Long heroes of the old-school anime fan, tiny anime distributor Discotek opts to avoid the latest, hottest stuff and opts instead to quietly license cult-- and typically older-- anime in cheap DVD box sets to the great joy of fans. At the risk of sounding …Read more »
Hollywood Reporter is reporting a film reboot of the Power Rangers franchise from Lionsgate and Saban. As you may know, the adaptation of Japan's Super Sentai franchise swept up a frenzy among American kids in the early 90s. (I was that age, and I was …Read more »
The venerable Chogokin toy line -- metal figures named for the fictional, indestructible material of the trendsetting super robot Mazinger Z -- has in recent years covered much wider ground than just robots and superheroes. Hatsune Miku has been a Chogokin. Hello Kitty, too. There's …Read more »
Domo. Ninja Slayer is a Japanese light novel series that was definitely written by Bradley Bond and Phillip “Ninj@” Morzez and which was definitely translated into Japanese by Honda Yu and Sugi Leika. It is absolutely not written by Japanese people who are just having …Read more »
Hirohiko Araki's manga masterpiece JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has an intimate connection to western pop music. Characters from Killer Queen to Notorious B.I.G. to Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap are seemingly named after whatever Araki was listening to at the time. There are so many names …Read more »
The explosive popularity of Attack on Titan has led to a lot of clever, occasionally brilliant promotions and merchandise. Check this one out, for example. Attack on Titan Jenga . (I mean Balance Wall, sorry.) Alright, I get it! You got a wall, you got …Read more »
To explain why the third BlazBlue chapter (and the fourth BlazBlue console release) is a $50 stand-alone release in an age of DLC and patches, we must explain the people who play fighting games, and how Arc approaches them. There are two groups of fighting …Read more »
Despite this April Fool's commercial, which we are leading with because it is extremely cool, Hello Kitty in her Hello Kitty-shaped giant robot won't be in the next Super Robot Wars game. The gag is a cross-promotion between the popular videogame and the upcoming, very …Read more »
Like many other free-to-play videogames, Kancolle (Fleet Collection) walks a line between the user-friendliness needed to coax in a large player base... and the inevitability of charging for some important in-game function in order to make sure the game is both popular and profitable. There …Read more »
Everyone's doing it, but let's face it, cosplaying Kill La Kill can be a pretty scary proposition. The heroines' transformed forms are like reverse swimsuits, the kind of “body armor” that can get you arrested for indecent exposure . As such, I saw a whole …Read more »
Since it started to run in Japan as a theatrical release in 2012, fans overseas have wondered about a release for the new Space Battleship Yamato series, Yamato 2199 . It wasn't clear if the spectacular remake of the landmark original series (released here as …Read more »
It is a testament to exactly how popular Dragon Ball videogames are that the franchise can house multiple distinct series, each by a different small developer, that cover the same material in the same genre (fighting), usually in the exact same format. Dimps has one, …Read more »
The Super Sentai changing of the guard is a very important thing; it's been done after the credits of a sentai show's final episode over the last few years. The previous year's red ranger has a friendly spar with the new one, symbolically handing off …Read more »
As I waited outside the NY Maid Cafe, about half the people I saw pass by stopped to gawk, giggle nervously, and perhaps take pictures. “Isn't that--??” This place has made a lot of local news stories since we last saw it. A few months …Read more »
You might remember the hub-bub in Japan around the release of the Dragon Ball Z film Battle of Gods ; we at OUSA of course offered you the finest in Goku KFC coverage at the time. Months have gone by, and the film has been …Read more »
David Cabrera
