What, is it teaser week or something over here at Otaku USA? Hey, we don't choose when the good ones make an appearance, so enjoy this brief burst of visual news while it lasts! The video in question this time is a promo for Takashi …Read more »
Yudai Yamaguchi, what a wild filmography you have. You're so hardcore, you don't even have a Wikipedia page! After slammin' skulls with madball movies like Battlefield Baseball and Meatball Machine , Yamaguchi is coming strong with his latest flick, Elite Yankee Saburo ( Gekijo-ban: Erito …Read more »
Here's your "really?" of the week, because I'm not talking about the animated King of Fighters movies. Gordan Chan—director of classic Hong Kong films like Fist of Legend and not-so-classic recent fare like 2003's Jackie Chan flick The Medallion —will be directing the movie adaptation …Read more »
The next volley of Kingdom Hearts games is beginning to rear its head on the horizon, and the first attack is this week's release of Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories , a Playstation 2 remake of the Game Boy Advance title. Bigger news, however, …Read more »
Yoji Yamada's career is a long and prestigious one that's been riddled with awards, and this only increased in 2004, when his Oscar-nominated Twilight Samurai served to spread his notoriety even further. Known for incredibly long-running film series such as the 48 Tora-san films (most …Read more »
This is quite the feast to return to after taking a break and having... quite the feast. With Thanksgiving behind us, we can now turn our heads back to things we're truly thankful for... like ONE-METER TALL TOYS. Yes, you read that right, and as …Read more »
With the powerful force of Hellgaia on the road to being reawakened, the only hope for Neverland seems to fall on the shoulders of Galahad, a brave traveler tasked with banishing the evil force back to his shrine. This isn't going to be a field-stomping …Read more »
We know a lot of you were unable to attend this year's New York Anime Festival for various reasons, but now you can close your eyes and pretend you're there by virtually attending the Otaku USA panel! Thanks to Erin Finnegan, there's now a recording …Read more »
So you read the Otaku USA feature and its online companion piece and you're still not convinced (actually, I hope you didn't read about season 2 already if that's the case)? Need some first hand experience with the series before you make the call? You're …Read more »
There aren't many fighting series more unapologetically about fighting than Yu Yu Hakusho . Throwing Hajime no Ippo and Baki into the mix is arguable, but those are about "real" fights; you want larger than life monsters and spirit blasts and stadiums that put even …Read more »
Many have come and gone before us with one simple thought: "Wouldn't this be cooler... in SPACE?" We saw it happen to the critters of the film series Critters , and we even saw it happen to Jason Vorhees in Jason X . But what …Read more »
I know even the idea of a remake nowadays will summon the mightiest of groans from pretty much everyone, and there's definitely some justification for that, but the latest bit of news to come out of the Oldboy remake is pretty interesting. According to Will …Read more »
Whether you know it or not, you're probably somewhat familiar with at least one of the works of wild man Man-Gataro. His series Jigoku Koshien —a baseball/fighting spoof serialized in Monthly Shonen Jump from 1996 to 1997—was the basis for Yudai Yamaguchi's ridiculous 2002 film …Read more »
There's not a whole lot to say here, as the long-awaited teaser for Imagi's CG Astro Boy film is just that, but it still works as a quick glimpse at what they've been driving toward visually. With the release date still almost a year off, …Read more »
Vexille is a tale of a future Japan that, just as their Asimo and Aibo robots predicted, has isolated itself from us all, tinkering with biomechanics on a level we couldn't possibly imagine. Perhaps the rest of us are to blame, having shunned cybernetics so …Read more »
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