Overworked and underappreciated, the Nightmare Detective has one hell of a dirty job. With the ability to enter people's dreams, he can analyze them and discover the root of their issues, an ability that tends to leave him unstable and suicidal himself. When detective Keiko …Read more »
Japanese popular music outside of Japan used to be a mysterious and obscure no-man'sland accessible only to record collectors and people with enough money to blow on pricey imports. But now, thanks to YouTube, it's as easy as punching the following names into a search …Read more »
I had no idea that when my friend Coatea invited me to see her band The Feminine play their second-ever show at club Heavy Sick in Tokyo that one day they would be rocking the Western world via an appearance on Jonathan Ross's Japanorama TV …Read more »
[Excerpted from the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA magazine Ryuhei Kitamura is a giant among Japanese film directors. The only catch is, he's not in Japan anymore. A newly minted Los Angelino, Kitamura is currently prepping his US film debut with Midnight Meat Train, …Read more »
Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster is the original Toho monster team-up, in which Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra pool their resources to defeat the invasion of King Ghidorah, an evil extraterrestrial determined to destroy the Earth. Ghidorah arrives on Earth in a meteorite-actually a space egg-that periodically …Read more »
Rocket K Time Machine Rk Marguerite Music, 2007 If your ears are anything like mine, you enjoy music as it is for the most part, yet are you sometimes left with the nagging suspicion that nearly every song ever written could be vastly improved by …Read more »
[Interview excerpted from the December 2007 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. William Tsutusi and David Cox are real smart guys. William is an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. David teaches multimedia at San Francisco City College. Both are rabid Godzilla fans, …Read more »
Stop me if you've heard this one: At the close of World War II, in a desperate attempt to create the ultimate super-soldier, a Nazi submarine absconds from Germany with the heart of Frankenstein's Monster in tow. The submarine transports the still-beating heart to Hiroshima, …Read more »
[Interview excerpted from the December issue of Otaku USA magazine.] At the Anime Expo convention in 2007, J-rocker Gackt performed as part of the band S.K.I.N for the first time in the US. This super group, whose members are Gackt, Yoshiki, Miyavi, and Sugizo, seemed …Read more »
Plant yourself, if you will, inside the soft, roped footings of a ninja sneaking about Japan in the 1500s. Your clan has been scattered and politics have become a precarious position with which you need to intertwine yourself discreetly if you want your group to …Read more »
Butterflies are the bane of humankind. They may be pretty and they may pollinate beautiful flowers that bring us joy, but butterflies also do everything in their power to unleash hordes of dinosaurs upon our cities. Don't believe me? It happened in Ray Bradbury's A …Read more »
The Captains In a Cage of Roses Last G.S. Records, 2007 "Have you ever heard The Captains? They're one of my favorite bands right now. I'm currently working on setting up a fall US tour for them and I'm also going to be releasing their …Read more »
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