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How big do you like your figurines? If your answer was “the bigger the better, baby” you are in luck, because this new figure based on Vegito from Dragon Ball Z is pretty huge. Costing ¥10,584 (about $85), this Vegito measures 45 centimeters, or almost …Read more »
You may have heard about Japan's recent sales tax hike from 5 percent to 8 percent, the first such change since 1997, when -- wait! Don’t run away! Look, Japanese toys! So as of April 1, everything in Japan is more expensive. That includes stuff …Read more »
Anaheim’s AX. Atlanta’s AWA. Baltimore’s Otakon. Tokyo’s Comiket. Ho Chi Minh City’s Manga Festival. Wait, what? Vietnam is an unlikely (but not altogether surprising) hotbed of anime fandom and even production. Despite the Vietnamese economy’s rapid growth of the past decade leveling off compared to …Read more »
Where would we be without legendary manga author and illustrator Shotaro Ishinomori, whose 75th birthday was on the 25th? We wouldn’t have Kamen Rider , the transforming, motorcycle-riding superhero manga and TV series still running in various incarnations today. We wouldn’t have Cyborg 009 , …Read more »
Nobody quite expected Tiger and Bunny , a recent Japanese animated TV series about American-style superheroes, to be the big hit anime series of 2011. Where had Japan been hiding the people who could make such a show? For the answer, let's look back in …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! Due to the massive earthquake in Japan, Friday ACE is dishing out a bare-bones episode. Be afraid. SHOW NOTES: Mike here! Not much to say for this countdown episode, aside from wishes that this wasn't such a …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! - Evangelion is better than Michael Jackson?! -A Polish-Style Ero-Manga Scandal? -And Thunder-Thunder-THUNDER! THUNDERCATS, HO!! All that, and the May 2010 Best In Tune Special, OMEGA!!! in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: …Read more »
One of the pleasures of doing features like the one I did for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is getting the chance to talk to some interesting people. One of which is the Head Writer for the series, Nathan Long. As a writer, it was a …Read more »
As far as I can tell, everybody that has reviewed the 1995 Keita Amemiya-directed film Mechanical Violator Hakaider has given it a collective thumbs-down. You could attribute this to the fact that most of the reviewers out there aren't tokusatsu fans and didn't find it …Read more »
(If you're slick you'll have figured out by now that the title for this bit is a reference to the famed song from m-flo by the same name. Either case, it shows that I'm such a sucker for nostalgia.) It was sometime after I finished …Read more »
It's come to my attention that there's a few of you ne'er-do-wells out there who take objection to the fact that "Rock the Dragon" was soundly defeated by "CHA LA, HEAD CHA-LA" in Issue 6 of Otaku USA. I can think of only one explanation …Read more »
I'll be honest: at first glance, this doesn't seem like the kind of place one would come to pimp their robot ride. I'm being led through what could be any office in the center of downtown Tokyo. There is nothing here to distinguish it from …Read more »
Rocket K Time Machine Rk Marguerite Music, 2007 If your ears are anything like mine, you enjoy music as it is for the most part, yet are you sometimes left with the nagging suspicion that nearly every song ever written could be vastly improved by …Read more »
Earlier this week we posted about Joseph Kahn's POWER/RANGERS "bootleg" short , and now it's time for another beloved series to become a fan film. Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope is Robot Underdog's attempt at turning The History of Trunks special into a live-action …Read more »
When I look back to my method of choosing games growing up—either with the questionable wisdom of Nintendo Power or the timeless strategy of finding the coolest cover art—I really feel for the kids of today. Licensed games have always been a thing, but at …Read more »
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