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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 high school student Fuutaro Uesugi gets excellent grades but comes from a poor family. One day, he meets transfer student Itsuki Nakano who asks him to help her study. However, he refuses and is met with her wrath and anger. Shortly thereafter, Fuutaro hears from his ...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Yoko is the daughter of Koji Amami, the free-spirited owner of the cafe Rainy Color. When her dad takes an impromptu trip overseas to Hawaii, she finds herself stuck managing the cafe in his stead. Now it’s up to Yoko and her friends to keep the business running smoothly. So begi...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

High school student Natsuo Fujii’s momo died when he was young, and now he lives with his dad. Natsuo aspires to become a writer and spends his free time writing. He is also hopelessly in love with his cheerful and popular high school English teacher Hina. Not able to act on his ...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Hikari Tsutsui was a socially awkward third-year high school otaku who kept his distance from others. But one day, he’s asked out by his classmate, the gorgeous Iroha Igarashi. The unlikely couple start dating and face a number of obstacles to their romantic relationship but some...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

The Promised Neverland follows the lives of several young children living at Orphanage Grace Field House. They live completely happy and fulfilled thanks to the kindness of their caretaker, Mama Isabella. Three of the brightest kids at the orphanage are Norman, Emma, and Ray. The...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

The Shibuya Drift - a mysterious phenomenon where central Shibuya rises up and is transported at least 300 years into the future. Unfortunately for second-year high school student Daisuke Dojima and his friends Gai, Lu, Marin, and Keisuke, they get caught up in the incident and f...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Miyuki is the top student at his school and is even well-known nationally, and Kaguya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate and equally as intelligent. Together they run the student council at Shuchiin Academy. They seem like the perfect couple. The only problem is that each ...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Anne is the princess of the Mysteria Kingdom, and Grea is a princess who is half-dragon and half-human. The two girls live in Mistalsia - a mysterious world where the tribes of humans, gods, and demons coexist - and they’re about to begin attending the world’s most prestigious sc...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Miyako is a student in college. One day she meets her little sister Hinata’s friend Hana and falls for her at first sight. She wants to somehow become friends with Hana, but her shy, awkward behavior makes Hana uneasy. So begins her days of scheming to try and win over Hana’s fri...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

In the near future, otaku culture is in a state of decline and the former “otaku holy land” Akihabara has lost its shine. The Usagi Koya Honpo is one of the few remaining otaku shops. Together with a group of talented otaku girls, the manager of the store fights the virus infecti...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

BanG Dream! 2nd Season continues where the first season left off. The band members of Poppin’ Party are riding high on the popularity of their first performance where they received a warm reception. In Season 1, Kasumi and the other girls of Poppin’ Party had to face many obstacl...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

The boys are back! B-Project: Zeccho Emotion picks up where the first season leaves off. The anime starts with a performance to celebrate the new year. Still together with their A&R, Tsubasa Sumisora, the second season is sure to bring new musical hits, new drama between grou...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

The modern world has enjoyed an era of relative peace, but this wasn’t always the case. Three years ago, the world was attacked by extradimensional enemies called Netherbeasts, and humanity’s military might was powerless against them. When it looked like all hope was lost, fairie...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Mob Psycho 100 follows the life of Shigeo Kageyama AKA Mob, a seemingly mundane eighth grader who also happens to be an ultra-powerful psychic. In the first season of the series, Mob meets his mentor, Arataka Reigen. While Reigen is very weak psychically, he’s so charismatic that...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Regular high school boy Hanae Ashiya has a problem. A yokai has attached itself to him and it’s making him very ill. In order to get rid of it, he enlists the help of an exorcist who also operates the Mononokean tea room. The morose man behind the counter, Haruitsuki Abeno, agree...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Everyone is given a book when they are born and must live their life exactly in accordance with what has been written within it. However, Ekusu was born with a book in which all the pages were blank. Meeting up with the similarly burdened Reina, Tao, and Shane, Ekusu sets out on ...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

In the near future, an advanced AR technology known as Mixed Reality System has become widespread and introduced to the world a new sport. Circlet Bout is particularly popular with high school girls with successful players achieving nationwide fame. Yuka Sasaki has just transferr...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

James Blood is a hotblooded member of London’s Capital Police Department attached to the elite SSC (Special Service of Crime) division. Following a series of grisly murders, he finds himself teaming up with Sarah Sinclair, a lawyer who witnesses her boss suddenly drop dead while ...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Five high school boys are taking remedial classes when suddenly they are sent across dimensions into an anime world. Now they must cross between the anime world and real life in order to stop a god of destruction from conquering the 3D world.

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Born to a daimyo father named Kagemitsu Daigo who made a pact with 48 demons in order to rule the world, Hyakkimaru was born malformed and limbless, lacking 48 body parts, and was abandoned in a river. Now grown up, Hyakkimaru has obtained fake body parts and travels together wit...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Meiji Tokyo Renka is about a modern day high school girl named Mei Ayazuki who time-slips back into the Meiji period of Tokyo and loses all memory of her present self. There, she meets several famous ikemen from history. All of these ikemen court her and compete for her affection...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Shy novelist Subaru Mikazuki has no luck with people but begins to open up when he decides to adopt a stray cat he names Haru and starts writing the story of their life together from each of their perspectives.

