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 ...

One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

Last year, Otaku USA reported on a member of second biggest yakuza group getting busted for stealing Pokémon cards. But it turns out more members of the yakuza, also known as the Japanese mafia, are ...

Spider-Man: Kizuna takes place on Earth-8989. In this corner of the multiverse, Peter Parker finds himself in Okahama City, once again fighting the Green Goblin. But something’s gone wrong: his last ...

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 ...

I Was Sold Dirt Cheap But My Power Level Is Off the Charts is a fun isekai manga involving mecha. Since the first day of school, Yuta has been waiting for the annual class trip to reveal his feelings ...

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 ...

Writer Kureha and illustrator Bodax’s Bride of the Barrier Master is a romantic fantasy light novel series from publisher Kadokawa Shoten, and it’s officially getting an anime adaptation. The main ...

Manga adaptations are a great way to be introduced to other forms of media you may have never considered paying attention to before or had no access to. More and more culturally significant stories by ...

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 ...

It’s been a little over seven years since author Yuumikan kicked off the BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. novel series, and now it’s officially come to an end. Yuumikan ...

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 ...