Otaku magazine wishes to spread survival methods and plans for after the cataclysm. The end of the World started a long time ago, said Edward O. Wilson and others, it has already begun as a great extinction of living species …

… probably similar to what happened at the end of the last ice age. All the mega-fauna had disappeared and humans started to practice agriculture. The estimations for the number of small and huge extinctions that marked life history on Earth vary from 5 to over 20. The last one, of meteoritic proportions, had crushed the Earth exactly when dinosaurs were the big and mighty creatures of the time.

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Content of this issue:
REVIEW: Otaku Festival (RO), Pictoplasma (DE) • PROFILE: Akinori Oishi (JP), Nina Braun (DE) • INTERVIEW: Otaky x +cruz : W+K TOKYO LAB (JP) • ARTICLES: The Final Genesis, Gundam, Godzilla, Gojira, King of the Monsters, Advice, Aphorisms and Proverbs Benefiting the Consumerism Era Survivors • PHOTOS: Jim Lind (USA) • INTERVIEW: Tokyo Genso (JP) • ILLUSTRATIONS: Jason Graham (USA), Maaike Verwijs (NL), Matei Apostolescu (RO), Natalie Ratkovski (DE), Aitch & Saddo (RO) • RECOMMENDATIONS: MOVIES by QuietEarth.us (Ever Since the World Ended-2003, Le Dernier Combat-1983, Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude-2002, Threads-1984, Damnation Alley-1977, The Quiet Earth-1985, The Road-2009, Sixteen Tongues-1999, Shatter Dead - 1994), ANIME (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Summer Wars, Red Line, Cencoroll, The Sacred Blacksmith, Bakemonogatari), INDIE GAMES (Gravity Crash, Aquaria, And Yet It Moves, Cogs, QuantZ, Braid, Trine) • COSPLAY: Otaku Festival, Cosplay World Summit • INTERVIEW: Dir En Grey • COMICS,MANGA: I’m not legend story&art by Inkamon, Leviatan story&art by Claudio Romo, Reservoir Organs, art by Between, story by Jean-Lorin Sterian

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Mission Statement: Otaku Magazine is an independent platform that promote the visual art, from national and international artists, an opportunity for them to manifest in various areas (graphic, comic strips, illustration, painting, design, fashion, video, toys and accessories), under the influences of the Japanese entertainment (manga, anime, music, movie, new media, new technologies, etc.) and other artistic currents. The Otaku Magazine project has become reality because of the need of an alternative to the today Romanian environment, like an answer to the growing interest of the young people to cultural diversity and experimentation and the need to express, without any restraints, their own visions and/or works. Otaku Magazine is put together by a team of specialized people, in various domains (project coordinators, designers, DTP graphic specialists, web developers, editors, translators, artists, independent curators, distributors, promoters…). Everything is made out of passion and out of the desire to promote and sustain the cultural diversity around the world.
Founded: October 2006; by Otaku Entertainment
Based in: Brasov, Romania
Editors / Designers: Bogdan Gorganeanu (web designer), Veronica Solomon (art director), Ruxandra Tarca (Editor-In-Chief)
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Language: English
Format: 4C/BW, 140 x 210 mm, 128 pages
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