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Nitroplus and 5pb.'s science adventure visual novels—which include Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate —are getting a new chapter in the form of Chaos;Child . While we wait for that, however, there's no better time than now to take a look at the anime adaptation of another installment …Read more »
Taliesin Jaffe broke into the anime industry via, perhaps, the most romantic and idealized method imaginable: he made fandubs, shopped them around, was in the right place at the right time, and soon enough found his foot in the door in a big way, doing …Read more »
Studio Ghibli's The Wind Rises —which is, as far as everyone knows, the final feature film directed by the inimitable Hayao Miyazaki—will makes its way to North America starting with a limited theatrical run on February 21, 2014. It's set to expand a week after …Read more »
Puella Magi Madoka Magica was one of the biggest anime series of 2011. The enormous popularity of the series has sparked numerous tie-ins, merchandise, and events since the show originally ended in May 2011. The wave of "Mado-Magi" continues in Japan with the release of …Read more »
Over the weekend Sentai Filmworks announced a nice little license rescue, with the addition of Gainax's Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water . The sci-fi TV anime is set to be released "soon" through select digital outlets, with a blingual DVD and Blu-ray release to …Read more »
You know right from the start of Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion that something is terribly wrong, because everything is very, very right. Puella Magi Madoka Magica , or "Mado-Magi" as it's colloquially known, was one of the biggest anime sensations of 2011. Written by …Read more »
To say 2013 is a big year for Studio Ghibli is a bit of an understatement. First we saw the release of The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in four years. Then we learned it would be his last when he announced his retirement …Read more »
Back at the beginning of 2013, we ran a story about Anime! Real vs. Dream , a book on the state of the anime industry written by insiders at Studio Madhouse. What kind of insights lie inside? Let’s take a look. Anime! Real vs. Dream …Read more »
For over a year Otaku USA e-news has been delivering fresh features, interviews, news, and more, straight from Japan to our readers' inboxes. We've been thrilled with the response, and lately we've started giving back with discounts on products, magazine subscriptions, and merchandise. Now we're …Read more »
Studio Kara’s Hidenori Matsubara has been working in the trenches of the anime industry for over 25 years. Chances are he’s worked on something you liked without your even realizing it. The list of his key animator credits alone is staggering: Evangelion , Patlabor: The …Read more »
The second episode of Code Geass: Akito the Exiled is currently in Japanese theaters, but you can catch seven minutes of the anime online now thanks to the official website . The side story—set around the time Lelouch adopts his identity as "Zero" and …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is leaving the world of film animation. That’s according to Studio Ghibli President Koji Hoshino, who announced this past Sunday at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in Italy that the world-famous anime director will “retire from the production of feature-length …Read more »
For those wondering when to expect Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises anime film in North America, we have some fresh news regarding distribution plans. While Ghibli's last film, From Up on Poppy Hill , was released courtesy of GKids, The Wind …Read more »
The setup of Mitsuhisa Kuji's Wolfsmund manga is pretty simple. In the European Alps of the early 14th century, the Sankt Gotthard Pass checkpoint, AKA Wolfsmund, houses a notorious gatekeeper. The ruthless bailiff Wolfram is known for his cruel measures in sorting out those attempting to …Read more »
Miyazaki’s latest film, The Wind Rises , has been playing in Japanese theaters for about a month now, and opinion has been... mixed, let’s say. Some of it is directed at the film itself. Is the story, focused on the life and struggle of Jiro …Read more »
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