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We’ve seen average-person-transported-to-a-fantasy world stories play out in so many ways that we pretty much take them for granted now. Despite starting out in a pretty standard manner, however, none have gone the route of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, contrary to whatever the …Read more »
In addition to the recently-concluded summer anime series and a September stage play, So Yayoi's comico web manga ReLIFE is set to get the live-action movie treatment. A film was announced this week , with the Japanese premiere set for April 15, 2017. The movie …Read more »
The future is in our hands! After years of being suffering pariahs in a bleak anime world devoid of the light that only a gambling apocalypse can bring, we can finally legally watch the two seasons made to date of the most beautiful ugly puppy …Read more »
Fans of 2014 anime No Game No Life —based on the light novel series by Yū Kamiya—can look forward to another animated adaptation in the future. As announced during this weekend's MF Bunko Festival, the next stop for No Game No Life is an anime …Read more »
Mr. Osomatsu is a new update of Fujio Akatsuka’s 1960s comedy series Osomatsu-kun, made to celebrate Akatsuka’s 80th birthday. Reviving a classic series is always a challenge, introducing tension between respecting and maintaining the qualities of the original while also making something that’s accessible for …Read more »
Call it a shot heard around Twitter. On January 13, Twitter user @riekitazawa fired off a tweet that criticized the general public's view of otaku, using a metaphor that involved some Australian marsupials. The tweet quickly went viral, attracting almost 15,000 retweets and a lot …Read more »
Panties are harmless pieces of clothing. Sure, they’re titillating in many contexts, but for the most part they’re just underwear, right? No need to freak out. Tell that to Punch Line protagonist Yuta Iridatsu, who goes absolutely nuclear if he catches a glimpse of them: …Read more »
Junichiro Kagami is the Ultimate Otaku Teacher. It’s not really clear whether that’s a good or a bad thing, it just is! Junichiro Kagami is, quite surprisingly, a genius. He's nothing but a NEET (not in education, employment, or training), an otaku who'd like nothing …Read more »
Do you know? Do you know? Have you heard the news? “Geek” is now “mainstream.” Several of the most successful movies in the world and most popular shows on television are adaptations of comic books and SF novels. Multiple sitcoms, dramas, and unscripted “reality” programs …Read more »
What is an otaku, anyway? Chances are you may be one, reading Otaku USA Magazine and all. But really, what’s an otaku? The word—conveyed as slang in the katakana オタクor the hiragana おたく—comes from a formal Japanese word for another person’s house or as a …Read more »
One of the new series set to premiere next month is Nanana's Buried Treasure , which tells the tale of a beautiful NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) ghost girl's treasure. Our lead, Jugo Yama (voiced by Yuuki Ono), gets transferred to a school …Read more »
Nanana's Buried Treasure —an anime series from A-1 Pictures ( Sword Art Online ) and director Kanta Kamei ( Bunny Drop )—is coming to Fuji TV's late-night noitaminA block in April. The series features Rui Tanabe (Cecil in Wizard Barristers ) as Nanana Ryūgajō and …Read more »
With glimpses into Japanese subculture mostly supplied by the likes of Genshiken and the future of Japan given pessimistic overtones in Eden of the East —not to mention the countless headlines in the news at home and abroad of Japan's shrinking birthrate, debt-ridden economy and …Read more »
Heads up: contains some Eden of the East spoilers As we know from grade school in the U.S., a democracy is rule by the people. So how about a gerontocracy? Is that a state ruled by the old (the geriatric)? This fancy-pants term comes up …Read more »
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