This story is excerpted from the February 2015 issue of Otaku USA Magazine, on sale now! This classic series gets released in America at long, long last! Kimagure Orange Road was one of the superstar manga of the 80s, and though it was never officially …Read more »
The voices may be different, but watching classic Sailor Moon in English still has the power to make you feel as if that DIC logo is going to pop up at any moment. It's that white-hot nostalgia that makes serving the existing fans a tall …Read more »
Originally announced back in 2012, Expelled from Paradise , a new original film produced by Toei and Nitroplus, directed by Seiji Mizushima ( Gundam 00 The Movie ) and written by Gen Urobuchi ( Madoka Magica, Psycho Pass ), premiered this week in Japan. Expelled …Read more »
Dig through a deep jungle, bumping and hopping over wild terrain, and you'll eventually run into a prestigious school known as Marhawa Academy. Located in The Middle of Nowhere, Asia, Marhawa's students are locked away from the outside world, experiencing life in their own special …Read more »
Parasyte , Hitoshi Iwaaki’s early 90s manga about body-snatching creatures who infect humans and attempt to take over the world, is back in a big way this year with an anime series, Parasyte the maxim , and two live-action films, the first of which premiered …Read more »
This story was originally published in the April 2008 issue of Otaku USA Magazine. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is the finest Mamoru Oshii film not actually directed by Mamoru Oshii. Although Oshii wrote the screenplay and established the universe, it’s the first (and only) film …Read more »
Fans of Mamoru Oshii, the director of anime classics like Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor , are split into two distinct groups: those who like his live-action work and those who don’t. Oshii’s been working in live-action for years, but his real-life films are …Read more »
Luna is on a trip to America with her family when the worst happens. A car accident kills her parents and brother in a fiery explosion right before her eyes. After this, the manga fast forwards to seven years later where Luna is giving a …Read more »
Hinata is living in an area that’s experiencing a number of “vampiric attacks.” The girls targeted thankfully aren’t killed, but they suffer major blood loss. While all of this is pretty scary, Hinata’s best friend Kana is still a vampire fangirl, and can’t get enough …Read more »
There’s a lot of shoujo romance manga with pretty boys out there, but My Love Story!! has a different take on this. The pretty boy isn’t the hero… this time, the guy who isn’t considered aesthetically pleasing in manga gets to be the hero for …Read more »
Like any self-respecting anime, TERRAFORMARS starts by putting its protagonist in a cage match against a massive, blood-thirsty bear. It's doubtful the organizers of the spectacle could have foreseen what happens next, as Akari Hizamaru goes through some sort of mutation, making an instant too-hot-for-TV …Read more »
Middle schooler Mutsumi is in trouble. She’s so badly bullied by her classmates that she finds herself crying in the school bathroom. Normally she doesn’t pay much attention to the graffiti on the bathroom stalls, but today she notices graffiti where someone called Yato promises …Read more »
One of the nice things about Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan series is it opens itself up for so many different branches of storytelling. Sure, everyone loves following the intense exploits of Eren, Mikasa, and the rest of the core cast as they attempt to …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin is a story of redemption: whether a man who has killed hundreds can gain forgiveness and work for peace. Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends , films two and three in the live action Rurouni Kenshin series are themselves a kind of redemption …Read more »
Someone take all these franchises away from Ryuhei Kitamura. He doesn't need 'em. Kitamura, the director of Lupin III , blasted onto the Japanese movie scene with the low-budget zombie martial arts epic Versus . Shot on a budget of what probably amounted to "enough …Read more »
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