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It’s been a long time coming, but 2011’s Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is finally getting an English dub, and it’s been announced Anime Expo attendees will be the first ones to get a peek. The Anohana dub, which is produced by Aniplex …Read more »
Akagi , Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s manga about a mahjong-playing wunderkind that began in 1992, is set to come to an end next year. The manga, which runs in magazine Kindai Mahjong, will end in February 2018 after 26 years of serialization. Akagi , which so far …Read more »
We here at Otaku USA magazine are proud to announce the arrival of another issue of Anime USA , the companion magazine with a pure, 100% focus on all-things anime. This marks the fourth special issue we've released, and it's now available to purchase on …Read more »
It’s an ERASED kind of month. The popular manga-turned-anime known in Japanese as Boku dake ga inai Machi is having a busy March. The manga, which started its run in 2012, came to a close this month, as did the spinoff novel series. The anime …Read more »
The adventures of Speed-o'-Sound Sonic continue in the latest Japanese home video release of One-Punch Man . Volume 3 ships with episodes 5 and 6 on February 24 with some nice extras, including an OAD episode titled "The Ninja Who is Too Complicated." The story …Read more »
If there’s one clear trend we’ve seen over the last few years in Japan, it’s a rise in the number of live-action adaptations of anime and manga. It’s to the point where over half of the films we review here at Japan HQ aren’t even …Read more »
Featured Spotlight The light novels written by Hisashi Suzuki and illustrated by Lunalia come to life in the Magical Warfare anime . The series originally made the leap from page to screen last year, and now you can experience the magic on DVD and Blu-ray …Read more »
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is such a strange thing, even by shonen battle series standards. We're currently approaching episode 44 of Part III: Stardust Crusaders , the second half of which is called Battle in Egypt , and, well, that's about as straightforward a title as …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of anime and manga are an inevitably contentious topic, as more often than not fans are worked into a furor over a film project that may not ever enter production. Case in point: the recent announcement that Scarlet Johannson has been cast as …Read more »
As I write this, the massive figure show known as Wonder Festival is going on in Japan. We couldn't make it to the show here at OUSA, but via the hashtag #wf2015 the whole Internet is living Wonfes by way of delicious and often prohibited …Read more »
Fans of the currently airing TV adaptation of Hunter x Hunter had a huge surprise in store for them this past year when Takahiko Abiru, one of the main animation directors on the show, started uploading scans of some of the more than 18,000 frames …Read more »
Nan Desu Kan, Denver’s premier anime convention and perhaps the only con in the world taking its name from a bad Japanese pun, has announced its latest Japanese guest, one Hiroyuki Hashimoto. Hashimoto is the series director of this year’s Is The Order A Rabbit? …Read more »
Japan is getting a live-action version of the classic Tatsunoko Production anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (AKA Battle of the Planets and G-Force ), and a preview clip offers an early look at the film's cast. The video may not have any subtitles, but it …Read more »
If Deadman Wonderland had been executed in the style of almost any other anime out there, it would take about four episodes to get to the point they're at by the end of the second. To say the show is briskly paced would be an …Read more »
In the wild world of manga, every age group and every social class has their own genre and magazine that defines them. For the elementary school kid there are video game based properties like the ones that dominate Shogakukan's Coro Coro magazine. Nothing says office …Read more »
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