In America, 2D animation is on the downswing. Ever since Pixar came along and made truckloads with fully 3D CGI films such as Toy Story or Finding Nemo , and more traditionally animated 2D movies like Treasure Planet and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas …Read more »
I was never a fan of videogame developer Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio led by Goichi Suda aka "Suda51," at least not at first. I played the PS2 port of killer7 for about two minutes before giving up in frustration. "What do you mean I can …Read more »
It's come to my attention that there's a few of you ne'er-do-wells out there who take objection to the fact that "Rock the Dragon" was soundly defeated by "CHA LA, HEAD CHA-LA" in Issue 6 of Otaku USA. I can think of only one explanation …Read more »
[Excerpted from the December 2007 Issue of Otaku USA magazine.] Do you know what they call people who own hundreds of anime DVDs and can talk in obsessive details about them? "Otaku." Do you know what they call people who own hundreds of music CDs …Read more »
Recently, Japanese film and anime companies have been establishing their own US branches in the hopes of making more profit than they would from just licensing the show to a US publisher. The problem is that more often than not, they churn out substandard releases …Read more »
Daryl Surat
