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Welcome to Otapedia! an Otaku encyclopedia which compiles topics, themes and terms of Japanese Otaku culture from the classics to the newest anime, manga, games series and more!
On each page of the Otapedia database is an archive of information that provides the terms, definitions and explanations of anime, manga, games, official goods, cosplay etc that are loved by Otaku fans all around the world.
Otapedia can be used as a dictionary to find the background, story, history, characters and various terms related to certain works. In addition, Otapedia is an open service in which we gather user feedback to improve the database. It is an encyclopedia service that we create together with you, the fans. Also, original content has been published in Otapedia as a starting point, by our members who are passionate about anime, manga and games. Content will definitely increase! So please make sure to keep an eye out this space!
In addition, Otapedia will strive to bring up-to-date news and details on the latest anime series released every season. With more than 50 new series released per season, there is an abundance of information. So this service is a guide for anime fans to find exactly what interests you! and leads you to the latest anime that matches your interests and tastes the most!
Enjoy the latest anime series and enjoy Otaku Life!
There are a countless number of anime, manga and game series produced in Japan yearly. Therefore our aim at Otapedia is to organize the terms and definitions etc of the latest works and make information and a wide variety of content readily available to Otaku fans. Check out the categories and series titles and get your hands on in-depth knowledge on the latest and trending series!

One Punch Man is a popular webcomic created by the artist One that was first released in 2009. The webcomic has since inspired the creation of manga and anime remakes. Because of their fine detail, accurate portrayal of characters, skilled artistry, quality, and craftsmanship, On...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

One Piece is a major anime that aired in Fall 1999 based on the original manga created by Eiichiro Oda. Since it is such a popular and long series there are many different figures that are released due to many new characters that appear and gain popularity. Also, due to the fact ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

My Hero Academia is a popular anime series that aired in Japan in spring of 2016 and was later broadcast in the U.S. in 2018. Since its airing, many of the series’ characters have been released as figures. Many are either in their school uniforms or in their unique and eye-catchi...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

The unquestionable popularity and success of the Monster Hunter video game series has spawned a large amount of merchandise that comes in many different forms. One of the most popular kinds of collectible merchandise comes in the form of figures that range from scale figures to n...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Love Live! is a popular anime that aired in January 2013 and has had many figures released following its 2010 manga and its 2013 anime adaption. Most of the figures show characters in fun and cute poses that show their quirky and carefree personalities from the series. There are ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

The popular series Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (often shortened to just Konosuba) has had numerous figures following its manga adaptation and anime airing. The illustration for the adaptation is by Masahito Watari and Joseph Yokobori. The anime productio...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Kirby figures are based on the Kirby video game series, which was first released as Kirby's Dream Land on April 27, 1992. These figures are popular among fans for their accurate representations of characters, fine detail and craftsmanship, cute appearance, and more. There is ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Kingdom Hearts is a popular video game series and the result of a collaboration between Disney, Square Enix and Pixar. Many Kingdom Hearts figures have been produced and feature some of Kingdom Hearts’ most popular characters, such as Sora and Kairi. Because of their fine detail,...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a manga that was first published in 1987 and eventually got an anime adaptation in 2012. Its unique style has made it one of the most popular and influential series in the anime industry. Many figures inspired by the series have been created and th...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Haikyuu!! is one of the most popular series about volleyball. Since its manga was first published in 2012 and its anime in 2014, Haikyuu!! has received many positive reviews. Their cool appearance makes people enjoy these figures very much. Also, their dynamism and detailed desig...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Girls’ Frontline is a mobile strategy game developed by a Chinese team MICA, and released in 2016. The game has garnered a huge online fanbase and prompted the release of A variety of merchandise. Figurines are some of the most popular T-Dolls from the series. The figurines featu...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Fullmetal Alchemist is a popular Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The manga was first produced in the year 2001 and takes place in a fictional world loosely based on Europe’s industrial revolution. Because of their accurate portrayal of characters,...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Fire Emblem is a video game franchise which found popularity outside Japan in 2001. Most recently, a Nintendo DS release (Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem) made the franchise incredibly popular to younger audiences in Japan and the US. Figures featuring popular characters f...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

