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There’s so much anime out there, we’re constantly celebrating anime anniversaries! But if you’re looking for big special reasons to celebrate, there are some major ones coming in 2021. Sounds like a good excuse for a movie marathon (or a first watch) to us! Here …Read more »
Last week Comiket, the world’s biggest gathering of otakudom, was canceled to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus. But while Comic Market 98 won’t officially take place, thousands of fans will be getting their hands on its catalog. The catalog was already scheduled for printing …Read more »
In the Tokugawa period, sardonic swordsman Manji wanders the countryside getting into fights. Thanks to a run-in with the mythological 800-year-old nun Yaobikuni, Manji is infected with symbiotic “bloodworms” that repair every injury, rendering him immortal. As penance for all the deaths he caused in …Read more »
For about a week this July, there will be nary a human male in sight on the stage at New York’s Lincoln Center. That’s where the Takarazuka Revue, Japan’s all-female musical theater troupe, are making their U.S. debut, performing Chicago (in Japanese) between July 20 …Read more »
The latest issue of Otaku USA magazine—available now in stores or via our online shop —brings with it another glorious bounty of articles on anime, manga, video games, and beyond. One of the new issue's features takes us on a starry-eyed, Sega-themed ride through the …Read more »
Is Hypersonic Music Club the comic-drawing debut of fashion/music/pop illustrator Hiroyuki Takahashi? Is Hypersonic Music Club the manga-writing debut of pop culture critic and Otaku USA Editor-in-Chief Patrick Macias ( Tokyoscope: The Japanese Film Companion , Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno , Cruising the Anime City: An …Read more »
The modern American otaku has it pretty good. You’ve got access to more translated anime than you can shake a stick at (with a decent amount of it being simulcast), lots of manga being released both in traditional dead-tree form and on e-readers, and plenty …Read more »
Vietnam. The name inspires many things to the uninitiated, mostly, for cinema fans, revolving around helicopters and music by The Doors. However, the country has gone through major changes in past decades. The economy is one of the fastest growing in Southeast Asia, encouraging overseas …Read more »
Theatrical anime movies don’t come out in America very often anymore, and perhaps that’s part of why they don’t really get made as much anymore compared to how things were “back in the day.” Movies require more time and money to create than television shows …Read more »
If you've ever spent a semester in college and suffered a fit of procrastination, you have probably felt exactly like this series' protagonist, Satou Tatsuhiro, on some level or other. Pressed with the stresses of college classes and the outside world, and left on his own …Read more »
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