Love for anime in China

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Chen Ge, a Chinese student, earnestly picks out manga comics in Chinese, translated from the original Japanese, one after another at Uchiyama Shoten bookstore — which specializes in books written in the Chinese language — in the Kanda Jimbocho district in Tokyo.

Chen is one of the Chinese students whose essays on their affection for Japanese pop culture were chosen for their excellence and published in an anthology late last year.

The anthology, titled “Otaku to Yobaretemo” (I’ll stay even if I’m called ‘otaku’), is filled with the writers’ praise for manga and anime.

In Shanghai, a musical themed on TV anime “Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon” (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) was performed in January, pleasing local anime fans as they didn’t have to fly to Japan to see it.

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