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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!

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, 17 Nov 2020

Ao Horie is a high school student with a traumatic past. In grade school, she gave a speech on Parents’ Day in front of her classmates and said that her name comes from the word “aokan” (the Japanese word for “outdoor sex”). You see, Ao’s father was a renowned erotic author and s...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Bocchi Hitori suffers from severe social anxiety and finds it impossible to connect with other people. Her only friend, Kai Yawara, is going to a different middle school, and in an effort to make sure Bocchi won’t be lonely forever breaks off their friendship, setting Bocchi the ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Thirty years ago, brothers Tatsuya and Kazuya Uesugi brought the Meisei High School baseball team to the National Championships. Now it’s the turn of a new generation as step-brothers Toma and Soichiro Tachibana set their sights on Koshien.

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki focuses on the life of Monaka Yatogame,a girl who speaks in a blunt Nagoya dialect, and highlights the differences in modern customs of Nagoya and Aichi.

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

A silent high school girl anime! The beautiful (and unlucky) Momoko, the cool bespectacled Shibumi, and the cute and refreshing Mayumi. Together, the girls have fun and enjoy each day as their high school lives begin!

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

See a different side of your favorite The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls idols in The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Theater! This hysterical spin-off shows the girls training to become top idols while enjoying their everyday lives off the stage and even gives viewers a chance to see h...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Kana Kojima - feared by students as “Demon Kojima,” she’s a teacher with a frightening reputation. But around third-year student Ichiro Sato she’s an airhead and total ditz. Now Ichiro can’t seem to stop finding himself in perverted situations with Kana in the men’s bathroom, the...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

“Is this really a massage?!” First-year high school student Sota starts working part time at his family’s bath house as a backwasher, but he’s in for a surprise when fellow classmate Aoi starts frequenting the bath house in disguise and he has to wash her back! Things get even mo...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

7 Seeds: a project to prevent humanity’s extinction. When the government learns of a giant meteorite on a collision course with Earth the likes of which will produce a global extinction event, they select five groups of young men and women to be cryogenically frozen and awoken af...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Nakano’s life consists of working a grueling grind as an employee at a “black” company, until one day he gets an uninvited house guest: a divine fox girl named Senko. Senko suddenly starts living with the exhausted Nakano and tries her best to take care of him by doing household ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Nanako Yukishiro is a shy first-year high school student who only communicates through senryu written on tanzaku. Eiji is an ex-delinquent who starts trying to write his own senryu. Using just 17 syllables, the two begin conveying their cheerful everyday activities to each other....

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Baseball lover Tsubasa Arihara enters high school only to find they have no baseball club for girls. So she starts one! Now together with a team of colorful players including a girl who has never played baseball before, a girl who played once and gave up, a girl who constantly st...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Nobunaga is a middle school teacher and galge fan who constantly dreams that a beautiful girl will appear in front of him. His wish comes true when one day 14-year-old Saito Kichi, the wife of the famous Warring States warlord Nobunaga Oda, travels through time to the modern day ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

An age of exploration returns to the world as a new continent appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - Magmell. It’s a new world filled with undiscovered and never-before-seen plants, animals, and resources, attracting explorers from far and wide. But disasters are bound to h...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Several years after the events of Ultraman, the “Giant of Light” is believed to have returned home after defeating the aliens that threatened the Earth. With the Earth once again in jeopardy, Shinjiro, the son of Shin Hayata, has discovered his father’s secret identity and realis...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

In modern Asakusa, Tokyo, three junior high boys meet a kappa, a mythical Japanese creature. The kappa, named Keppi, is the prince of the Kappa Kingdom, or so he says. Keppi steals the boys’ shirikodama, a mythical organ that kappa usually steal. The process transforms the three ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

One day, a city is annihilated. A loner smuggler named Takuya, and the sole survivor of the annihilation, a girl named Yuki. Two people joined in chaos. When all seems hopeless, Yuki receives a message from her father, and the two head to the annihilated city, Lost. But obstacles...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Middle schooler Tokio Abiko has just transferred from his rural hometown in Yamagata to the bustling metropolis of Tokyo. On his first day at his new school, Tokio runs into a mysterious classmate, Japan Hinomoto, who is the self-proclaimed master of the strange martial art known...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Having lost her mother in a car crash, Tohru goes to live with her grandfather, but after being treated unkindly she decides to live in a tent until she comes across a home where her popular classmate Yuki Soma and his cousin Shigure live. Soon she finds out there is a curse upon...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

“Bungo” of Bungo Stray Dogs means “literary master,” fittingly so because the characters of Bungo Stray Dogs are based on literary authors who wield superhero powers with some based on the books they wrote. These characters are the minority, caught up in being used by organizatio...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Heroes Taishakuten and Bonten together with 13 buddhas must defend the world against the evil Mara who is attempting to get revenge on Shaka Nyorai for preciously saving the world through achieving enlightenment.

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Kindly cat painter Vincent van Meowogh lives in a mansion in Paris surrounded by his friends. However, his life changes forever when he loses his beloved master, takes out a loan, and sells all of his precious furniture! Can Meowogh restore his beautiful home through his art? Onl...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

G.C.0051, Neo Tokyo A half century has passed since first contact. Humans have acquired faster than light travel technology and have forged a commonwealth of planets with several alien species.

