Starting this fall, Adult Swim will be adding another anime series to their lineup on Cartoon Network: Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit , which ran as Seirei no Moribito in Japan for 26 episodes in 2007. Moribito , for the uninitiated, is the tale …Read more »
Kujibiki Unbalance is a strange series in ways that have little to do with the actual content of the book. In some kind of bizarre metaverse, the very manga I just finished reading exists solely by "cartoon laws,•bCrLf is discussed solely by cartoon characters, and …Read more »
Yes, that's crazy with a K, and this isn't even about Mortal Kombat ! Rather, it's a tale of heroic DVD outfit BCI Eclipse (who have, in the past, released awesome DVDs like the Ultraman collections, among others) grabbing up more films by "Beat" Takeshi …Read more »
Mangaka Jin Kobayashi's bizarre class is finally graduating... out of the manga world, at least. Running for about as long as it took yours truly to get through college, School Rumble is seeing an end after six fruitful years of serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen …Read more »
Japanese website Nikkei Waga Maga recently posted several interview segments with Studio Ghibli president Kouji Hoshino. After talking at length about how director Hayao Miyazaki's near life-threatening devotion to his work, Hoshino mentions that Goro Miyazaki is also working on a new Ghibli animation, as …Read more »
A little while back, I posted a really brief teaser for the upcoming Gegege no KitarÅ movie , Gegege no KitarÅ: Nippon Bakuretsu!! on the ol' blog. Well, Toei has finally given us a little bit more to look at as the holiday release draws …Read more »
Ending July 20th (that's 4 days from now) Right Stuff is currently having a 40% off sale on Bandai Entertainment DVD's and 33% off CD's and merchandise from Bandai Entertainment. Now granted, Right Stuff always seems to be a having some special sale on something, but …Read more »
Yunmao Ayakawa of Otaku USA's Cosplay Cafe column has just launched her US website ! Managed by Tenbu Productions, you can check out the new website to find out all about Yunmao, events she will be apearing in, articles she's writing, and even what she's …Read more »
This just in... As of today, complete seasons of Viz Media's most popular series are now available for download through Itunes. US Fans now have a legit method of digital distrobution to get Naruto , Bleach , and Death Note episodes in high quality, viewable …Read more »
To celebrate the release of the straight to DVD animated film Batman: Gotham Knight as well as the live action theatrical film The Dark Knight , we thought it'd be a good idea to recommend other works featuring Bruce Wayne's war against some of the …Read more »
Baroque is the sort of game that's dreadfully difficult to review, because it's a game that players will either love to death or absolutely loathe. There really is no middle ground when it comes to something like this, which makes it all the more …Read more »
Dreams really do come true at San Diego Comic-Con International, and I'm not just talking about the increasingly amazing lineup of panels and guests . This year, aspiring artists will get a unique opportunity to present their portfolio for review by Viz's Vice President of …Read more »
Tatsunoko Productions has just debuted the new TV series Mach Girl in Japan. Based in the universe of Mach: Go Go Go (the original Japanese title for Speed Racer ), the series is drawn in the extremely unique "retro" style of character designer Suzuka Yoshida, and focuses on …Read more »
Though this certainly doesn't spell overpowering gloom and doom for Sony's camp, it's no secret that Square Enix's next hotly anticipated entry in their flagship series has been one of PS3's major chips, forever dangling before any RPG fans that might have been considering sticking …Read more »
Lately at every convention Otaku USA attends, we've been holding an informal cosplay photo contest at our booth. Cosplayers passing by can sign up, get their pictures taken immediately, and continue on their way around the convention halls, and then the entries are posted online …Read more »
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