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Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster is the original Toho monster team-up, in which Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra pool their resources to defeat the invasion of King Ghidorah, an evil extraterrestrial determined to destroy the Earth. Ghidorah arrives on Earth in a meteorite-actually a space egg-that periodically …Read more »
What we have here, for those that don't have their Tivos already rigged to record it, is a Starz cable special that documents the rise of anime's popularity in the US, from its origins in Japan to the way that it pervades many facets of …Read more »
[Excerpt from the current issue of Otaku USA magazine, on sale now!] A festival parade of marching appliances. Evil, laughing, building-sized dolls. Movies come to life, a 50-foot woman, a butterfly collection with a centerpiece human butterfly. If surrealist tea parties are your bag, baby, …Read more »
If you've been following Vertical's deluxe releases of Osamu Tezuka's work, then you already know that there are many, many different sides to the prolific creator, most of which are far separated from the cutesy and fun trappings of titles like Astro Boy . Heck, …Read more »
When Baoh first arrived stateside, store shelves offered a Mother Hubbard-like selection of anime (then still under the colorful moniker of ...Japanimation') titles, and Yokoyama Hiroyuki's 50-minute parasitic child landed comfortably in the sub-genre of "really short and violent" OAVs. Sporting a few differences from …Read more »
Interview excerpted from the December issue of OTAKU USA ] In spite of the success of his groundbreaking 2004 film Appleseed and the buzz surrounding the upcoming sequel, Ex Machina , Shinji Aramaki is quite possibly the most famous and influential anime insider you've never …Read more »
Wings of Rean , the latest anime from Gundam director Yoshiyuki Tomino, isn't what one would call his most accessible work. Although it shares a title with a serialized novel he wrote back in the '80s, Wings of Rean is essentially a spinoff of Tomino's …Read more »
Illustration by Daniel Krall [Excerpted from the August 2007 issue of Otaku USA Magazine] Set the Way-Back Machine for December 10, 2005... Hours from now, the Xbox 360 will launch in Japan. Almost a full year later, the PlayStation 3 hits Japan, followed closely by …Read more »
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