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Otaku USA

Otaku USA
Cover of Spring 2024 issue, featuring Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts
EditorPatrick Macias
CategoriesAnime and Manga
FrequencyBi-monthly
First issueAugust 2007
CompanySovereign Media
CountryUnited States
Based inMcLean, Virginia
WebsiteOtaku USA
ISSN1939-3318

Otaku USA is a bimonthly magazine published by Sovereign Media, which covers various elements of the "otaku" lifestyle (such as anime, manga, video games, cosplay and Japanese popular music) from an American perspective. The issues were accompanied by a DVD featuring three anime episodes but as of 2009 the DVD feature was dropped and the double sided poster feature of the Magazine was also dropped starting with the February 2010 issue.

Otaku USA began publication in August 2007.[1] The editor-in-chief of the magazine is Patrick Macias. After the shutdown of Newtype USA in February 2008,[2] Anime Insider in March 2009,[3] Shonen Jump in April 2012,[4] and the discontinuation of Protoculture Addicts since August 2008,[5] Otaku USA is the only remaining bimonthly anime news magazine published for the North American market. Trans-Atlantic competitor Neo, a British-based title was shutdown in November 2024, leaving Otaku USA, sister publication Anime USA, and academic journal Mechademia: Second Arc as the remaining anime publications in English-speaking world.[6]

  1. ^ "Otaku USA Magazine Arrives June 5". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 9, 2018. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "Newtype USA to Cease Publication". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  3. ^ "Wizard Entertainment Confirms End of 'Anime Insider'". Newsarama. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  4. ^ "Viz's Shonen Jump Print Magazine to End Next March". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  5. ^ "Dead English Language Anime Magazines: "Protoculture Addicts"". The Anime Archivist. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  6. ^ Osmond, Andrew (November 7, 2024). "U.K. Anime Magazine Neo Ends on 20th Birthday". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 7, 2024.

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