Seven Seas Sails Toward Some Revisions
Translation is an art. It's especially difficult when translating between two dissimilar languages. For native English speakers, Japanese tends to be one of the hardest languages to learn, although it doesn't...
Editorial: Viz Should Be Saying Something About Nobuhiro Watsuki
On Tuesday, Nobuhiro Watsuki (real name: Nobuhiro Nishiwaki) was charged with possessing child pornography. According to the Tokyo Metropolitian Police, Watsuki had numerous DVDs with naked girls in their early...
The Many Ways to Deal With All Your Old Anime & Manga
Do you remember when you bought your first anime or manga volume? Maybe your first video game? Ah, that was a special time, wasn't it? That purchase led to another, which...
Denpa-rty
Another Otakon came and went, and fans looking forward to big announcements certainly got a surprise: a new manga publisher.
The Path to Denpa
Many of you are already familiar with Ed Chavez....
More Secret Shopping Tricks for Otaku
About a year ago, I provided a list of shopping tips that every otaku should know. Well, here are a few more!
#1: Target prorates their orders.
For a lot of stores, when...
Will Sonic’s Makeover Pay Off for Paramount?
You may remember this trailer for the live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie -- it was met with heavy negative reaction. Fans were already skeptical (or turned off) in the first...
Where Have All the Manga Mondays Gone?
Let's face it: Mondays are awful. There's a reason why we say TGIF and not TGIM. And if you don't hate Mondays, you're either weird or need to take some Monday...
Is The Order a Cosplay?
It's that day of they year again: Halloween, the international day of cosplay!
So while my Halloween-related post last year was finding the best deals around, this year I decided on the...
GameStonk The Movie and Other GameStop News
GameStop is the gift that keeps on giving as the subject of this column. And just when I think I won't need to be writing about them for a while, some...
Barnes & Noble and the “Terrible”, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Quarter
The good news: Barnes & Noble hasn't lost as much money compared to this point last year.
The bad news: Barnes & Noble's current CEO and founder, Leonard Riggio, says the retail...