The roundtable listens intently to Consul-General Tadahiko Yamaguchi’s speech Last month in Denver, Colorado, academics, industry leaders and fans alike met up for SANA, the Summit for Anime in North America, an event organized to ponder just why anime has the appeal it does in …Read more »
Sega’s had its ups and downs over the years, but it was the doldrums of the mid-late ‘90s that produced one of its most memorable characters: Segata Sanshiro, a karate gi-clad consumerist hero who appeared in countless TV commercials, championing Sega’s then-struggling Saturn game console …Read more »
Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo is still playing in Japanese theaters as of this writing. The film has been out since mid-November, which means that it has been playing for about 3½ months now. Weekday showings were apparently still sold out at the end …Read more »
Children dream of wielding his power. Grown men pose screaming in their mirrors on Youtube, hoping to one day transcend humanity and unlock his Super Saiyan power. Son Goku is an icon. And what better use for an icon than to shill some product, …Read more »
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was a pleasant surprise when it made its debut on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010. Konami tried and failed multiple times in the past to bring a truly great Castlevania experience to the third dimension, and just how hard …Read more »
While Akihabara is sold to the west as the anime capital of Tokyo, the truth is a little more complex. While Akihabara caters to both Japanese otaku and foreign shoppers interested in anime and comics, there’s relatively anime actually produced there. The majority of actual …Read more »
One of the biggest draws to anime conventions is always the chance to meet American voice actors, whose panels and events draw huge crowds and whose adoring fans come in droves to be regaled with insights, behind-the-scenes stories and voice acting tips. But despite their …Read more »
I admit it – it’s a little early in the year to be thinking about baseball. But with the Super Bowl over and done with and the World Baseball Classic coming to Tokyo Dome next month, I’ve got America’s and Japan’s combined pastime on the …Read more »
Disclaimer : It’s the same disclaimer as my Getter Robo: Armageddon review, which I’m just going to assume everybody reading this has read, only with the added statement of “all I am talking about in this article, by and large, is the anime described in …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , we feature a One Piece cover story that deals with the current goings-on of the anime and its latest film incarnation, One Piece Film Z . As a bonus, we're doing the same with the manga here, …Read more »
Fans of Shonen Jump titles have a reason to be festive: VIZ Media is now releasing new manga chapters in Weekly Shonen Jump the same day the chapters come out in Japan. To learn more about how this works, we spoke with Weekly Shonen Jump …Read more »
When Toyota designers and engineers were toiling away on the fifth generation Corolla coupe, it’s unlikely that they would have guessed that their humble car would become the cultural phenomenon that it did. Two decades later and the legacy of that humble car, otherwise known …Read more »
Disclaimer : Chances are good that by now, anybody who purchases Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo or clicks on a link to an article that has a picture of a robot and the words “Getter Robo” will already be a hardcore mecha anime …Read more »
Tokyo is consistently ranked as one of the most, if not the most, expensive city to live in. This unfortunately carries over to visiting as well, as vacations in Tokyo aren't cheap. Compounded with the fact that otaku can be notoriously stingy (there are figures …Read more »
Years ago, some clever entrepreneur opened two copyright-skirting bars in Tokyo: Zeon Bar and Federation Bar. Located on different floors of the same building on an Akihabara side street, these saloons offered patrons a Gundam -inspired drinking experience, with decor draped in a sort of …Read more »
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