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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!

Bakabon and his crazy dad are back! Bakabon is not too bright and loves making mischief - just like his father, Bakabon’s Papa, who was once a genius but became an idiot after a strange incident where he sneezed a screw out of his head. Now updated to 2018, what kind of bizarre a...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Ordinary school boy Ren Fujii has a falling out with his best friend, Shirou Yusa, and tries to get on with his school life by hanging out with old friend Kasumi Ayase and older student Rea Himuro. However, when the town is suddenly engulfed by a strange series of indiscriminate ...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Sato Matsuzaka had never been loved by anyone until she met Shio Kobe. Having found each other at last, the two girls draw closer and build a lovely life of happiness together. However, there is a dark cloud hanging over their sweet relationship. Sato will not let anyone threaten...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Aki Shiina is a shy boy whose feminine looks often cause him to be mistaken for a girl. Hoping to change his life, he decides to move to Tokyo for middle school and moves into the Sunohara-sou lodging house. His new landlady, Ayaka Sunohara, is a warm and maternal woman who looks...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Despite having lost his memories, high schooler Soya Kuroi lives a peaceful life until one day, the world is attacked by a massive weapon called the Nebula Weapon. Soya is then dragged into battle along with the cat-like Sensei and a girl named Ginko who dresses as a gothic lolit...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

The Heroine is guided to the mysterious Dream World where dreams act as the life force to those living there. The world is in danger as beings known as the Yumekui feed on people’s dreams threatening Dream World and all of its residents. In order to defeat the Yumekui and save Dr...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

18-year-old Baileu Ton has come to London to study abroad after graduating high school. However, she quickly finds herself drawn to a secret nighttime bar, “Cafe Forbidden,” which has a particular set of clientele. Among the staff are vampire Vlad, werewolf Luke, Jiang Shi Tauryu...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Top magical lawyer Toru Muhyo and his assistant Jiro Kusano are the legal opposition to supernatural crime. According to the laws of the land, they track down ghosts and spirits who’ve caused harm or inconvenience to the living, sending them to heaven or hell depending on the jud...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

For Yuuto, what began as a selfie with a mystical shrine mirror ended with his sudden transportation from the modern world to a war-torn one called Yggdrasil. Here, it’s survival of the fittest, with the different clans constantly battling and vying for power, land, and resources...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 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

Learn about the human body and blood cells with the anthropomorphic cast of Cells at Work!! This series is set in the human body which is depicted as a city, and together, the characters including a red blood cell and white blood cell work to protect the city against pathogenic m...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Sato Matsuzaka had never been loved by anyone until she met Shio Kobe. Having found each other at last, the two girls draw closer and build a lovely life of happiness together. However, there is a dark cloud hanging over their sweet relationship. Sato will not let anyone threaten...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Out of the blue, college student Yukine decides to try her hand at summoning a demon from hell - and so she does! Surprisingly, a demon with a serpent tail named Jashin-chan appears…but after realizing that she has no idea how to send her back, Yukine and Jashin-chan are stuck ro...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

High school girl Haruka Ozora has just moved from Tokyo to Okinawa. Cheerful and positive as she is, Haruka has a bit of a complex over being unusually tall for her age. Haruka’s cousin Kanata who arrives at the airport to greet her has exactly the opposite problem. In fact, she’...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Kentaro Tachibana, the coach of the Kitakomachi High School badminton club, is becoming worried because the team has so few members that they can’t even enter competitions. When he spots Ayano Hanesaki eagerly climbing a tree and clocks her excellent motor skills, Tachibana is de...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Six years ago, Union was a famous MMORPG. Six years ago, Subaru was the most legendary guild in the game despite the fact that its members were elementary school students. Back then, everything was about spending time together and looking cool while slaying monsters no one else c...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

When a yakuza makes a mistake, his boss usually asks him to cut his little finger off. However, for three unlucky aspiring gangsters who’ve just cost their boss millions, the price is a little higher. They have two choices: honourable suicide or…go to Thailand and receive gender ...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

The island of Urashima has had its fair share of mysteries, and Setsuna is the newest one on the list. One summer morning, he’s found on the shore, naked and without any substantial memories of where he’s come from or what he was doing before… Strangely enough, he does have the u...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

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, 16 Aug 2018

Freshman Iori is so excited to start his life at Izu University. A fresh start, fun experiences, new friends, plus the roaring sea and blazing sun… what more could anyone want? He even gets to room with his family at his uncle’s diving shop Grand Blue! Everything seems perfect… u...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Takuma Sakamoto is a gamer who never leaves his room until he’s suddenly transported into his favorite MMORPG, Cross Reverie, as his character Demon Lord Diablo! He has been summoned by pantherian Rem and elf Shera who wish to make him their servant, but he has a passive called “...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Set in the town of Mabuse, FLCL Progressive takes place after the events of FLCL in which Naota and Haruko Haruhara (or Raharu) shared their adventure. War rages on, however, between Medical Mechanica and Fraternity. Enter Hidomi Hibajiri. Not unlike the occasionally blasé and li...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Yggdrasil, a DMMORPG (Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Game) released in 2126, proved a hit with players thanks to its highly immersive quality. After 12 exciting years, the game’s servers are set to be shut down leaving some of its most dedicated players mourning the loss of th...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Chronically indebted high schooler with psychic powers Kogarashi Fuyuzora is talked into taking a room at a disused hot springs, the Yuragi Inn, on account of the rent being extremely low. However, the reason it was so cheap is that it is haunted by the ghost of a high school gir...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Based on the Japanese RPG developed by Hoshikuzu KRNKRN (Makoto Sanada) for Microsoft Windows, the Angels of Death anime adaptation was announced via the official Twitter account on July 24, 2017. Scheduled to run for 16 episodes, the first season began airing on July 6, 2018.

