Loads of anime are adaptations of manga. But which ones are the best? A recent Japanese poll tried to find that out.

This is Senri Kawaguchi. She's 18 and has been called one of the best drummers in Japan, if not the world.

I'm getting flashbacks to my time in high school orchestra. Sound! Euphonium shows the normal life of a group of high school girls in their high school concert band and their evolution from a casual, play-for-fun gathering to a serious unified musical unit.

If something exists, then, yes, there is a dirty movie of it. Video games and anime exist, so, yes, there are dirty movies of them. Japan just seems to have more of them.

Eek! Schoolgirl anime K-On!'s latest t-shirt looks more like some horrible moé monster, appearing in a dark dungeon in some Japanese role-playing game.

Schoolgirl rocker anime K-On! isn't only getting a feature film, in which the girls travel to London. It's also getting a convenience store. This is it.

In Japan convenience stores, or "conbini" as they're called, dot the landscape. They're where people buy food and drink, pay bills, send letters and stand and read magazines without paying for them. Some might like Family Mart, others prefer Daily Yamazaki. I like Lawson, because more than any other corner store in Japan it panders to nerds like me and maybe like you.

Western games might not be as popular as homegrown titles in The Land of the Rising Sun, but there is definitely a following for titles developed abroad.

She won't be alone. Oh, no.

Senri Kawaguchi (in the pink shirt) is a 13-year-old junior high school student. But that's not all.

For an anime about schoolgirl rockers, one thing is more important than all others: the music. And animated series K-On! has just that, good music.

In Japan, cars covered with stickers depicting anime and game characters are called itasha, or literally "painmobile". Bicycles covered in stickers are called itachari ("paincycle"). And jet skis?