Hopefully if you've been keeping up with Otaku USA then director Leiji Matsumoto, who created such classic series' as Starblazers , Galaxy Express 999 , Captain Harlock , et all and was covered extensively in our February 2008 issue, needs no introduction. Oops, I guess …Read more »
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Story and Art: Yoshihiro Tatsumi Reading the first of Drawn & Quarterly's Yoshihiro Tatsumi collections, The Push Man and Other Stories , was a particularly somber experience. I recall an extended period of reflection after putting it down, which is …Read more »
2005's Trauma Center: Under the Knife was a heck of a way to show off the still-stretching-its-arms DS, taxing the player with precise use of the stylus in an under-pressure ER environment that didn't have any real imitators. In the same vein, the Wii remake, …Read more »
As strange as it is to get into talking about Dragon Ball Z in "seasons•bCrLf rather than arcs, it's exciting enough for me to see that FUNimation's release of Season Four contains two of my favorite arcs in the series, so I guess it's a …Read more »
Publisher: Del Rey Story and Art: Atsushi Suzumi Haridama is one of those manga stories that I hesitate to call out for its well-tread shonen trappings. It's like calling out an action movie for having too many explosions, or saying there's too much romance and …Read more »
Akuji Nishimura is your regular academy-attending badass type. Not the most motivated student, a bit of a troublemaker, likes to sleep in and not answer the phone. Suddenly he's being contacted by an archangel who orders him to find the witches hiding on campus on …Read more »
What's always amazed me about Fullmetal Alchemist is its ability to engage viewers even if they only catch a single episode in the middle of the series with no prior idea of what the hell is going on. It weaves a long and complicated plot …Read more »
Publisher: Del Rey Story and Art: Yuko Osada Toto! is a about a young boy named Kakashi who lives in a small town on a small island where nothing ever happens. He's determined to get off the island and find adventure, and thus continually involves …Read more »
Witchblade picks up at the halfway mark with a continuation of the drama that ensued over Rihoko's custody at the end of volume three. In fact, the majority of the four episodes on this disc serve as a break from the normal action, offering up …Read more »
While it used to be that the anime and manga world in the US was all about "mature content,•bCrLf and much of the stuff out there tended to center on people getting chopped to bits with katanas, blown up, and/or raped, it would seem that …Read more »
Way back in issue four of Otaku USA , resident Expert of Awesome Emily Balistrieri tackled the import release of the long-awaited Final Fantasy VII prequel, Crisis Core . Rather than retread some well-worn ground with your average review, I spent the last week or …Read more »
Takeo is the go-getter young president of "an I.T. venture corporation exceeding profits of 5 billion a year," but beneath his wealth and power he's an awkward, virginal otaku. He wears glasses. Fumiaki is "Fumi-chan," slacker office clerk and Takeo's crush of 17 years. He …Read more »
Publisher: IDW Story and Art: Kazuo Umezu I just can't get enough of Kazuo Umezu and, thankfully, publishers like IDW are doing their darndest to make sure US fans of the eccentric, red-striped sweater sporting manga-ka don't remain empty handed for too long. Enter their …Read more »
Ideally, Black Blood Brothers would be evaluated as a whole, rather than on an individual volume basis. However, time's a-tickin', and I was in the mood to check out the second volume of this 12-episode series before the first became too stale, lying dormant in …Read more »
Whenever a new puzzle game lands in my lap, I have visions of the future; one that entails dropping blocks into tight spaces, making them disappear and, if fortune is smiling bright upon me, tossing the remains over on my friend's side as a means …Read more »
Julian Gnam
Joseph Luster
Emily Balistrieri
Shaenon K. Garrity
