Listen, anime is all well and good, but it’s also good to widen our horizons extremely slightly. If you like anime with flashy battles that fly in the face of common sense, with power-ups, special moves, weird personalities and drama... Do I need to keep …Read more »
Happy Mother’s Day! If you’re in the U.S., it’s that time of the year that we set aside to thank our moms for everything they do for us. Although we find that the mother is missing in a lot of anime, there are still plenty …Read more »
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ , the latest film in the Dragon Ball franchise, opened with a kamehameha at the Japanese box office this weekend, earning 960 million yen ($8.4 million) between Saturday and Sunday. In Japan, a film must earn about one billion yen …Read more »
Most people know Durarara!! from its anime incarnation, which adapts the light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda. The anime returned recently, giving us the perfect opportunity to feature it in the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine . Beyond …Read more »
This story is featured in the June 2015 issue of Otaku USA Magazine . Get a print copy of this story, along with more great cosplay and anime coverage, by picking it up on newsstands, or at our online store ! Hello again, fellow otaku! …Read more »
It’s April in Japan, and that means cherry blossoms, baseball, and a Detective Conan film, which have been appearing yearly since 1997. This year’s film in the long-running series, known as Case Closed in America, is being promoted by two pop-up cafes in Tokyo and …Read more »
Shirobako has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the anime season: a delightful office comedy about the work of actually putting together anime. This is a very meta premise, with more than its share of industry in-jokes and not one but multiple shows-within-the-show. …Read more »
Naota's got it rough. Robots and aliens and laser guns, the usual anime protagonist fare. That’s all there, front and center, but he’s got other problems. Nobody wants to pay attention to him. Nobody gives him any credit. He’s smarter than every adult around him. …Read more »
The Vault of Error is both a physical space and a state of being. On one hand, it refers to my collection of anime home video media, a horde of DVDs and Blu-ray discs that still threatens to overflow my living space. This Vault of …Read more »
This past weekend Tokyo hosted AnimeJapan, the second annual event that combined the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Anime Contents Expo into one massive convention for both industry types and regular fans. With around 120,000 attendees, it’s one of the biggest anime gatherings in …Read more »
Japanese crowdfunding has grown up. While the earliest successfully-funded anime ( Little Witch Academia 2 , Kick-Heart ) were financed via America-based Kickstarter, recent months have seen Japanese crowdfunding sites play a bigger role in anime projects. Case in point: In This Corner of the …Read more »
Way back in the April 2009 issue of Otaku USA Magazine , we ran this multi-part feature presenting a variety of opinions on moe from our international contributors. The issue has been out of print and out of stock for years, so we thought it …Read more »
Animation studio MAPPA and production company GENCO revealed on Monday the crowdfunding site for their film In This Corner of the World ( Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni ). Based on a manga by Fumiyo Kono ( Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms …Read more »
Good news for fans of Studio Khara’s Japan Anima(tor)’s Exhibition : the series of anime shorts is in for a second season. Animator Expo, which debuted online last November, is a series of animated shorts produced by Hideki Anno’s Studio Khara, the studio behind the …Read more »
In the mid-1990s, the manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump was at the zenith of its success in Japan, with a per-issue circulation of over 6 million. This astonishing prosperity came during a time when Dragon Ball was concluding—before Naruto and Bleach existed. Eiichiro Oda, who …Read more »
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