Wow, there was no holiday break this year, tons of news to wrap up 2013! Most notable to me was how many shojo anime reveal there were at the end of the year.

An interesting mix of anime titles that have been picked up while they are still pretty new but were not licensed when they originally aired on TV combined with a fairly large selection of manga titles released in a transitional manner as well as digitally.

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A rather mixed bag this month with a little bit of everything celebrate in each category. I was excited to see a little more information come out regarding the next Detective Conan movie.

I still say Six God Combination God Mars is the oddest title here. But good to see Space Dandy is on track to be HUGE. Hopefully it will live up to expectations.

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 Even without the new season of anime premiering in October there was a lot of licenses and news to be had. And only a bit of that came out of New York Comic Con, too. Of most interest is the three new crowdfunding projects, it is a growing category in the monthly line-up! And let’s not forget the addition of manga to Crunchyroll that was big news indeed!

So I hear some small amount of Attack on Titan titles were picked up? I’m sure there is some Sasha Braus 4-koma cooking manga that went unlicensed.

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