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Whether you previously heard of the original Urusei Yatsura or not, now’s a good time to get familiar with the 2022 reboot. If you grew up watching classics such as Ranma ½ and Inuyasha like I did, you are already a fan of Rumiko Takahashi, …Read more »
The original Urusei Yatsura anime premiered in 1981, following the 1978 debut of the manga. The new Urusei Yatsura anime decided against resetting the story in modern times, so it still occurs in the late 70s/early 80s. When the new anime hit Japanese TVs in …Read more »
Voice actor Yuji Mitsuya was recently on the Japanese show Onegai! Ranking on TV Asahi and revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year ago. He’s shared the news with some people, but this was his first public announcement of it. He aims …Read more »
There’s sad news as it was revealed that prolific stage, TV, film and voice actor French Tickner passed away recently. Anime fans would probably know him best from playing Watari in Death Note, Dozle Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam, and Kagome’s grandfather in Inuyasha. The …Read more »
Megumi Hayashibara is something of a Renaissance woman. She’s been a voice actress in countless anime franchises, including Evangelion, Ranma ½, Love Hina, Cowboy Bebop, Slayers, Pokémon and Shaman King. She’s coming out with a new book from Yen Press titled The Characters Taught Me …Read more »
Sad news comes out of Japan as we learn of the passing of veteran voice actor Masahiro Anzai, who was 66. Reports say that he died earlier this week of acute heart failure. Anzai voiced Ryuunosuke’s dad in Urusei Yatsura, where he also worked briefly …Read more »
Megumi Hayashibara has been doing voice-over work for more than thirty years. She’s voiced Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Jessie in Pokémon, Lina Inverse in Slayers, Ranma in Ranma ½ and Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, to name a few. She’s written about all …Read more »
The 15th Annual Seiyuu Awards ceremony won’t take place until March 6, but a few of its winners have already been revealed. The Synergy Award will go to the Voicarion IX: Teikoku Koe Kabuki ~Nobunaga no Inu~ (His Majesty’s Dog) stage reading. The Kei Tomiyama …Read more »
This October marks the debut of the new Higurashi anime, which is officially titled Higurashi: When They Cry – NEW in English. Funimation has the simulcast lined up for an October 1 premiere, so the second promo is back with fresh English subtitles. The original …Read more »
The 20th volume of the Demon Slayer manga is officially out in Japan, which means it’s time to take another look at the series’ impressive sales milestones. With the physical and digital releases out in the wild, there are now 60 million copies of the …Read more »
Danica Davidson is a contributor to Otaku USA magazine, and she's also an author of her own books. In addition to her Minecraft novels, Danica's Manga Art for Beginners: How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings book, illustrated by Melanie Westin, just debuted. We took …Read more »
Featured Spotlight At times the most ordinary of lives end up being those most profoundly affected by change. Toko Fukami leads such a life in her small seaside town, but quaint dreams of carrying on the family glassblowing business are soon eclipsed by something far …Read more »
Death Note isn’t the only series about a god of death to have a continuation announced today. RIN-NE , also known as Kyoukai no Rinne , the anime series based on the manga by Rumiko Takahashi, will get a second, 25-episode season in spring 2016, …Read more »
Taliesin Jaffe broke into the anime industry via, perhaps, the most romantic and idealized method imaginable: he made fandubs, shopped them around, was in the right place at the right time, and soon enough found his foot in the door in a big way, doing …Read more »
When we wrote about Free! earlier this year -- the Kyoto Animation-produced TV anime about some high school boys who start a swim club -- the response was overwhelmingly “yes, more of this, please.” So, like, how about a show about some high school boys …Read more »
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