© Nisio Isin/Kodansha Aniplex/Shaft It’s been a long eight months, but Kizumonogatari is back. It’s impossible to review Kizumonogatari Part II: Nekketsu without delving into a primer on its production history: it’s the second of three films, collectively an adaptation of Nisio Isin’s Kizumonogatari , …Read more »
In the latest issue of our special Anime USA magazine , our contributors took some time to put together a feature on the ever-expanding world of anime shorts. Naturally we didn't have enough room to cover all of them, and while Trigger got plenty of …Read more »
Well, folks, it looks like this thing really exists. In a bit of a cosmic coincidence, today the internet at large got not just the first look at the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist film, but the first on-set photos of the Scarlett Johansson Ghost in the …Read more »
Last week I got the chance to head over to Bandai Namco's new HQ in Santa Clara, CA to try out a bunch of upcoming games, including a nice helping of anime-based action. In addition to Gundam and SAO games— Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme VS. …Read more »
It may not have graced the cover—that honor goes to Akame ga Kill! —but the One-Punch Man feature in the April 2016 issue of Otaku USA , on sale now, is no less significant. Series creator ONE, who started One-Punch Man as a modest webcomic …Read more »
The future is now. Or maybe it comes later. Either way, it's definitely not in the past… Or is it? Perceptions of time and reality grow muddled in the tangled sci-fi yarn woven in the latest otome visual novel published by Aksys Games , Norn9: …Read more »
Talk to a Star Trek fan and chances are almost 100% that they’ve at least seen the original series from 1966 (that was nearly 45 years ago!), even if they only just recently became interested in the property thanks to the 2009 movie. Similarly, newly-made …Read more »
In the February 2016 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on sale now, Brittany Vincent took a dive back into the world of Persona for her feature on Persona 4: The Golden Animation . Atlus has made good use of Persona 4 since it debuted on …Read more »
To someone unfamiliar, Sword Art Online might seem like the most backwards property ever. After all, Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment is a game based on an anime based on a light novel series about players trapped in a fictional game. Hollow Fragment on PS …Read more »
“Not another Neon Genesis Evangelion spin-off manga,” I groaned. But Tony Takezaki isn’t just another spin-off artist; the creator of the A.D. Police manga adaptation and the untranslated Dr. Kishiwada’s Scientific Affection , Takezaki is a mad genius of science fiction with a wicked satirical …Read more »
Sports manga and anime haven't traditionally been released here in the US very often. In Japan, they tend to make up some of the most popular, enduring titles and several have been extraordinarily influential classics. Baseball in particular is a major sport in Japan, so …Read more »
The month of October stirs strange desires in the breasts of every person who grew up enraptured by Halloween, so what better time is there than now to venture among the cotton cobwebs and the ten cent plastic spiders in the cinematic crypt known as …Read more »
The December 2015 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on sale now, includes a feature on the Gangsta anime by Daryl Surat. Daryl wrote the feature, I mean, he didn't single-handedly create Gangsta from nothing. That honor goes to Kohske, whose manga serves as the basis …Read more »
Publisher: NIS America Developer: Spike Chunsoft System: PS Vita Available: Now Rating: M Those who have played the Danganronpa visual novels know their quirks well. These are dark, funny, and well-written murder mysteries, and spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls attempts to boil its …Read more »
The WIXOSS card-game-turned-anime—which started with Selector Infected Wixoss last year and was followed by Selector Spread Wixoss —is getting a feature film in Japan early next year. The Selector Destructed Wixoss movie was originally announced back in April, and singer Kanon Wakeshima revealed that she …Read more »
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