nichibei Anime Club (says 'club' but they sell stuff)
- Nikaku Anime Mart
- Omocha Box
- Paradigm
- Planet Anime (toys and CDs and videos. Tons of import laserdiscs as well as domestic)
- Rainbow Ten (model shop in Japan)
- Rare Anime Product & Auctions
- The Right Stuf International
- San Francisco Anime Toys & Hobbies
- Sasuga Books
- Splash Page Comics & Toys International
- Tokyo Pop
- Tomodachi Anime (fan subs)
- Toy Japan
- Utopianime (resin kits, but most of them are completed at a high cost)
- Wizzywig Collectibles
Fan Subbing
- Liquid Anime
- Soyokaze Fansubs
- VKLL Fan Subbing (while it's not exactly a store, they do 'sell' tapes)
Conventions
- AKA Kon (Vancouver, British Columbia)
- Ani-Magic (Lancaster, CA)
- Animazement (Raleigh, NC)
- AnimeCentral (Midwest Convention)
- Anime Expo (Anaheim, CA)
- AnimeFEST (Dallas, TX)
- Anime Festival Orlando (Orlando, FL)
- Anime Iowa (Cedar Rapids, IA)
- Anime North (Toronto, Ontario)
- Anime USA (Arlington, VA)
- Anime Weekend Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
- Fanime (Santa Clara, CA)
- JACON (Orlando, FL)
- Katsucon (Baltimore, MD)
- Nan Desu Kon (Denver, CO)
- Neko Con (Chesapeake, VA)
- Otakon (Baltimore, MD)
- Project A-Kon (Southwest)
- Sakura Con (Everett, WA)
- ShoujoCon (Newark, NJ)
- Sugoi Con (Cincinnati, OH)
Fan Clubs
- Akron Animation Association
- Animania (University of Michigan club)
- Anime FX
- Animejin (UK online fanzine)
- AnimeNetwork X (UK based online fanzine)
- P-anime: University of Pennsylvania Animation Club
- Cal-Animage (U.C Berkley's fan club)
- CalTech Anime Society
- Cornell Japanese Animation Society
- CTRL-A: The Club That Really Likes Anime
- Foothill Anime (Anime Resource Group .. another San Francisco-based group)
- Grand Rapids Area Anime Club
- Harvard Anime Society
- Mangakai (A Swedish fan club)
- Manna Anime (metro-Detroit club)
- Newtype Animation (at Virginia Tech)
- Anime Anonymous (Boulder, Colorado)
- Polytechnic Anime Society
- The St. John's Anime Film Society
- University of Washington Anime Discovery Project
- UTARPA
Resource lists and archives
- ANIME (this is a server in Japan itself and it lists a lot of current information of new programs as well as a few other servers that are out there)
- Anime Art
- The Anime Cafe
- Anime Genesis
- Anime Hideaway
- Anime Links from ign.com
- Anime Music Videos
- Anime Shrine
- Anime Theme (lots of stuff. Info .. things to customize windows)
- Anime Power!
- The Anime Web Turnpike
- BigMog (mp3, 'anime radio', games)
- The Black Moon Japanese Culture Web Site
- Cartooniverse (it's not just anime and manga though)
- The Casual Otaku
- DK's Anime Link-O-Rama
- A Fan's View (an excellent page with a large gallery of pictures)
- Archive on sunet.se (another fantastic site! There are sounds here in .wav and .voc formats for IBM and many I've not seen elsewhere!)
- The Good Taste Gallery (pictures of anime characters for any age)
- Japanese Domestic Core Resources
- Large listing of anime and manga sources
- MIT Anime server (huge amounts of data from storylines to art to lyrics)
- My Otaku (artist community)
- Otaku Television
- Otaku World (wow! nice pages and tons of links and info and toys for your computer!)
- Pointers to other anime sites
- Project Anime
- Rei's home page (good page .. some nice anime info!)
- The Rossman Chronicle
- Undocumented Features (they aren't too clear, but I think this is an original story in anime style)
- The Veritech Home Page (it's not just about Macross. There is a picture archive and Bubble Gum Crisis info as well)
- Windows 95/98 Enhancements (look in each category on the screen. Most have an anime section)
- wiretap.Spies.com gopher (you'll have to pick the Anime items out as they are mixed in with other items on the gopher menu, but there are some good ones)
Back to the fan page