OTAKU USA Issue 7 Out Now!

Ok. Here’s the new issue of OTAKU USA magazine (Intimate confession time: I’m the editor in chief, is that a conflict of interest?). You know the rules: it should be on sale in an actual store where you actually buy magazines starting now, with the US post office doing their part by delivering them to subscribers as well. Some of you may even have seen this issue being waved around at Anime Expo! I know we’ll take our cracks for supposed "otaku sell out" use of Full Metal Alchemist on the cover, but we’ll be laughing all the way to the bank so we can’t actually hear you. Kidding on both counts, of course, and now it’s time to talk turkey.

What’s Inside: Pictures and writing about anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture in general by the likes of Matt Alt, Yunmao Ayakawa, Emily Balistrieri, Zac Bentz, Casey Brienza, Austell Callwood, J.L. Carrozza, Paul Thomas Chapman, Ed Chavez, Mike Dent, Caleb Dunaway, Tim Eldred, Erin Finnegan, Shaenon Garrity, Clarissa Graffeo, Heidi Kemps. Gilles Poitras, August Ragone, Dave Riley, Daryl Surat, and Darius Washington!

Things that I like about this issue:
Sidebar on the history of Japanese superheroes in America. The Stan Lee interview. The Koichi Ohata interview. Daryl Surat delivering the definitive FMA article of our times. Manga excerpts of both Black Jack and Black Lagoon. Bandai’s Soul of Chogokin super robot toys. Nihon Maid Association seminars. The fact that it marks our first year of publishing. The subhead: “TV game brawling at the mouth of madness”.

Now to make you another issue!

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Comments

[SPM]

dude, i know you go home and sleep on stacks of C-Notes. Chomping cuban cigars, drinking Remy Martens, top hats, royces, monocles, drivers named Geeves, servants named Belevidere, trips to Marthas Vineyard.... we know you're raking in the lootcakes.

[Patrick Macias]

I spend it all on candy and gum.

[hillsy]

He's got to take care of all those maids somehow....