Hello, my otaku friends! It is SUMMER! This is the time for Conventions, and conventions mean Cosplay! I am so excited! Today I am happy to report on the American convention Anime Mid-Atlantic! Anime Mid-Atlantic just finished its 12 th annual event the weekend of …Read more »
Sega recently announced that the release of Anarchy Reigns —a multiplayer-centric brawler developed by the fine folks at Platinum Games ( MadWorld , Bayonetta )—will be delayed in North America until the first quarter of 2013. That puts it way off the previously listed worldwide …Read more »
GEN Manga has turned one year old! Robert McGuire began publishing monthly doujinshi collections last year and we spoke with him when he was just getting GEN up and running. Now that he’s reached the milestone of year two, we wanted to check back in …Read more »
Yesterday rumblings about an HD upgrade of Okami in Japan quickly became great news for North America, too. Capcom has officially announced Okami HD , with plans to bring it to PlayStation Network as a digital download this fall. Okami HD will be priced at …Read more »
Commercials for Glico's Real Ice fruit candies have a special not-so-frozen treat for fans of both pop idol supergroup AKB48 and Gosho Aoyama's long-running Detective Conan series. Though the clip is in Japanese, it's not too difficult to catch what's going on, as the girls …Read more »
Tite Kubo's Bleach is next on Viz Media's speed-up plan, as the publisher uses 2012 to catch the North American print edition up to its Japanese counterpart. Starting this month and continuing through December, Viz will be publishing two new volumes of Bleach each month. …Read more »
In the near future, there is only war. Well, war and a metropolis run by beautiful, emotionally-supressed human clones known as Bioroids. This isn't Warhammer 40K we're talking about here. It's Appleseed , the big budget (by Japanese standards) CG-animated film from 2004 with more …Read more »
Welcome to another installment of On The Shelf! We've got a count of thirteen books out there for the superstition-inclined—could that have anything to do with the darker themes permeating my top picks this week? Who knows... yet even if the content falls on the …Read more »
Cue the classic Don LaFontaine style trailer voiceover: "IN A WORLD… where mankind has slowly declined and Earth has become the home of fairies." That's the situation in Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita ( Humanity Has Declined ), a light novel series by Romeo Tanaka, as …Read more »
Oddly enough, the third volume of Toru Fujisawa's GTO: 14 Days in Shonan turned out to be a perfect Father's Day read, because it kicks off with the resolution of the storyline that finds former troublemaker Miki Katsuragi reconnecting with her dad. Everything's rosy at …Read more »
This week Crunchyroll announced three new shows for the summer anime lineup, starting with Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse . Based on the spin-off to 2006's Muv-Luv Alternative visual novel, the anime is directed by Desert Punk 's Takayuki Inagaki. Here's the synopsis: The remnants of …Read more »
Hello, everyone! This is otaku and trend watcher Yunmao Ayakawa. It's getting hotter in Japan, summer is well on its way! Do you know that summer is the season for scary movies in Japan? Why? Because we want to enjoy a 'chilling feeling' to beat …Read more »
Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 are both set to hit Nintendo DS in Japan on June 23, with North American and European releases slated for later this year. With the Japanese release so close, a bunch of fresh clips have surfaced, …Read more »
The next film from ever-prolific director Takashi Miike ( Audition , 13 Assassins , Ichi the Killer , the list goes on…) is an adaptation of the '70s shonen romance manga Ai to Motoko . The film version, For Love's Sake , has been promoted …Read more »
Kodansha Comics is giving readers a second shot at another series this week as they serve up their first omnibus volume of Kitchen Princess . Drawn by Natsumi Ando—who recent shoujo readers may recognize from her series, Arisa — Kitchen Princess is about a young …Read more »
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