Anime

Welcome to the “Anime” category section of Otapedia!

In this section you will find extensive information on your favorite anime series from Japan. From the classics such as the “Neon Genesis Evangelion” series that revolutionized the anime industry, all the way to up-and-coming trending titles such as “Demon Slayer” that have taken anime fans by storm on a global scale. Otapedia will be picking up a variety of different anime series from all different franchises and genres, and will strive to bring anime otaku fans out there in the world the latest up-to-date information.

Through original content created by our anime-loving members, Otapedia will aggregate the vital story information of each various anime series. Everything a fan would need and want to know about an anime series. This will include vital information on the background, plot, characters and more. In addition, relevant content on the history of each anime series. This includes information on the production, design, music and the people involved such as the directors and voice actors that make the series such a success. Lastly, through our content, we want to fuel your anime interests further with information on the current events, latest fandom, derivative works and also the variety of fan goods out on the market (anime figures and merchandise etc) so you can support your favorite series!

Current fans of a certain series will be able to find detailed information on their favorite anime series. While new fans will be able to learn everything about a series in one place! Whether you are a series expert or someone just getting into an anime series, Otapedia is the one-stop platform for all your anime otaku needs.

Currently our anime team members are preparing more and more content so please keep an eye out for further updates!

Rin Shima is a girl who enjoys camping by herself during the off-season. While camping at the foot of Mt. Fuji one day during winter she comes to the aid of a new transfer student to her school named Nadeshiko Kagamihara who finds herself lost. The two enjoy curry noodles togethe...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

One day, second-year college student Aoi Tsubaki, a girl with the ability to see spirits, is suddenly transported to Tenjinya, a long-standing inn located in the Otherworld, where she learns that she’s supposed to marry the innkeeper to erase her late grandfather’s debt. Aoi is v...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

New Game! follows the story of high school graduate Aoba Suzukaze as she enters the workforce and joins game company Eagle Jump, creators of her favorite game Fairies Story which inspired her when she was younger. She works in the character design department modeling and designin...

Last updated at, 20 Feb 2018

Asahi Kashiwagi is a painfully ordinary high school guy who, while on his way to school one morning, encounters a series of mishaps that align with the strange television fortune he saw earlier that morning. In the midst of this trouble, he has the worst possible encounter with f...

Last updated at, 02 Oct 2022

Set in the near future, Kodo Ikusei Senior High School in Tokyo is a prestigious private school that fosters the next generation of leaders and has a nearly 100% acceptance rate for its graduates going on to university or gaining employment. The school is further set apart by the...

Last updated at, 29 Jun 2022

Sternbild City is home to a wide range of people of all races and ethnicities as well as those with special powers called NEXT, who use their abilities to protect the city and its inhabitants as professional heroes. Each hero has a corporate sponsor, and their activities are broa...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Wein Salema Arbalest is the son of King Owen and the Crown Prince of a small nation called the Kingdom of Natra. But when his father falls ill, the job of running the country falls to him, and he becomes Prince Regent. Together with his beautiful and capable aide, Ninym Ralei, he...

Last updated at, 23 Dec 2021

Nikola Tesla, the genius inventor whose abilities even Thomas Edison was jealous of, kept notes of all of his inventions in a crystal. Dubbed the “Tesla Crystal,” it has become an item sought after by governments worldwide for the knowledge that it contains. Botan Negoro, a desce...

Last updated at, 01 Oct 2021

Makoto Misumi is an ordinary high school student who is suddenly summoned to another world to become a “hero.” However, the goddess of the world berates him for being unattractive before stripping him of his hero title and casting him out to the furthest reaches of the world. As ...

Last updated at, 12 Jul 2021

It's a new year, and there are new challenges and rivals to duel! As the school year begins, Joe enters the fifth grade, and his best friends Kira and Cap are his classmates. Abaku declares the "King of Duelmatch," a tournament to determine the strongest Duelist, th...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Yuri Honjo is a high school student who has found herself in a strange world called the Realm that consists of countless skyscrapers connected by suspension bridges, but things only get weirder from there. After witnessing a masked figure brutally kill a man with an axe, she real...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga is a series illustrated and written by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto based on the original anime series of the same name. Published by Kadokawa Shoten, the manga series initially started from Shonen Ace in December 1994 and concluded in November 2014. The m...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Nasa Yuzaki is a boy who grew up being ridiculed for his unusual name (he was named after the space agency NASA). Smart and studious, he has aced his mock high school entrance exams, ranking first in the nation, and is set to go to the high school of his choice. However, his worl...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

