Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but does that apply to manga? There is a belief among Western manga readers and critics that there is a specific look and design to Japanese comics. If there is a standard it comes from the layout …Read more »
You'd be hard pressed to find a spin-off more confused than Crystal Chronicles . The franchise, a cutesy interpretation of traditional Final Fantasy , has had its first game hamstrung by pricey and unwieldy peripherals, and its second neutered into a shadow of what made …Read more »
The Tomino Ending. It is a term that most anime fans know and dread the very utterance of, knowing that means that everybody in the main cast of a show is going to be killed off by the final episode. It is the trademark of …Read more »
In America, 2D animation is on the downswing. Ever since Pixar came along and made truckloads with fully 3D CGI films such as Toy Story or Finding Nemo , and more traditionally animated 2D movies like Treasure Planet and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas …Read more »
(If you're slick you'll have figured out by now that the title for this bit is a reference to the famed song from m-flo by the same name. Either case, it shows that I'm such a sucker for nostalgia.) It was sometime after I finished …Read more »
It's come to my attention that there's a few of you ne'er-do-wells out there who take objection to the fact that "Rock the Dragon" was soundly defeated by "CHA LA, HEAD CHA-LA" in Issue 6 of Otaku USA. I can think of only one explanation …Read more »
I was never a fan of videogame developer Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio led by Goichi Suda aka "Suda51," at least not at first. I played the PS2 port of killer7 for about two minutes before giving up in frustration. "What do you mean I can …Read more »
Did you check out Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou in the latest issue? We caught up with a hardcore fan of the original Japanese TV show to chat about the show, the game, and his excellent English language episode guide . Name: Ray Barnholt …Read more »
It's hard to believe I just got done reading the 22nd volume of Bleach . Sure, I can believe that it's gone on for this long, but it's hard to swallow the fact that I'm still reading it, and it's still a good read. Tite …Read more »
The modern system of manga categorization was developed by Osamu Tezuka over a few cases of Franzia in 1963. Each day in America, thousands of manga are read, and hundreds of manga reviews go up on the Internet. Half of these reviews are deleted by …Read more »
Ed Chavez
David Riley
Mike Dent
Daryl Surat
Emily Balistrieri
Joseph Luster
Jason Thompson, with Jake Forbes and Ryan Sands