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When something bad happens, a person might say, “Well, it’s not the end of the world.” But with the anime X , it is the end of the world. Armageddon. The end of days. X comes to us from a manga written by CLAMP, the …Read more »
With all the devastatingly masculine media I tend to personally cover around here, one would almost think I have no room in my heart for softer fare. Far from it, I just don't have time to dig through anything that ranges from mediocre to outright …Read more »
Writer and artist duo Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata have an especially tough act to follow, a trap set by their past selves to cast a shadow on all subsequent endeavors. Death Note 's presence still looms menacingly, but their latest series, Bakuman , takes …Read more »
At this point we've had fairly ample room to explore some of the principle work from prolific mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi. His books published by Drawn & Quarterly manage to paint experienced visions through a lens that can be simultaneously distorted with hope and despair. We've …Read more »
Toriko is my kinda dude. Like the TV dinners of the same name, he is most definitely a Hungry Man™. He makes his living as a "Gourmet Hunter," but don't let that create images of prancing deer and other such relatively harmless game in your …Read more »
In a not so common "adaptation" move, the Hiroshima Children's Museum has whisked the award-winning manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms into a 50-minute planetarium show. With supervision from original mangaka Fumiyo Kono, the show combines 130 frames from the comic—which originally …Read more »
The setting of Dorohedoro is every bit as decrepit as the moniker of "The Hole" would lead one to believe. Picture slums that stretch as far as the eye can see and you've got a pretty good idea of the kind of picture mangaka Q …Read more »
Here's some exciting news! [Your favorite anime director/mangaka/musician/game designer, dead or alive] is returning to the [screen/page/stage] in what can only be described as [a revival of your favorite thing he/she ever did] ! That's right, it looks like 2010 really is the year of …Read more »
I first read this news early in the morning, and my pre-coffee brain read it as "Yoshihiro Tatsumi Nominated for Oscar." I didn't even think it was strange, just "sure, why not?" That's what happens when you grow to depend on caffeine, so take that …Read more »
Before you get too excited, this is not a top 10, 5, or even 3 list. I enjoy skimming those as much as the next, but if I haven't been cataloging every single thing I touched over the course of a year, it …Read more »
Not terribly shocking considering the series' popularity, but the tenth One Piece film, Strong World , had a killer debut in Japanese theaters, ultimately toppling the opening weekend box office gross of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo . The first filmgoers to attend Strong World screenings received …Read more »
The perils of budding mangaka have been illustrated in Weekly Shonen Jump since August 11, 2008 in the pages of Bakuman , the latest series from Death Note writer/artist team Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Now, as was surely destined from the start, the manga …Read more »
Tokyo Scum Brigade is another one of those killer blogs like Same Hat that everyone would do well to keep an eye on. They post a ton of great Japanese obscurities that would do a smashing job of titillating many of our readers, but perhaps …Read more »
Ah, there goes that ageless, fey creature again—known by some as legendary mangaka Kazuo Umezu, or even just Umezz to those "in the know"—zipping quietly through the streets in an effort to return to his striped abode unseen; a portent of good fortune. It would …Read more »
It's no secret that we love Kazuo Umezu here at Otaku USA. This adoration can be sung ever louder in October, especially as we approach Halloween, a time in which Umezu's creations absolutely thrive. There's no better time than now to go pick up what's …Read more »
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