Manga in America have age ratings like All Ages or 16+, but who decides these ratings, how do they decide them, and how consistent are they? Some schools have pulled manga from the shelves over ...

This article originally appeared in the April 2020 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on stands now and available online. This is the extended version of the interview, enjoy! Chavez took a moment out of ...

(Warning: The following article may contain spoilers for the end of the Nadesico TV series! Read at your own risk!) Several months later Xebec unleashed the film, Martian Successor Nadesico: The ...

Milky Subway takes place in a spacefaring world that’s at once futuristic and retro. There are hovercars, space subways, and aliens. But everything is lived-in and well-used, and these futuristic ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

J. Michael Tatum has acted in more than 400 roles, with some of his best-known including Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler, Erwin Smith in Attack on Titan, Tenya Iida in My Hero Academia, Tomoe in ...

Sometimes nothing beats the thrill of tossing in a couple 100 yen coins into a gachapon machine and opening up the plastic capsule to see your prize. It’s a gamble, of course, but that’s half the ...

Sasaki and Miyano volume 1, a BL manga rated Teen, was recently banned district-wide by Florida’s Brevard County Public School Board. This occurred after a mother who hadn’t read the book put in an ...

The Media Blasters Twitter page is giving us some nice extras for the anime Kite. The first is part of an interview with writer and director Yasuomi Umetsu that you can get on the Blu-ray. “I’ve had a ...

pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing ...

Neon Genesis Evangelion is never far from the mind of anime fans. The franchise, now 25 years old, is still a perennial favorite, as evidenced most recently by the huge number of streams each of the ...

The Kano sisters, also known as Kyoko and Mika Kano, are two famous women in Japan who’ve done everything from modeling to publishing books. Recently they released photos of themselves cosplaying as ...