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 Tokyo International Film Festival is underway, and like last year, the festival has decided to showcase anime as a part of its lineup. Last year the festival featured the films of Hideaki Anno, and this year, the spotlight is on the long-running Gundam franchise. …Read more »
Mike McFarland has been involved with the anime industry a very long time, getting in on the proverbial ground floor as one of the first voice actors Funimation hired for their dub of Dragon Ball Z (as Master Roshi and Yajirobe) back in the mid …Read more »
What anime would you like to show your children? That’s the question posed by anime polling site Charapedia, who asked their readers, took those results and baked them into a top 20 stew fit for all children. Maybe. Without delay, the results: 20. Puella Magi …Read more »
Bakuman is the best live-action manga adaptation I’ve seen this year. Based on the manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Bakuman is the story of two high school students who team up to create a manga worthy of serialization in Shonen …Read more »
Pixiv Zingaro, a anime and manga-centric gallery in Nakano, Tokyo, is this month the host of an exhibition of works by Yoshitoshi ABe, character designer and doujinshi artist responsible for anime like Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei . The exhibition marks 20 years since …Read more »
A few years ago, we had the opportunity to speak with Taliesin Jaffe, a veteran of anime and video game voice acting with countless acting, direction and script adaptation credits to his name: Hellsing Ultimate, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, R.O.D. the TV, and many …Read more »
We weren’t sure what to expect when we met Toshio Maeda. Known as the “Tentacle Master,” Maeda created some of most infamous hentai manga of the 80s and 90s, including Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfield and Demon Beast Invasion, which changed adult manga world forever …Read more »
If you enjoyed any of the well-regarded anime dubs from Geneon during the mid-2000s, you likely have Jonathan Klein to thank. As the vice-president and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Klein produced the dubs for Hellsing , Ergo Proxy and Paranoia Agent during the American …Read more »
A workhorse of the Japanese voice acting field, Toshio Furukawa made a name for himself playing a variety of heroes and villains in some of the Bubble era’s defining shows: Kai Shiden in Mobile Suit Gundam , Ataru in Urusei Yatsura , Piccolo in Dragon …Read more »
Despite the conveniences New York City does offer its otaku – Japantown groceries, fresh imports at Kinokuniya, cheap manga and old games at Book-Off, a wide selection of quality ramen – we have longed for an anime convention. Though there are a lot of us, …Read more »
Manga: it ain’t just about the laughs. One of the most appealing parts of the medium, as our readers well know, is the wide range of genres it spans, and with it, the wide range of emotions it can evoke. That includes among other things …Read more »
As much as we love anime itself here at Otaku USA, we also love learning about the business behind anime: the people, the studios, the process – just how does this anime stuff we like so much become a reality? That’s why we were psyched …Read more »
As we entered the space, the first thing we encountered was a greeting from Rui Araizumi, who illustrated the original Slayers manga. Araizumi’s note, welcoming visitors to the exhibition, said, among other things, “since you’ve come all the way here, there’s no choice – I’m …Read more »
Created by Eiji Tsuburaya, the man responsible for bringing the original Godzilla to life, Ultraman has become a Japanese sci-fi staple after the first entry of the series, Ultraman , aired in Japan in 1966. The weekly monster show was a spin-off of the highly popular …Read more »
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