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Welcome to Centaku Media’s second edition of the Otaku Omnibus newsletter! When we first published our newsletter in October 2024, we originally intended the series to be on a quarterly…
The Taiwanese drama It Started with a Kiss premiered on the CTA network, airing between September 25th, 2005 – February 12th, 2006. It is also based on a popular Japanese manga that received an anime adaptation in 2008, Itazura na Kiss. We take a brief look at the drama and what we’re in for in this 20 episode live-action adaptation.
Welcome… back? It seems that we’ve lost touch since the last time we made a newsletter on Revue back in 2022. However, there has been a change of scenery with…
This is something we need to talk about more often about rather than just talking about it on our livestreams—a medium in which we’re talking about as I bring to you a video discussing a situation that needs more visibility when it comes to disruptive chat behavior falling under categories that you never knew were possible from bad chatters on Twitch, YouTube, and other livestreaming platforms.
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If you’ve never seen a Japanese drama, then let me say there are often 3 key elements to each series: brevity, “trendiness”, and melodrama. 1) Each series is usually 10 or 12 episodes max, unless incredibly popular in which case a follow-up movie will be made, or special as it’s called. Only rarely does a show, even a popular show, get a second full season. This means most series are essentially like American/British mini-series, and are more serial than episodic. 2) The brevity of these shows plays into component 2, which is J-Drama’s “trendiness” or perhaps a better word would be relevance to their audience.
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Dragon Ball Daima is a new and upcoming entry in the Dragon Ball anime universe that tells us the story of Goku and the gang from a different point of view. It is the last Dragon Ball anime to be directly supervised by Akira Toriyama who passed away this past March, and gives fans all the more reason to be excited for more Dragon Ball to honor the late creator this fall.
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It’s not every day you are granted an interview with a celebrity. Especially when one of those celebrities does not exist, but only within the media we consume: be it anime or gaming content. This is one of those interviews I’m lucky to be a part of with the world-famous Chief Prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney.
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