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This weekend, Tokyo hosted the 96th edition of Comic Market, the largest assemblage of manga fandom on the planet. Some quick bites from that event: Big Spendin’ Otaku News site Livedoor had a report out this weekend following a few Comiket goers and asking about …Read more »
Two hundred thousand. That’s roughly how many people crowded into the Tokyo Big Sight each day for three days late last year for the largest fan convention in the world, Comic Market, a.k.a. Comiket. It’s a number that’s hard to really visualize. By comparison, the …Read more »
Do you like Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic Akira, often forget what day it is and have a lot of wall space? If so, this giant calendar may be for you. Modeled after the Akira mural on display in Shibuya, Tokyo (which we showcased in a video …Read more »
Tokyo, meet Neo-Tokyo. In the latest of our social media clips, we take a trip to Shibuya, where in recent months, a mural celebrating the Katsuhiro Otomo classic Akira has appeared. The giant mural wraps around the construction site of Parco, a department store being …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Funimation Films Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul manga is a certified fan-favorite thriller, with people around the world glued to its pages along with the pair of anime adaptations that followed. Now the series is entering another dimension entirely in the form of the …Read more »
It’s hard to imagine for those of us whose nerdy hobbies went misunderstood by the rest of the family, but if Japanese Twitter is any indication, more and more kids are growing up with parents who enjoy anime and videogames. Despite concerns that birth rates …Read more »
It can be hard for an otaku to find love. Enter “Otapa,” short for otaku party, a matchmaking event that takes place in major Japanese cities. The otaku matchmaking parties, which are limited to otaku (participants must take a test to determine their otaku level …Read more »
“I spent all my time wondering ‘what if,’ then one day I woke up and I was 33,” main character Rinko says on the first page of Tokyo Tarareba Girls. Rinko and her close friends Kaori and Koyuki are all 33 and single, with past …Read more »
Ten years ago, the very first issue of Otaku USA (August 2007 cover date) went on sale in a world that was very different from the one we inhabit today. But how did it all happen? Read below as the staff remembers. Mark Hintz (Chief …Read more »
Tetsuya Akutsu stands with his hands in his pockets, an embarrassed grin on his face. “I haven’t cleaned the place in a while,” he explains. In his defense, the place, a room on the second floor of a house in west Tokyo, isn’t so much …Read more »
For three years in a row, the Tokyo International Film Festival has honored an anime director with a series of retrospectives and talk events based around that director’s filmography. Two years ago, it was Evangelion ’s Hideaki Anno ; last year, Mobile Suit Gundam creator …Read more »
© sui ishida 2012 Ken Kaneki is thrilled when he gets the chance to go on a date with Rize, the girl he’s been mooning over from a coffee bar he haunts with his friend. The date goes sour when she tries to eat him. …Read more »
How many times have you been out to drink coffee to meet up with a beautiful girl and instead end up a bloodthirsty ghoul with a taste for human flesh? It happens to everyone, and we all totally understand. Okay, maybe not everyone. Really, just …Read more »
If you’re in Tokyo anytime from October 22 to January 11 and are a fan of Tokyo Ghoul , you might consider making your way over to amusement park Joypolis. Joypolis is going Ghoul crazy, adding a Tokyo Ghoul-themed escape game, plus other attractions including …Read more »
Judging by the reaction to the cover of our latest print edition, quite a few of you guys are fans of Tokyo Ghoul . Some excellent news for fans of the ghoulish series: fall has been announced as the release date (or release season, at …Read more »
Matt Schley
Evan Minto
![Akira Mural Pops up In Shibuya, Tokyo [Video]](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/dsc02274-202x202.jpg)
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Otaku USA Staff
Julian Gnam
![Tokyo Tarareba Girls [Manga Review]](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/w-TokyoTararebaGirls-202x202.jpg)
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Amelia Cook
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Che Gilson![[Review] Tokyo Ghoul: The Complete First Season](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww-tokyoghoul6-202x202.jpg)
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Brittany Vincent
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