Otaku – April 2022
English | 112 pages | pdf | 44.56 MB
Hey! This is Patrick and hey, welcome to the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine! Once again, here we are to entertain you with our impressions of some of our very favorite things: Anime, Manga, Games, Cosplay, Toys, and whatever else we can scoop up in our mitts from the bin marked “Fun Stuff from Japan.” If you’re a new reader of our publication, welcome aboard! If you’re a regular around these parts (or better yet, a subscriber!), good to see you back!
So, what do we have in store for you this time? Well … Lupin the Third Part Six is our cover feature, and writer Daryl Surat is on the case with his two cents on the latest installment in this evergreen anime franchise. Up next, Kara Dennison picks up a conductor’s baton and makes sweet music with her take on Takt op.Destiny.
Then, Brittany Vincent puts on a black leather jacket and rocks out to the classic shojou angst of Ai Yazawa’s NANA. Then Michael Goldstein returns to the stage with a tag-team pair of features on Sakugan and Komi Can’t Communicate!
In between these features, you’ll find our usual departments and regular columns, including anime reviews, manga reviews (and samples!), cosplay pics, and even live-action movie reviews! We hope your head won’t spin too much from the sheer amount of stuff we have on display this week!
So, what else, you may ask, is going on? Well, right now, as I sit writing this, it is early December here in Japan. Thanksgiving is a bit of a non-holiday here, as you might imagine, and finding turkey and stuffing is something of a hassle. However, it’s hard to ignore Christmas in Tokyo, with decorations and X-mas carols assaulting your senses everywhere you go. I have mixed feelings about this much Santa Claus and jingle bells to be honest.
One good thing about wintertime is the new season of anime that starts around this time of year. It’s a bit early right now to say what the new breakout hit will be, but there’s much buzz about the new Stone Ocean season of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and the new anime from Studio Bones Super Crooks.
Either way, 2021 was an incredible year for anime, and I wonder if 2022 can possibly top it. At the movies, we got Evangelion 3.0 + 1.01: Thrice Upon a Time, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle, and the runaway smash hit Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc, which opened in the USA last year as well.
What will 2022 bring? My guess is “more great anime!” Until then, enjoy the new issue of Otaku USA!
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