For over a year Otaku USA e-news has been delivering fresh features, interviews, news, and more, straight from Japan to our readers' inboxes. We've been thrilled with the response, and lately we've started giving back with discounts on products, magazine subscriptions, and merchandise. Now we're …Read more »
Attack on Titan is getting the action game treatment on Nintendo 3DS in Japan, and this morning's Nintendo Direct presentation provided a brief overview of some of its gameplay and features. In addition to taking down Titans as Eren and others in a single-player Story …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai's anime has a very distinct feel to it, from the first work that really got his name noticed, 2002's Voices of a Distant Star , to 2011's Children Who Chase Lost Voices . Most of this comes from both his personal visual touch …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka's Atomcat is inspired by Astro Boy , but you don’t have to have read Astro Boy to understand what’s going on in this manga. It opens showing us the “birth” of Astro Boy—and then we realize these pages are being read by our …Read more »
Picture this: A couple, madly in love, is flying aboard a hot air balloon. They’re in trouble: the load must be lightened or the balloon will crash into a ravine. “Maybe I should jump,” says the man. “You’d have a good life.” “No!” screams the …Read more »
As announced at Otakon in August, Viz Media is planning a major comeback for Rumiko Takahashi's legendary manga and anime series Ranma ½ . The manga will be available in deluxe 2-in-1 omnibus editions, displayed in the original right-to-left format for the first time ever …Read more »
One Piece 's English dub is getting a new addition when FUNimation releases the One Piece Film: Strong World anime movie. In an excerpt from a 20-minute interview that will accompany the feature when it hits shelves on November 19, FUNimation introduces voice actor Ian …Read more »
Lots of people say they have the boss from hell, but for Kaya, that might literally be the case. Her boss is a vampire. Kyohei is the managing director of Tohma Corp., and he has a large turnover rate with his secretaries. His father is …Read more »
Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist serves up the first work from mangaka Asumiko Nakamura to be made available in English, and it makes for a hell of an introduction. Nakamura's tale of an author wrestling against his own snowballing plagiarism and its source—an enigmatic …Read more »
Cross-series brawler J-Stars Victory Vs. is gearing up to celebrate Shonen Jump 's 45th anniversary on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, and we've already gotten the lowdown on some of its all-star lineup. Series like One Piece , Toriko , Naruto , Rurouni Kenshin , …Read more »
Even if you haven't been following the Man at Arms web series regularly, you may recall a few of swordsmith Tony Swatton's anime and game-related creations. We posted one when he recreated Cloud Strife's Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII , and a more recent …Read more »
The setup of Mitsuhisa Kuji's Wolfsmund manga is pretty simple. In the European Alps of the early 14th century, the Sankt Gotthard Pass checkpoint, AKA Wolfsmund, houses a notorious gatekeeper. The ruthless bailiff Wolfram is known for his cruel measures in sorting out those attempting to …Read more »
Katsura Hoshino created her own nineteenth century in D.Gray-Man , just as she created her own mythology and monsters. Allen Walker is a teenager exorcist who has to take care of the akuma. Akuma aren’t demons, per se. They’re weapons, and they come from the …Read more »
I’m going to be honest with you guys. I’ve never really read Love Hina . Or Negima! Haven’t seen the anime adaptations, either, despite hearing about both from friends and the internet in general for about 15-odd years, now. What I do know is that …Read more »
1) The very first Otakon in 1994 attracted around 300 anime fans. Otakon 2012's attendance number of 30,785 is nearly 88 times that. 2) Otakon's 2012 attendance makes it the 2nd largest American anime convention in the United States. 3) If you learned something at …Read more »
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