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Sword Takeda, Tim, Yuki Hijiri, Mie Hasegawa On December 2 I teamed up for the second time with Sword Takeda and made for the little-known district of Jimbocho. Little known to American anime/manga fans, that is. I learned about it while researching my first trip …Read more »
Tim and the 50-foot Yamato: pals Anyone who has followed my exploits at starblazers.com knows that I'm on the Space Battleship Yamato news beat pretty much all the time. Occasionally that means taking one for the team and going all the way to Japan to …Read more »
It really is about who you know. Through an amazing chain of unlikely events, I got to see the live-action Space Battleship Yamato movie, fully subtitled in English, three and half weeks before my plane ticket says I’m flying to Japan for the December 1 …Read more »
Stardate: some made up space number that doesn't mean anything. I find myself seated behind some sort of strange alien artillery. When prompted, it fires large mutli-colored bubbles against an even larger cluster of bubbles, bursting them in a chain when three or more make …Read more »
"Wait," you say, "is this a shojo review from the guy that's normally waxing poetic over dudes beating each other up and other such manly manga madness?" Yes, it is; everyone needs a change of pace from time to time, okay? Now that the ever-so-suspect …Read more »
Remember how I said two issues back that the reason I'm into tokusatsu nowadays is because of Ultraman ? My dad and my aunt watched the United Artists dub of Ultraman along with a majority of the other shows that were being dubbed and shown …Read more »
[Excerpted from the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA Magazine.] This right here is everyone's worst nightmare, so try not to get too scared! You hit up the local comic shop one day; it's a fine, breezy afternoon. The sun is out, kids are playing …Read more »
Japan is the breeding ground for videogame-related fervor and its latest phenomenon is the Monster Hunter series. Returning to the PSP, Capcom's Monster Hunter Freedom 2 has sparked a surge in Japanese school children sleepovers and "educational" camps, all dealing with the way of monster …Read more »
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