There's a lot going on at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this year, especially with everyone battling it out on the new frontline of motion control warfare. Both Microsoft and Sony busted out some interesting tech demos displaying the potential for their Wii-competing technology, but a …Read more »
Armor Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files Pailsen Files is the most recent installment of the Votoms franchise, released as 30-minute OAV episodes which concluded with vol. 12. The story takes place soon after the events of a late-80s OAV entitled Roots of Ambition , which …Read more »
In U.S. anime fandom, many point to Mobile Suit Gundam (whichever incarnation may be currently available) as the premiere series combining politics and mecha combat. However, for nearly as long, though not quite as popular, there has been a franchise in Japan that is very …Read more »
I don't follow politics, and I don't know how to play mahjong, but I'm a huge fan of Legend of Koizumi , an unlicensed title about world political leaders playing mahjong. Hideki Ohwada re-imagines our world leaders not as feeble old men, but as super-manly …Read more »
In the latest issue of The Mighty Otaku USA—that's number 12, AKA the whopping second year anniversary for those keeping count—we put together a devilish little feature on Katsura Hoshino's shonen hit, D. Gray-man . While writing about the anime, it got its hooks in …Read more »
With the dismal performance of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , I'm betting there are those of you out there who ran straight to the local rental shop or Netflix and demanded a copy of the 1994 animated Street Fighter film as if your …Read more »
Staring at this page and trying to come up with some words to put down about Yuichi Yokoyama's Travel ended up being a lot like reading the comic itself. There's a brief stretch of time at the beginning during which you're just trying to figure …Read more »
Are you, dear Baccano! viewer, so confused at the large cast spread across three time periods that you're having trouble placing who's where and when? Or, perhaps, you feel as though you are watching The Sting , except it's more confusing? Is the eponymous "stupid …Read more »
I like to describe certain events as "crimes" of fandom; developments such as "we never got a US release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? " which make me say "there is no justice in this world!" So it is that one of the biggest …Read more »
I was already really addicted to the theme song from Mirror's Edge , even before they announced last year that a remix album was coming out to coincide with the game's release. I would just keep replaying a trailer on YouTube over and over, listening …Read more »
I like to think I'm always up for a challenge, otherwise people usually call me a glutton for punishment or my own worst enemy. Such was the reaction when I announced that I would enter the national tournament that Gamestop was running for Street Fighter …Read more »
So I don't often cover licensed manga or even properties with media tie-ins for this publication. I'm not opposed to sharing my thoughts on popular titles, but other people might do a better job of that. Besides the magazine would fail you all as an …Read more »
The following statement may or may not be fully supported by this magazine's editorial staff, but given my years of manga experience I wholeheartedly believe it to be true-- "Manga are comics; comics are manga." The differences between the two are so insignificant that in …Read more »
Last summer I turned 31 and as soon as I entered my second trimester of life I realized how limited my options were now that my youth was behind me. Mind you, I have lived a decent life so far. I've visited five continents. Had …Read more »
I feel a pretty fortunate fellow to still have all my old issues of PULP sitting on the shelf back at home. To say that the monthly comics anthology-which was home to our very own head honcho, Patrick Macias, among others-was instrumental in the formative …Read more »
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