Roughly half of gamers are women, but you wouldn’t know it when asking the average person. Most people are still caught in the same antiquated mindset that women just aren’t interested in games. It’s an idea that’s certainly not true, as we all know (especially …Read more »
“Minato Sahashi is a loser,” begins the back cover text of Sekirei, thus ensuring, according to the ancient laws of manga, that within the first 10 pages a hot, devoted girlfriend with supernatural powers will fall into his lap. In this case it happens literally, …Read more »
This story originally appeared in the August 2017 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls is a simultaneously adorable and lewd series with plenty of interesting situations revolving around, well… monster girls. Following one Japanese student, Kimihito Kurusu, who’s suddenly …Read more »
This story originally ran in the December 2015 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. The “monster girl” scene has been mounting as a bit of a fad as of late, taking women (and men, in some cases) who look like monsters and slotting them in stories …Read more »
Many western anime fans find themselves drawn to the medium because, unlike western cartoons, some anime films and series are aimed at an adult audience. This particular fan remembers well the shock he received on stumbling across the ultra-violent Fist of the North Star at …Read more »
By all accounts it appears as if sports anime is more popular than ever. It’s taken some time to really sink its hooks into Western fans, but at this point there’s something legally streaming, and either running now or having aired very recently, for pretty …Read more »
“Keijo” is a sport wherein women wearing bathing suits use naught but their breasts and buttocks in battle to push competitors over the edge of a land—a large float—and into some surrounding body of water. The sport itself is fictional ... thankfully, but the tension …Read more »
Anyone about to watch a series called Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? has to have a few questions floating around in their heads. Why is the title so long? What kind of dungeon are we talking about? And …Read more »
Meguru Ueno's Hajimete no Gal ( First-Time Gal ) is a high school romantic comedy that's been running in Kadokawa's Monthly Shonen Ace for just about a year. It's already going to make the transition to anime, though, and an official website for the TV …Read more »
The Dead or Alive Xtreme games have always been mired in controversy, but for what? Because we should be made to feel bad for playing games that feature women in bikinis? The only true reason they should ever be pooh-poohed is their lack of content …Read more »
(Almost) too sexy for TV. That’s this week’s theme over at ranking site Goo, where they’ve asked their readers to vote on a list of anime heroines who just skirt the limits of what’s acceptable on broadcast television. Who made the cut by wearing the …Read more »
At the beginning of Utawarerumono: The False Faces , a confused young man wanders aimlessly through the snowy wilderness, barefoot and wearing only what appears to be a thin hospital gown. Soon the poor fellow is attacked by a colossal centipede and a gigantic blob …Read more »
It’s a glorious day for combination rugby-anime fans. That’s because a bunch of information about the anime adaptation of rugby manga All Out!! is… out. All Out!! ’s director is Kenichi Shimizu, whose last anime was Parasyte -the maxim- . Handling series composition will be …Read more »
They may be gorgeous women, but first and foremost they're fierce warriors. Welcome to the world of Queen's Blade , a female-centric media franchise with spinoffs, series, and various other pieces of entertainment that explore a world where women are the most rugged fighters around, …Read more »
Sex, drugs, ultra-violence and lots of fan service. Since the late 1990s, late-night Japanese TV has been the host of a new breed of TV anime, one that has skirted all rules of socially acceptable behavior and successfully reached the airwaves by the sole virtue …Read more »
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