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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!

This is not your usual family. On a remote island, two mad scientists were running illegal genetic experiments on their own children, sparing only the youngest one. After their parents get arrested, the children—the human-dog hybrid Snow, the plant-human Ashisu, the spider-human ...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Well-known as simply Doreiku, Dorei-ku: Boku to 23-nin no Dorei (Slave District: 23 Slaves and Me) is a psychological series which was first released as a web novel on Everystar by Shinichi Okada (Inou Maze, Weapon Geek) before being picked up for publication by Futabasha.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Taking place in an alternate Taisho era that lasted for 25 years instead of 15, Nil Admirari no Tenbin follows Tsugumi Kuze, a girl who decided to marry an unknown man to protect her family’s good name. Just before that happens, Tsugumi’s younger brother commits suicide in a myst...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (or Legend of the Galactic Heroes) is a famous space opera and military science fiction series that was first released as a novel in November 1982 by Yoshiki Tanaka. The novel ran until November 1987, and a total of 10 volumes were released by Tokuma Shoten w...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

In the year 2031, a quantum reactor accident drastically changed the world. This became known as the “Xianglong Crisis.” The sudden flash erupting from underground enveloped the city’s buildings and everything around it, which resulted in the birth of B.R.A.I., unknown creatures ...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Kai Ichinose, the abandoned son of a prostitute, escapes his difficult life in the red light district by taking refuge in a forest which mysteriously contains an abandoned piano. Meanwhile, Shuhei Amamiya, the pampered son of a famous concert pianist, has just transferred to Kai’...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

One day, second-year college student Aoi Tsubaki, a girl with the ability to see spirits, is suddenly transported to Tenjinya, a long-standing inn located in the Otherworld, where she learns that she’s supposed to marry the innkeeper to erase her late grandfather’s debt. Aoi is v...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Written and illustrated by Natsumi Eguchi, Hozuki no Reitetsu (or Hozuki’s Coolheadedness) is a dark comedy and supernatural series which was first serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning in March 2011, and as of February 2018 there have been 25 volumes released.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Spring is the season of changes. For Hikari Kohinata, a girl born and raised in Izu, and Futaba Oki, a girl who just moved from Tokyo, it held an encounter that would forever change their lives. Futaba accepts Hikari’s invitation to join the Diving Club at their school, and a who...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai is an original romantic comedy anime centered around Tada Mitsuyoshi, a boy with no experience in love. He’s taking pictures of fully bloomed cherry blossoms when he meets a transfer student from Luxembourg named Teresa Wagner. She’s lost after having go...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Written by Labo Asai with illustrations by Miyagi, Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru (or Dances with the Dragons) was first released as a light novel through Kadokawa Shoten between 2003 and 2006.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

A sequel to Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid. While not without personal sacrifice, the soldier Sousuke Sagara has received permission from the military group Mithril to stay undercover and by the side of Kaname Chidori, a Whispered. Unfortunately, it seems that the leisurely li...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

As the son of a famous chef, Soma Yukihira wants to simultaneously follow in his father’s footsteps and surpass him as the chef of their family-owned restaurant! After the restaurant is closed, however, his aspirations shift - there is apparently an elite school called the Totsuk...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Two years on from Tokyo Ghoul √A, Tokyo is still plagued by man-eating monsters. Ace investigator Haise Sasaki is placed in charge of a special Quinx squad made up of members who are all part Ghoul...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Boku no Hero Academia is an action and comedy series following heroes-in-training who attend U.A. High School. Written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi, the series was first serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2014, and as of Feb. 2018, 16 volumes have been rele...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

A disgraced former soldier who survived the Russo-Japanese war of the Meiji era, Saichi Sugimoto now lives on the far northern island of Japan, Hokkaido. Nicknamed “The Immortal” during the war, Sugimoto ekes out a living traversing the wilderness seeking out riches from the gold...

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Steins;Gate follows the members of the Future Gadget Laboratory: Rintaro Okabe, Kurisu Makise, Mayuri Shiina, Itaru “Daru” Hashida, Suzuha Amane, Urushibara Ruka, Faris Nyannyan, and Kiryu Moeka.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Hirotaka Nifuji and Narumi Momose are childhood friends, work at the same company, and, more importantly, they are both otaku: Hirotaka is an avid gamer, while Narumi is a fujoshi!

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

First published as a web novel, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryo Shirakome (白米 良) and illustrated by Takayaki which began in 2013.

Last updated at, 26 Jun 2018

Chatorazawa Tapio is a cheerful calico and Roshihara Kuehiko is a pessimistic Russian blue. The two study in the same college, and also work together on various odd jobs.

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Ani is the princess of the minor nation of Inaco and on her way to attend a signing ceremony, meant to guaranteed peace between the nations Selenfalen and Milidonia. Her first encounter is with the prince of Selenfalen, Ruze, who is so lovely and kind that she first mistakes him ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

One day, average high schooler Sora Kashiwagi gets yet another unusual present from his self-proclaimed adventurer father from Egypt: A coffin with a letter saying, “I found an interesting mummy and decided to send it to you!” Sora is initially scared as his father’s past gifts w...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

The small agency Takanashi Productions has signed a new idol unit named IDOLiSH7, which consists of seven male singers, and it’s up to Tsumugi Takanashi to whip them into shape! Determined to be the best manager she can be at her father’s agency, Tsumugi must train and mold them ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Ancient Japanese swords have been brought to life in order to keep the “historical retrograde army” from disrupting the present.

