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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 the year 2062, the earth has been devastated by Artemis, a rogue AI that was supposed to help automate the worldwide workforce but instead chose to fight against humanity. Twenty years have passed since the Artemis Project failed, and a girl named Empress awakes in an undergro...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Healer Girl is set in a world where there are three schools of medicine: Western medicine, Eastern medicine, and “vocal medicine” which cures illnesses and injuries through the power of song. Those who use their voice to heal are called “Healers.” Kana Fujii, Reimi Itsushiro, and...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Hiyori Suzumi is a high school girl who was raised in the countryside and loves to run. She especially excels at hurdle races. Aspiring to get onto a university’s track and field team, she leaves her hometown and moves to Tokyo, where she begins attending Sakuraoka High School. T...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Eve is a skilled golfer who makes a living betting on golf. Her life changes when one day she has a fateful encounter with Aoi Amawashi, an elite golfer whose family runs the global conglomerate Amawashi Group. Though these two genius golfers come from completely different worlds...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Yuichi Katagiri is a second-year high school student who values his friends more than anything else and lives his high school life to the fullest together with his friends Shiho Sawaragi, Tenji Mikasa, Makoto Shibe, and Yutori Kokorogi. But a certain incident lands all five of th...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Sternbild City is home to a wide range of people of all races and ethnicities as well as those with special powers called NEXT, who use their abilities to protect the city and its inhabitants as professional heroes. Each hero has a corporate sponsor, and their activities are broa...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Loid Forger is a spy codenamed “Twilight” who has just been given his toughest mission yet: Operation Strix. His target is Donovan Desmond, a prominent politician and President of the National Unity Party of Ostania, but in order to get close to him, he must first pose as a famil...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Shido Itsuka’s life has been a whirlwind as of late. Or more precisely, a spatial quake. Several of them, in fact. Powerful “Spirits” from other dimensions that take the form of girls are unintentionally causing these spatial quakes in his reality. Seen as a threat to humanity, t...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Nagomu Irino moved to the big city of Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming a musician, but when his father falls ill, he returns home and decides to take over his family’s wagashi shop, Ryokusho. However, there is another candidate for the shop’s successor: a young girl named It...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Junpei is a second-year junior high school student who has been fascinated by ballet since he was young and aspires to become a ballet dancer. But after his father’s death, he gives up on those aspirations and takes up the martial arts style Jeet Kune Do in order to be more mascu...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

The Rising of the Shield Hero follows Naofumi Iwatani, a 20 year-old university student who was whisked away to a fantasy game-like realm of monsters and magic after discovering a book about Four Heroes. Iwatani is chosen as one of these four and given the mantle of the Shield He...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

In another world, there are otherworlders called Lost Ones who visit from Japan and bring calamities with them. Due to the destruction they bring that threatens the world, they have to be executed in secret. Menou is an Executioner who makes a living executing such Lost Ones. One...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Ashito Aoi is a junior high school student living in Ehime and the ace player of a weak soccer team. After losing his last tournament of junior high school, he runs on the beach to vent his frustration and happens to meet a man named Tatsuya Fukuda. It turns out Tatsuya is the co...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Fushihara-san is a corporate slave working for an exploitative company who, while working late one night, hears an ominous voice telling her to leave. But contrary to her expectation, she is surprised to find that the voice belongs to a cute ghost girl named Yurei-chan! Worried a...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

In his past life, he was the all-powerful Demon Lord Varvatos. But after years of feeling lonely, he casts a reincarnation spell on himself while on the verge of death so that he can lead a normal life and is reincarnated as a villager named Ard several thousand years later. But ...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

After receiving word that his childhood friend Ushio Kofune has passed away, Shinpei Ajiro returns to his hometown of Wakayama City on the island of Hitogashima for the first time in two years. There, he reunites with his family and friends and attends the funeral service for Ush...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Shoko Komi is the most beautiful girl at school. No one can take their eyes off her, but as much as they admire her, everyone has also come to think of her as an unattainable ice queen. Only one student, Hitohito Tadano, is brave enough to get to know her and discovers that she’s...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Arvin is an adventurer who sets off on a journey to save the world and its people. One day, while battling magical beasts, a dark elf healer named Karla happens to pass by. But when he asks for her help, she unexpectedly asks him to get down and grovel first! Not only that, but s...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Kotaro Sato is a precocious 4-year-old boy who for some reason lives by himself at the apartment complex Springwater Apartments. Though he has no business living alone at such a young age, he is able to handle the ins and outs of daily life, from shopping, to cleaning and cooking...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Fudo Aikawa and Desumi Magahara are a high school couple and totally in love. The only problem is they’re actually sworn enemies! His true identity is Red Gelato, the leader of the hero group Gelato Five, while her true identity is the Queen of Death, a fighter for the evil secre...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Yu Arimura is a 15-year-old child actor and idol who has been in the entertainment world since a young age, but after witnessing horse racing for the first time, a new dream is born within him and he decides to become a pro jockey. At the entrance exam to a horse racing school, h...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Deep in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere, lives a group of kunoichi. Their name is Akanegumi. Consisting of unique kunoichi girls divided into several teams, they each study hard as they polish their skills. But they have an ironclad rule that must not be broken: There are...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Izumi and his girlfriend Shikimori are high school sweethearts. They are always lovey-dovey when they’re together, and Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, sweet, and full of affection. But when Izumi gets into trouble, as he has a tendency to do, she does a complet...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Fifteen years have passed since the demon lord was defeated, and the world has enjoyed a time of peace. Kotone Kazairo is in search of a new home and visits RPG Real Estate, but it turns out she actually works there! Her coworkers include the free-spirited and mischievous Fa, the...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Shining stars from different universes and different times who were never meant to cross paths. The irony of fate brings them all together at Kaginado Academy. What awaits them there is a lively high school life full of hope and dreams where every day is like a festival. Through ...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Nagi Umino is a second-year high school student who was mistakenly switched at birth and now attends a prestigious high school. One day, while going to meet his biological family for the first time, he runs into Erika Amano, a popular internet celebrity on her way to meet her fut...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Miyuki Shirogane is the top student at his school and is even well-known nationally, and Kaguya Shinomiya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate and equally as intelligent. Together, they run the student council at Shuchiin Academy, an elite school for the gifted. These two ge...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

