Shusei is the most popular boy in school, but Aoi still thinks he’s scum. That’s because he coldly rejected Aoi’s best friend Moe when she tried to ask him out. Aoi is so close to Moe that she lives in an apartment on her own …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks started rolling out the English dub cast announcements for the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime. The series is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on March 29, and the first cast member to be revealed is Scott Gibbs as Mikoto Mikoshiba. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun will …Read more »
Strange and beautiful … steeped in fairy tales, danger, romance, and magic…. The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a tapestry of wonders both beautiful and melancholy. Chise, a girl from Japan, finds herself being sold in a mysterious auction and purchased by the mage Elias who …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks picked up the My Love Story!! anime license back in May of last year, and it looks like they have even bigger plans for this one. My Love Story!! , which adapts the romantic comedy manga written by Kazune Kawahara and illustrated by …Read more »
© Akira Caskabe/Yuko Takemiya “It’s so corny it hurts! It hurts soo baaad!” Yes. Yes it does. Those words are shrieked out by Yoshimatsu Hotaka, the main character of Evergreen , but it may describe readers’ reactions as well. Hotaka is a skinny sad-sack suffering …Read more »
College freshman Tada Banri meets Yanagisawa Mitsuo on his first day of school. It’s a bromance at first sight as both of them are hoping for a fresh start in college for very different reasons. Tada suffers from amnesia and Mitsuo suffers from girl trouble, …Read more »
Seven Seas recently added a couple more manga licenses to their lineup, including My Girlfriend is a T-Rex , by Sanzo, and The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth , written by Yu Aikawa and illustrated by Haruno Atori. The first volume of My …Read more »
The live-action film adaptation of Kazune Kawahara and Aruko's My Love Story!! manga premieres in Japan on October 31, and a trio of new ads are here to promote the release. Watch the snippets of footage, which feature Noriyuki Makihara's "No. 1" theme song, below. …Read more »
Hey, remember Fruits Basket ? The shoujo manga about a family who turn into zodiac animals, adapted into a popular anime series back in 2001, will get an online sequel courtesy manga website HanaLala this September. Fruits Basket another takes place after the original series …Read more »
In addition to the anime that's currently running, Kazune Kawahara and Aruko's My Love Story!! ( Ore Monogatari!! ) manga is getting a live-action film adaptation. Directed by Hayato Kawai ( Hanakage , Hachimitsu Drops ) and starring Ryohei Suzuki as extra-large protagonist Takeo Gouda, …Read more »
The internet seems to run on lists these days, and that’s no less true in Japan, where several sites have taken to regularly polling their audience and listing the results for fun and profit. But the constant creation of new polls means coming up with …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks added a couple more spring anime series to its lineup this week, with the latest being Triage X and MY Love Story!! . Both shows are being added to select digital outlets, with home video releases to follow. Triage X is based on …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , Ink waxes poetic about Your lie in April , the A-1 Pictures anime based on the original manga by Naoshi Arakawa. The story follows piano prodigy Kousei Arima, who no longer has the ability to play like …Read more »
Diabolik Lovers is an anime adaptation of an otome visual novel franchise, and the way one approaches this title could have a real effect on how one ends up feeling about it. The main character Yui is a high school girl who goes to live …Read more »
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 »
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