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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!

Seven high school students find themselves in a strange place filled with magic and humanoid animals. At a loss for what to do, they consider building a power plant because there’s no electricity in this world, taking control of the local economy, and going to war against the evi...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Noel hates Christmas. Her parents are divorced and her dad is always super busy. None of her friends ever want to hang out either so she’s always alone and depressed. This year, however, when she returns to her Yokohama home, she discovers it’s been taken over by “Santa Company.”...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Fourteen-year-old Iruma Suzuki’s selfish and irresponsible parents decide to sell him to a demon! However, as the demon has no grandson of his own, he dotes on Iruma and decides to send him to demon school where he has to hide his humanity to blend in…

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Rei Izumi is a young woman with a resistance to drugs who decides to join the anti-narcotics police. To further her position in the narcotics squad, she joins specialist team STAND (Stand Alone National Department) but discovers that to become a full member she needs to recruit m...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

June 2026. Kirito has been offered a part-time job with Rath, a private company that researches and innovates technology. They need him to test the Soul Translator, a new and experimental FullDive machine they’ve been developing, though it involves using the system without pause ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

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, 28 Oct 2019

Saenai Kanojo no Sodatekata, or Saekano for short, is the story of a young man named Tomoya Aki who dreams about making the perfect romance PC game with a dream team of beautiful, creative heroines. The quartet work hard together on the game project, and in doing so deepen their ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Invited out by school beauty Cosmos and his childhood friend Himawari, Amatsuyu “Joro” Kirasagi is certain that he's going to get a love confession, but they each tell him that they like someone else. Meanwhile, it turns out that Sumireko “Pansy” Sanshokuin, a gloomy girl wit...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Talented markswoman Hikari Kokura was keen to join the rifle club at her new school, Chidori High, but is dismayed to discover that it’s in danger of disbandment due to lack of members. Luckily she manages to convince three other girls to join her and restarts the club with her e...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Fafner in the Azure: The Beyond continues the story of a group of children from Tatsumiya Island that pilot Fafners in a war against giant aliens called Festum as the last chance of survival for the human race. The children must have faith and courage as they can’t even know the ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

After losing her magical ability in a battle to destroy the Neuroi Nest, and with the 501st Joint Fighter Wing disbanded, Yoshika Miyafuji returns to her hometown of Fuso and for the first time in a long time enjoys peaceful days. After learning that her former superior officer, ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Nemeses have fallen from the skies and overrun the world. Those who came into contact with these monsters either died or became a part of a lucky group of survivors, and of these survivors is Seth. These survivors are able to wield magic as wizards and witches, and Seth dedicates...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Set in a world in which jet ski racing with two-person teams consisting of a “Jetter” who drives the jet ski and a “Shooter” who attacks opponents with a water gun is a major sport, Rin Namiki is the daughter of a legendary Jetter, and she dreams of jet ski racing herself one day...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Female office worker Saki is down on her luck and short on money when she finds out about a part-time job as a tester from a friend. But little did she know that what she would be testing is XL condoms! She doesn’t even have a boyfriend so it seems impossible! That is until her b...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Britannia, once home to an active group of knights known as the Seven Deadly Sins who since disbanded after they allegedly plotted to overthrow the Liones Kingdom. Rumor has it they were defeated by the Holy Knights, the most powerful knights in Britannia who protect the kingdom....

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

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, 28 Oct 2019

The series follows Izuku Midoriya (Deku), a boy who desperately wants to become a pro hero like All Might. Despite hoping that he will one day find out that he has a Quirk, he comes to realize that he’s actually Quirkless, shattering his dreams. Despite this, he still intends to ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Second-year high school student Aoi Aioi feels indebted to her sister Akane Aioi ever since her sister gave up her dream to go to Tokyo with her ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke Kanomura, a struggling guitarist, in order to take care of her after they lost their parents in an accident 13 ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

The Nohara family is extremely ordinary, and so is their dog, Shiro. Until one day Shiro becomes a superhero! Now it’s up to him to protect the legendary bone “Bobobobobone” from the evil inventor dog Dekapoo who has his sights set on world domination!

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Hiroto, a skilled Diver who plays like a mercenary. Kazami, a famous Diver who wanders between parties. May, a solo Diver feared by other Divers for her skill and tactics. Parviz, an inexperienced newbie who is shy but wants to play in a party. Each live a solitary life until the...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Melida Angel is born into a noble family of Holy Knights but has no talent for mana. Kufa Vampir is contracted by her grandfather to tutor her. However, his real objective is to determine whether she has any skill and assassinate her if she doesn’t. Not able to bear seeing the sc...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Plagued with immortality, a skilled ronin warrior named Manji must slay 1,000 evil men as penance for his crime of previously killing 100 samurai. His quest begins when he meets a young girl named Rin who is determined to avenge her family who were killed by a group of master swo...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Subaru Natsuki was your average Japanese shut-in playing video games all day, when suddenly and unexpectedly he was transported to a world of high-fantasy. Unable to return to his world, he begins his journey in the new world by believing himself a powerful hero. However, soon af...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

