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Since it started to run in Japan as a theatrical release in 2012, fans overseas have wondered about a release for the new Space Battleship Yamato series, Yamato 2199 . It wasn't clear if the spectacular remake of the landmark original series (released here as …Read more »
Last year, we interviewed American anime industry veteran Patrick Seitz about his experiences working on shows like Monster , Hetalia and more (you can read that interview here ). Well, it’s one year later, and we had the opportunity to deluge Patrick with another round …Read more »
Every now and then we like to extend a special offer to all the fine folks who follow Otaku USA online, and that definitely includes our wonderful newsletter subscribers. This holiday season we have a doozy of a deal, with a one-year subscription to Otaku …Read more »
The main point of anime conventions is always the anime, but other forms of pop culture are generally welcomed there, as well. (For example, who else has noticed the growing popularity of My Little Pony at anime cons?) Writer Ken Pontac has worked on important …Read more »
A lot of people screamed bloody murder when they first saw the audacious costume worn by the heroine in this season's hit Kill La Kill . Part super-robot and mostly Cutey Honey , Ryuko Matoi's costume puts her on full display. The skirt and top …Read more »
Anime fans are a dedicated bunch, and rain and cold weather didn't stop them from dressing in their best cosplay for Youmacon in Detroit. Since the Michigan con took place so close to Halloween, it felt as if the let's-get-dressed-up spirit was especially strong. Check …Read more »
The Vietnamese can do it too, y’all. That’s what we discovered in our last issue of Otaku USA e-News with Fernando’s report from the Ho Chi Minh City Manga Festival, where anime fans in Vietnam assembled en masse to celebrate their love of Japanese cartoons …Read more »
“Costume Play” = COSPLAY! Hey, this is Patrick, and hey… what’s with all the spandex and wigs? This must be… COSPLAY USA ! Normally, it’s my pleasure to act as editor in chief of Otaku USA magazine, a pulse-pounding Japanese pop culture publication you may …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 »
Plenty of folks can tell you where the impulse to cosplay comes from—even though it varies from person to person, there's still that difficult to define, fan-driven urge that's impossible to shake. But what about the actual history of cosplay? Who were the first people …Read more »
I’m standing in the sweltering heat at Otakon 20, but my mind keeps wandering back to Otakon 13. I was 19 years old, bewildered, and attending the first convention of my life. Do you remember your earliest anime convention? If you’re in your ‘20s, it …Read more »
Anime conventions are vast, singular, beautiful, and incomprehensible, a riotous, amorphous celebration of what it is to be a fan of Japanese cartoons and comics. And across North America, from sea to shining sea, there’s no anime convention as vast as Anime Expo, the longest-surviving …Read more »
Anime Expo is always something of a spectacle. By its very nature of being the biggest anime convention in the United States, held in one of the world’s greatest cities, it creates an environment rarely seen in such fannish gatherings. Approaching the Los Angeles Convention …Read more »
Most Tokyophiles are well aware of Akihabara, east Tokyo’s hub for all things anime, manga, and general otaku-related shopping, and readers of Otaku USA e-News have also gotten a peek at Nakano, west Tokyo’s slightly hipper, grungier answer to Akiba. One Tokyo neighborhood we haven’t …Read more »
Anime has a long and proud history of gender-bending and stereotype challenging, be it for comedic purposes or awkward romantic entanglements. But there is a through-line of three girls in particular who don’t just mirror each other, but directly inspired each other’s creation. One was …Read more »
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