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One of the largest Japanese manga publishers is Shogakukan, (English), and there's also Shueisha, and Kadokawa (who actually have a useful page, for once).
Nikaku. Europeans like me might go for Otaku Publishing. Mangakai usually orders from JIGS (in japan). For untranslated manga in the US, I'd recommend Sasuga, or maybe the international Comic Land, and you can get used manga from Book Mart. Acclimate Solutions sell inofficial manga translations.
Music you can get from CD Japan (or the previously mentioned JIGS). For JPOP mp3s, I highly recommend The Oricon.
The more pervert among you may find J-list worth a visit; they sell various Japanese things of a more or less pornographic nature (I also recommend their e-newsletter, since Peter tends to include various amusing anecdotes about Japan and Japanese).
My manga, I usually get from Sun Ai OCS (the Japanese bookstore in Stockholm). If it's English-translated manga you want, I recommend Staffars Serier, which has most translated manga (and other foreign (american) comics) for sale. You might also look at Alvglans, with good subscription services, and somewhat cheaper prices than Staffars, but a less wide range.
Japanese
Some links with Japanese cultural information: Japan Window, soc.culture.japan FAQ, Virtual Handshake Culture Center Japan.
I highly recommend reading Maktos' Japanese lessons, which you can find at his Japanese is Possible.
There's really only one good site if you're looking for Japanese educational programs - Monash Nihongo FTP archive.
The neatest site I've found for actual learning, and one that should definitely be checked out, is Japanse for Anime Lovers. Learn Japanese with Magic Knights Rayearth! There's a good section on kana, too.
For a dictionary, you might be best off using a program locally - JDIC can be found either at Monash Nihongo or Jim Breen's Japanese Page. If you don't have time to download, though, there's a really great online version - Jim Breen's WWWJDIC.
Mangajin, the magazine on manga in Japanese, is now available online.
Jumpsites
You can find at least some small scraps of information on most anime series - with catalogued links for most, and a database searchable by categories, overall very good, at Otakuworld's Anime and Manga Theme Guide. If you're not sure what to watch or read next, this is the place to go!
The best general jump-site is, without doubt, the Anime Web Turnpike. There's hordes of links to everything imaginable - personal homepages, fan art, fan fiction, companies, magazines - you name it!
Misc
The place to go for information on seiyuu (voice actors) is Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Index, which I use a lot myself.
The major reference pages I most prefer for various series: Berserk, Gundam, Slam Dunk, Slayers, Tokimeki Memorial.
For a few laughs, visit CM Watch, which has clips from various japanese TV commercials.
Ultimate Manga Guide is a very extensive manga database that's sprang out of the old Usenet Manga Guide; I recommended it, and use it extensively myself.
For Anime-DVDs, all there is to recommend is the excellent Anime on DVD page.
Mangakai, the Swedish manga organization, isn't really all that well-organized, but at least they occasionaly have showings, and the page is well done. I am, of course, a member.
For the recipies I know all you Ranma fans desperately seach, visit Ukyou's Okonomiyaki Recipes, and for more food, try the Tokyo Food Page.
If you're interested in fan-subbing, make sure you stop by at Fansubs.Net. Some script collections: Script Vault, anime.jyu.fi, Central Anime scripts, #fansubs archive. On an amiga, I recommend the program JACOsub.
An online zine with zine with news and reviews? Of course! Good illustrations and layout, too! Check out EX (subtitled The Online World of Anime and Manga).
Apart from the guide in the jumpsite section, Otakuworld has lots of other interesting things too, including cute shareware games and toy programs, KISS dolls (digital paper-dolls ^_^), and windows desktop themes ... check it out!
There's a site with all the newsgroup FAQs.
Translations
Manga translations? Sure. These need to be organized into a table, or put on a separate page. I'll do that In My Copious Free Time (ie, most likely never ^_^). If you have any links that would fit here, I'd appreciate them greatly.
3x3 Eyes 3x3 Eyes Translations Page, Ronny's (mine), Ishikawa Kazuo.
Area 88 Script Archive,
Ayashi no Ceres Lina Inverse, Reika-chan, Ayashi no Translations, ANC Translation Project.
Dragonball Prince Vegeta, DBZ Vault, Planet Namek, Pete's Translated Dragonball, Kaine's DBMT,
Dragon Half
Dragon Half manga translations,
Dragon Half.
Ronny's (mine)
Futaba-kun Change Futaba-kun Change Translation, Otakuworld.
Glass Mask By MangaFish@New, By AI-sei.
Hana Yori Dango Scans and summaries, Alice's.
Hime-chan's Ribbon Pirotess', Angel and Daniel.
I''s baka.k2r.net, Katsura Manga Scripts.
Kimagure Orange Road The Kimagure Orange Road Project, KOR Translations, Mangavault.
Nijiiro Tougurashi Wei-Hwa Huang, Mitsuru Adachi page.
Ranma 1/2 Blade's, Ranma Manga Translation, The Ranma Project, Ranma FAQ, New Ranma Project.
Rurouni Kenshin Maigo-chan's, RK House, RK Archive, Swirly-eyed Samurai, Kenshin Komics, RK Translations Index,
Slam Dunk Slam Dunk Translation Page!, KamenOtaku.
Tokyo Babylon Ueno Park, Ronny's (mine).
Violinist of Hameln World's Worst, Doc's, Hamel Manga Scans.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho YYH scripts, YYH manga in English, Manga Translations, Rhionae.
Misc/unsorted Anime & Manga Scripts, Anime & Manga Scripts, Clamp ML, Complete MT Index, Dragon Project, Ex Libris, From Amie, Hikirin Studio, Ippon Productions Translation Factory, Mangakai, Manga Library, Manga Translation Ring, Manga Vault, Matt's Page, Matt's Translation Links, Nameless Manga Translations, Random Manga Scans, Rutgers Anime Manga Project, Ryoppei, Ultimate Manga Download Archive, You Higuri Collection.
Webmanga
If you want to find real Japanese webmanga, you might try ou Yahoo Japan, who have an extensive section on the topic. A few, for example, are archived at ZDNET Webcomics.
The game company Falcom has an online manga called Xanadu up. There are english translations, so check it out.
Jade Monkey; fantasy-type fanmanga, well-drawn, and seems interesting so far.
Armadillo is an interesting - and very well-done - love story of sorts.
You can find a whole bunch of translated Yuu Yuu Hakusho doujinshi (fanzines, basically) at YYH Djs.
Epoxy is perhaps not quite to my taste, but it's there.
Zahara Medina has a few random chapters on her page, at least last I checked.
The one web-manga you have to check out is Gotterdämmerung Der Ring des Nibelungen IV (English). Don't let the german sounding name scare you off - fairly regular publication of new issues, and it is, of course, another masterwork by the genius Leiji Matsumoto, creater of Galaxy Express 999, Space Pirate Harlock, and other classics. Yes, it does feature the great Phantom J. Harlock, coolest scifi hero of all times! If you speak Japanese, Shogakukan have also put his Galaxy Express 999 online (but in Japanese only; the English translation is being commercially published by Viz).
Hanamaru Weekly is a manga web zine. New numbers every week, and it's available in both Japanese in English.
RunAmuck is a nice web-based manga of the "a bit childish and silly really" mold. Really, really great - OK, the story might be a tad thin but I really like the kawaii drawing.
Another quite cool web manga is Emiko's Genesis. Nicely and cleanly drawn, etc.