The dark fantasy realm in which the current anime adaptations of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk unfolds is a turbulent existence, where it’s a struggle for heroes to survive each day as they’re relentlessly assailed by ceaseless hordes of malevolent beings fixated on their destruction. In a …Read more »
Manga author Rei Hiroe had a problem. After having spent most of the 2000s writing the gun-based action series Black Lagoon, he got stuck in a rut. Release of new chapters became sporadic, until one day he just stopped right in the middle of an …Read more »
Yoshino Koharu has found herself in a bit of bind. She’s on the edge of graduating from college and she’s searching for full-time employment in the sleepless metropolis of Tokyo, because Tokyo is where everything happens. The problem is she’s already had 30 different interviews …Read more »
Forget plot, forget characters – based on images alone, what is the greatest-looking anime of all time? That was the question put recently to readers of popular Japanese anime site Charapedia, who got to work whipping up a list of the top 20 most kirei …Read more »
As fans around the globe celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, the latest film, Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You! , is here to bring wave upon wave of nostalgia to those who grew up with the original anime series. The film, which …Read more »
First, catch up on any action you missed! Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 Nights 11-12 Nights 13-16 Nights 17-19 The 27th G1 Climax may have come to a close, but our collective praise for this year’s …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 Nights 11-12 Nights 13-16 A sold out Ryogoku Sumo Hall played host to what were possibly the three greatest nights in G1 Climax history. Almost certainly the finest two. And most definitely …Read more »
That’s it. I quit. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: teen idols and bright yellow blobs failing to act their way out of a paper bag in Assassination’s Classroom . ERASED , a film I wish someone would’ve had the sense to do with …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 Nights 11-12 We’re 80 matches deep into the 2017 G1 Climax, and I have watched and written about all of them. Oh god, please send help. But first, enjoy this look back …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 I struggle to recall a time when the G1 Climax didn't consume our daily lives. Is it because the G1 has always been with us, or that we’re only truly alive when …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 The G1 Climax stops for no one, least of all you or I. As if to prove this as fact, lovely Nagoya — and what appeared to be a decommissioned Soviet prison camp in …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 “People won’t buy into wrestlers who want to have a long and healthy life.” - Hiroshi Tanahashi Words of wisdom? Perhaps not. But words all twenty G1 Climax competitors have clearly chosen to live by, as …Read more »
This story originally appeared in the August 2017 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls is a simultaneously adorable and lewd series with plenty of interesting situations revolving around, well… monster girls. Following one Japanese student, Kimihito Kurusu, who’s suddenly …Read more »
This story originally ran in the December 2015 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. The “monster girl” scene has been mounting as a bit of a fad as of late, taking women (and men, in some cases) who look like monsters and slotting them in stories …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 The world may be coming to an end, but the G1 Climax continues on, and forever will long after we’ve been reduced to ash. So here we are, with a double — no — a triple-sized update covering …Read more »
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