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So on July 1, I’m leaving my hotel room and I find this flier at the front desk about the Yoshiki Foundation America hosting a charity event at Club Nokia that night separate from other activities in the area. Apparently several companies—including Toei Animation, Toyota, …Read more »
The Mad Gamer (R) and co. play some "hot licks" while vintage boom boxes graze on the sound waves. Document two: “The Poison Spider Mansion Ambush” I’m thanking my lucky stars. I’m praying to a pantheon of dark gods that don’t even exist and hopefully …Read more »
The name Nintendo has been associated with the lighter side of gaming for as long as most people can remember, and that's not gonna change any time soon. Many will recall the disappointment of owning a "superior" version of Mortal Kombat on Super Nintendo, only …Read more »
Winter is a depressing time to be in Japan. Most of the trees are brown, leafless skeletons and the weather is bitterly cold. As someone from San Diego, home of the everlasting summer, this is double-plus ungood. For those living in Japan, the only thing …Read more »
If you’ve picked up the most recent issue of OUSA, you’ve likely read a review of the shoujo drama Glass Mask . In doing a bit of research for that review, we came to learn about previous incarnations of the story and found one of …Read more »
You would think having an event devoted entirely to anime smack dab in the epicenter of Japanese pop culture would be more exciting. You’d think. In all honesty, I wasn’t looking forward to visiting Tokyo Anime Fair this year. Last year’s was something of a …Read more »
Mention the word “Cosplay” in the US, and the image tends to be one of perky teens in various states of dress (and undress) crowding up already-congested convention center halls as geeks of various shapes and sizes snap their little cameras away. Sometimes they even …Read more »
Kazuo Koike may be the most respected living manga author of all, but read enough of his manga and you’ll realize that respect comes from the fact that he’s certifiably insane. But he won’t be around forever, so in order to ensure that his manga-fu …Read more »
On January 2nd, 2010, the Saturday morning ABC Kids line-up debuted the first episode of what fans have called Power Rangers: Remastered . Boasting improved picture and sound, these re-runs of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are taking the place of the usual yearly Super Sentai …Read more »
In Mike Dent's feature on Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars , he touched on the storied history of Capcom's long line of mashup fighters, pitting drastically different (well, most of the time) universes against one another since tag-team fighting was still a fresh concept. Now …Read more »
Sometimes you don't know just how good you've got it until it's gone. When one of the oldest anime publishers in America, Central Park Media, went out of business earlier this year, most fans didn’t really notice. The company had been largely dormant for the …Read more »
The economy may be in the dumps, but with over 26,000 people having attending Otakon 2009 you sure wouldn’t know it. Granted, that’s roughly the same as 2008, but to just hold steady demonstrates that even though money is tight, people will still come out …Read more »
This past weekend was WonderCon in San Francisco, and in case you hadn't heard, part of the Otaku USA crew made it down there to panel it up and, of course, spread the goodness of manga wherever we go. Not every second of …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 »
To celebrate the release of the straight to DVD animated film Batman: Gotham Knight as well as the live action theatrical film The Dark Knight , we thought it'd be a good idea to recommend other works featuring Bruce Wayne's war against some of the …Read more »
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