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2006 ANIME PREVIEW! · It's going to be a big year for anime. Anime Insider takes a special look at the anime, manga and more destined to rock your casbah in 2006. TSUBASA & XXXHOLIC DOUBLE FEATURE · Two of manga's hottest series, both from CLAMP, have hit the big screen in Japan thanks to Production I.G. Anime Insider has a special preview of both films, and how they're intertwined! BEST J-POP VIDEOS EVER · You might think you've seen some cool music videos, but you ain't seen nothing until you see T.M. Revolution shot a missile out of his elbow. Learn about these and nine other videos you won't believe! FRUITS BASKET OF TROUBLES · Every member of the Chinese Zodiac has some issues that poor Tohru Honda is going to have to solve. With all 13 members of the Zodiac finally revealed in the hit manga, A.I. take a special look at how screwed up they are! THE ART OF ANKUTSUOU · A visual tour de force of sketches, character designs and official art pieces of Ankutsuou, a series renown for its visual design and daring. PLUS! · Find out everything that's going on with anime and manga and learn about these exciting worlds, creators, shows, comics and more. Cover price $5.99.

INUYASHA'S BADDEST BADDIES · That dog-demon Inuyasha's been fighting demons, monsters and all-around bad guys for years on Adult Swim. Now as the popular anime moves ever closer to the end of its historical run, Anime Insider ranks the Top 10 baddest baddies Inuyasha's had to face so far! NARUTO SURVIVAL GUIDE · The ninja-in-training Naruto is about to take the deadliest test of his life: The Chunin Exam! Dozens will enter, few will live through it. Be sure to read our full Naruto Survival Guide to prepare you for this upcoming arc on Toonami! HOT-HEADED TEACHER · Great Teacher Onizuka certainly lives up to his name. But before the unusual teacher began his academic career, GTO was actually the high-school delinquent leader of a biker gang! As Shonan Junai Gumi (the manga prequel to TOKYOPOP's GTO series) debuts, we do our own background check on Onizuka, to see if he's truly fit to teach. FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST FEVER · Ed and Al Elric are almost at the end of their quest to return their bodies to their original human state. The series may almost be over, but there's still more to this story, so take a special look at the end of the high-octane series-and prepare for the future! EUREKA 7 PREVIEW · Nothing is cooler than giant robots on skateboards and that's what graces this now monster hit show Eureka 7. Anyways, we hang with today's skatin' experts to get their take on this new mech-filled series along with a special preview! VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE Love is certainly in the air. Yep, it's Valentine's Day (a holiday more popular than Christmas over in Japan!) and that can only mean one thing: unrequited love. Sigh. Taking a cue from various anime series, we offer up some Do's and Don'ts to having the perfect Valentine's Day. Cover price $5.99.

GUNDAM SEED DESTINY PREVIEW · This sequel to the hit series is here, and A.I. has an indispensable guide to all the Gundams and the twisted teenage relationships. NARUTO CHUNIN EXAM · The ninja-in-training Naruto is about to take the deadliest test of his life: the Chunin Exam! Dozens will enter, few will live through it. Be sure to read our full Naruto Survival Guide to prepare you for this upcoming arc on Toonami! KYO KARA MAOH DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY · Director Junji Nishimura gives the behind-the-scenes scoop on every single episode of the hit fantasy/comedy series! HOW TO MAKE A MANGA · Want to be a manga artist? A.I. talks to the pros to find out what you need to do, what you need to learn, what you need to get, and who you need to send your work to in order to become a bona fide manga artist! AH MY! GODDESS DIRECTOR INTERVIEW · The secret of one of anime's longest-running relationships gets revealed as A.I. talks to director Hiroaki Gohda on the challenges of animating the most beloved goddesses in anime. ANIME NEWSPAPER · Hot off the success of our fan-favorite Anime Classifieds feature, we take anime's most preposterous moments and rip them into our own headlines! Cover price $5.99.

