If you're a dedicated Ghibli fan in the States (and were not one of the lucky few at NYICFF in February), then ever since way back in 2013, When Marnie Was There has been a whole lot of talk and no show. You were there …Read more »
Being a bi-monthly magazine tends to always leave people waiting and wondering when the next new issue of Otaku USA will arrive. For the moment, that wait is over, as our June 2015 issue has arrived on newsstands today. If you can't make it to …Read more »
photo: Comic Natalie As of this past weekend, the Live Spectacle Naruto stage play is open for business in Tokyo! Japanese websites Famitsu , Cinema Today , Nico Nico , and Comic Natalie were given a sneak peak via a dress rehearsal on Friday, followed …Read more »
With all the recent controversy over Hollywood's live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, it's easy to forget that there's also a new Ghost in the Shell anime on its way to movie theaters. Its official website updated today with a new promo video and key …Read more »
February 2015 been intense for the Power Rangers franchise. Not long after former Red Ranger Ricardo Medina allegedly murdered his roommate with a sword earlier this month, the violent and explicit bootleg "deboot" short film by Adi Shankar and Joseph Khan was released this week to …Read more »
For otaku, staying in shape is a difficult, yet important task - just ask Gainax founder Toshio Okada, a.k.a. the Otaking. Aside from making scathing video criticisms of ongoing anime series, he has also written an entire book on getting in shape as a geek. …Read more »
The opening panel of this manga is a rear-end shot of a man in a leather thong bending over. I just thought you should know that. Most manga series feature a principle cast of one or two protagonists, and the cast is expanded with supporting …Read more »
Nabari No Ou proves relatively dense for a ninja manga. As mentioned in my review of volume one, it stands out from other shonen ninja series in its reversal of protagonist archetypes. Miharu's withdrawn, indifferent attitude has been seen before in mecha series, but in …Read more »
The Gurren Lagann-emblazoned February 2009 issue of Otaku USA was our most popular to date. So popular in fact, that after the magazine left news stands, sales continued at our online store until it was completely sold out! Fortunately, we recently discovered a stray box …Read more »
Vandread is set up along the rather amusing premise of two planets; one populated entirely by males and the other entirely by females, warring with each other in space. The culture of each planet has developed to abhor the opposing gender, and the show opens …Read more »
How many times have you started reading a new series only to wish that the annoying, precotious schoolgirl protagonist would just get violently decapitated within the first few pages? In Jack Frost , your wish is finally granted! And that's not all, she actually stays …Read more »
"HAND ROLL! ROLL, ROLL, ROLL, ROLL POOPY!" "Ah-ha-ha-ha! That'd disgusting. They roll their sh** up with their hands?" "THAT'S RIGHT! WITH A THREE-STAGE PROCESS THAT'S #1 IN THE POOPY WORLD!" "Woah, elegant." "ISN'T IT?" IN A WORLD where every fighting manga endeavors to give kids …Read more »
If you've ever spent a semester in college and suffered a fit of procrastination, you have probably felt exactly like this series' protagonist, Satou Tatsuhiro, on some level or other. Pressed with the stresses of college classes and the outside world, and left on his own …Read more »
The first question that pops into your head opening Nabari No Ou is "ok, what's different about this one?". After all, do we really need another manga about school boys learning martial arts and training to be ninjas, if it doesn't have some sort of …Read more »
In the manga world, it's easy to become jaded by the legions of cookie cutter bishounen pretty boys and angsty school girls, and resort to dismissing everything with a school uniform on the cover. I peeled the shrink wrap off Gakuen Prince with a groan, …Read more »
Julian Gnam
