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A Party of One The trend for so many popular series of the past few years has been to have social underachievers—often stand-ins for the author and/or perceived target audience—suddenly placed into a scenario where they are now innately excellent, who then proceed to exert …Read more »
Otaku USA Magazine Otaku USA is a thick, full-color magazine featuring comprehensive coverage of manga, anime, videogames and Japanese pop culture written from an American point of view. Otaku USA also publishes 32 pages of the hottest manga previews from the top publishers. Because Otaku USA is an independent US …Read more »
Want to drop us a line at Otaku USA? Here’s our info: Customer Service Have a question or problem with your subscription? Would you like you order a back-issue you missed, or change your address? Calling our customer service department between 9am and 6pm EST …Read more »
Known as RuffleButt (previously AnimeAngel), Jessie is a 16 year veteran of the diverse and colorful cosplay community. An accomplished and award winning seamstress in her own right, she has served as a cosplay model for some of the biggest companies in the Anime and …Read more »
Yes, there are actually that many live-action adaptations being announced this year that we at Otaku USA completely missed it when Takashi Miike's version of Terra Formars was announced in February. That's right: in case you missed it too, the director of Ichi the Killer …Read more »
Kyoto Animation's new anime FREE! has been one of the most polarizing recent subjects in the otaku universe. On one end, internet fujoshi have been drawing fanart, writing fanfiction, and otherwise absolutely losing their minds over Kyoani's intimately animated, beautiful swimming boys since FREE! was …Read more »
Hey, remember back when they used to release anime and the Japanese would include professionally made AMVs of their own stuff, such that when the show got released in the US, companies would just use the AMV as the trailer to sell the show? And …Read more »
The American public education system doesn't teach anything about Japanese history, so all that I—and most US anime fans—know about the subject is what is conveyed within pop culture, and most of that focuses on samurai or ninja since they’re the ones with the sharp …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! - Go Nagai is good on his word!? - Live-action Mega Man!? - Noboru Iguchi revives a Tokusatsu legend!? All that, and courtroom con drama, in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: Mike …Read more »
So! Everyone already knows that maid cafes have become really popular in Japan, right? Did you know that "shops with maids in them" don't have to just be cafes? Now in Japan, the Otaku Empire, there are all sorts of stores with maids working in …Read more »
Some manga artists are superstars who live in high towers guarded by thousands of editors and PR people. Others are a little more like most OEL comic artists: young artists drawing to make a living and because they like it. Yuno Ogami is the first …Read more »
I had no idea that when my friend Coatea invited me to see her band The Feminine play their second-ever show at club Heavy Sick in Tokyo that one day they would be rocking the Western world via an appearance on Jonathan Ross's Japanorama TV …Read more »
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