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Hirafucho is a town whose every nook and cranny is soaked in hip hop culture. Even in school the curriculum is based on hip hop with rap being taught for music class, breakdancing for P.E., and learning to spit mad rhymes for language.

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Set in the future, 50 years after mankind had started civilization on Mars, most people are now complacent with AI-produced music. Carole & Tuesday follows the lives of two young females aspiring to become musicians, an unusual goal in this day and age. Carole is a black girl...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Kaoru is a typical OL (Office Lady) working for a small trading company in Tokyo. Her life, like that of many Tokyoans, is tough. She works long hours every day and nothing seems to go her way. Suddenly, Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma appear! They begin to live with Kaoru and her pet ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Arata Miyako is a new member of the Shinjuku Ward Office Nighttime Regional Relations Department, a department that specializes in solving occult-related incidents and is established in all 23 wards of Tokyo. Arata has the special ability of being able to understand non-human spe...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

In U.C. 0068, Zeon Zum Deikun dies during a speech intended to declare the independence of the Autonomous Republic of Munzo from the Earth Federation. Munzo falls into political disarray allowing the House of Zabi to rise to power. Meanwhile, Deikun’s children, Casval and Artesia...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Takuya Arima lost his mother when he was a child, and more recently his historian father goes missing while conducting research. He finds himself spending his last summer vacation of high school depressed and with no hope in anything. Then one day he receives a strange package fi...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Timid elementary school boy Makoto gets a shock one day when he runs into a giant red ball of hair whose name is Gonijro! When Makoto’s button gets attached to Gonjiro, something very strange happens. Gonjiro may be just made of hair, but he also really wants to protect things an...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Shinsaku Takasugi and Kogoro Katsura return to Kyoto only to discover another rupture in the fabric of time. Encountering the Shinsengumi, they realize there is another Mugensai to contend with. Can they return? Can anything change? At the mercy of an unchangeable fate, the pair ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Three girls come from another planet to save the mistreated animals of planet Earth. Black cat Amiru, squirrel Rumi, and rabbit Rie all make their way to Earth but Rie crashes her UFO! Lucky Amiru and Rumi run into Earth girl Minami and together set out to conquer the world!

Last updated at, 17 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, 17 Nov 2020

Koyomi Araragi, now a vampire, is dismayed to discover on looking into his bathroom mirror the day after his high school graduation that his reflection is staring at him. He tries to reach out and touch it, but his hand sinks straight into the mirror. Soon after, he begins to not...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

The young Yoshika Miyafuji enlists in the 501st Joint Fighter Wing to serve as humanity’s line of defense. But with the enemy, the Neuroi, nowhere in sight, she ends up spending her combat-free days cooking and cleaning. With so many unique personalities in the group, her silly, ...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

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, 17 Nov 2020

The “Awesome Ones” - Dan Kouzo and his friends Shun Kazami, Wynton Styles, Lia Venegas and dog Lightning, make videos and upload them to ViewTube. A series of strange events leads them to discover the strange biomechanical creatures known as Bakugan. Befriending them, the guys be...

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Seido High School baseball team continue their campaign to get to Koshien one year after the fall tournament.

Last updated at, 17 Nov 2020

Welcome to Ice Cream Town! It’s a place where lots of friends live. Once again today, they’ll have an “ice” day together with everyone!

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Hayase “Hayacchi” Nagatoro is a 16-year-old high school student who looks sweet on the outside but has a devilish side to her and loves teasing and toying with an introverted male classmate whom she calls Senpai. Day in and day out, she tries her best to torture Senpai and make h...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Takuma Sakamoto is a hikikomori gamer who never leaves his room until one day he is suddenly transported into his favorite MMORPG, Cross Reverie, as his character Demon Lord Diablo! Turns out he has been summoned by pantherian Rem and elf Shera who wish to make him their slave, b...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Gloomy is a ferocious bear who is taken in by a kind boy named Pitty after his favorite stuffed bear is thrown away. Though Gloomy often ends up attacking him, Pitty is determined to be there for Gloomy and live happily together.

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Fifty years have passed since humans landed on the moon. Now, there are animals who want to succeed in the space development announced by the Animal Prime Minister and put a flag on the moon. In order to make this a success, the Animal Kingdom Space Academy is born. Kotetsu is a ...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Set in “Nearland,” an AI theme park where dreams, hopes, and science are mixed together. Vivy, the first-ever autonomous humanoid AI, works at the park as an AI cast member and sings on stage every day to the delight of crowds. Her dream is to one day stand on the main stage of t...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

The Republic of San Magnolia is at war with its neighbor, the Empire of Giad. Having lost considerable forces to Giad’s Legions, autonomous mechanized killing machines, the Republic has since developed a way to fight back through its own mechanized units, called Juggernauts. But ...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Set in a fictional spacefaring universe in which humans, aliens, and sentient robots live, Shiki Granbell is the sole-human inhabitant of a planet of robots called Granbell and is an Ether Gear user who is able to control gravity. One day, the planet is visited by a girl named Re...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021

Sueharu Maru is a 17-year-old second-year high school student who has never had a girlfriend. He lives next to his childhood friend Kuroha Shida, a cute girl with an older sister vibe. Kuroha has a thing for him and ends up confessing to him, but he rejects her. He’s hoping to wi...

Last updated at, 30 Mar 2021