EUREKA 7 PREVIEW · We go inside Bandai's newest multimedia anime phenomenon, Eureka 7, with an interview with the director, character designer and even the president of Studio Bones to discover why this anime is much bigger than even its surfing robots. GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX-2ND GIG CASE FILE · Hackers, terrorists and the government-Motoko and Section 9 have seen their fair share of enemies in GitS's second season. We take a look at their biggest cases-and their most dangerous cases yet to come. ULTIMATE MANGA ANTHOLOGY GUIDE · In Japan, the comics industry is on a whole other level-dozens of hundred-plus page manga anthologies come out every week! A.I. takes a look and the biggest and best and let's you know what famous series appeared where, and what news manga to keep a look out for! ONE PIECE MAP · The One Piece manga is rockin' in Shonen Jump, as Luffy and crew are just about to enter the Grand Line-the most dangerous sea route in the world! We'll chart a course for the Straw-Hat pirates to preview the places they'll go and the villains they'll meet. TOP 10 URUSEI YATSURA EPISODES EVER · AnimEigo is about to release the 49th and final volume of Urusei Yatsura, the hilariously bizarre, alien-infested first series from the creator of Inuyasha. With nearly 200 episodes to pick from, A.I. hunts down the 10 craziest episodes ever. Cover price $5.99.

SUPER SUMMER PREVIEW · School's almost out, but there's plenty of anime on the way! We profile the ten hottest new anime and manga series of the summer that are certain to be better than a day at the beach. SAIYUKI: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE · Three TV series, four hot guy s and one evil demon king-these are the ingredients of one of anime's most popular series, Saiyuki. To commemorate the new release of the series' last season, Saiyuki Gunload Relock, we present an in depth guide to the world, fights, monsters and most of all, the men of Saiyuki! INSIDE THE MAMODO TOURNAMENT · Every 1000 years, 100 mamodo are sent to Earth in a fight to become king. The mamodo Zatch Bell has seen plenty of battles-and we have the exclusive fight card to who's in, who's knocked out, and what fights are next! CASE CLOSED'S GREATEST MYSTERIES · Detective Conan has seen his fair share of murders over 300 episodes of the hit anime TV series. We showcase his ten most baffling cases-can you solve them? Cover price $5.99.

HOW TO BREAK INTO MANGA · Wanna be a manga supertstar? Sure, we all do. But only A.I. knows how, with tips from manga superstars and everything you need to learn, buy and do! SPECIAL MANGA PREVIEW! · Don't miss our exclusive mega manga preview! NARUTO CHUNIN EXAM TOURNEY BRACKETS · The third part of the Chunin Exam is about to begin, and Naruto and his fellow Genin ninja have to face their toughest fight - each other! Keep track of the educational rumble with our pull-out guide! NEGIMA ROLL CALL · Mayhem and a preposterous amount of fan-service collide in Negima, from the creator of Love Hina! A.I. takes a look at 10-year-old wizard Negi Springfield and the 20-something, preposterously cute junior high school girls he has to teach! TOP 10 CRAZIEST URUSEI YATSURA EPISODES · AnimeEigo is about to release the 50th and final volume of Urusei Yatsura, the hilariously bizarre, alien-infested first series from the creator of Inuyasha. With nearly 200 episodes to pick from, A.I. hunts down the 10 craziest episodes ever. Cover price $5.99.

NARUTO: ENTER THE SNAKE! The dramatic final matches of the Chunin Exam are interrupted by an unthinkable catastrophe, and a new villain emerges on the scene! Snakelike Orochimaru will dominate the upcoming Naruto storylines and A.I. gets you prepped for the evil slithering to come! SPEEDGRAPHER PHOTO ALBUM Saiga, a former war photographer turned private eye, gains the power to kill with his camera-a skill that'll come in handy as he tries to get to the bottom of a political conspiracy and save the life of an abused girl. A.I. peers through his deadly photo album. NEGIMA ROLL CALL Magic, mayhem and a preposterous amount of fan-service collide in Negima, from the creator of Love Hina! A.I. takes a look at 10-year-old wizard Negi Springfield and the 20-something cute junior high school girls he has to teach! ROCKER HYDE SPEAKS! The charismatic frontman of Japanese superband L'Arc~en~ciel wowed fans at last year's Otakon, and now A.I. scores an exclusive, one-on-one interview with the legend himself. AMERICANS IN ANIME The few. The proud. The Americans in anime. These lucky souls have relocated to Japan and are living the dream of otaku worldwide: to have an active part in creating anime. We discover just how they did it, and offer tips for aspiring creators. Cover price $5.99.

