Ryuko’s victory would be assured, if only Senketsu’s battle form weren’t so … revealing. Fear is freedom. Subjugation is liberation. Contradiction is truth. Fashion is fascism. Clothing is humanity’s original sin. These are the truths of this wild and crazy world. Welcome to Kill la …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda is back. The director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Summer Wars and Wolf Children ’s first film in three years, The Boy and the Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ), premiered this past weekend in Japan and proceeded to take …Read more »
No one can resist a good ponytail. That’s true for both the male and female respondents to the latest poll from Charapedia, which asked its readers to choose the anime girls who look best with the classic horse tail-resembling ‘do. Who wields anime’s best ponytails? …Read more »
Talk to a Star Trek fan and chances are almost 100% that they’ve at least seen the original series from 1966 (that was nearly 45 years ago!), even if they only just recently became interested in the property thanks to the 2009 movie. Similarly, newly-made …Read more »
On this final day of 2015, forgive us one more best-of list, won’t you? This time, it’s from the guys over at Anime Anime, who have asked their readers to rank the top ten anime films of 2015. And just what did they choose? 10. …Read more »
Ah, end-of-year lists. Many, they are. Our favorite pollmasters Charapedia have gotten in on the end-of-year game by asking their readers: who were the best characters of 2015? The rules were pretty simple: the characters didn’t have to be new, they simply had to appear …Read more »
Charapedia, the Japanese site making a name for itself throughout the internet for its relentless polling of the anime fan populous is at it again, and has asked its readers this time, “who are anime’s most negative characters?” Through good times and bad, these characters’ …Read more »
This week Japanese anime news site Anime Anime held a cool double poll: in one, it asked its readers to choose their favorite Gundam series, and in the other, their favorite non- Gundam robot series. Now, the question Anime Anime specifically asked was “what robot …Read more »
Last weekend we got our first taste of Digimon Adventure tri , the newest series in the Digimon franchise. There have been no shortage of new Digimon shows in the past few years, but this one is special in that it continues the adventures of …Read more »
In this ever-changing world in which we live in, it can be hard not to become a cynic. So all the more power to these 20 anime characters, who Japanese fans have chosen as anime’s purest. Believing in the people around them, these characters, for …Read more »
Welcome to Your Favorite Anime is Secretly Horrifying . This is a recurring feature here at Otaku USA where we look at your most beloved anime and ruin them for you. When you have a nasty habit of analyzing cartoons like we do, you start …Read more »
What is an otaku, anyway? Chances are you may be one, reading Otaku USA Magazine and all. But really, what’s an otaku? The word—conveyed as slang in the katakana オタクor the hiragana おたく—comes from a formal Japanese word for another person’s house or as a …Read more »
Our favorite anime and manga pollsters, Charapedia, are at it again this week with another question for the anime-loving Japanese masses, and their subject this time is a doozy: anime’s most shogekiteki na kamigata : shocking hairstyles. This is our favorite poll in a while. …Read more »
Last month, we shared some concept art of the upcoming Evangelion bullet train, which was set to take passengers from Fukuoka to Osaka and back in purple and green Evangelion style. Now the first departure and christening ceremony of the train have taken place, and …Read more »
Voice actress and pinup idol Ai Takabe has been re-arrested for using cocaine, says Tokyo Reporter. Takabe was initially arrested for possession of the drug October 15, when it was discovered during a search of her residence. Her re-arrest follows positive test for cocaine in …Read more »
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