Confession: I wasn't a regular subscriber to Shonen Jump magazine. Unfortunately, there was never a point at which I was caught up enough with any of its series to warrant picking it up, but I still grabbed the occasional issue from bookstores and the ever …Read more »
While watching The Legend of the Legendary Heroes —featured in the latest issue of Otaku USA —I couldn't help but think of the 1990 Record of Lodoss War OVAs. Actually, that happens when I watch any anime that's even vaguely fantasy-related, and it's not because …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA we take a look at the original “green jacket” Lupin the Third television series, scheduled for US release in June 2012 courtesy of Discotek Media. Several of the original 23 TV episodes were directed by eventual Studio Ghibli …Read more »
Haruhi is just trying to study; just trying to find somewhere quiet to do schoolwork at the wealthy Ouran Academy. But then Haruhi accidentally walks into the room where the host club is, meets the very eccentric group of individuals that make up the group, …Read more »
If you haven’t been watching Team Four Star’s Dragon Ball Z Abridged , I think it’s fair to say you’ve been missing out. At Youmacon 2011, I was able to speak with four members of the group: MasakoX (voice of Goku, Gohan, etc.), Takahata101 (voice …Read more »
Although Resident Evil: Revelations promises to include underwater enemies for the first time ever in the Resident Evil series, you will not get any of that action in the demo that was released last week. This is a pity, but it's free, so what are …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine, Erin Finnegan touched on what makes Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman such an enticing read. The creative team behind Death Note wastes no time sugar-coating the grueling process behind actually getting professional manga published in a …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA (on stands now), we boldly leap into the second attempt to animate Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter manga. It may seem like an odd choice to start from scratch—especially for those who already blazed through Nippon Animation's 62-episode …Read more »
Ocean Waves ( Umi ga Kikoeru , aka I Can Hear the Ocean ) is a made-for-TV animated movie from Studio Ghibli that was first shown on TV in Japan on May 5, 1993. It’s long been considered the “lost” Studio Ghibli film because it …Read more »
Don’t get me wrong: I love the Golgo 13 television series. The episodes are quite faithful adaptations of their source material. But in a sense, they just might be a little TOO faithful. That source material consists of Japanese comic books created by an assembly …Read more »
It must be an interesting life, to be a voice actor. You can walk around with overall anonymity, yet you have fans all over who adore you and go ga-ga when you launch into the voices of your characters. While attending Detroit’s Youmacon , I …Read more »
When we interviewed legendary director Yasuhiro Imagawa for our February issue, little did we expect we’d have the chance to speak to him again a scant few months later. That’s what happened, though, at this weekend’s Pacific Media Expo in Los Angeles, where Imagawa was …Read more »
Elfen Lied has a very memorable opening. A naked girl with her face covered by some sort of helmet breaks free of her laboratory imprisonment and kills more than twenty people while walking out of the building. She doesn’t appear to touch any of them, …Read more »
You can read my formal review of Right Stuf's Gasaraki re-release in the January 2012 issue of Otaku USA magazine, but I had a few more things to say on the topic that wouldn't fit into a 650 word review. In case you haven't read …Read more »
Nobody quite expected Tiger and Bunny , a recent Japanese animated TV series about American-style superheroes, to be the big hit anime series of 2011. Where had Japan been hiding the people who could make such a show? For the answer, let's look back in …Read more »
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