The concrete arrival of the upcoming Sailor Moon anime is still up in the air after its delay from summer 2013, but at least fans have something to look forward to. Bandai's 20th anniversary SH Figuarts toy is coming to Japan this August for ¥4,410 …Read more »
If you see a Western, English-speaking foreigner in Japan, chances are pretty good that they are an English teacher. There are no shortage of blogs, forums and website spin-offs of anime magazines where people while away their free time talking about the peculiarities of the …Read more »
Rifles, assault weapons, carbines. Not pictured: chocolate, vanilla, stawberry. "Who is the Enemy? The Hot-Blooded Man Who Targets the Wilderness” There’s a million different ways to get your kicks in Tokyo. But alas, many of them are certain to drain your wallet dry, especially now …Read more »
Happy Meals are named as such for good reason: they have toys inside! If that isn't cause enough for extreme happiness, I don't know what is, and McDonald's is making sure those looking forward to this Friday's US theatrical opening of Astro Boy will be …Read more »
That's the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the well-aged 1993 hit US take on Japan's Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger , and it's coming to Saturdays on ABC Kids in January 2010. Joining the show will be a relaunching of the original toy line, as well, which …Read more »
Given how popular Saint Seiya has been worldwide, it's no surprise that there's been plenty of merchandise, including toys. The Saint Seiya fan can get their fill of boys in gorgeous armor in varying grades of action figures, gashapon (trading figures) and static PVC statues. …Read more »
They said it couldn't be done, but because YOU DEMANDED IT, we've gone off our rockers and succumbed to the siren's call of "moe for this issue's installment of Hobby Lobby. For the uninitiated, "moe is a hard-to-translate (and arguably hard to understand) word that …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam became the massive science fiction franchise it is today largely thanks to the runaway success of Gunpla (aka Gundam plastic model kits). But there's a whole other side to the Gundam phenomenon that remains a bit less explored by otaku-dom at large: …Read more »
I'll be honest: at first glance, this doesn't seem like the kind of place one would come to pimp their robot ride. I'm being led through what could be any office in the center of downtown Tokyo. There is nothing here to distinguish it from …Read more »
Hiroyuki Tamamizu opened his very first store back in October 1985. But, its name, U.S. Toys, didn't refer to the United States or even American toys as many overseas collectors might assume. Tamamizu-san merely took the initials of the names of two people who made …Read more »
[Excerpted from the August 2007 issue of Otaku USA Magazine.] What kind of boy hates war? None! The only real problem with war is that everyone likes it, just like drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. But Japanese people did very bad things during World War II, …Read more »
[Excerpted from the October 2007 issue of Otaku USA magazine.] My main collecting habits center around soft vinyl figures of Japanese characters. Known in Japan as "Sofubi, " these toys trace their heritage back to the mid-1960s when now-legendary companies such as Marusan and Bullmark …Read more »
Joseph Luster
Fernando Ramos
Patrick Macias
Clarissa Graffeo
Matt Alt
Mark Nagata (Assisted by Yo Miyamoto)
Tomohiro Machiyama
Alexandria Hill