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Thirteen-year-old Hana Nono is heading to school when she runs into a baby named Hug-tan and her hamster fairy Harryham Harry after they fall from the sky! Through this strange pair she learns about the dangerous Cryasse Corporation, a group seeking out Hug-tan’s Mirai Crystals. ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Two brothers are taken in by the head of a school on the condition that they help out with daycare facilities.

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

The time has come to cleanse the world of the demonic influence of the Seven Mortal Sins! Heaven sent seven of its angels to find the true Messiah and save the world from damnation, but are they really cut out for a job like this? Follow the Seven Heavenly Virtues on their quest ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Middle schooler Hana Ichinose is excited to enter high school along with all her friends, but due to an unfortunate case of the mumps she misses all of her high school entrance exams and is forced to take a gap year as a “middle school ronin.” Unable to stay in her hometown, she ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Ten years have passed since the bloody battle to decide the next shogun. It’s an era of peace, with ninjas from the Iga and Koga clans working together to preserve the precious bloodlines of Oboro and Gennosuke, inherited by their twin children Hachiro and Hibiki. However, the pe...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 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, 11 Apr 2018

That is a place further than the universe... Mari Tamaki, also called Kimari by her friends, is a second-year high school student who wants to make the most out of her school years but never really gets around to starting anything. When her schoolmate Shirase Kobuchizawa tells h...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

More than 3,000 years ago in China during the In dynasty, the emperor Chuu Ou is being controlled by a beautiful fox spirit named Dakki. She uses this power to harm the nation. An immortal-in-training by the name Taikobo is chosen for the Houshin Project with the goal of sealing ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Suigin Riku is just an ordinary high schooler with a crush on the school’s most popular girl, Rei Riku. That is, until Rei gets trapped in the popular game Grave Buster. Guided by Twin Star, Suigin follows her to the game’s world and joins the battle against tomb raiders, becomin...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Since ancient times, the Japanese economy has been secretly fueled by “Killing Bites” battles that pit “Brutes,” animal-human hybrids, against one another. One such brute is Hitomi, a fearless honey badger hybrid, who is kidnaped by acquaintances of college student Nomoto Yuuya. ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

For some reason, a young high schooler is refusing to attend school. Her aunt, Hana Natori, is way too concerned for her own good and decides to take drastic measures to ensure that her niece doesn’t fail out… The grand plan? To dress up as a high schooler and attend posing as he...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

These three elementary school girls may just be kids, but they have a duty to protect their beloved Ueno! Yui, Sacchan, and Kotoha work day and night (or at least until it gets dark…) to protect their town as Colors, an organization dedicated to ensuring peace and safety within U...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

It has been several years now since the war between humans and masters has ended, and the world has entered an age of peace. Some girls, however, contain the souls of past monsters and are able to summon their monster forms, and these girls are called Monster Girls (or kaiju girl...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Mameneko is a slice-of-life series that follows the everyday happenings of cats Azuki and Daizi whose cat-loving owner is an office worker in her 30s. She lives with her father, mother, grandfather, and glasses-wearing older brother whom the cats have nicknamed Japanese word for ...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Due to the remarriage of her mother, Yuzu Aihara, a fashionable gyaru and free-spirited city girl who’s more interested in shopping and keeping up with the latest trends than boys, transfers to a new town and high school. Being a conservative girls’ school, she struggles to fit i...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Babi Electric Town is a gathering place for outsiders from all over the world where everything is operated by electricity. Young Hemingway works in one of the shops there called Inazma Delivery, a transportation service for all kinds of goods. One day, a lost alien named Bytheway...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Light and Yomi are young boys who enjoy, more than anything, playing video games! One late night, when everyone else is asleep, Light receives a mysterious invitation from a strange boy named Alpha, who was sent on behalf of someone named King. Suddenly, they find themselves bein...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Popuko and Pipimi are just two average schoolgirls, or so they seem at first glance, but in reality they’re both wildly offbeat and bizarre, constantly finding themselves in the midst of misadventures and surreal situations in which they respond in equally surreal and bizarre way...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Sakamichi is a high school student and huge fan of anime and figures which has lead to him often biking over to Akihabara. He hopes to join the anime club and make friends with similar interests, but the club has been disbanded. His biking talent is then noticed by Shunsuke Imaiz...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Rin Shima is a girl who enjoys camping by herself during the off-season. While camping at the foot of Mt. Fuji one day during winter she comes to the aid of a new transfer student to her school named Nadeshiko Kagamihara who finds herself lost. The two enjoy curry noodles togethe...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Ordinary high school boy Kouta Hasegawa has a secret he can’t share with anyone - he absolutely loves cute characters and in particular Sanrio’s Pompompurin! Too embarrassed to reveal his cute character love to those around him, Kouta’s days are dull and filled with melancholy un...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 2 follows Kusuo Saiki, a high schooler at the less-than-normal P.K. Academy with a wide variety of psychic abilities including telepathy, psychokinesis, and teleportation, as he faces all sorts of hardships and desperately tries to live a normal life and avoi...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Currently unemployed Juri Yukawa has a special talent that not even her family knows about - she has the power to stop time! When her brother, Tsubasa, and nephew, Makoto, are kidnapped by the mysterious Genuine Love Society, Juri’s grandfather reveals that he too has a similar p...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018

Takunomi. is a hilarious look at the life of Michiru Amatsuki, a 20 year old who recently moved to Tokyo from Okayama for a new job. She lives in an all-woman house called the Stella House Haruno with a few other women (Nao, Makoto, and Kae) and despite their differences in caree...

Last updated at, 11 Apr 2018