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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!

Toku-P (born March 5, 1978), real name Abe Yoshinori, 阿部 尚徳, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and keyboardist. Other than his Vocaloid works on Nico Nico Douga, he has also worked with popular artists such as Angela Aki, LiSA and Harada Hitomi, amongst othe...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Hiroaki Arai 荒井 洋明 (born August 3, 1983), better known as Signal-P (シグナルP), is a Japanese musician. Having released music as both "Signal-P" and the alias "Dios", he eventually decided to use the combined alias "Dios/Signal-P". Signal-P debuted as an...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Takayuki Sano (佐野貴幸) (born September 9, 1984, died September 24, 2015), better known by his stage name samfree, was a popular Japanese Vocaloid music producer. He was one of few producers to have used a variety of Vocaloids and released music using Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Meg...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

supercell is a doujin music band in 2007, led by Japanese musician and songwriter ryo. supercell is comprised of 11 members, with ryo producing the music and lyrics for the group, while the other members provide illustrations and support. They originally produced music with vocal...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Rerulili (stylized as rerulili) is a Tokyo-based Vocaloid producer/singer. He produces various songs of rock, jazz, funk, and blues. rerulili is also referred to as ToushahiP(当社比P); the nickname is a running joke by fans on how some the title of his songs include "the greate...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

PinocchioP (ピノキオピー) is a music producer, illustrator and character designer. He works for P._nc (pronounced pink) and is signed to the label, U/M/A/A (pronounced yuma). His producer name comes from his first song "Hanauta", which means "humming" but can be tra...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

OSTER project is the name of a Japanese musical unit, though it only consists of a single member, OSTER (born November 24, 1986). She likes extremely spicy curry and cinnamon rolls. Her favorite artists include famed French composer Michel Legrand, plus-tech squeeze box, and jazz...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Nayutalien is a Vocaloid artist/producer. His most popular song is "Alien Alien". It has been played over 3 million times and counting. 13 songs produced by Nayutalien currently have over 1 million views.

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Mitchie M is a Japanese music producer.

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Mikito-P (みきとP) (born August 30) is a Japanese songwriter and music producer. He originally mainly used Miki, and produced the titular song MikitoP, translating to "Miki and P", which he eventually adopted as his producer name, Mikito-P. Despite this name, he produces s...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

livetune is a Japanese music unit or more specifically, a doujin music circle. Currently, it consists solely of musician kz. It was originally signed on to Victor Entertainment, and signed on to Sony Music Direct and Toy’s Factory before returning to Victor Entertainment. The ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Jin (born October 20, 1990) is a Japanese musician, music producer, novelist, and scriptwriter. He is currently affiliated with 1st PLACE.

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Kenshi Yonezu (born March 10, 1991) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, illustrator, and filmmaker who was born in Tokushima prefecture. He is currently affiliated with SME Records (Sony Music Labels).

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

DECO*27 (DECO*Nina) (born December 16, 1986) is a Japanese musician and producer who grew up in Fukushima prefecture.

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei Shite Mita is a scientific love comedy about Ayame and Shinya, two graduate students who are both obsessed with science and in love with each other, and follows them as they try to objectively analyze and experiment to logically and scientific...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Dorohedoro tells the story of Caiman, a man with amnesia who wakes up with a lizard head. He and his friends live in “the Hole” which is a dangerous city that has a clan of sorcerers who are taking people right off the street to perform experiments on using the black arts. Nikaid...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Number 24 follows Natsusa Yuzuki who loves rugby and enrolled in college expecting to be the ace of the rugby team, but can no longer play for certain reasons. It is an original rugby sports, slice-of-life, bishounen anime about him and rugby teammates competing in the Kansai Uni...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

One day, a mysterious button suddenly appears. Those who push the button are taken to a new world where characters just like them from different “isekai” are brought together in a completely different alternate world.

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

ARP Backstage Pass follows the story of Shinji, Daiya, Rage, and Leon who are all multi-talented performers that make up ARP idol units and attend ISM Yokohama School which is highly regarded for training musical artists. They are big on crowd interaction when performing. The ani...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

In Althea, a world of numbers, people are assigned a number at birth. That number corresponds to all kinds of things like the number of kilometers walked or the number of compliments people have paid to you for your cooking. Those with higher numbers have the right to tell those ...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Monsters and strange creatures rule the world above ground. Humans are persecuted and are on the verge of extinction. One day, a guardian of the forest named Golem meets a lone human girl named Somali. A human whose race is dying out and a Golem who protects the forest. The unlik...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! follows the story of Midori Asakusa who wants to create an anime but doesn’t know where to begin. She happens to make a random lucky encounter with Mizusaki Tsubame, an up-and-coming socialite from a rich family who secretly wants to be an animator. ...

Last updated at, 15 Nov 2020

Masked wrestler Kemona Mask wades into the arena to glorious applause as he prepares to face his arch-rival MAO for the World Title, but just as the gong rings he’s whisked away to another world! Back to plain old Genzo Shibata, he finds himself in the presence of a princess who ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Set in a fictional Meji era of Japan 300 years after the Battle of Sekigahara, Tenka Hyakken: Meiji-kan e Yokoso! follows the story of more than 100 girls called “Mitsurugi” who are physical incarnations of ancient swords. All have pledged to live peaceful lives but are now retur...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

A fragile peace has been brokered with the mysterious Zex, visitors from five other worlds. School girl Azumi Kakamigahara has been partnered with a Zex named Rigel as they each head off to the specially established Fujimisaki Academy.

