To date, Hollywood has had a pretty rough time with adaptation of manga and anime. With the boxoffice bombs of movies such as Speed Racer and Dragonball: Evolution, you’d think Hollywood executives would give up on bringing...

“Time flies.” - Kazuichi Hanawa By his own admission, noted Mangaka (pro comics creator) Kazuichi Hanawa had long been interested in themes of confinement. An early, unfinished experiment was a manga concerning a masked man locked up in a...

Many of us are in the midst of mourning/celebrating TOKYOPOP, which closed up shop in the United States last month.  The fate of many ongoing series is undetermined (and Amazon is unable to fulfill orders for them),...

This edition of Otaku Trauma, I’ll be reviewing the first two episodes for the animes with some of the longest names of the season.  That’s right, it’s time for and AnoHana! Ano Hi Mita Hana no...

The second two series I watched this past anime season, Level E and .hack//Quantum, are finished and watched and digested. I was rather pleased with how both turned out, though there was a storyline I wish they...

Let me tell you all a secret–Blu-rays in Japan are the same regional coding as America.  Meaning if there’s a movie you’re quite desperate to see, but can’t make it to Japan for nor can you afford...

Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro Toriko is part man, part demon, and one hundred percent aggression.  When the Hotel Gourmet wants to impress important guests at a function, Igo, the chef, decides on a meal of garara gator,...

Of the four animes I watched regularly from this Winter season, I was the happiest with Level E (no surprises there) and shocked by Freezing the most (waaaay more fanservice than the manhwa, let me tell you). ...

Today on Otaku Trauma I’ll be reviewing Gate 7, the newest manga from powerhouse CLAMP.  Plus news for your every day life! Gate 7 is CLAMP’s newest manga.  Originally intended as a one-shot, it expanded in...