If there's one thing J-Stars Victory Vs. delivers on right off the bat, it's celebrating the 45th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. If you're a fan of even a small portion of its properties you'll find something you recognize here, and it doesn't shy …Read more »
© Rumiko Takahashi / Shogakukan Ranma ½ will forever remain a staple of my formative years as an anime and manga fan, from the series itself to the way it introduced me to two then distinctly different markets within the same fandom. When I was …Read more »
Reviewing a film that's so far out of your normal range, whose target audience is so obviously not you , is an interesting challenge. That's the task at hand as I sit down to write about the new film from Kyoto Animation, Tamako Love Story …Read more »
Anime fans are often asked by non-fans about the anthropological, cultural and historical facts on anime, and Jonathan Clements’ latest book, Anime: A History , does a great job at telling anime’s background. Clements writes in his introduction, “There is... no full-length history of Japanese …Read more »
To explain why the third BlazBlue chapter (and the fourth BlazBlue console release) is a $50 stand-alone release in an age of DLC and patches, we must explain the people who play fighting games, and how Arc approaches them. There are two groups of fighting …Read more »
The Seven Deadly Sins are getting a totally different vibe with this new adventure manga. Meliodas is a boy of unknown age who runs a tavern (where he serves terrible food) and he’s helped by his talking pig companion, Hawk. They live in Britannia, in …Read more »
What is it about adapting anime to live-action producers find so compelling? The most obvious answer is eyeballs. Live-action adaptations of anime or manga have the possibility to attract mainstream audience members who otherwise avoid anything anime-related (yes, there are plenty of those people in …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , Heidi Kemps covered the excellent M2-developed Sega 3D Classics line on Nintendo 3DS. Be sure to read the article for more on the overall series of 3D remasters—which take some of Sega's hits from the arcade and …Read more »
There’s been a lot of talk about the future of the anime industry lately, a lot of it doomy and gloomy. Many of the masters of the medium are retiring or dying with no clear heirs to step up and replace them, wages and working …Read more »
I always enjoy a good supernatural story, and Anomal has its share of them. The back of the book describes itself as "weird tales of horror and the bizarre," which could lead a reader to expect horror in terms of, well, horror . Blood and …Read more »
Sometimes the only response to the existence of something stupefying is to shrug your shoulders and say: “Hey, it was the Eighties.” This phrase could be the mantra of Battle Royal High School , not to be confused with Battle Royale , the book by …Read more »
Ganta is the lone survivor of a mass murder. He is sitting in his classroom when he sees a floating man in red come up and kill all his other classmates. The red man shoots a piece of red glass into Ganta’s chest, and when …Read more »
The end of Wolfsmund volume one seemed fully prepared to thrust the audience into a central narrative surrounding Wilhelm Tell and his son as they attempt to get through the ruthless pass known as Wolfsmund. Rather than continue with that specific thread, however, volume two …Read more »
Here it is, folks: Otaku USA ’s Top Anime of 2013. Some of our top minds have come together to share their feelings on the year past and choose for you, dear reader, their favorite anime of the year – and believe it or not, …Read more »
What happens when an orca is accused of murder? In our world it might simply get put down, depending on the circumstances, but in the world of Ace Attorney there's always more to the case than that. Thus, it's a no-brainer that Phoenix Wright and …Read more »
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