If you’re on Otaku Crush, then you probably like manga. Thousands of chapters, hundreds of volumes, be it digital or paper, chances are that you’ve read quite a bit in your time. Anime’s probably no different.
But still I want to ask you: how varied is your experience?
In a previous article I spoke about ways to [...]

Have you heard of the “Nice Guy?” He’s the kind of person who holds doors for women and offers help without being asked. He’s the kind of guy who will talk to his female friends late into the night to comfort them. But there’s a problem with the Nice Guy.
He’s actually not that nice.
You might [...]

Be warned, this post is rife with SPOILERS.
Although it might be considered cliché to talk about romance on Valentine’s Day, this is Otaku Crush, the site where anime fans can meet other anime fans, so I think it is only fitting that love and confessions be discussed. As a tribute to this holiday, I wanted [...]

Now cleaning up the mess that is my soiled drawers, I’ll do my best to type without my fingers shooting off my hands and my head exploding. X Japan has confirmed that they will be playing at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago this summer, slated for August 6th to August 8th. Book your flight and [...]

Esteemed voice actor Gouri Daisuke passed away recently, leaving a hole in video games and anime forever. Voicing characters such as Mr. Satan in Dragonball Z and Mishima Heihachi in the Tekken series, he had continued to work up until his death and now the productions which were utilizing his unique, gravel-like voice need to [...]

Amazon.com has begun listing the Blu-ray edition of Gundam Unicorn Volume  1 as available for pre-order at the same time that Anime News Network, Crunchyroll, and YouTube are set to stream Gundam series from across the franchise’s over 30-year history. The series planned so far are classics such as Mobile Suit Gundam (i.e. the original) [...]

So let’s say that you’ve experienced success thanks to the services here at Otaku Crush, and you’ve found just the person for you. You want an otaku date, and what better otaku date is there than watching anime together? Or maybe you’re testing out the waters with someone outside of the fandom, and you want [...]

On November 26, 2009, a live voice actor event was held for the current anime Kiddy Girl-and. However, attendance for the event is reported as well under 100 attendees and far below expectations.  The event is said to have been an “awkward situation” where only around 10 people reserved for the DVDs and Blu-rays.
Kiddy Girl-and [...]

The Japanese Language Proficiency Tests were held this past weekend. Of great interest is a leaked question from the listening section of the Level 1 test, which reveals an audio exercise patterned after anime.
The dialogue talks about a captain’s decision to deploy an experimental “Unit 04″ in order to fight a giant monster. An impetuous [...]

If you’ve been on the internet for a while, it’s likely you’ve encountered the image of four guys sitting on a couch looking bored and then the immediate follow-up of them appearing ecstatic. Known as the “Gaijin 4-Koma” in both the English and Japanese language communities, their reactions have become a popular meme around the [...]