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I like to describe certain events as "crimes" of fandom; developments such as "we never got a US release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? " which make me say "there is no justice in this world!" So it is that one of the biggest …Read more »
So I don't often cover licensed manga or even properties with media tie-ins for this publication. I'm not opposed to sharing my thoughts on popular titles, but other people might do a better job of that. Besides the magazine would fail you all as an …Read more »
Anime Expo recently announced the first of their guests of honor, the roster-changing female pop sensation, Morning Musume. Since the group's inception in 1997, they've released the most #1 singles of any female Japanese group. They've increased in number, decreased in number, and split like …Read more »
Moon Phase started out so very painfully. I don't want to watch abandoned-by-his-mother Kouhei Morioka have a reluctant and awkward master-slave relationship with a teenager named Hazuki in the context of her vampirism. I especially don't want to watch Hazuki be a brat (and that …Read more »
Just as in Hollywood, adaptations of videogames to anime have a quite spotty track record. Often it is cited that the games don't have enough plot or story to fill out a movie or TV series, so the end result is padded out with a …Read more »
So you've seen the Gurren Lagann anime and if you were lucky like me you might have had a chance to screen the first motion picture. You possibly enjoyed the dynamic relationship shared by the series heroes Kamina and Simon. Watching the Gunmen take each …Read more »
Japanese landmarks getting attacked by aliens is so cliché that it's probably also cliché by now to mention the cliché in the opening of your manga review. Well, that's fine. Mao-chan has enough other stuff "going for it•bCrLf (let's use that term loosely for now) …Read more »
Featuring the verbose title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Official Casebook Vol. 1: The Phoenix Wright Files, this manga consists of 11 short stories written and drawn by various different authors, based on the characters of the popular videogame by Capcom for the Nintendo DS. Personally, …Read more »
Wow. Just....wow. It's almost unbelievable that such an innocent and docile-looking a manga series as Black Jack could contain such bizarre stories, but low and behold, open it up and start reading, and there it is, as shocking as a good episode of The X-files …Read more »
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 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 »
Perhaps this will inspire the inevitable return of the weekly Virtual Boy column that once pounced about the old-school Otaku USA blog. It's certainly not out of the question, but it'll be hard to top a release week like this one in the near future, …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 »
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 »
They said it couldn't be done, but because YOU DEMANDED IT, we've gone off our rockers and succumbed to the siren's call of "moe for this issue's installment of Hobby Lobby. For the uninitiated, "moe is a hard-to-translate (and arguably hard to understand) word that …Read more »
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