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50ish New Categories Added

It's going to be a process but one of our goals is to have a category for every single submission that comes into theOtaku.com

We made great strides today by adding roughly 50 new categories, for both anime/manga and video games.

If there's a category that people are submitting works to under either 'Other Video Games' or 'Other Anime and Manga' please suggest it in the comments here and we'll add it ASAP. The best way to check is by browsing the 'Other' categories or by searching for that category name in our search box and seeing if entries come up.

Help us achieve our goal to categorize every current submission.

Here's the full list of new categories:

Anime/Manga

  • Basilisk
  • Black Jack
  • Gunslinger Girl
  • Vampire Knight
  • Solty Rei
  • Mushi-shi
  • Sgt. Frog
  • Katekyo Hitman Reborn
  • Rozen Maiden
  • Absolute Boyfriend
  • Doraemon
  • Godchild
  • Lucky Star
  • Black Lagoon
  • Witchblade
  • Ergo Proxy
  • Shuffle
  • Sakura Wars
  • Operation Sanctuary
  • Negima
  • Hell Girl
  • School Rumble

Video Games

  • Halo
  • Suikoden
  • Warcraft
  • Harvest Moon
  • Animal Crossing
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Assassin's Creed
  • Tekken
  • Breath of Fire
  • Harvest Moon
  • Maple Story
  • Legend of Dragoon
  • Metal Gear Solid (solid snake)
  • Chrono Cross
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Samurai Shodown
  • No More Heroes
  • Odin Sphere
  • Tomb Raider (lara croft)
  • Spyro
  • Phantasy Star (phantasy star universe)
  • Runescape
  • Guildwars
  • Persona
  • Super Smash Bros
  • Mario
  • Metroid

theOtaku.com Anime Podcast IV - Ep. 2

Week 2 of "VV" has some great little pieces involving Batman: Gotham Knights, pikarats, Super Smash Bros: Brawl, and Japanese bestiality-dining (which is wrong on way too many levels). And again, another reminder that Ichigo and Batou ar...

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Anime DVD Reviews Roundup‏

It's a box set bonanza here on theOtaku.com today! For our first set of anime reviews for theOtaku.com's new Version Vibrant, we have a huge list of the latest box set releases. For all of you who have been waiting for the entire series, now is yo...

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Fan Comics + Other Sites Submission/Modification Glitch

This affected a lot of fan comics which appeared 'invisible' on the site. Previously if you submitted a work, had it approved, and then went to modify that work, it would suddenly disappear from theOtaku if you didn't have auto-approval status. This glitch also affected our other sites. All should be fixed...thanks to blackwings for sounding the alarm on it.

Backwards Compatibility Added

We're 85% backwards compatible now. That is, links to old pages on theOtaku.com (including to quiz result images) now redirect to pages on the new site.