The video game and media series Final Fantasy has inspired many popular figures that feature some of the series’ most iconic characters, including Cloud Strife, Sephiroth, and many others. The figures come in a variety of poses with many original accessories and often feature the...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Fairy Tail, a popular anime series, has released numerous figures as merchandise. These include most of the series’ protagonists, of which there are many. Figures include Lucy Heartfilia, Erza Scarlet, Natsu Dragneel, Wendy Marvell, Mirajane Strauss, Gray Fullbuster, Juvia Lockse...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Dragon Ball Z is an anime series produced by Toei and aired on Japanese television from 1989 to 1996. It is based on the hit manga series Dragon Ball by esteemed manga artist and character designer Akira Toriyama. As one of the most influential manga of all time, it goes without ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer), is an incredibly popular anime that aired in Spring 2019, has had numerous figures released since it was first aired. Many of them feature characters in cool, amusing poses that can show the various different sides of their personality. Some of th...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Danganronpa is a famous series of visual novel games that were first released in Japan in Fall 2010. It soon gained popularity in Europe and the United States and sold over 200,000 copies. It quickly became known as one of the greatest visual novel game series of all time. Its po...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Since its broadcast in 2006, Code Geass became an anime with a great positive reception. For this reason, it became one of the most famous anime titles in the world. Code Geass deals with topics as deep as love, morals, and freedom. That is why some critics even considered it a c...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Cardcaptor Sakura is a series that achieved great success inside and outside Japan after its publication in 1996 and its anime adaptation in 1998. All of the figures inspired by the universe of the series each seem to convey a charming sweetness by the wonderful and elaborated co...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

The Attack on Titan series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama was almost immediately successful in Japan after its first publication in 2009. Although it became one of the most popular series of 2011, its animated series broadcasted from 2013 launched it to worldwide fame....

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Pokémon is a widely popular series of games created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori, and owned by the Pokémon Company (Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures). The first two Pokémon games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green were released in Japan on the Nintendo Game Boy in February ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games created by Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto and Tetsuya Nomura. The series includes characters from Disney movies, Final Fantasy games, as well as original characters. The series has seen great success since the release of Ki...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Monster Hunter is a franchise of fantasy-themed (primarily) action role-playing games. The player takes the role of a Hunter, one who is specialized in hunting down the many large and awe-inspiring beasts that roam the world known as Monsters. The Hunter undertakes quests from th...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Dragon Ball Super is the continuation of the extremely popular Dragon Ball series by award winning manga author Akira Toriyama. Airing from 2015 to 2018. With a total of 131 Episodes, Dragon Ball Super led to the production and release of the latest Dragon Ball movie Dragon Ball ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Dragon Ball Z is the anime continuation of the hit anime series Dragon Ball based on the manga of the same name by Akira Toriyama. The show ran originally in Japan on television from 1988 to 1995 over a total of 325 episodes. It was Dragon Ball Z that helped push anime into the s...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

In the world of Aikatsu Planet! anyone can become a super cute idol! Mao Otoha is an extremely ordinary high school girl who goes to Seirei Private High School until one day when she takes on the role of top idol Hana after Hana’s previous alter ego, Meisa Hinata, suddenly disapp...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Third-year high school student Nariyuki Yuiga is tasked with tutoring three beautiful girls who are geniuses in certain subjects and total disasters in others. Each with her own goals and dreams for the future, they give it their all and study hard. But as they spend more time wi...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Season 2 continues the ongoing story of impossibly strong and bald Saitama AKA One-Punch Man. Previously, in Season 1, Saitama had dispatched terrifyingly powerful villains such as Deep Sea King, Carnage Kabuto, and Vaccine Man with, as you may have guessed, one punch. Purchasing...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan is a dark fantasy and post-apocalyptic series set in a world that is overrun with Titans which brutally attack and hunt humans. In an effort to survive, humans retreat within tall walls until one day the so-called Colossa...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Set in a fantasy world visually similar to Edo Japan, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba tells the story of a hardworking and kind boy named Tanjiro Kamado. Tanjiro lives with his family. Or at least, he did. One day, Tanjiro comes home to find his entire family has been murdered by ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Haikyu!! To the Top is a comedy, sports anime that follows student Shoyo Hinata’s life after he develops a sudden love for volleyball. It is the fourth season of the Haikyu!! anime and his Karasuno High School volleyball team will be returning. The anime focuses around practices,...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