GHOST IN THE SHELL GIG GUIDE As the popular sci-fi series speeds into its final season on Cartoon Network, we've got everything you need to know about the last 26 episodes-including an up-close and personal commentary on each episode by director Kanji Kamiyama! PLUS, learn more about the new Ghost in the Shell movie, Solid State Society. EUREKA SEVEN Giant robots are pretty cool, but giant surfing robots are even cooler! Especially when they're surfing in the sky. We sit down with today's surfin' experts to get their take on the latest mech-filled series to hit Cartoon Network. BASILISK BREAKDOWN Ninja warfare, love, and plenty of gore...who said anime doesn't have it all? (We've said it before but we just don't think you were paying attention.) This epic 'Romeo and Juliet' take on mystic ninja has stealthily slipped into action and A.I. Preps you for this new series by revealing which are good, which are bad and which are just plain ugly. ANIME UNIVERSITY School's in session! We scour the U.S. looking for the best (real) colleges that offer anime courses. Let this be your guidebook to actually getting college credit for your dangerously intense anime obsession. ZATCH BELL MOVIE 101! A mysterious mamodo emerges and threatens to destroy everything...but wait, weren't there only supposed to be 100 mamodo? We get to the bottom of things just in time for the release of Zatch Bell's first movie appearance. Cover price $5.99.

? TRINITY BLOOD TOUR GUIDE Funimation's Trinity Blood is one of the most anticipated anime of the entire year, but a lot of things have changed after the post-apocalypse. Find out just how much in this guide through the gothic, vampire-laden world of tomorrow. ? BLEACH A-TO-Z With Cartoon Network set to air the supernatural fighter from the folks behind Naruto this September, A.I. prepares you for the coming of Bleach with an A to Z look at the Soul Society, hollows, shinigami, really giant swords and more! ? MEET THE SHOJO SAVIORS Shojo anime has fallen on rough times in America ever since the decline of Sailor Moon, but meet the cure-or, more accurately, Cure White and Cure Black, the stars of Toei Animation's blockbuster new magical girl franchise, Pretty Cure, set to air on 4Kids.TV this fall! ? ANIME UNIVERSITY School's in session! We scour the U.S. looking for the best (real) colleges that offer anime courses. Let this be your guidebook to actually getting college credit for your dangerously intense anime obsession. ? GUNDAM SEED DESTINY DIRECTOR INTERVIEW Anime Insider sits down with Mitsuo Fukuda, director of Bandai's Gundam Seed Destiny, for an exclusive interview on his inspirations for all the space-opera action. ? HOW MOE ARE THEY? Since 'moe' is the hottest new craze in anime, A.I. rates anime's cutest girls on the 'Moe Meter.' See who wins, who loses and maybe what the heck 'moe' means! ? Plus, another awesome yet TBD manga preview! Cover price $5.99.

ANIME INSIDER #37 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST MOVIE SPECTACULAR Everything you need to know about the anime movie of the year! PLUS: · AFRO SAMURAI: Inside the afro! · MY-HIME: Exclusive director's commentary! · ERGO PROXY: Secrets of Japan's Gothic hit! · EXCLUSIVE: Surprise manga preview! · MORE! Magazine (Cover: FMA Movie) $5.99 Cover price $5.99.

ERGO PROXY The studio behind 'Champloo' trades samurai for rampaging robots, Goth girls, and murder. FATE/STAY NIGHT Inside the secret apocalypse! GUNDAM SEED DESTINY Exclusive director interview! NEGIMA How to handle 31 cute girls! HOT SPRINGS Your photo guide to the Japanese experience! Magazine (Cover: Ergo Proxy) Cover price $5.99.

In this issue: The Best of 2006; Hollywood Dream Team - anime directors' most coveted movies; Hellsing Ultimate - exclusive interviews with the masters of monsters; Paradise Kiss; acid android; Black Cat; and more. Naruto cover. Magazine. Cover price $5.99.