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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!
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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!

In Avengers: Endgame Hawkeye loses his entire family due to Thanos’ actions. Overcome by grief, he takes on the title of Ronin and begins hunting down the corrupt people taking advantage of the calamitous state of the world. Hawkeye was raised under an abusive father especially w...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Bucky Barnes, also known as the Winter Soldier, is a very powerful assassin who is capable of killing many people. He, unfortunately, lost his parents at a young age but joined the armed forces due to sharing his father's fondness for the military. During his time in the mili...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Marvel Entertainment is the owner and creator of multi-million dollar comic, film, and video game franchises, acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009. Marvel began as a comic publishing company in 1939 under the name Timely Comics but found international recognition in 19...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Persona is a Japanese Role Playing Game (JRPG) developed by Atlus. The series began in 1996 with a PlayStation game titled Revelations: Persona. Since then, multiple more games in the series have been released, including various spin-off games. The series saw a great rise in popu...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Detective Conan began as a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It follows a prodigy detective known as Shinichi Kudo who was shrunk into a child's body due to poison. In order to hide from his would-be killers, he takes on the name of Conan Edogawa and ope...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Created by manga artist Mine Yoshizaki in 2015, the franchise began as a (now defunct) mobile game produced by Nexon, with a serialized manga in production starting two months later. With two volumes and 19 chapters, the series appeared in Monthly Shonen Ace until March 2017 and ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Cardcaptor Sakura is a series written by the well-known all-female artist group CLAMP. It follows Sakura Kinomoto who accidentally opens an ancient book that releases the magical Clow Cards into the world. Thus, the responsibility of retrieving the cards and sealing them back int...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Bungo Stray Dogs is a seinen manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. It follows Atsushi Nakajima who joins a very special detective agency - Armed Detective Agency - whose members have supernatural powers and deal with cases beyond the capabilitie...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Kakashi Hatake, also known as 'The Copy Ninja' is a shinobi who leads Team 7, a shinobi team consisting of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno. Despite not being a member of the Uchiha clan, he possesses the power of the Sharingan within his left eye, which h...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Naruto began as a manga by Masashi Kishimoto. It follows the titular Naruto Uzumaki, a loud and hyperactive adolescent ninja in a world filled with ninja villages. He seeks approval, recognition, and to become Hokage (the leader and strongest ninja in the village). Over time he ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Vocaloid is a voice synthesizer software developed by the Yamaha Corporation which was first released in January 2004. Certain popular voice banks have animated personifications, the most popular of which being Crypton Future Media’s Hatsune Miku whose voice is based on voice ac...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a popular mecha anime series that was produced by Tatsunoko Production and Gainax and was directed by Hideaki Anno. The series originally aired on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. The series is regarded as one of the most influential anime seri...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Re:Zero - Life in a Different World from Zero is a web novel series written by Nagatsuki Tappei which he began publishing on Shousetsuka ni Narou in April 2012. The series later received a light novel adaptation published by Media Factory in January 2014 and has since spanned ove...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Sword Art Online is a web novel series written by Reki Kawahara that began in 2001. The series has since been adapted into a light novel series by ASCII Media Works, and a widely popular anime series by A-1 Pictures.

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

All Attack on Titan Nendoroid products depicted herein are copyright of GOOD SMILE COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Attack on Titan is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It began serialization in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in September 2009 and has spanned over 120 chapters since then. The series has seen great success worldwide, with over 100 million tan...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Full Metal Alchemist is a popular series that began as a manga in 2001. It follows the Elric brothers in their search for a way to restore their bodies which were damaged and lost after a failed attempt to revive their mother using alchemy. The story is set in a post-European Ind...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! mostly known by its shortened name KonoSuba began as a popular light novel series that was written by Akatsuki Natsume and illustrated by Mishima Kurone. NEET Kazuma Satou dies a pathetic and unceremonious death and is given the option to r...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Yuri!!! on Ice is an animated TV series produced by MAPPA in 2016. The series follows figure skater Yuri Katsuki, his coach and idol Victor Nikiforov and his rival Yuri Plisetsky through the Figure Skating Grand Prix alongside their relationships throughout the event. The series ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Hunter x Hunter is a popular shōnen manga with over 78 million copies sold as of 2019. The series follows a boy named Gon Freecss, who sets out to become a Hunter in order to reunite with his long-lost father, Gin, who is also a Hunter. Gon goes through many arduous battles fill...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Kingdom Hearts is a video game series that was originally produced as a collaboration between Disney and Square Enix. As such, many different characters from intellectual properties from both companies (like Mickey Mouse and Cloud Strife) appear throughout the series. Of course, ...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

In 2006, Good Smile Company in Japan created a special brand of figurines called “Nendoroid”. They are marked by a characteristic disproportion of head to body ratio. The character is given an overly large head in relation to its small body. It was thought to be a new and cute ki...

Last updated at, 02 Feb 2021

Harry Potter is a popular series of books written by J.K. Rowling. It follows the titular Harry Potter as he is accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and his multi-year journey growing up in a world of magic, witches and wizards, and the looming threat of a on...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

First released in the year 1990 by Intelligent Systems, Fire Emblem has 16 different games released within the series with the latest being Fire Emblem: Three Houses released for the Nintendo Switch in 2019. The gameplay revolves around a turn-based strategy combat game, with pie...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The DC Universe refers to a shared world for many of the comic books printed under the banner of DC Comics, Inc. - the publishing unit of DC Entertainment. This world is home to many iconic comic book characters such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the various allies and e...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The Legend of Zelda is a popular video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka and developed by Nintendo. The first Legend of Zelda game was released in 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and there are now 19 games across all of Nintendo's major ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Nintendo is an international video game company that has its major headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. Credited with reviving the video game industry after the "great video game crash" in 1983, Nintendo has released a series of home and portable gaming consoles and is the cre...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Ochaco Uraraka is a secondary protagonist of My Hero Academia and is a close friend of Izuku. Much like Izuku, Ochaco is very friendly and values the company of others. She is a very bubbly and kind girl who is often thought of as the most laid back due to her airheadedness. Whil...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

My Hero Academia is a popular shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi that began serialization with Weekly Shōnen Jump in July 2014 and is currently ongoing, with over 250 chapters published as of January 2020.

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Giorno Giovanna is the protagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Vento Aureo also known as Golden Wind and is the illegitimate son of Dio. Even though he is the son of Dio, he also contains the blood of the Joestars as Dio Brando had taken over the body of Jonathan Joes...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a popular shōnen manga series known for its unique art style. The series is split into 8 parts, with each part featuring the supernatural adventures of a different descendant of the Joestar family who bears the ‘JoJo’ title. The main cast of each part...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Dr. Angela “Mercy” Ziegler was the head of medical research for the Overwatch group, utilizing her knowledge in nanobiology to create technology that allowed soldiers to recover from injury at a greatly accelerated rate. She is a field medic from Switzerland who is one of the mos...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Overwatch is a popular first-person shooter video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Released in 2016 for PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One, the game quickly rose in popularity with universal acclaim, favorable reviews, and an open beta that amassed 9.7 million players. Wit...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

This is a Nendoroid figurine of the adorable Jeanne d'Arc in her role as Ruler in Fate/Grand Order.

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

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Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022