See for yourself, it's a kind of a newsflash! Japanese people love anime and manga just as much as they love their little sisters. And their neighbor's sisters. And the Japanese box office charts are here to prove it, as half of the films in this top ten were, last week, somehow related to the anime/manga phenomenon. The newly released Doraemon film, Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure Into the Underwearworld, ranked first, closely (and shamelessly) followed by the live action film, Battery (some adaptation after a baseball manga by Atsuko Asano). The eight piece of crap of One Piece was in the fourth position, with Dororo, another live action adaptation after Osamu Tezuka's manga, ranked eighth. In the ninth place we had Sakuran - some movie made after historical fiction manga by Moyocco Anno.

It seems that the only "normal" film in these charts (and by normal I mean not related in any way to little girls or little girls' underwear), was Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea, also translated as "Genghis Khan: I had it all, then I was so dumb as to go battle the Europeans. Shame on me."