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Kazutaka Hyodo, the president of Japan’s biggest consumer finance company Teiai Corporation, is often bored and enjoys nothing more than tormenting his employees. Squeezed middle-manager Yukio Tonegawa has hatched a plan to keep him entertained by recruiting 11 of his “blacksuit”...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

An American soldier on tour in Iraq, Griffin, suddenly starts firing on his comrades. Subdued by a friend, Griffin utters only the word “Banana Fish” before dying. Some years later, a mysterious man approaches the fallen soldier’s brother, Ash, now 17 and the leader of a New York...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

Ordinary high school girl Chio Miyamo enjoys walking to school every day. Far from boring, Chio’s regular commute takes her on a series of surreal adventures as she encounters various bizarre obstacles all while simply attempting to get from A (her house) to B (her school).

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

In an alternate Edo era, humanity has been overthrown by alien invaders known as “Amanto”. Despite samurai resistance, the Shogun surrendered, signing a peace treaty which bans the wearing of swords in public. Eccentric samurai Gintoki Sakata helps his friend Shimpachi Shimura sa...

Last updated at, 16 Aug 2018

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, 16 Aug 2018

Llenn is a solo player in a game centered around guns and steel called Gun Gale Online, or GGO. She loves all things cute and is equipped head to toe in pink, and through many hours of play she becomes a pretty solid player. One day she learns about player killing, or PKing, and ...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Kenshiro Kasumi is a laid-back, chain-smoking professor at Towa Woman’s University, but, in secret, he is also the 62nd successor to Hokuto Shinken. When he learns that his former associates in Shanghai are in trouble and need his help, he has little choice but to return and beco...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Daigo Shigeno is a young teen whose father, Goro Shigeno, happens to be a famous professional baseball player. After his father dies in a tragic car accident, Daigo realizes he wants to follow in his footsteps and starts to take his own baseball journey seriously.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Magical Girl Site follows the difficult life of Aya Asagiri who is troubled by both bullies as school and at home. She happens upon a website with an eerie person who out of pity gives her magical powers. She later finds a gun in her locker which she uses to fire at bullies in d...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Kaoruko Moeta is a 15-year-old high school student and manga creator who goes by the pen name Chaos. She’s got a lot to learn though, as evidenced by her ranking at the bottom of a reader survey. Under a recommendation from her editor, she enters an all-girl dormitory for manga c...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Magical Girl Ore follows the story of 15-year-old newbie idol Saki Uno who has a crush on her best friend’s older brother, Mohiro Mikage. When he is kidnapped by demons, who oddly have cute squirrel heads, she makes a contract to become a magical girl to save him, but when she tr...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Low level yakuza Yoshifumi Nitta leads an uneventful gangster life surrounded by his beloved porcelain until one day a mysterious round object arrives in his room. The object contains an equally mysterious girl, Hina, who turns out to have strange psychic powers. Cowed by Hina’s ...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

A world in which vampires known as “devils” exist and hide in plain sight, blending in among the human population. College student Tsukasa is one day attacked by a devil and saved by a half-devil named Yuki Anzai, a member of a shadowy police force specializing in investigating d...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

“We will shatter the illusions and return to the hell of reality.” In the town of Miyabi, a beautiful voice fills the streets as the infinitely popular idol, μ watches over the quiet everydays of the residents. Ritsu Shikishima is a freshman at Kishimai High School in Miyabi, w...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

One of the biggest card games in the world right now is WIXOSS. Unlike other card games, there are rare cards called “LRIGs” that actually grant players access to battle in a different dimension - not just for fun, either. Fierce battles between other players with “LRIGs” take pl...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Captain Tsubasa 2018 follows soccer prodigy Tsubasa Ozora as he grows as a player.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Alice or Alice is a comedic, heartfelt slice-of-life seinen series about twins Rise and Airi who have an older brother whom they call “Oni” and who has a sister complex. He knows everything about them and feels responsible for them too. Rise is reliable and Airi likes to live lif...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Natsunosuke Bonda lives and works in a highly stratified society where, above all else, performance determines salary and living conditions. For eight years now, he’s been working as a relief pitcher for the baseball team Tokyo Spiders. All things considered, he actually does pre...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Technological advances have significantly changed the scope of the world, even in sectors like martial arts and sports! In fact, the underground world of “Megalo Box” thrives on that very concept, where boxers aim for the number one spot using their own skills and the added advan...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin is set during the same time period as the original Inazuma Eleven TV anime, but it’s set in a parallel world and takes place shortly after the events of the Football Frontier Championship, and it focuses on three protagonists: Ryouhei Haizaki, Asuto...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Taking place in a world where humans and uma musume have lived together peacefully from ancient times, Uma Musume Pretty Derby follows Special Week, a young uma musume who just transferred to TraCen Academy. Building relationships with her teammates through friendly rivalry, she ...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

High school student Ren Amamiya comes to the aid of a woman being harassed by a drunken man in the street but ends up getting arrested himself and accused of assault. Getting arrested also gets him expelled from school, whereupon he relocates to Tokyo to stay with family friend S...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Rokuhodo is a popular Japanese-style cafe. Four young men work here, each doing their own specialty: Sui is the shopkeeper and tea maker, Gure creates latte art, Tokitaka makes the meals, and Tsubaki the sweets. Besides welcoming their guests with the utmost hospitality, they als...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018