Imagine, if you will, the thundering power of giant robot anime intermingling seamlessly with a dreamy shojo-style narrative. Wait, you don’t have to imagine it, because Sunrise’s The Vision of Escaflowne exists! Whether you remember the series from 20 years ago or this is your …Read more »
Unless you’re an Attack on Titan fan, there usually isn’t too significant of a wait between anime seasons (sick burn, right?). Sure, there are some outliers, but Blue Exorcist is in rare company. Not counting 2012’s anime film, we went from 2011 to 2017 without …Read more »
The world of light novel publication is a fast and furious affair where imitation is the highest form of flattery. When an idea hits it big, you can bet your bottom dollar (or your smallest yen coin) that a slew of series with similar premises …Read more »
If you’ve ever been made fun of, you’ll immediately gravitate to Masamune-kun’s Revenge, the show that pits two very different individuals against each other because of a childhood argument. Masamune Makabe and Aki Adagaki are forever at each other’s throats, thanks to Masamune’s decision to …Read more »
The furballs are back! When we last left them (four years ago!), the tanuki of the Shimogamo family found out exactly how their patriarch came to be the main ingredient in the Friday Club’s hot pot, the heartbroken-gone-mad Soun was banished from tanuki society, and the …Read more »
The season finale at Episode 25 left anime viewers with many unanswered questions, but none more vital than “how long until new episodes come out?” Yet no new Attack on Titan season was even in the pipeline, such that it’s only now—nearly four years later—that …Read more »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a human, a demon, and a Buddha walk into a temple … in an alternate dimension through a drawing as led by a magical priest and his anthropomorphic rabbit-wife. Wait, you’ve not yet seen the humorous, touching, …Read more »
The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
Ten years ago, the very first issue of Otaku USA (August 2007 cover date) went on sale in a world that was very different from the one we inhabit today. But how did it all happen? Read below as the staff remembers. Mark Hintz (Chief …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of manga and anime are common—the reverse, not so much. The live action-to-anime adaptation is a rare beast indeed, but one that seems to be of particular interest to popular indie director Shunji Iwai, who, in 2015, used animation to create a prequel …Read more »
Yoshino Koharu has found herself in a bit of bind. She’s on the edge of graduating from college and she’s searching for full-time employment in the sleepless metropolis of Tokyo, because Tokyo is where everything happens. The problem is she’s already had 30 different interviews …Read more »
Forget plot, forget characters – based on images alone, what is the greatest-looking anime of all time? That was the question put recently to readers of popular Japanese anime site Charapedia, who got to work whipping up a list of the top 20 most kirei …Read more »
This story originally appeared in the August 2017 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls is a simultaneously adorable and lewd series with plenty of interesting situations revolving around, well… monster girls. Following one Japanese student, Kimihito Kurusu, who’s suddenly …Read more »
This story originally ran in the December 2015 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. The “monster girl” scene has been mounting as a bit of a fad as of late, taking women (and men, in some cases) who look like monsters and slotting them in stories …Read more »
In the new issue of Anime USA —on newsstands and available to order now !—we dig into a real anime classic: The Vision of Escaflowne . By today's standards Escaflowne is downright ancient, but its magical tale of fate, mechs, and a far-flung world at …Read more »
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