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BONES Opens website

posted on 2001-12-17 19:43 EST by Christopher Macdonald

BONES, the studio behind Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heavens Door and Angelic Layer, has launched a Japanese Language website with news and details about the studio here.

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