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The heavy hitters of Shonen Jump have been having a lot of fun together lately. In addition to the upcoming J-Stars Victory Vs. crossover fighting game—which celebrates 45 years of Shonen Jump by making everybody brawl—Toriko, One Piece 's Luffy, and Dragon Ball 's Goku …Read more »
Raku, a high school student, is still pining away for a girl he met in his childhood. When they parted, he kept a pendant with a lock and she kept the key so that when they found each other again, they would know it’s the …Read more »
The latest issue of the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has something special in store for fans of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter . According to the mag, a "shocking" announcement will be made in the next issue regarding Madhouse's current HxH TV series. There's …Read more »
This week it’s a dash of this and a dash of that as we get a couple books from a number of different publishers. An anthology, some shonen, some boys’ love, some science fiction and whatever Hayate the Combat Butler is classified as – there’s …Read more »
The shonen gods have been smiling down upon their fans quite a bit recently, from new One Piece games to full-color Dragon Ball manga and more, and the latest collaboration between three shonen heavy hitters is a real doozy. One Piece , Dragon Ball , …Read more »
January went out like a sheep but February is coming in like a lion. An extra-long list of titles deserves an extra-long installment of On The Shelf, so let’s get started on my look at some of the over two dozen books out this week! …Read more »
Disclaimer : It’s the same disclaimer as my Getter Robo: Armageddon review, which I’m just going to assume everybody reading this has read, only with the added statement of “all I am talking about in this article, by and large, is the anime described in …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , we feature a One Piece cover story that deals with the current goings-on of the anime and its latest film incarnation, One Piece Film Z . As a bonus, we're doing the same with the manga here, …Read more »
If you were envious of Japan for getting a full-color reprinting of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, fear not, because North America is getting it, too! As announced in the most recent issue of the now-simultaneous Weekly Shonen Jump , the colorized comic is on …Read more »
Fans of Shonen Jump titles have a reason to be festive: VIZ Media is now releasing new manga chapters in Weekly Shonen Jump the same day the chapters come out in Japan. To learn more about how this works, we spoke with Weekly Shonen Jump …Read more »
When Toyota designers and engineers were toiling away on the fifth generation Corolla coupe, it’s unlikely that they would have guessed that their humble car would become the cultural phenomenon that it did. Two decades later and the legacy of that humble car, otherwise known …Read more »
Viz Media's Shonen Jump Alpha is getting ready to zoom into publishing its chapters simultaneous with Japan on January 21, so what better time to introduce a new series into the mix? Viz announced the manga today, and it's none other than One-Punch Man , …Read more »
It's not easy to assess an entire year after the fact, but we do what we can here at Otaku USA. We presented a handful of our contributors with a hefty challenge: Pick ONE standout anime from the entire year, whether it be theatrical, televised, …Read more »
Visitors to this winter’s Comic Market shouldn’t expect to see any merchandise for the manga Kuroko’s Basketball, as fan comics depicting the series have been banned from the event. The ban stems from a series of threatening letters sent to various locations linked to Kuroko’s …Read more »
Hirohiko Araki—that magical, spritely, ageless mangaka—has been plugging away at JoJo's Bizarre Adventure since 1987. At this point it's one of the longest-running manga series of all time, so it's kind of amazing that we're just now getting a television anime based on its generations-spanning …Read more »
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