Robuta

Brian thumbs through Colony Drop's "last American fanzine", complete with pink spot coloring.

Brian flips through Taschen's glossy look at over 100 manga artists and their contribution to the medium's design.

Brian laments the lack of general knowledge about anime directors and takes a look at a work on Satoshi Kon.

Brian digs in to Patrick Drazen's examination of Japanese things that go bump in the night. It's spooky and educational!

An examination of the careers and films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata comes under Brian's scrutiny this week.

Brian straps in and pops open one of those freeze-dried Astronaut ice cream things for a look at Housuke Nojiri's light novel tale of the first teenage girl in...

Brian flips through the 1958 novel that inspired the ninja anime series Basilisk.

Game Arts released a Lunar: Silver Star Story novel on Kindle! And Brian read it! Who knew?

Brian sets aside his aversion to horror stories with a look at an anthology of chilling tales by Otsuichi.

Brian digs into Street Fighter: The Complete History, and finds it to be less than complete. Hadouken!

Brian digs in to the giant book of art and essays that accompanied Takashi Murakami's groundbreaking stateside exhibition, Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's...

Brian digs in to the Loups-Garous novel, featuring metaphorical werewolves, rather than the Taylor Lautner variety.

Brian says farewell to Brain Diving with a look at the archives of Valkyria Chronicles.

Psychiatrist Saito Tamaki examines the otaku culture's obsession with kick-butt female warriors and Brian's here to tell you about it!

Brian questions the actual impact of yet another book that tries to cover too much at one time.