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

ACTORS: Songs Connection is set in Tenshou Private Academy located in the huge academy town named Thrive Central which boasts 10 schools. Students strive to accumulate points for their clubs gathered from various club activities and school events to rank their club higher amongst...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Second-year student Takezo Kurata is the last remaining member of the koto club at Tokise High School following the graduation of the rest of the students. Trying his best to save the club by recruiting more members, Kurata is dismayed to receive an application from well-known de...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Suzu is a 14-year-old girl and descendant of a respected shaman who saved people from catastrophe in the past. She lost her parents at a young age and his since been strictly raised. She lives in a highly cultured community diverse with people, religion, and science. The “Forbidd...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

A group called the Shinkansen Ultra Evolution Institute was investigating a recent rash of monster attacks happening in Japan after the appearance of a mysterious Black Shinkansen. The SUEI had a major weapon for the fight - Shinkalions, bullet trains that can transform into gian...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Young girl Null lost her big sister Peta in an accident. But it’s okay! With her natural genius she successfully brings Peta back to life as a robot! However, now that she’s a robot she’s a bit different than she was before... A slapstick comedy between a genius inventor and her ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

In 1991, sixth grader Haruo Yaguchi is a total no hoper. He’s not smart, he’s not handsome, and to be honest he’s not even very nice. The only talent he has in life is that he’s insanely good at video games. However, even this small talent is about to be stripped away from him by...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Rei Izumi is a young woman with a resistance to drugs who decides to join the anti-narcotics police. To further her position in the narcotics squad, she joins specialist team STAND (Stand Alone National Department) but discovers that to become a full member she needs to recruit m...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Seiya Ryuguin is a Japanese man with natural god-tier stats summoned to Gairbrunde, an ultra hard, S-rank fantasy RPG type of world. He is summoned by Ristarte, a rookie goddess of healing, to save Gairbrunde. Originally, Ristarte believed he was the perfect candidate to be the h...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Oracle: a colony fleet traveling through space in search of a habitable planet. The colony is organized by ARKS, a large organization whose purpose is to explore and destroy the evil forces that lurk in space known as Falspawn so that peace may one day be brought to the universe....

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

During the war, a new technology to extend the functions of the human body was developed by Beruhren Corp. Using this technology, a portion or all of the body can be mechanized, and those who have undergone the process are called Extends.

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Long ago, the world was populated with all kinds of different races living alongside humans including elves, dwarves, vampires, and homunculi. At the top of the hierarchy were dragons who ruled over everything. Since then, the dragons have all but disappeared and the remaining ra...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Bad with people, introspective high schooler Miki usually passes her lonely days alone. Her world changes, however, when she meets transfer student Aya and is taken to a shop specializing in board games by their committee president Midori. Along with Emilia, a transfer student fr...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

The story takes place nearly a decade after the end of a long and brutal war. In this world, fairies naturally inhabit the bodies of animals. However, humankind learned to surgically remove the organs of these animals and insert them into a human, allowing that person some degree...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

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, 28 Oct 2019

Set on a planet covered 71% by oceans, enemies from another world called Siren suddenly appear. In order to combat this new powerful enemy, the four major powers of the world band together to form the global union Azur Lane, made up of anthropomorphized battleship girls.

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

High school boy Takuma Akutsu has a scary face that terrifies everyone around him and has earned him the nickname “demon,” so he is very lonely and resigned to just getting along on his own. All of that changes, however, when he is forced to help nine Valkyrie sisters battle mons...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Invited out by school beauty Cosmos and his childhood friend Himawari, Amatsuyu “Joro” Kirasagi is certain that he's going to get a love confession, but they each tell him that they like someone else. Meanwhile, it turns out that Sumireko “Pansy” Sanshokuin, a gloomy girl wit...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Set in a world in which jet ski racing with two-person teams consisting of a “Jetter” who drives the jet ski and a “Shooter” who attacks opponents with a water gun is a major sport, Rin Namiki is the daughter of a legendary Jetter, and she dreams of jet ski racing herself one day...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Gran continues to search for the island of Estalucia together with Lyria and the others. After receiving a request from merchant Sierokarte, Gran and company head to a small remote island where a thunderous roar continues to echo. There, Lyria begins sensing the presence of a bea...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

High school student Mizuki transfers into a new school in the middle of the school year and meets a group of four boys all suffering from chunibyo who make up the hero club. There’s Yamato who dreams of becoming a hero and trains every day; Tomoki, a handsome otaku who only likes...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Talented markswoman Hikari Kokura was keen to join the rifle club at her new school, Chidori High, but is dismayed to discover that it’s in danger of disbandment due to lack of members. Luckily she manages to convince three other girls to join her and restarts the club with her e...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Melida Angel is born into a noble family of Holy Knights but has no talent for mana. Kufa Vampir is contracted by her grandfather to tutor her. However, his real objective is to determine whether she has any skill and assassinate her if she doesn’t. Not able to bear seeing the sc...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Sora Kurumatani is a little guy not particularly suited to the basketball court but loves the game all the same. In middle school he never got picked for the team but is intent to give it his all after joining Kuzuryu High School. However, he finds out that Kuzuryu hardly has a b...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019