The AMAs have cemented themselves as a fixture in the American Manga industry  as an evening to celebrate the artistry, ...

"Since I cannot program or draw, I would write the stories for the games and create the game based off of that story. I would ...

"For me, I feel like a lot of storytelling is about perspective, and in the case of manga, what the mangaka has to say about ...

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Between 2008 and 2012, Weekly Shonen Jump serialized manga series Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Nurarihyon no Mago). The title, which was authored by Hiroshi Shiibashi, follows the story of the young ...

It’s late summer in New York City, and that means two things for local otaku: Anime NYC and the American Manga Awards. Last year, anime journalists Sean Gaffney and Erica Friedman had the incredible ...

It’s hard to quantify just how influential Neon Genesis Evangelion really is. References to the series pop up in everything from Sgt. Frog to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But Evangelion’s influence ...

“Oh no! We’ve…we’ve just received word that this is the last issue of Newtype USA magazine. Good heavens!”, reads a small line of text tucked quietly to the bottom of the final page of Newtype USA’s ...

The world of the early-to-mid 2000s may as well have been completely different from the one we inhabit today. It was a time when Walkman tape players gave way to portable CD players, and the phrase ...

Content Warning: Use of transphobic terms in an educational context. Watching the series today, though, I can recognize the ways in which it doesn’t totally hold up in today’s world. It is, like so ...

The term Doujinshi is an established part of avid manga readers’ lexicons. The term often pops up in translator’s notes, as part of countless series’ origin stories, as part of a short story ...

When I first watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, I was struck by an uncanny sense that something about the show’s mid-apocalyptic setting was familiar. Specifically, the scenes at the high school: ...