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Have you been keeping up with this season’s anime adaptation of Kei Urana and graffiti artist Hideyoshi Andou’s Gachiakuta manga? If so, you have three new characters to look forward to in episode 7, and the voice cast members behind each have officially been unveiled. …Read more »
Production baobab shared the sad news that voice actor Eiji Yanagisawa has passed away. He died on November 12, at the age of 57, and the cause of death is listed as a brainstem hemorrhage. The National Library of Medicine explained: Primary brainstem hemorrhage (PBSH) …Read more »
Sad news is coming out of the anime world as we learn voice actress Rachael Lillis passed away over the weekend from breast cancer. Lillis was a prolific voice talent who might be best known for playing both protagonist Misty and antagonist Jessie in Pokémon. …Read more »
Laurie Orr has started a GoFundMe page to help with medical care for her sister, veteran voice actress Rachael Lillis, who is battling cancer. Among Lillis’s numerous roles, she’s voiced Jessie and Misty in Pokémon, Utena Tenjou in Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Martina in Slayers …Read more »
The anime industry is mourning another loss this week with the announcement that director and animator Kinji Yoshimoto—known for directing series ranging from Arifureta – From Commonplace to World’s Strongest to Genshiken 2, Queen’s Blade: Beautiful Warriors, Kekko Kamen, and many more—has passed away at …Read more »
We heard you like anime. How about an anime series hiding inside another anime series? With shows being pretty self-aware lately, you’re likely to find anime fans in the cast. That means they need something to watch… and that means a whole other show-within-a-show. Whether …Read more »
Founded in 1996, Arms—the anime studio known for projects such as Queen’s Blade, Ikki Tousen, and Elfen Lied, known officially as Common Sense in recent years—has declared bankruptcy. The report comes from credit research company Tokyo Shoko Research, which noted that Arms made the decision …Read more »
Funimation announced a new partnership with NIS America to bring a bunch of the latter’s anime to Funimation’s streaming service. Starting with the likes of Cardcaptor Sakura and Toradora! on May 5, the collaboration aims to introduce nearly 20 more shows to Funimation’s catalog. Here’s …Read more »
We’re busy anime fans here at Otaku USA, and that means we need our anime delivered in quick, bite-sized chunks. Luckily, in recent years the anime industry has obliged our tight schedules—as well as our rapidly diminishing attention spans—with a whole cottage industry of anime …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Most of us will never get the chance to work at an actual anime studio, but at least we can live vicariously through Shirobako . You can dive into the behind-the-scenes fun at home with Sentai Filmworks' Shirobako Collection 1, Even the …Read more »
If you’re a fan of supernatural series and you haven’t already picked up Mushi-shi , you really should. Finding really good supernatural tales, the stories that are really evocative of the otherworldly, where the supernatural is integral to the story and world rather than tacked-on, …Read more »
Dark Horse tackles the new release list with another double-dose of CLAMP. This week it’s volume two of Angelic Layer , which covers the second half and completes the series. This is one of my favorite CLAMP stories, and I think one of the most …Read more »
January went out like a sheep but February is coming in like a lion. An extra-long list of titles deserves an extra-long installment of On The Shelf, so let’s get started on my look at some of the over two dozen books out this week! …Read more »
Happy official-first-days-of-Autumn! Just like I used the summer heat as a reason to stay indoors and read more manga, so too will I now use the cooling days as further reasoning also (not that we need a reason to coop up surrounded by dozens of …Read more »
Kodansha Comics kicks off this week's new titles with a new series, Genshiken Second Season . The first volume kicks off the sequel series to Genshiken which marks a whole new school year, and that means a whole new club. Well, almost. The club's president, …Read more »
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