If you’ve been looking forward to a chance to catch director Naoko Yamada and writer Reiko Yoshida’s A Silent Voice anime film, advanced tickets are now on sale for the U.S. theatrical release. The feature opens nationwide on October 20, and you can see a list …Read more »
The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Even if you fancied yourself a pretty cool person in high school, there’s no way you could ever hope to match up to the sheer smoothness of Sakamoto. He’s not just the coolest dude in his class, or even his school; he might …Read more »
Based on Crunchyroll’s PARK Harajuku: Crisis Team! webcomic, which has been running since May 2015 with writing by Otaku USA‘s own Patrick Macias and art by the amazing Mugi Tanaka, the URAHARA anime is almost upon us. The series is set to make its debut …Read more »
If you’re not caught up with One Piece, you may want to avert your eyes, because it’s not hard to imagine the showdown that’s about to happen during the upcoming anime special. The one-hour, double-episode event is set to air in Japan on October 1 …Read more »
New Theatrical Movie Initial D Legend 1: Awakening is the first in a trilogy of anime films that retells the early chapters of Shuichi Shigeno’s Initial D manga. Sentai Filmworks previously announced plans to bring the films to North America, and those plans have been …Read more »
More Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- is on the way. White Fox, the studio behind Re:Zero, will release a “new episode,” it was revealed today at an event in Akihabara. A two-minute trailer for the new episode, with main characters Subaru, Emilia and Rem, …Read more »
The third season of the Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma TV anime is less than a month away, so it’s time for another preview. This one’s quick—it’s just a 15-second TV ad—but we’ll take what we can get building up to the October 3 return.
The devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey cannot be understated, and the homes and people of Texas and other affected areas will have a tough time rebuilding. This includes our friends at Sentai Filmworks, who are attempting to crowdfund to support some of …Read more »
More details have arrived ahead of this October’s Black Clover anime, which adapts the shonen manga of the same name by Yuki Tabata. The latest comes in next week’s issue of Shonen Jump, an early look at which has revealed the anime’s opening and ending themes. Kicking things …Read more »
The first OVA for Natsume Yujin-chou Roku, AKA the sixth season of the Natsume’s Book of Friends anime adaptation, is set to be included with upcoming Japanese home video releases. Now Aniplex is here with a promo video for “Suzunaru no Kirikabu” (“The Ringing Bell’s Stump”), previewing Natsume …Read more »
It’s always nice to see fan-made animations. Whether hand-drawn (like these anime-style tributes to Star Wars and Game of Thrones) or stop-motion (like these Attack On Titan shorts), the effort is always impressive and the results are very different experience from non-moving forms of fan …Read more »
In case you haven’t noticed, we kind of have a new look goin’ on lately. Yep, the trusty old Otaku USA website has finally been given the upgrade it truly deserves, and it’s just in time to join in on the magazine’s 10th anniversary celebration! What does …Read more »
A new teaser video is here for Studio Trigger and A-1 Pictures’ DARLING in the FRANXX anime, and it, too, lives up to the word “teaser.” While there isn’t too much going on in this one, we do get a nice look at a piloted …Read more »
Ten years ago, the very first issue of Otaku USA (August 2007 cover date) went on sale in a world that was very different from the one we inhabit today. But how did it all happen? Read below as the staff remembers. Mark Hintz (Chief …Read more »
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