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Last updated at, 16 Apr 2020

After the resounding success of the Dragon Ball series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama, a multitude of all kinds of merchandise and games for platforms such as PS4, Nintendo Switch, and mobile games were launched. Of the latter, there are several different games that fo...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

The opening theme for the first cour of the series is titled "Redo". It is composed by 宮崎誠 with lyrics by ミズノゲンキ and performed by Suzuki Konomi. It was released on May 11, 2016 on CD. A limited edition DVD for the single was also released that featured a music video, li...

Last updated at, 20 Apr 2020

A Look at Rider (Fate) Figures

Last updated at, 10 Mar 2020

Viz Media LLC, often referred to as ‘VIZ’ is a United States based manga publishing company and distributor of anime and other entertainment media. It is the largest publishing house of comic books and graphic novels in the USA, where it holds a 23% share of the market. Viz media...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Kodansha Ltd. is a Japanese publishing company that was Established in 1938 in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. It is owned and operated by the Noma family and was first founded by Seiji Noma in 1909. Kodansha has published and has the rights to many famous Japanese mangas such as Attack on...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

School days - an irreplaceable special time of life that everyone goes through. If you become popular you can spend you high school days as the envy of everyone else. Urata has just transferred to a new school and is ready to make his high school debut. His heart races as he prep...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Akira Ono is an average guy working for a company that’s creating a new video game. He often plays as his character Mao (Dark Lord) while working on the game, but one day when he goes to log in he’s suddenly transported into the game’s world! To make matters worse, in-game charac...

Last updated at, 14 Oct 2019

Several years after the events of Ultraman, the “Giant of Light” is believed to have returned home after defeating the aliens that threatened the Earth. With the Earth once again in jeopardy, Shinjiro, the son of Shin Hayata, has discovered his father’s secret identity and realis...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

BanG Dream! 2nd Season continues where the first season left off. The band members of Poppin’ Party are riding high on the popularity of their first performance where they received a warm reception. In Season 1, Kasumi and the other girls of Poppin’ Party had to face many obstacl...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Dān Fěi and her brother Dān Héng are guardians of a mystical sword known as Tiān Xíng Jiàn and are being pursued by henchmen from the Xuán Guǐ Zōng who have orders from their lord, Miè Tiān Hái, to obtain the sword on his behalf. When the pair are ambushed, Fěi manages to escape ...

Last updated at, 21 Dec 2018

In the Imperial Capital of 1830, a mysterious group of people carrying cases for musical instruments get off the train at Tokyo Station. Their cases do not, however, contain musical instruments for these are the Jaegers - vampire hunters, one of whom happens to a be vengeful were...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Sakamichi is a high school student and huge fan of anime and figures which has lead to him often biking over to Akihabara. He hopes to join the anime club and make friends with similar interests, but the club has been disbanded. His biking talent is then noticed by Shunsuke Imaiz...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Kai Ichinose, the abandoned son of a prostitute, escapes his difficult life in the red light district by taking refuge in a forest which mysteriously contains an abandoned piano. Meanwhile, Shuhei Amamiya, the pampered son of a famous concert pianist, has just transferred to Kai’...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

The dark supernatural anime series Jigoku Shoujo (or Hell Girl ) first aired in Oct. 2005. It was directed by Takahiro Omori with an original story by Hiroshi Watanabe and animation by Studio DEEN. The series consists of mostly self-contained episodes following a particular char...

Last updated at, 20 Feb 2018

Denji is a young man who makes a living as a Devil Hunter together with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. He lives in poverty while paying off debt left by his parents but is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita, gains a devil’s heart, a...

Last updated at, 02 Oct 2022

In the year 2205, the "historical retrograde army" have begun attacks on the past in order to change history. The Saniwa, whose duty is to protect history, have the power to imbue life into objects. The strongest among these are the Token Danshi, legendary swords person...

