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AnimeNation is a well-known retailer of anime

Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
, manga

Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
, and other products of Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese culture, founded in 1995 and located in Tampa, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
. The company accepts orders through its website and its offices in Tampa Bay, Florida. AnimeNation also prints paper catalogs. In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, AnimeNation rents and sells anime DVDs by mail as "RentAnime

AnimeNation

AnimeNation is a well-known retailer of anime, manga, and other products of Japanese culture, founded in 1995 and located in Tampa, Florida. The company accepts orders through its website and its offices in Tampa Bay, Florida....
.com," similar to the more widely known mainstream DVD rental service Netflix

Netflix

Netflix is an online DVD rental service, offering flat rate rental-by-mail and Video streaming to customers in the United States. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, it has amassed a collection of 100,000 titles and approximately 10 million subscribers....
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AnimeNation is a well-known retailer of anime

Anime

Manga

Japan

Tampa, Florida

United States

AnimeNation

Netflix

Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s, and OVA

Original video animation

, abbreviated , is a term originating from Japanese animation for animation films and series which are made specially to be released on home video formats....
s, video games and anime soundtrack

Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
s, J-pop

J-pop

J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop, but is also a loosely defined musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in 1990s....
, licensed anime-branded apparel, poster

Poster

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both typography and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly textual....
s and wall scrolls, and snacks such as Pocky

Pocky

' ' is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico of Japan. It was first sold in 1966, and consists of a cookie stick coated with chocolate....
and Ramune

Ramune

is a carbonated soft drinks sold in Japan which was introduced at Kobe by Alexander Cameron Sim....
. Hentai

Hentai

is a Japanese language word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornography comics and animation, particularly Japanese anime, manga and Video game ....
titles are available, but only through website or phone orders, and not at the AnimeNation store.

AN Entertainment

In 2003, AnimeNation announced its intention to license and distribute anime directly under the name of AN Entertainment. The first title the company licensed was Risky Safety (now expired), which was followed in 2004 by Miami Guns
Miami Guns

is a manga and anime series. The anime takes place in Miami City, which is similar to Miami, Florida, except for several locale changes. It's mainly about the life of two female Miami City police officers having to stop crimes before they get worse....
. Their third release was Haré+Guu
Haré+Guu

is a Japanese languageese anime, based on an original manga which ran in Monthly Shonen Gangan Twenty-six cartoon series were made, followed by two Original Video Animation sequels: Har?+Guu DELUXE and Har?+Guu FINAL....
, which was released as a joint venture with Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Bang Zoom! Entertainment is an audio post-production studio, located in Burbank, California, that has worked on several anime, video games, feature films, and directly-to-DVD projects....
in February 2006.

ADV Films was the distributor of Risky Safety and Miami Guns (though its logo only appeared in trade ads). With Haré+Guu, distribution was switched to FUNimation Entertainment

FUNimation Entertainment

Funimation Entertainment is an American entertainment company. Originally founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga, the company became a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005....
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Website services

The AnimeNation website includes information on the products it sells, a forum

Internet forum

An , or 'message board', is an online discussion site. It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system....
, some sound clips of music, free email service, and a regular column, "Ask John," where AN employee John Oppliger

John Oppliger

John Oppliger is an employee of AnimeNation, an anime merchandise and production distributor. Oppliger works as an editor and consultant, whose duties include writing product descriptions for the storefront and maintaining the AnimeNation News webpage....
answers various questions about anime titles, the anime industry, and the cultural significance of aspects of anime. "Ask John" archives on the AnimeNation website extend back to 1999. Previous questions answered include "Why Is There No Subtitled Pokémon

Pokémon

is a media franchise owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri around 1995. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy line Console role-playing game video games, Pok?mon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own...
?," "How Age Appropriate is Anime?," and "Why is Lolicon

Lolicon

, also romanization as rorikon, is a slang portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex". In Japan, the term describes an attraction to young girls, or an individual with such an attraction....
popular in America?"

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