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Entertainment › Academic society on popular animation 'Gundam' to be launched

An academic society to study the popular Japanese animation series ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' will be launched next month in Hiroshima, with an eye to foretelling… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Wed, Jul 30 2008

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