Here's a fun game to play: Present someone with an especially innocent-sounding synopsis of Usamaru Furuya's Lychee Light Club . It's surprisingly easy, and just as surprisingly entertaining. Here goes: Lychee Light Club centers on a group of friends from an all-boys school. Together they …Read more »
Consider this a little bonus addendum to the monster Crunchyroll Spring 2011 Preview we recently rolled out, though this one includes other avenues of streaming, too. In addition to all of the shows previously mentioned, both Crunchyroll and Viz Media, among others, have announced the …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks now has 100% more nosebleedin' hijinks in their library, with the recently announced acquisition of Maria Holic Alive! . This followup to Maria Holic continues the antics of the boy-free boarding school, Ame no Kisaki. Expect more life-threatening frustration from Kanako, who just …Read more »
15 years. It's hard to believe we've been fighting the insidious Umbrella corporation for so long, but Capcom is here to let us know just how much we've aged as a result of these horrors. Sinister, genetically-altered mastermind Albert Wesker drives the point home in …Read more »
Netflix's Instant Queue is amazing, though sometimes the stuff readily available can be a bit... dubious. Their anime section started out that way, and has gradually improved since. Now Viz Media is looking to up its variety even more with a solid collection of popular …Read more »
It's been a good year for co-productions, especially if the name of your animation studio happens to be Madhouse. Japanese fans of The CW Network's hit show Supernatural have already experienced their take on the Winchester brothers' various run-ins with ghastly mythology-turned-reality, but we're about …Read more »
In the "before years" that would be about the least anime-related headline ever, but we're livin' in a different age now, baby. Marvel Entertainment's collaborations with Madhouse are finally rolling their way to North American television, starting with Iron Man and Wolverine . Marvel's Head …Read more »
If ever I pictured myself reporting on Monster World IV making its way to North America, I figured it would be a Wii Virtual Console story at best. But no, this is even better. If the Monster World series doesn't ring a bell, that's ok. …Read more »
Nearing the final stages of their March Manga Madness Month, Viz Media introduces another tantalizing offer for adopters of their iPad manga app. The 4th volume of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman —chronicling the journey of two high schoolers going against the odds to …Read more »
It was already in the cards that we'd be receiving enhanced ports of two of Capcom's finest entries in the Resident Evil franchise: RE4 and Code Veronica . Now Capcom has confirmed that both will be available as downloads via Xbox Live and Playstation Network. …Read more »
The name may sound closer to some extremely kiddy fare, but Tiger & Bunny is actually the title of the latest action series Viz Media has acquired for simulcasting on vizanime.com . Directed by Karas 's Keiichi Sato, Tiger & Bunny takes place in the …Read more »
There are already multiple ways to catch the latest entry in the Mobile Suit Gundam universe; download for a small fee, or cough up beaucoup bucks to own each episode on Blu-ray. Now the folks at New People are offering up one more thanks to …Read more »
Since making his name known as the star of Ryuhei Kitamura's Versus —which debuted a virtual eternity ago in the year 2000—Tak Sakaguchi has really come into his own as a creator. His latest directorial tag-team effort with Yudai Yamaguchi ( Battlefield Baseball ), Yakuza …Read more »
With his latest film, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man , raking in an assortment of mixed criticism—an example of which you can find in the latest issue (June 2011) of Otaku USA —there's no better time than the present to look back at the works of …Read more »
Hold it in, don't go nuts yet... Sailor Moon news is typically met here not with a whimper, but with full-blown hysterical excitement, so one can't possible be too careful. Kodansha, having heard your many squeals of joy, just announced that they'll be publishing not …Read more »
Joseph Luster