The idea that oni are bad has become an antiquated notion, and they are now good friends with humans. But because of their mischievousness from long ago, they are sometimes misunderstood and teased. This is the story of three oni girls living in a world together with humans who w...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Leon is a working adult who is reincarnated into an otome game that takes place in a world of swords and magic. Aside from the Prince's Entourage, a group of handsome guys led by the crown prince, who is himself a capture target in the game, the world is completely female-dom...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

“Is life too hard? Then just run away!” In the distant future, humans have evolved into a variety of forms including beastmen, cyborgs, and demons. As part of the "Supernatural Renovation Project," the city of Tokyo has become split into different “Clusters” all separat...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Somewhere on Earth, there is a land where small insects live called Insect Land. All kinds of insects live there, including fireflies, ladybugs, mantises, bees, butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, and more. They come in different sizes, colors, and shapes, and all live in differen...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Reina Aharen is a small, quiet girl who is bad at judging the distance between others. Raido is a boy who sits next to her in class who can feel the distance between them. One day, Raido picks up an eraser she drops, and the two suddenly become closer! From way too distant to way...

Last updated at, 31 Mar 2022

Frozen is a super popular animated series produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and the first movie was released on the 26th of December 2013. It is a musical that produced many songs that children love to sing along to. The story is about a young princess, Elsa who holds the...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Haikyu!! became a smash hit with fans due to its large case of endearing characters. Nekoma's Kenma Kozume consistently ranks among the top ten in character popularity polls. Fans resonate with his shyness and his relationships with Shoyo Hinata and Tetsuro Kuroo. Kenma appea...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The enduring Haikyu!! fanbase enjoying an ongoing selection of figures and merchandise celebrating their favorite characters. Fans especially love the cheeky, antagonizing setter from Aoba Johsai, Toru Oikawa. Oikawa appears in promotional materials and the ever-popular Nendoroid...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Haikyu!! became an international hit with a widely beloved cast. One of the most popular characters is the Tokyo rival ace, Kotaro Bokuto. Bokuto won fans over with his big personality, childlike disposition, and friendly relationships with the main cast. Bokuto's fans enjoy ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The hit sports manga Haikyu!! received critical and fan acclaim for its storytelling and character development. The second protagonist, Tobio Kageyama, subverted shonen rival tropes through his complex relationship with central character, Shoyo Hinata. Kageyama's fans enjoy a...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Haikyu!! became an international success through the compelling rivalry and friendship between its two protagonists. At the center, Shoyo Hinata captures the classic determined, shonen protagonist aura with realistic struggles and setbacks. His persistence and ambition contrast h...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The immensely popular sports manga, Haikyu!!, spurned several screen and stage adaptations. Its resonance with fans came from its compelling characters. Fan adoration of these characters led to booming merchandise sales spanning everything from files folders and keychains to plus...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Haikyu!! reigned as one of the most popular shonen manga for nearly a decade. The passionate fan base earned the series both anime and stage adaptations along with countless promotional events. The series owes a lot of its success to the well-developed, likable characters. Karasu...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Haikyu!! proved the enduring popularity of the sports genre in manga. Despite its huge cast, each character has carved out its own fan base among readers and anime viewers. Karasuno's third year setter, Koushi Sugawara, proves how even the benched players earn the love of rea...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

For nearly a decade, sports manga Haikyu!! reigned as one of the most popular series in Shonen Jump. One of the standout popular characters from the massive cast is Fukurodani's second year setter, Keiji Akaashi. Together with Bokuto, Akaashi forms an endearing duo with both ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The sports manga Haikyu!! earned its widespread popularity through its widely developed cast of characters. Karasuno, the main team, showcases the incoming first year players more than any other. Aside from the series protagonists, middle blocker Kei Tsukishima won over fans with...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The hit sports manga Haikyu!! showcases personal growth and character development alongside courtside action. Karasuno first year Tadashi Yamaguchi proves the series' mastery when crafting an underdog. Originally left out of the action, Yamaguchi develops his own special skil...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

The enduring success of Haikyu!! comes from the seemingly endless cast of memorable, lovable characters. In the fourth season, Karasuno made the trip to Nationals to battle familiar faces and new challenges. Inarizaki High School served as the final obstacle before the long-await...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Haikyu!! elevated the stakes in its third anime season, Karasuno High School vs. Shiratorizawa Academy. The uncontested Shiratorizawa boasts one of the best aces in the series, left-handed Wakatoshi Ushijima. Ushijima's unyielding confidence and skills earned him a large fanb...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

Karasuno High School's journey to victory earned them several rivals in the hit sports manga, Haikyu!! One of their first and greatest hurdles is the Miyagi powerhouse school, Aoba Johsai. With members like setter Toru Oikawa and ace Hajime Iwaizumi, the private high school q...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022

As the Haikyu!! anime prepares for its next season, the standout stars from the fourth season remain wildly popular with fans. The Miya Brothers in particular enjoy a fanbase that rivals their in-universe popularity. Even with less screen time than his brother, Osamu Miya earned ...

Last updated at, 24 Oct 2022