Shion hates her boarding school and decides to escape. It doesn’t occur to her that she might be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. Shion’s family had an old custom when it came to twins: “If twin successors are born, strangle …Read more »
As Right Stuf has just finished releasing the last anime in the Dirty Pair universe from the '80s needing R1 distribution (namely Dirty Pair TV Collection 2 ), we thought it was time to look back at its sister series, Crusher Joe , which has …Read more »
The good news: Japan is starting to get back on its feet following a triple helping of disaster: a devastating earthquake, a tsunami that has killed thousands and displaced millions, and a nuclear crisis of nightmarish proportions. But the road to recovery is going to …Read more »
The name may sound closer to some extremely kiddy fare, but Tiger & Bunny is actually the title of the latest action series Viz Media has acquired for simulcasting on vizanime.com . Directed by Karas 's Keiichi Sato, Tiger & Bunny takes place in the …Read more »
There are already multiple ways to catch the latest entry in the Mobile Suit Gundam universe; download for a small fee, or cough up beaucoup bucks to own each episode on Blu-ray. Now the folks at New People are offering up one more thanks to …Read more »
Can you feel the excitement in the air? That subtle feeling that “somethin’ good is gonna happen’? Are you "pickin’ up good vibrations”, et. al? Ok, well, I don’t know much about all that, but I do know that Season Two of Otaku-Verse Zero is …Read more »
I’m just a guy who writes nice fluffy articles about cartoons. In talking about cartoons, you don’t expect to be involved in hard news like historical natural disasters. Oh sure, certain sites in town are labeled with bilingual notices clearly stating where the evacuation zones …Read more »
Since making his name known as the star of Ryuhei Kitamura's Versus —which debuted a virtual eternity ago in the year 2000—Tak Sakaguchi has really come into his own as a creator. His latest directorial tag-team effort with Yudai Yamaguchi ( Battlefield Baseball ), Yakuza …Read more »
You might have heard of Akira Kurosawa’s highly esteemed film, Seven Samurai . This 26-episode anime is based on it, but don’t think they’re exactly the same, because there are some definite changes. Like, for example, I’m pretty sure the original movie didn’t have a …Read more »
With his latest film, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man , raking in an assortment of mixed criticism—an example of which you can find in the latest issue (June 2011) of Otaku USA —there's no better time than the present to look back at the works of …Read more »
The 2011 New York International Children’s Film Festival offered U.S. premieres of two Japanese animated features from 2010— Welcome to the Space Show and Time of Eve , both shown via digital projection in Japanese with English subtitles. One is a whimsical children’s journey through …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! For the penultimate episode of Friday ACE, Mike resurrects the J-Indies Spotlight! SHOW NOTES: This week's Opening Theme: "You Bet" by Kaela Kimura Highlight Reel: Kodansha USA Republishes SAILOR MOON, CODENAME: SAILOR V …Read more »
Takashi Komuro is cutting class. Usually students who cut class might worry about being caught, but that worry pales in comparison to what Takashi ends up going through. He wanders up on the roof to mourn unrequited love, because Rei, the girl he likes, is …Read more »
Hold it in, don't go nuts yet... Sailor Moon news is typically met here not with a whimper, but with full-blown hysterical excitement, so one can't possible be too careful. Kodansha, having heard your many squeals of joy, just announced that they'll be publishing not …Read more »
Mafuyu has a real talent for fighting. Unfortunately for her, her mother doesn’t consider it a talent and even threatens to disown Mafuyu if this sort of behavior continues. Then Mafuyu gets shipped off to a boarding school known for taking in delinquents. Does this …Read more »
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