OTAKU USA: The Legend of the Super Galaxy

OTAKU USA is doing great, by the way. Thanks for asking! We just shipped our first anniversary issue (no. 7, for those of you keeping score), to the printers on Monday and we’ll be at Anime Expo in a few weeks with a booth and everything. This is not hype or spin from the Editor in Chief, seriously: our circulation and ad sales have gone way up since we started putting the heavy hitters on the cover and our “competition” began to conveniently bite the dust. Meanwhile, exclusive content is appearing on a regular basis at the official OUSA website and our commitment to Japanese pop culture remains as unflappable as ever. Just ask M.D. Geist (below).

Now here’s a taste of the next issue: an excerpt from an exclusive interview with The Most Dangerous one himself, Koichi Ohata (director of Burst Angel, designer of the Gunbuster).

OUSA: So what do you think are the challenges for the future?

Koichi Ohata: I think the future depends not on the anime industry, but rather on anime fans. In some ways, it makes a big difference on when you became an anime fan: when you were a kid, when you were a teen, and so on. Either way, the audience is getting older now. The future of anime depends on if the viewers want to treasure it, or abandon it. Personally, either way, I am going to do whatever the f@#k I want in this industry for the rest of my life.

Update : Why did I post this? Because as PiQ crashed and burned early last week, I came across about half a million posts on various message boards speculating about the health of OUSA. If I'd made no concerted effort to make some kind of statement, y'all would have started digging us a hole in the boneyard, too. And that wouldn't be very good, now would it?

Comments

[wildarmsheero]

You guys thinking about hitting up Otakon, too?

[Patrick Macias]

I'm not, personally, but the AWO and R5 will have our backs on the press front.

[Gaijinder]

I do believe this calls for another Mega Promo ^_^