High school student Mizuki transfers into a new school in the middle of the school year and meets a group of four boys all suffering from chunibyo who make up the hero club. There’s Yamato who dreams of becoming a hero and trains every day; Tomoki, a handsome otaku who only likes...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Idols from across the series gather together! Raki has just transferred into Star Harmony Academy, and her dream is to one day perform in a dress that she herself designed. Using her Aikatsu Pass that she obtained from her sister, she has her first stage performance and her Aikat...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Our Seven-Day War follows the story of when every boy in the first-year class of a downtown Tokyo middle school goes missing the day before summer vacation begins! Unsure if they’d been kidnapped or if there was an accident, adults go looking, so schoolgirls decide to help the bo...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

A mysterious creature named UMA (Unidentified Mysterious Animal) appears in Lala’s gummy case and then uses a power to whisk the Pretty Cures to a faraway place! Though they can’t communicate with words, song seems to work just fine! UMA is so precious to the universe, but alien ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World follows the story of Rin, Shusaku, and Sun about 10 years before and after the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II with the most focus on years 1944-45.The film shows the nature and traditional culture of Japan during this time...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Sora Kurumatani is a little guy not particularly suited to the basketball court but loves the game all the same. In middle school he never got picked for the team but is intent to give it his all after joining Kuzuryu High School. However, he finds out that Kuzuryu hardly has a b...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Gran continues to search for the island of Estalucia together with Lyria and the others. After receiving a request from merchant Sierokarte, Gran and company head to a small remote island where a thunderous roar continues to echo. There, Lyria begins sensing the presence of a bea...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

The Capital Tower, a highly valuable orbital elevator that transports from space the Earth’s energy source, Photon Batteries. Young Capital Guard cadet Bellri Zenam is tasked with protecting the tower, and as his first training defends against an attack from the Pirate Corps and ...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Beastars is set in a world where society is populated by people akin to animal/human hybrids. While possessing features and traits of animals known to exist in real life, these beasts can also walk upright and are capable of thinking and feeling like humans. In this society, a cl...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

School days - an irreplaceable special time of life that everyone goes through. If you become popular you can spend you high school days as the envy of everyone else. Urata has just transferred to a new school and is ready to make his high school debut. His heart races as he prep...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

The Shijo Minami Junior High soft tennis club is on the verge of shutting down, until the captain of the team, Toma, asks the new transfer student, Maki, to join. Stars Align is the coming-of-age story of Maki and his teammates as they learn life lessons through soft tennis and g...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

African Office Worker follows the lives of pencil pushers in the office. However, these workers also happen to be animals common in the savanna and must coexist in a survival-of-the-fittest environment. The main character is a lion simply named Lion who works hard in middle manag...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Third-year high school student Nariyuki Yuiga is tasked with tutoring three beautiful girls who are geniuses in certain subjects and total disasters in others. Each with her own goals and dreams for the future, they give it their all and study hard. But as they spend more time wi...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Misuzu Moritani has the ability to stop time for 3 minutes a day, which she uses to observe the people around her. One day she decides to observe the panties of Haruka Murakami, a well-liked and beautiful classmate of hers. However, she soon finds herself in a difficult situation...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Set on a planet covered 71% by oceans, enemies from another world called Siren suddenly appear. In order to combat this new powerful enemy, the four major powers of the world band together to form the global union Azur Lane, made up of anthropomorphized battleship girls.

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Yo-Kai Watch Jam the Movie: Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat be a Hero? takes place in an alternate universe from the main Yo-Kai Watch. It follows the story of human children attending Y Academy who possess the traits of the main yo-kai characters. These kids solve mysteries and def...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Seiya Ryuguin is a Japanese man with natural god-tier stats summoned to Gairbrunde, an ultra hard, S-rank fantasy RPG type of world. He is summoned by Ristarte, a rookie goddess of healing, to save Gairbrunde. Originally, Ristarte believed he was the perfect candidate to be the h...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

During the war, a new technology to extend the functions of the human body was developed by Beruhren Corp. Using this technology, a portion or all of the body can be mechanized, and those who have undergone the process are called Extends.

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Shi Miao has a violent streak which she likes to take out on her idiot older brother, Shi Fen. The school comedy about sibling love, romance, and food continues!

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Nineteenth century China. Liu Mao Xing is the youngest in history to pass the Super Chef exam. At the recommendation of his master Chouyu, he sets off for southwest China along with his friend Shirou and Chouyu’s daughter Meili in order to broaden himself as a chef. When Mao retu...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

In a dystopic version of future Japan, criminal suspects are judged by the Sibyl System, a technology that scans a person’s brain and calculates one’s inclination to commit crime with quantifiable data. A Psycho-Pass is a reading of a person that the Sibyl System has processed ba...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia follows the events of the Camelot Singularity and the lives of two protagonists: Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight. The two are assigned to the last Singularity in the Grand Order, taking place in Ancient Babylonia. There th...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Oracle: a colony fleet traveling through space in search of a habitable planet. The colony is organized by ARKS, a large organization whose purpose is to explore and destroy the evil forces that lurk in space known as Falspawn so that peace may one day be brought to the universe....

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

A group called the Shinkansen Ultra Evolution Institute was investigating a recent rash of monster attacks happening in Japan after the appearance of a mysterious Black Shinkansen. The SUEI had a major weapon for the fight - Shinkalions, bullet trains that can transform into gian...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019

Zen Seizaki, a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office begins investigating a conspiracy regarding a pharmaceutical company’s clinical research. In the middle of the investigation, Zen finds a piece of paper with notes written by an anesthesiologist name...

Last updated at, 28 Oct 2019