I can't imagine it wouldn't be, but you're required to email us personally if you see anything online that tops the photos from this recent event. In celebration of Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's immortal Fist of the North Star manga's 25th anniversary, a "soul wedding" …Read more »
That looks like the case, if promises of a "big surprise" for Hajime no Ippo in the next issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine pan out. A potential return to the small screen in January would make sense, what with 2009 being the 20th anniversary …Read more »
The "smart" in this equation refers to Studio 4ºC's anime anthology, Genius Party , which includes work from a slew of directors, including Atsuko Fukushima, Shoji Kawamori, Shinji Kimura, Yoji Fukuyama, Hideki Futamura, Masaaki Yuasa, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Shinya Ohira, …Read more »
When I got my first glimpse of Galaga Legions during the Live Arcade portion of Microsoft's 2008 E3 press conference (attended comfortably from my couch), I took away the initial impression of "Okay, cool, it's going to be another frantic twin-stick shooter in the Geometry …Read more »
The second box set of Baki the Grappler , based on Keisuke Itagaki's 1991 manga of the same name (the original run of which was serialized through '99), finds the titular young man a much more established fighter. Regardless of the constant cheers he receives …Read more »
Contrary to Daryl Surat's belief, he is not the only one that purchased every volume of Dark Horse's release of Osamu Tezuka's legendary Astro Boy manga. I might, in fact, be the other one . Well, no matter whether you only partially collected the books …Read more »
Just opening the monster All-in-One collection of Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White brings me back to the halcyon days of PULP magazine, former home to heavy publishing hitters like Alvin Lu and our very own Patrick Macias. PULP represented a really interesting period during which the …Read more »
In November, Bandai Entertainment will be rolling out the latest their Honneamise line has to offer, a lineup that includes some oh-so-tempting yet oh-so-expensive Blu-ray releases that should have me frequently checking my Netflix queue for availability. However, I fully realize that there are far …Read more »
Suvudu has some voodoo for you who... okay, I'm going to run out of steam on that really quickly. Anyway, the aforementioned site is currently running a contest that can net you some serious prizes, like manga and, as the headline suggests, tickets to the …Read more »
FUNimation announced yesterday via their podcast that the company's latest rights acquisition belongs to the GDH K.K. series Kaze no Stigma . The 24-episode series is adapted from Takahiro Yamato's novels, directed by Cardcaptor Sakura 's Jun'ichi Sakata, and produced by studio-of-a-million-titles: GONZO. Here's the …Read more »
Perhaps this will inspire the inevitable return of the weekly Virtual Boy column that once pounced about the old-school Otaku USA blog. It's certainly not out of the question, but it'll be hard to top a release week like this one in the near future, …Read more »
Kiminori Wakasugi's Detroit Metal City manga has really been skyrocketing of late, what with the anime adaptation in full swing and Toshio Li's live-action version getting a lot of attention. The latter has apparently been garnering more and more interest outside of fan circles and …Read more »
I can't believe it's been over a decade since I attempted to catch 'em all on my own, trapped in the sparsely-toned walls of my Gameboy Pocket with nothing but a handful of Pokéballs and an embarrassing digital wardrobe. Amazingly, the franchise is still going …Read more »
Though man can do many an amazing thing with computers in this dazzling age, these screencaps that are said to be from the upcoming Dragon Ball movie trailer look like the real deal. I don't just say that because the world's strongest man, Justin Chatwin, …Read more »
You may have heard a while back about the venture between employees of Pixar and the Totoro No Furusato National Fund, the latter of which has been fighting to save the land that served as inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's classic My Neighbor Totoro . The …Read more »
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