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New Year's Greetings — Anime Style
posted on by Egan Loo
Greetings from 11 anime/manga groups and creators (with more to come)
For generations, people in Japan have celebrated New Year's Day by sending specially designed cards — nengajō — to each other. As part of the tradition, postal workers store all the nengajō that are mailed in the final weeks of the old year, and then deliver every single one on New Year's Day. Many nengajō mark the Chinese Zodiac by depicting the animal of the year. (In 2011, that animal is the rabbit.) Here are some New Year's (and Christmas) greetings from the folks that will be bringing you anime and manga in the new year.
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Animedia
Illustated by Tadashi HiramatsuCaramel Box
Doraemon Channel
Flash animation© Fujiko Production, Shogakukan, TV Asahi, Shinei, ADK 2011
Studio Ghibli
Illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki Megumi Hayashibara
VideoIdea Factory
© 2010 Idea Factory/Design FactoryProduction I.G (Drawer Hobs)
© 2011 Kazuchika Kise/Production I.G/Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs© 1996-2010 Production I.G
Yukito Kishiro (GUNNM/Battle Angel Alita)
Flash animationKyoto Animation
Illustrated by Shoko Ikeda© Kyoto Animation
Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Oreimo)
© Tsukasa Fushimi/ASCII Media WorksMomiji image © 2004 Natsuki Takaya/HAKUSENSHA • TV TOKYO • NAS • Fruba Project. Licensed by FUNimation® Productions, Ltd.
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