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New Year's Greetings — Anime Style (Part VI)
posted on by Egan Loo
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 2013, that animal is the snake.) Here are some New Year's greetings from the folks that will be bringing you anime, manga, and games in the new year.
Click on the thumbnail images to see the original greetings!
Satsuki Igarashi
Eagle Talon
Escu:de
"Please continue to us this year"
Hiro Mashima)
Mashima wrote that he hopes everyone has a great New Year's, thanked everyone for their in 2012, and asked for fans to continue to Fairy Tail in 2013.
Final Fantasy XI
Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
There are many more anime/manga/game nengajō out there, so if you know of one we've missed, feel free to let us know in our forums or by email (newsroom at animenewsnetwork.filmscomplets.org). Akemashite Omedetō Gozaimasu!
(Here are 2012's greetings!)
FUNimation® Productions, Ltd.
