Otaku USA Magazine

INTERVIEW: Creator Yuu Toyota Explains How She Got the Idea For Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!

INTERVIEW: Creator Yuu Toyota Explains How She Got the Idea For Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! INTERVIEW: Creator Yuu Toyota Explains How She Got the Idea For Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!

INTERVIEW: Creator Yuu Toyota Explains How She Got the Idea For Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!

When Yuu Toyota started Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! as a short webcomic, she had no idea how successful it would be. Now it’s a whole manga series (with ten volumes currently out in English), a live-action show and …Read more  »

Author’s Health Leads to Premature End for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation Manga

Author’s Health Leads to Premature End for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation Manga Author’s Health Leads to Premature End for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation Manga

Author’s Health Leads to Premature End for That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation Manga

The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation has been on hiatus for a while, and now it’s going to end prematurely. Micro Magazine’s Comic Ride magazine announced plans to end the series earlier this month as a result …Read more  »

INTERVIEW: Graphic Novel Shows How Former Political Prisoner Tsai Kun-lin Helped Shape Taiwan’s Manga Boom

INTERVIEW: Graphic Novel Shows How Former Political Prisoner Tsai Kun-lin Helped Shape Taiwan’s Manga Boom INTERVIEW: Graphic Novel Shows How Former Political Prisoner Tsai Kun-lin Helped Shape Taiwan’s Manga Boom

INTERVIEW: Graphic Novel Shows How Former Political Prisoner Tsai Kun-lin Helped Shape Taiwan’s Manga Boom

Tsai Kun-lin, a Taiwanese manga publisher, helped bring about the country’s manga explosion in the 1960s. Now The Boy from Clearwater, a new graphic novel series from author Yu Pei-yun and illustrator Zhou Jian-xin, shares his incredible true story. Volume two drops on May 7 …Read more  »