During my travels on the internet, I found a site called Anime News Network. Now I’ve seen sites like this all the time, and so I was a bit skeptical. I figured that it would be a rather deficient site, having seen my share of ill-crafted and badly-kept sites. I was, luckily, quite wrong. I found, instead, one of the most informative and interesting sites on the internet.

Anime News Network is a general compilation of all the Anime/Manga knowledge that they can assemble. It has various things such as reviews, interviews, and other awesome stuff like that. It has an encyclopedia area, where they have a list of all Anime and Manga-producing companies complete with all of the things that they have produced or been a part of. It also has a directory of people who have been involved in an Anime/Manga for any reason, be it an author, a producer, a voice actor, or other things. They also have reviews of various anime-related events.

However, I’d have to say that my favorite part of ANN is the trivia section. On every Anime page is a page called “Trivia” that contains interesting things about the series that few usually pick up on. This was an amazing resource for Neon Genesis Evangelion, where the trivia is actually very interesting nuances about the show. One of the most interesting pieces of trivia was this:

Many of the characters were named after various WWII-era Japanese naval vessels. Katsuragi, Akagi, and Soryu were all aircraft carriers; the Akagi led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ayanami and Fuyutsuki were destroyers; Fuyutsuki rescued survivors from the great Yamato when she was sunk near Okinawa in 1945. Kirishima and Hyuga were battleships that were part of the fleet which attacked Pearl Harbor. Ibuki and Aoba are names of heavy cruisers; the Ibuki existed only on paper, it was never built.

I highly suggest that you check out this site, as it will answer ANY questions about Anime that you have.

As always, feel free to post comments. Until next time…