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Iowa Otaku Arrested for Manga
This news completely ticks me off! Check this article out byAnime News Network. An otaku in Iowa was charged with up to 20 years in prison for possession of obscene loli manga he bought from Japan. ...
New York Anime Fest 2008 Recap
Danielle w/Hideyuki Kikuchi (Click Here for the full gallery)Got that post-con sad feeling a bit. No matter though; here is a review of our experience at the 2008 New York anime Festival and yes, t...
New York Anime Festival 08 & Chinatown
Hey Everyone,Anime Fest 2008 was one crazy time. We weren't able to make it to the final day due to pure exhaustion and a long train ride so we spend the day with some other after-party otaku in Chin...
Danny Choo on CNN
Check this out everyone. Good friend and blogging role model, Danny Choo just had his own feature story on CNN. It's nice to see a bit on Danny's famous family heritage and of course to see anime an...
An AMV about AMVs
If any of you have been to my AMV section you might have noticed a new amv under the Fan Submission part. Thanks to Youtube member Patricktiel for this sick amv about well... making amvs. Thought yo...
Anime Fest 2008 Schedule
Looks like the schedule for the 2008 New York Anime Festival is up and running. there are many events that Danielle will try to go to, in particular we will definitely will attend the Amano and the H...
Cosplay Section Preview
Here I go again with another preview of the new galleries that will be coming soon. This one is something I sort of had but images of me, Danielle and other cosplayers of the 2002 I-Con convention i...
The Otaku Choice: Obama
Ok, I just had to get this off my chest. For the most part, many of us American otaku could care less about politics, myself included. If you follow the news at all, we all know that we are less tha...
Anime Fest 2008
It's official guys, both Danielle and I will be attending all three days of the upcoming New York Anime Fest 2008 on September 26th, 27th, 28th. Looks like the only good hotel that doesn't cost an ar...
Vampire Hunter D Short Story to Debut At NY Anime Fest
The upcoming New York Anime Fest, in which you might be able to meet me there, will also feature some debuts like this one noted by Anime News Network. Vampire Hunter D "The Wanderer's Ship" written b...
12 Year Old Starts An Anime Business
Looks like I'm not the only young guy who's dumping the job world to run my otaku passion full time. At the amazing age of 12, Umar Brimah of Cape Girardeau, Missouri has opened a shop named Yumazu A...
CAS Review: The Dark Knight (No Spoilers)
The goal of this post is to not give away any spoilers so that I will keep my word on that.Late last night I got to see this year's number 1 movie, The Dark Knight. It sure lived up to its name and t...
Viz Media to Review Amateur Work At 2008 Comic Con International
Ok...Now I need to seriously give myself a serious beat-down. In recent news via Anime News Network, looks like for the first time ever Viz Media is going to seriously check out fan-made work at the ...
Featured Anime Voice Actor (Seiyu): Mamoru Miyano
Welcome to another weekly post about famous Seiyus , anime voice actors. This is just a fun little post that will hopefully surprise you to see who does the voices of your favorite characters and yo...
Jim Henson's Dark Crystal
Yesterday I was finally able to see on DVD a movie that I have not seen in it's entirety since I was only a year old in 1984. Yes, what might have been the very first movie I have ever seen in my lif...
Featured Anime Voice Actor: Vic Mignogna
Welcome to another weekly segment on anime's most famous voice actors both English and Japanese. This week is none other than the English voice of Edward Elric, Vic Mignogna.Vic was born in Greensbur...
Pantsu Shirts
One of my product dealers came out with this awesome shirt yesterday. Definitely for panstu (panty) fans. Anyone daring enough to wear one?...
Featured Anime Voice Actor (Seiyu): Megumi Hayashibara
Welcome another weekly summery on famous anime voice actors, aka seiyus. This week I've finally posted a non-gaijin Seiyu and most probably the most famous of them all, Ms. Megumi Hayashibara.Hayashib...
"Re" Introducing Project Fumi
There are a few otaku who might have remembered my original plan to create my first video game and the official site mascot. Being that I've been a gamer since I was 1 year old (no kidding) it has be...
Featured Anime Voice Actor: Richard Ian Cox
Welcome to another weekly segment about famous anime voice actors both English and Japanese. This week's feature voice actor is non other than Richard Ian Cox. Richard is most famous for of course h...
The Gackt, FFVII Genesis Connection
For any otaku who didn't know, Japanese music artist Gackt is in fact Genesis from FFVII Dirge of Cerberus and the recent Crisis Core game. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura is a big fan of his work ...
Popopure Maid Cafe Lets You Dub Anime
Many have heard of the Maid Cafes in the otaku shopping district of Akihabara but none like this. Popopure Cafe has food served to hungry otaku by cute little maids but while you chow down on some yu...
First Picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku
Well, here it is..the first picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku. I don't know what to say about the Live action DBZ movie in the works... I really hope it doesn't suck.Thanks to Anime News Network....
Vanessa Mae, The Ultimate Violin Player
My lovely fiancee Danielle recently showed me the works of the lady you see above; Vanessa Mae. Couldn't go without blogging about this extremely talented violinist. Many of you probably already kno...
Cartoon Network to Run Blue Dragon
Some of you might be familiar with the Xbox game Blue Dragon; I've yet to play it but many otaku have two strong reasons to play it. First reason is that the game's character designer as you can gues...
New Anime on the Hollywood Block, Live Action Akira
The list keeps growing on anime titles that are to get the Hollywood makeover. Whether that is good or bad is up to the fans but looks like the next anime to be a live action movie is Akira. What's ...
More Dragon Ball Movie Actors but Still No Trailer
Keeping everyone up to date with the upcoming Dragon Ball movie that comes out in August.. here are some more actors confirmed last month for the movie; still no trailer yet though.Grandpa Gohan - Ran...
New Contest and the Hare Hare Yukai Winner
Some of you might have been wondering when I'll update the contest page; well today I did. First off I want to congratulate Christina A. for winning the Hare Hare Yukai Contest. She won the Mikuru...
Working Gundam Would Cost $730 million
Some interesting news from Japan. As of a few days ago, SciencePortal.jp, a top scientific website run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency released a report showing the cost if the military wa...
More DBZ Movie News: Master Roshi and Others Cast
To keep everyone up to date with the Dragon Ball Z live action movie; today it was announced that Chow Yun-Fat will play Master Roshi in the Dragon Ball Z movie coming out on August 15th 2008. Origin...