The Otaku Holiday Shopping Guide
The otaku in your life already knows where to buy anime. S/he probably already has that Attack on Titan hoodie that every otaku shop is selling right now. Otaku are…
Otaku Journalist’s top 25 posts ever
From a graduate student’s journalism portfolio to an anime geek’s reporting notebook, Otaku Journalist has changed a lot over the past four years. In that time, I’ve actually published a…
Four years of otaku journalism
What are you going to be doing four years from now? If you had asked me that same question four years ago, I don’t think I would have said blogging.…
Meet the girl who gets paid to watch anime
Holden at her desk in the Crunchyroll office in San Francisco. Victoria Holden gets paid to watch anime. But it’s not exactly as fun as it sounds. “My job is…
Breaking news: Crunchyroll will now simulcast manga, too
Here’s my dirty secret: there’s still one thing I pirate. Every month I go to a scanlation site to read the latest Attack on Titan manga chapter. I justify it…
A tour of Crunchyroll’s office
Last week, you guys helped make my post about Crunchyroll one of the most popular Otaku Journalist posts of all time. This week, I wanted to give you more. It’s…
Meet the UK team that turned manga into a career
Outside of Japan, heck, even inside of Japan, the road to a career in manga is risky. It’s not enough just to have raw talent. Manga artist Elena Vitagliano knew…
Otaku Links: Pigeons need love, too
“Good” news! You can now buy Hatoful Boyfriend, the world’s only pigeon dating sim, legally in English for $1.50. If you haven’t heard, it’s a hilariously homicidal game in which you play…
The human journalist’s guide to reporting
Last week, my husband’s coworker came back to work for the first time since she was shot. It was, to put it harshly, about one month after everyone stopped caring…
Where your Crunchyroll dollars really go: An interview with the CEO
This month, anime bloggers dragged Crunchyroll’s name through the mud. But CEO Kun Gao couldn’t be more thrilled. “In no other part of the entertainment business would you find such passionate…