22/7 focuses on Miu Takigawa, a young otaku girl who gets invited to join the G.I. Production. The story follows Miu as she overcomes many hurdles to join and perform in a school idol group of eight members.

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Uchitama?!: Uchi no Tama Shirimasken ka? is a slice-of-life anime that follows the adventures of anthropomorphized characters that are mostly cats with a couple dogs. Each episode consists of the group of human-animal hybrid friends going on an adventure together.

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Four years ago in the now peaceful land of Telesis, a war ended dividing the country in two between North and South. Violet Evergarden, a young girl previously known only as “the weapon” and raised as a child soldier, has retired from the battlefield and taken up a new life as an...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

League of Legends (also known as LoL or League) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game. It was released in 2009 and developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS. League of Legends is currently the world’s largest Esport, with several competitive ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Mega Man is a video game franchise created by Capcom that focuses on science fiction. It stars a series of robot characters all by the same name, ”Mega Man”. The first Mega Man game took the world by storm all the way back in 1987 and would go on to create a franchise popular ove...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Chun Li is a character within the Street Fighter franchise published by Capcom. Chun-Li made her first appearance in the video game Street Fighter II back in 1991. She is the first playable female character of any fighting game franchise that has gained any mainstream recognition...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Ryu is a fictional character within the Street Fighter series published by Capcom. He is the main protagonist of the series, functioning as the lead character for players to use. Ryu was created by Manabu Takemura and Takashi Nishiyama. Ryu’s first appearance within the Street Fi...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Street Fighter is a fighting video game franchise developed and published by Capcom. The first game of the series was released back in 1987. Since then, there have since been five other games in the main series as well as different spin-offs and crossovers. Street fighter is amon...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Almost instantaneously, Fortnite became a worldwide gaming sensation. It influenced cultural trends outside of the gaming community, inspiring TikTok dances and Jeopardy! trivia. From an outside perspective, the game is hard to pin down because it does so many things at once. Fro...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Halo is a science fiction American military media franchise published by Xbox Game Studios. The early installments of the franchise were developed by Bungie before later being turned over to 343 Industries. The three original video games within the Halo series are first-person sh...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Sega’s mascot and flagship game series, Sonic the Hedgehog, debuted in 1992. Since then the franchise has gone through a roller coaster of ups and downs trying to compete in the system home game market. Sega may not produce consoles anymore, but both the company and Sonic endured...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Godzilla is a fictional monster originating from a series of Japanese films of the same name. Godzilla first appeared in the 1954 film Godzilla created by Ishiro Honda, and become a worldwide pop culture icon. Since the initial release back in 1954, there have been various forms ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Resident Evil Series is a Japanese horror media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara. The franchise is owned by the video game company Capcom and focuses on a series of games, films, comic books, novels, and more. The first video game in the series to be release...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

The Harry Potter series reshaped children’s literature and defined a generation of kids in the early 2000s. It remains a culturally enduring series, with app games and new theme parks opening around the world. While the original series films may have ended, spinoffs are getting a...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television that was created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for HBO. Game of Thrones is an adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. The first book of this series was titled A Game of Thrones...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Toy Story changed the animation industry when it premiered in 1995. As the first fully computer-animated film, it set a new precedent for animation to follow, leading to the mostly computer-generated animation of today. More importantly, it had a wonderful story. Children and adu...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021