Last updated at, 29 Jun 2022

Yuichi Katagiri is a second-year high school student who values his friends more than anything else and lives his high school life to the fullest together with his friends Shiho Sawaragi, Tenji Mikasa, Makoto Shibe, and Yutori Kokorogi. But a certain incident lands all five of th...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

The year is 20XX, the city is Neo Too Kyo. Outlaws and delinquents fed up with society have banded together to form Tribes, with one tribe for each of the city’s 23 wards, and begin warring with each other. When the warring intensifies, the government steps in and creates a new “...

Last updated at, 23 Dec 2021

Maise Higa, a first-year high school student from Okinawa, is spending her summer vacation working part-time manning the front desk at her family’s hotel. One day, a strange guest from Tokyo arrives named Ichio Suzuki. After his arrival, strange things start happening throughout ...

Last updated at, 01 Oct 2021

U.C. 0105 - Twelve years after the Second Neo Zeon War. Peace on Earth is disrupted by a terrorist organization named Mafty whose goal is to prevent the privatization of Earth by the Earth Federation. They are led by Mafty Navue Erin whose real name is Hathaway Noa, the son of th...

Last updated at, 12 Jul 2021

Rimuru succeeds in founding the Jura-Tempest Federation together with the many allies he has gathered, and through agreements and trade with neighboring countries, the ideal country where humans and monsters can coexist together begins taking shape. At Rimuru’s core is his love f...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Dai is the only human living on Delmurin, an island of monsters that were unleashed after the defeat of the demon lord Hadlar. He was raised by a kind monster named Brass and dreams of becoming a hero. That dream comes true when Hadlar is resurrected and Avan, the previous hero, ...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

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Last updated at, 16 Apr 2020

The opening theme for the second cour of the series is titled "Paradisus-Paradoxum". It is written, arranged, and performed by MYTH & ROID. It was released on August 24, 2016 on CD. It also included an instrumental version of the song as well as "theater D"...

Last updated at, 20 Apr 2020

The Cutest Fate Series Merch

Last updated at, 10 Mar 2020

Established in 2005, Aniplex of America Inc., or ‘Aniplex USA’ as it’s more commonly known is a USA-based Anime distribution service and subsidiary of Aniplex which is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Aniplex of America runs the English-language rendition of ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Wit Studio, Inc. Ltd. (株式会社ウィットスタジオ Kabushiki-gaisha Witto Sutajio) is an animation studio based in Japan and founded on June 1, 2012 by the producers of Production I.G as a subsidiary of IG Port. The studio is located in Musashino, Tokyo with George Wada and Tetsuya Nakatake, bo...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

The ongoing mega success of Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball Z franchise continues to spawn a massive array of manga, anime, toys, merchandise and of course video games. Over 80 video games featuring the Dragon Ball Z storyline and its characters have been produced by companies such ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days is a Japanese manga created by Fumino Hayashi based on the original Evangelion anime and is a spin-off of the video game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd. Serialization of the Manga is by Kadokawa Shoten in Monthly Asuka from ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

The Shijo Minami Junior High soft tennis club is on the verge of shutting down, until the captain of the team, Toma, asks the new transfer student, Maki, to join. Stars Align is the coming-of-age story of Maki and his teammates as they learn life lessons through soft tennis and g...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Nozomu is a first-year student at Sainotama Girls’ High School and a hopeless airhead. Together with a colorful cast of other hopeless girls including an otaku girl who loves anime and manga and a robotic girl who is always expressionless, Nozomu wastes away her youthful days as ...

Last updated at, 14 Oct 2019

In modern Asakusa, Tokyo, three junior high boys meet a kappa, a mythical Japanese creature. The kappa, named Keppi, is the prince of the Kappa Kingdom, or so he says. Keppi steals the boys’ shirikodama, a mythical organ that kappa usually steal. The process transforms the three ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

The boys are back! B-Project: Zeccho Emotion picks up where the first season leaves off. The anime starts with a performance to celebrate the new year. Still together with their A&R, Tsubasa Sumisora, the second season is sure to bring new musical hits, new drama between grou...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

The Bakumatsu was an era in which the souls of young men burned with anxiety for their country’s future. Takasugi Shinsaku, a soldier of fortune from Choshu, sneaks aboard a government ship with his comrade Katsura Kogoro in search of a mysterious “timepiece” with the power to ma...

Last updated at, 21 Dec 2018