Mike McFarland has been involved with the anime industry a very long time, getting in on the proverbial ground floor as one of the first voice actors Funimation hired for their dub of Dragon Ball Z (as Master Roshi and Yajirobe) back in the mid …Read more »
Were you a fan of this year’s The Heroic Legend of Arslan series? Good news: a second series is on order for 2016. That’s the word from this week’s Arslan -centered “Yashasiin! Carnival” event, which debuted a short video announcing the 2016 series. The 2015 …Read more »
Okay, this is one of the best polls in a while. As certified fans of facial hair, we were delighted here at OUSA HQ this week to see the subject of anime polling site Charapedia’s latest top 20: anime’s best beards. But it gets even …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 »
The AWE me channel's Man at Arms web series has master swordsmith Tony Swatton and his crew forging weapons from video games, movies, and television, and anime has made its way onto the show from time to time. The latest video features Ed Elric's spear …Read more »
Good news for fans of Cowboy Bebop (in other words, just about everyone on the planet who has seen Cowboy Bebop ): Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe has a new series coming out, and the official website, launched just the other day, gives us a glimpse …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa's agricultural manga Silver Spoon is getting ready to kick off in Japan on July 11, and the first full trailer is here to introduce the series' main cast to the tune of miwa's opening theme, "Kiss …Read more »
Fullmetal Alchemist mangaka Hiromu Arakawa has another new work in the chamber, and this time it's an adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's epic fantasy novel series The Heroic Legend of Arslan . Arakawa's take on the material is scheduled to kick off in Shonen Magazine 's …Read more »
Foiled again by those pesky release dates! Last week I was dabbing away my tears at the lack of Sailor Moon in my area with the hopes of a big stack of books from Digital Manga this week. Alas that while their website says one …Read more »
If the world really does end this weekend, at least we got the opportunity to check out the trailer for the new Fullmetal Alchemist movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Stars of Milos , right? Wait, if the world ends we won't even get to see …Read more »
This spring will see a slew of new series making their debut in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday . Among them, a brand new manga from Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa is on its way. Not much more is known about Arakawa's manga, including the title, …Read more »
In honor of Comic-Con International, which takes place next week in sunny San Diego, Funimation has a slew of discounted anime on iTunes. Their sale, detailed below, will run from July 12 to August 3. Topping the promotional offerings are three free introductory episodes. Fullmetal …Read more »
Watching a reboot of a series that originally aired in Japan in 2003 kind of makes me feel like I was cryogenically frozen at some point, only to wake up at least a decade or more down the line. Fullmetal Alchemist may not be that …Read more »
You might not guess it from reading our humble magazine, but Otaku USA is staffed by a bunch of rebel ne'er-do-wells. Last weekend three of us broke some of the toughest laws around - the laws of Otakon. Otakon 2009 was the year we all …Read more »
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