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Danica Davidson is a contributor to Otaku USA magazine, and she's also an author of her own books. In addition to her Minecraft novels, Danica's Manga Art for Beginners: How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings book, illustrated by Melanie Westin, just debuted. We took …Read more »
One of the best things about Detroit’s Youmacon is that it coincides with Halloween, so there’s double the reason to dress up. The temperatures may be low (and they were definitely low on October 31 in Michigan), but you wouldn’t guess it from these costumes. …Read more »
As always, Anime Central in Chicago was full of people wearing fun and exciting cosplay. Otaku USA took a look at some of the cool costumes from this annual event, including what may be the youngest Pikachu ever. For Minecraft fans, the young-at-heart and people …Read more »
The contrast between real and virtual life can be stark. One can be a complete stud online and a loser in the real world, but what happens when those lives collide? In the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine, Danica Davidson had a helluva time …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, and mangaka Kenichi Sonoda and Hitoshi Ariga have won the esteemed Inkpot Award. Comic-Con explains that this award is “given to individuals for their contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom services.” …Read more »
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (often referred to as the abbreviation SAG-AFTRA) has officially called for a strike in regards to video game work. The strike is about protecting union actors from artificial intelligence hurting their careers. SAG-AFTRA …Read more »
The Kyoto Animation arson took place five years ago, on July 12, 2019. 36 people were killed, and many others were injured. A memorial monument has been publicly unveiled to honor the victims. Rather than set up the monument on the site of the old …Read more »
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the most popular franchises in recent memory, so of course Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan wants to highlight Tanjiro and his friends. The park is retiring some of its previous Demon Slayer stuff, but is also adding more …Read more »
Alley is the latest short story collection from horror icon Junji Ito to be published by VIZ Media. The first story, the titular “Alley,” is a creepy tale where a young man moves into a boardinghouse near an alley and thinks he hears kids. But …Read more »
As manga continues to grow more popular in America and around the globe, additional publishers and imprints are interested in licensing graphic novels from Japan. The latest is HarperCollins’ imprint HarperAlley. HarperAlley started in 2020, publishes about 50 kids’ graphic novels annually, and is under …Read more »
The results are in for the tax evasion case of Nekokurage, the illustrator of The Apothecary Diaries manga. The artist is receiving a suspended sentence of 10 months and being fined 11 million yen (approximately $70,600). The prosecution was trying to get a larger fine …Read more »
Park Jung-hyun, who used to work as the assistant editor-in-chief in Morning magazine and editor of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine (both Kodansha publications) was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court in 2019 for murdering his wife, Kanako. The case has since gone to the Tokyo …Read more »
After the highly publicized death of Sexy Tanaka-san manga creator Hinako Ashihara, Japanese station NTV has unveiled new guidelines on how it will work to prevent a tragedy like that from happening again. Through misunderstandings and miscommunications, the TV adaptation Sexy Tanaka-san didn’t stick with the …Read more »
Season four of The Rising of the Shield Hero will be here before too long. In the meantime, a new teaser visual has dropped that highlights Naofumi, Raphtalia, Filo, Atla and Fohl. There’s also a short video of the visual! The Rising of the Shield …Read more »
Everyone’s favorite ninja Naruto is doing a crossover comic with a very different type of ninja — the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto will hit comic shops on November 13, with writing by Caleb Goellner of Sonic the Hedgehog and …Read more »
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