As I sit in a Jimbocho donut house drinking iced coffee, noshing on a cream cheese donut the last thing that should be on my mind should be Fyodor Dostoevsky... right? According to Futabasha's Manga Action magazine maybe I and other students of manga culture …Read more »
I'm going to go right out and say it: by far the most significant feature of Soul Calibur 4 is its online play. This has been a long time in coming, as fighting game developers have dragged their feet on this feature for years, unwilling …Read more »
As far as preview venues go, the Ninjatown crew picked quite appropriately. What better place to get a sneak peek of the new DS game based on designer Shawnimals' Ninja characters than a designer toy store? I hiked to Double Punch in San Francisco's North …Read more »
I am of the conviction that manga magazines have personalities. These characteristics are derived from the editorial staff (primarily the editor-in-chief) and the readership. Therefore, if I were to analyze a periodical solely based on the content featured within - everything from the manga to …Read more »
Astro Boy is something that few anime fans nowadays know about, even fewer watch or read, and even fewer still actively enjoy. I want to believe that the release of Frederik L. Schodt's latest book, The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the …Read more »
I'm gonna cut right to the chase. Did you enjoy the 2004 Appleseed EX movie? Guess what: you're going to enjoy Vexille , end of discussion. Why are you even thinking about this? You could be watching Vexille right now. There is no need for …Read more »
What do you get when you place the destructive power of a tactical nuclear missile in the hands of a capricious fifteen year-old girl? If your name is Hajime Kanzaka, you get over fifty light novels, three complete television series (with a fourth being released …Read more »
I don't have to remind OtakuUSA readers of how in business, even within the confines of the wild and unpredictable world of manga publishing, there is one precept that can be applied to practically every form of marketin— sex sells. Adult content can be found …Read more »
I remember the disdain among the hardcore Gundam fans after the first glimpse of the mustached Turn A Gundam. "What the f*** was Syd Mead smoking when he came up with that!?" was a conversation topic that would pop up from time to time with …Read more »
Being on a console that's still trying to gain ground is a guarantee that some people are jumping into Hideo Kojima's wild world of Metal Gear Solid for the first time, an event that can be more intimidating than any other entry-level game experience out …Read more »
The first one is usually free. You like it, and for a while you limit yourself to partaking of just that - but then your supply runs out and you start thinking "got anything else I can try, man?" One thing leads to another, and …Read more »
Wither be the man who sees, Nothing b'yond the cracked-root trees, For o'er their boughs and und'r the seas, He'll find phantastic mysteries. In case you were wondering, that is indeed a poem that I composed myself, many years ago. It came to me in …Read more »
In the wild world of manga, every age group and every social class has their own genre and magazine that defines them. For the elementary school kid there are video game based properties like the ones that dominate Shogakukan's Coro Coro magazine. Nothing says office …Read more »
Typically when I go to San Diego Comic-Con, and this year was theoretically no exception, I expect to buy a lot of useless junk and see some early clips from next year's big genre flicks (aside: Watchmen is going to be incredible). What I didn't …Read more »
I know what you're thinking: this guy's freaking insane. Everybody in American anime fandom knows M.D. Geist sucked. In fact, my fellow writers Daryl Surat and Clarissa Graffeo have a saying they repeat occasionally on Anime World Order: people have various thoughts on what the …Read more »
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