Transferring to a new school's always a source of anxiety and confusion. But the school Tsukune Aono just enrolled in is a flat-out nightmare: it's a training school for monsters of all kinds. Even worse, Tsukune himself is no monster -- he's just an ordinary human kid, and if his classmates find out what he really is, they'll flay him and use him for a seat cushion!

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With the end of the year less than two weeks off, it's about time we started casting our eyes back across 2011's spate of releases and started singling out the real stars of the year. Here's the first of those overviews: my selections for the best newly-premiered anime of 2011.

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Is there any one word more closely associated with Japan than "samurai?" Apart from the word "anime" itself, perhaps not -- and "samurai"'s been part of the topical vocabulary for Japan in English far longer than "anime."

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Anime has its own vocabulary -- not just words that aren't native to English (e.g., hentai), but English words that have been given a new meaning through anime.

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Welcome to the new year, one in which with any luck the world won't end on schedule (my money is on "won't"), and in which we will be inundated with a whole spate of new anime releases. To celebrate that fact, here's a list of some of the best and most head-turning, eye-opening anime products for the first three months of the year -- including the title featured here in this post, Princess Jellyfish.

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What better way to close out the year than with a review of a title that is technically out next year, but might well have been among the very best releases of this year? (It's technically out in January, but review copies found their way out before then.)

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We're finally closing out the year's roundup of best anime titles here at Anime.About.com, and the last article in this series collects anime from all those categories that didn't quite fit anywhere else.

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Our penultimate retrospective for 2011 is now here: the best anime BD/DVD reissues and re-releases of 2011. Here we take the time to look for shows that fell out of print, disappeared from sight and traded hands at ridiculous prices -- but which have since been rescued by the intrepid folks at various video companies.

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With the last weeks of the year fast upon us, it's time for our next look back over our shoulder at what the year's had to offer us: our roundup of the best newly-premiered shows on DVD and Blu-ray Disc for 2011.

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