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Yukiya is about 14 years old and spends most of his time DJ’ing on his own. He inherited a love of house music from his dad and has even started uploading videos of himself playing on the internet. He longs to communicate with someone, to be recognized and needed, but he’s afraid...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Far away from the Earth, there is a planet where there exists a kingdom where everybody smiles all the time. Princess Yuki, however, is 12 years old and at a sensitive age. She laughs, she cries, and faces life with girlish excitement as she enjoys her easy days in the Royal Pala...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

The goddess Athena is protected by an army of warriors knowns as Saints who are protected by battle armor known as Cloths which represent their Guardian Constellations. Sho is a Santia - one of Athena’s personal handmaidens, and finds herself defending the goddess and her Sanctua...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Ekoda-chan lives in an apartment near Ekoda Station. Aside from her part-time jobs at bars and pubs, Ekoda-chan spends her evenings looking for love while battling the evil “mokin” (birds of prey) - pretty women who pretend to be stupid in order to hook good-looking guys!

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Starring chibi versions of the girls from Katana Maidens: Toji no Miko and the Toji no Miko: Kizamishi Issen no Tomoshibi smartphone game, Mini Toji follows the everyday lives of school girls who just happen to be sword-wielding shrine maidens.

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Mermaids may be bewitching sea creatures with inhuman charm and otherworldly powers, but they still have their share of problems in daily life just like everyone else! With their friends by their side, there’s nothing that these five young mermaids can’t overcome!

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Hyakkaou Private Academy: an institute specifically developed for extremely wealthy students. The curriculum for this academy was developed around the idea that, with money and power, it’s not athletics or academics that you need, but the ability to read people and make deals. Th...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Piano no Mori is the story of two boys from different upbringings brought together through a shared love for the piano and dream to become the best pianist in Japan. Set in a rural town, Shuhei Amamiya is a transfer student from Tokyo whose father is a famous pianist and Kai Ichi...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Dreaming of being hula girls, first-year middle school student Suzu and her classmate Fumi start a hula club but quickly run out of momentum and end up lazing about every day. However, they are reinvigorated when other girls who all share the same dream start attending the club, ...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

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. And Shido is the only one who c...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Japari Park: a large zoo home to many exotic animals. But it’s not just an ordinary zoo; thanks to the mysterious “Sandstar,” many of the animals have become anthropomorphized girls known as Friends! Upon waking up in the park with no memories, a girl known as Kaban befriends fel...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

Since their sudden rise to fame in 2017, VTubers have only increased in popularity both in Japan and worldwide. And now, in 2019...they’re getting their own anime?! Slapstick hilarity is sure to ensue as the girls show off their personalities and idiosyncrasies like never before!...

Last updated at, 15 Jan 2019

In the world of Aikatsu Planet! anyone can become a super cute idol! Mao Otoha is an extremely ordinary high school girl who goes to Seirei Private High School until one day when she takes on the role of top idol Hana after Hana’s previous alter ego, Meisa Hinata, suddenly disapp...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Etoile Vio School is an academy created by the famous talent agency Ailedore to train budding male idols. Follow the guys of eight idol groups as they strive to make their dreams a reality!

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Set in Hoshimi City, Hoshimi Production is a small entertainment agency that is looking for new idol talent to follow up their previous successful idol, Mana Nagase, who a few years prior had blown up the charts. The story follows a group of 10 aspiring idols including Mana’s you...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Aina, Ami, Shiori, and Ruka are four girls trying to make their dreams of becoming an idol a reality as they work hard to fill the 100-person capacity live house they perform at.

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Things are always lively at the naval port of Azur Lane with these ship girls around! Join the cheerful and bright Javelin, the quiet and unsociable Ayanami, the laid-back and perpetually tired Laffey, the diligent and serious Z23, the elegant and refined Formidable, the sophisti...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Set in England during the 1990s, Earwig is a 10-year-old orphan girl who grew up in the St. Morwald's Home for Children until one day when she is taken in by a witch named Vera Yaga and a man who lives with her named Mandrake.

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

The Otherside is a place where dangerous creatures from ghost stories and urban legends actually exist. It is a world full of mystery, next to reality. Sorawo Kamikoshi is a university student who one day stumbles upon a door leading to the Otherside while exploring an abandoned ...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

The Wixoss card game has become a worldwide phenomenon, and players can now battle as LRIG in the virtual space Wixossland. In Wixossland, “Diva Battles” are carried out in which teams of three compete for the highest number of fans, called “Selectors.” First-year high school stu...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

In 2014, Akira Natsume, a high school student who has a dislike for machines, decides he wants to change. He takes the first step but is then suddenly killed when he is hit by a truck. In 2030, a Tokyo police officer named Minami Uezono and her android partner Arma infiltrate the...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Reki is a second-year high school student who becomes obsessed with skateboarding and joins a top-secret, dangerous race called “S” that takes place in an abandoned mine. Together with a transfer student from Canada named Langa, he heads to the mountain where the race is supposed...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Kautz is a young man who leaves his hometown in search of a job and comes across a posting for an armorer who is hiring. He arrives at the shop to discover that it’s not your run-of-the-mill armor shop but an adult armor shop that specializes in sexy armor! Upon peeking into the ...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Peace has reigned in the kingdom of Hortensia for the past 700 years, but all that changes when without warning the land is attacked by the duchy of Camellia. Alfred Albert is the heir to the throne in the duchy of Albert who because of the attack must mature quickly so he can de...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

The Hidden Dungeon is an unexplored and unreachable dungeon that holds untold rare treasures and is home to rare and dangerous creatures. One day, a boy named Noir stumbled upon an entrance to the dungeon and upon exploring encounters a girl named Olivia who happens to be a legen...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021

Keyaru is a top-tier healing magician with the title of “Healer Hero,” but due to his lack of fighting abilities, his party sees him as nothing more than a tool. After being exploited again and again, and having lost everything, he becomes convinced that healing magic is the stro...

Last updated at, 01 Feb 2021