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Naruto definitely didn’t make his path to Hokage in the traditional way by rising through the ranks (as he was notably a Genin before landing the position), and it’s also true that he had a very ...

The Big-O is a unique case among anime and the mecha genre. Big action-packed fights are not the story’s focus, there are no young teens dealing with high school drama, and you won’t find any ...

With the upcoming release of the live-action, Ghost in the Shell movie, Major Motoko Kusanagi is gaining a resurgence of popularity. She’s a sort of cyborg or biological android but this got me ...

A Japanese company has made a popular anime cartoon larger than life, unveiling a massive, 55,000-pound “Gundam” robot that stands 59 feet tall. New footage released Monday shows the mammoth machine, ...

When we first covered the emerging field of lovotics, the science of human-robot love, we had no idea that it would turn out to be one of the most popular stories ever published on ExtremeTech. It ...

For six months, something felt just a little off in Tokyo. After years of drawing travelers to the capital’s Odaiba neighborhood, last March the full-scale statue of iconic anime robot Gundam was ...

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