http://www.otakunews.com/us/ Otaku News the news site that covers anime, manga and other things of interest to fans of Japan. Copyright: (C) Otaku News http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2066 The good folks from the Kansai Club have sent us details of their Kickstarter to get Osamu Tezuka's The Crater published in English. They intend to publish it a... Sun, 19 May 2013 15:28:54 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2066 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2064 A while ago, we posted an article about the crazy world of Neon Genesis Evangelion Merchandise. It proved to be very popular with our readers. Checking now, we... Sun, 12 May 2013 20:51:46 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2064 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2063 With convention season kicking off it's time to remind everyone to keep an eye out for pirate goods. Do you know if the event you are going to has a pirate good... Sun, 12 May 2013 14:40:55 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2063 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2061 We love giant robots. What could be better than flying around in space and blowing stuff up in a giant robot? We love them so much that we've teamed up with the... Mon, 06 May 2013 14:05:35 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2061 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2060 The good folks from GEN Manga have sent us details of their latest publication. They've just released their seinen title Alive into a single Tankobon - Alive -... Sun, 05 May 2013 16:12:06 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2060 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2054 On Saturday 6th of April, AnimeDublin held it's second one-day con in Dublin City and one of our reporters was on hand to see things and take some pictures!... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:45:19 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2054 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2051 DAISUKI, a Japanese video streaming service for anime fans outside Japan, announces in multiple emails that their service will be available in the UK and Irelan... Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:13:20 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2051 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2047 On-line and legitimate manga streaming service JManga will be shutting down it's retail and viewing services on May 30th 2013. In other words it's shutting down... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:57:38 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2047 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2046 Readers will be sad to hear that manga industry pioneer Toren Smith passed away on Tuesday March 5th 2013. We could write an obituary about the man who broug... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:00:32 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2046 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2044 Fans of everything kawaii will want to tune into NHK World this weekend to catch the latest broadcast of Kawaii International. Episode #09 Kawaii Summit wil... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:59:03 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2044 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2043 The good folks Gen Manga have sent us details of their latest publication. The publisher bringing us Indie Manga from the Tokyo Underground has branched out to... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:44:57 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2043 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2042 Episode 7 of the Otaku News Podcast is now live! The Otaku News Podcast gang is back to look at some recent news, cast their eyes over some new anime from the W... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:35:51 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2042 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2039 Otaku photographers who want to tell the world they love Neon Genesis Evangelion will be pleased to hear about the new PENTAX Q10 Evangelion model. Available in... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:02:36 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2039 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2038 J-Pop fans who can access NHK World will want to tune in for Johnnys' World: Top of the J-Pops. The documentary focuses on Johnny Kitagawa of talent agency J... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:36:02 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2038 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2037 Moe anime fans who like the adventures of a certain light music club will be pleased to hear that Sentai Filmworks have the license for K-On the movie. The anim... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:41:21 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2037 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2035 Returning for the second time in 2012, the fourth Hyper Japan festival in November welcomed thousands of visitors to Earls Court for a three day extravaganza of... Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:28:39 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2035 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2034 We've just heard that popular on-line retailer Play.com will stop 'first party retail sales' by the end of March 2013. They intend to focus on it's Marketplace... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:58:06 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2034 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2032 Back at Amecon last August thanks to the convention committee we got to spend lunch with voice actor Brad Swaile. It's taken me a bit of time to get the intervi... Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:49:42 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2032 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2031 Episode 6 of the Otaku News Podcast is now live! This episode we talk about some upcoming licenses and new shows, Comikets bomb threat and a live action Dragon... Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:27:40 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2031 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2029 US-based anime streaming company Crunchyroll announces release of app for Xbox 360 game console.... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:25:10 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2029 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2026 October 2012's London MCM expo was the most successful ever. It included a stall by influential and controversial manga artists Toshio Maeda. Creator of the the... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:17:47 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2026 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2025 The good folks from NHK World have sent us details of their December 2012 highlights have sent us details of their December Highlights. The works of surreal... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:47:17 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2025 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2020 The good folks from GEN Manga have just release their latest Issue GEN 16. This issue continues the instalments of Psycho, Android Angels, Stones of Power, A... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:58 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2020 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2017 Every so often we get sent product details we just have to shout about. Something so amazing, so just wow, they need to be documented, the word needs to be spre... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:20:31 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2017 http://www.otakunews.com/us/article.php?story=2016 UK based anime fans will be pleased to hear that the good folks from Manga Entertainment UK have given us one copy of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Colle... Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:47:20 GMT http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2016