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There is a lot going on with The Apothecary Diaries franchise! On top of the anime series debuting over the weekend and the announcement that Square Enix Manga & Books will be releasing the light novel series in print next year, we have an extra …Read more »
The upcoming anime movie Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid, which is due to hit Japanese theaters on December 1, has revealed a full trailer. This is part of the sequel anime project for the Rascal Does Not Dream light novels. The movie …Read more »
Yūya Saito, an anime composer and arranger who’s worked on Smile Pretty Cure!, Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi, and more, is in the news, and it’s not for anything musical. He’s in the news for being arrested. According to reports, a Metropolitan …Read more »
Today Square Enix Manga & Books revealed that it will be publishing The Apothecary Diaries light novels in print, beginning on May 15, 2024. Square Enix Manga & Books already publishes the manga version in English, and J-Novel Club has been releasing the light novels …Read more »
Book censorship is up in America, and as we’ve been reporting at Otaku USA, sometimes it’s manga being pulled from the shelves. PEN America and the EveryLibrary Institute have been keeping tack of book bans, and have come out with a list of the most …Read more »
The Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam recently stopped offering special Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat cards because of safety concerns for its museum-goers. And a new story coming out of Florida shows that on rare occasions, some people are known to become violent over …Read more »
Sometimes people with disabilities have trouble getting and/or maintaining a job. But Shake Hands Sanjo-Karasuma, an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, makes the point of hiring people with disabilities to help make anime. Tomoya Sawada is the head of the company. All of this began …Read more »
There’s a fan movement in Japan where otaku deck out their cars with their favorite anime, manga or video game characters. It’s (ironically?) referred to as “itasha,” which can be translated as “cringeworthy car.” Once totally niche, it has begun to take off in Japan …Read more »
Late last month, Otaku USA reported that Amsterdam’s Vincent van Gogh Museum was teaming up with Pokémon for a limited-time collaboration that included Pokémon exhibits at the museum. This is related to van Gogh’s love of Japanese art, so the idea was to get people …Read more »
The English main dub cast for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron movie has been announced, and as with past English dubs of Miyazaki’s work, it has some famous Hollywood actors lending their voices. Christian Bale plays Shoichi Maki, Luca Padovan plays Mahito Maki, …Read more »
The anime adaptation of The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (a.k.a. Nozomanu Fushi no Bōkensha in Japanese) has dropped a trailer with the news that the series will debut in January 2024. The anime’s opening song, which is titled “IMMORTAL” and performed by JUVENILE, can be heard …Read more »
New York Comic Con occurred last weekend, and that means the winners of the Harvey Awards were unveiled! This year’s winner for Best Manga is Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto. If hearing that gives you a sense of déjà vu, that might be because Chainsaw …Read more »
A bipartisan group of Senators — Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) — have come out with the discussion draft of their proposed bill they’re calling the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act. …Read more »
Sony is coming out with the Access controller for PlayStation on December 6, and it’s meant to let people with a variety of disabilities be able to play video games. It’s able to do this because it comes in a kit where people can configure …Read more »
Manga fans around the world were stunned when Berserk creator Kentaro Miura died unexpectedly in 2021, at only 54-years-old, leaving his popular series unfinished. His friend, Koji Mori, another mangaka, was in such shock when he heard the news that his memory is fuzzy. But …Read more »
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