Another anime voice acting veteran is gone, sadly, with the passing of Kenji Utsumi on June 13. Utsumi was 75, and best known as the voice behind Fist of the North Star villain Raoh. Utsumi passed at 3:01 pm at a hospital in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo due t...

We at the Otaku USA News Dome love nothing more than a good collaboration between a well-known Japanese pop-culture property and pizza. You may recall a time earlier this year when Hatsune Miku  teamed up with Domino’s Pizza in Japan, selling mou...

Kyoto Animation's new anime FREE! has been one of the most polarizing recent subjects in the otaku universe. On one end, internet fujoshi have been drawing fanart, writing fanfiction, and otherwise absolutely losing their minds over Kyoani's intimatel...

Manga series can’t last forever – although they can certainly try – which leads us to the news of two long-running manga series meeting their inevitable ends: Atsushi Ohkubo’s Soul Eater and (gasp) Yoshiyuki Sadamoto’s Neon Genesis Evangelion . Soul E...

Diabolik Lovers is an upcoming anime series based on a popular vampire otome game (a type of game that specifically targets a female audience). According to the anime's official site, the series will kick off in Japan this fall. Diabolik Lovers is dir...

New Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Maiden isn't exactly a new entry in the dungeon-crawling RPG series. Rather, it serves as a reimagining of the first game, which was originally released on Nintendo DS in 2007. Millennium Maiden takes that foundation and...

Nanami to Isshoni Manabo! English Joutatsu no Kotsu (Or: “Let’s learn with Nanami! Tricks for improving your English), developed by edutainment software company Media5 for the Nintendo 3DS, promises to let players improve their English with words of e...

The nerd sector in Manhattan's Chinatown has seen better days. When the famous Chinatown Fair arcade shut down, the surrounding geek businesses began to wither. There's still a Gunpla place, and that little booth that's sold bootleg anime and bootleg ...