Director Masaaki Yuasa dives into the questions surrounding our very existence in Kaiba. No viewer familiar with the works of Masaaki Yuasa could mistake the director’s preoccupation with the human body. Whether it’s a fascination with bodies in motion—of the long and lithe physique of …Read more »
Otaku USA contributor Danica Davidson is about to publish her second instructional manga art guide book, Manga Art for Intermediates, so we took the opportunity to talk about the process with her and the book’s illustrator, Rena Saiya. The book officially hits stores on June 12, so …Read more »
The first season of volleyball anime Haikyu!! ended in a devastating loss for the players at Karasuno High. Despite all the progress they managed to make throughout the first 25 episodes, the wall that captain Toru Oikawa and the rest of the team at Aoba …Read more »
Eureka Seven never bloomed into a mecha franchise to rival cultural mainstays like its inspirations Gundam, Macross, and Evangelion. Early reception suggested it certainly had the potential: while it was a mess, it remained at all times throughout its 50-episode run an impassioned mess that …Read more »
When we last saw the members of the Mizusawa Karuta Club, Kanade and Tsutomu made Class C, Nishida Made Class A, Taichi was stuck in Class B, and Chihaya was not Queen. As a team, they did not win nationals but did make it really …Read more »
The Ancient Magus’ Bride doesn’t have a very cheery beginning: Chise Hatori, our 15-year-old protagonist, has just allowed herself to be sold off at an underground auction. She’s expected to command a high price because she’s a Sleigh Beggy, a kind of magic user that …Read more »
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card is a chance to re-meet some old friends and relive some classic magic. But how much has Sakura’s world changed? There are some anime in this world that resonate with us long after their premiere and conclusion. These are the classics, …Read more »
To say that Pop Team Epic’s brand of humor is not for everybody would be an understatement. If you spent enough time around enough anime fans online over the last few years, you are virtually guaranteed to have encountered fan translations of the webcomic Pop …Read more »
Grimoire of Zero develops complicated relationships in the heat of a witchcraft clash for the ages. For the Kingdom of Wenias, the threat of magic is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. Despite the fact that witches have been a contentious presence for some time, it …Read more »
I never would have guessed that in the year 2018 the first anime title to generate a frenzied otaku reaction would be the latest revival of a Go Nagai classic from the early 1970s as interpreted by historically polarizing and noncommercial auteur Masaaki Yuasa, but …Read more »
At times thrilling, at times horrific, at times melancholy, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is a story of survival in the face of incredible hardship. Individually, zombies and the steampunk aesthetic may be the source of much mockery on social media, but combined together the …Read more »
Behind The Magic We’re always told that the sky is the limit, that we all will have that one “dream job” we aspire to land no matter what. For Aoi Miyamori, that dream job lies in the anime industry. She, along with her four best …Read more »
Blood Blockade Battlefront and Beyond continues the anime chaos unleased in Yasuhiro Nightow’s imagination. One of my favorite anime series of 2015 was Blood Blockade Battlefront, and it isn’t solely because I’m a sucker for any show focusing on an elite unit of specialists stopping …Read more »
The Fate series has always proved more appealing in theory than in execution to me. Its core conceit is brilliant: throwing figures of myth into a battle royale laden with arcane rules that exist only to be twisted taps directly into both our ancient fascination …Read more »
In theory, Japanese animation is a rich medium with a diverse palette of storytelling conventions and character archetypes. And to a large degree this is true—within just the past five years you can find dark fantasy (Attack on Titan), figure skating (Yuri!!! on Ice), and …Read more »
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