This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

You didn't think Totoro couldn't take down some stuffed veggies, did you? Or that Rick Hunter—who I might add survived the near extermination of the human species and numerous Zentradi attacks—couldn't stand his ground against a young woman with a sword. And now it's time for another completely lopsided matchup as the classic Studio Ghibli character faces off against the Robotech flyboy. Read More...

From vampires to fashion models to Roman baths, the new titles announced this past weekend will make some interesting reading in the months to come.

Let's start on the East Coast, where Vertical marketing director Ed Chavez announced a new license at Anime Boston: Ai Yazawa's Paradise Kiss. Previously published by Tokyopop as five single volumes, the series tells the story of a bored student who becomes a model for a group of clothing designers. The series was the topic of a blogger carnival, the Manga Moveable Feast, last year, so interest has been high even though it has been almost ten years since the first volume came out in English. Yazawa is also the creator of the hugely popular ongoing series Nana.

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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

In this matchup: two characters using ancient arcane powers for good; in our other contest, we have one hero who learned that with great power comes great responsibility while another learned that with great size comes greater power (and both get to mix it up with giant monsters).

FIGHT!


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

Two young toughs with indomitable spirits; two of Masamune Shirow's creations that blur the line between (wo)man and machine. Let the battle commence!


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

Two steel-willed women rocking that androgynous style; two characters on the hunt for the perfect spice...

Let the next battle begin!


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

In this corner, a luckless legal eagle who's just as likely get a charge thrown at him as his client; and in the other corner, an enigmatic, obsessive, world famous investigator whose mind is only matched by that of his nemesis, Light. Meanwhile, in our second matchup, we have a dragon-powered Dragon Slayer against the teenaged personification of pre-WWII Northern Italy.

Let's do this.


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

A girl looking for a good time and a kindergartener looking for the toilet; a world-famous thief looking for riches and an infamous samurai looking for redemption.


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

A giant musical talent versus a giant freakin' robot; a young mage-in-training versus a trained monster! Fight!


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

Do you like your monsters deadly, dangerous, and devastating, or just cute and cuddly? Do you like your dark sci-fi heroes to be unsure of themselves but tough in a pinch or straight up swagger all the time? Decide as we pit monster vs. monster, teen hero vs. teen hero!

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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

Sometimes he's a boy, sometimes he's not; sometimes she's a student in the present, sometimes she's fighting evil spirits in feudal Japan. And then there's the earthbound goddess and the daywalking vampire girl. We've got a couple of odd ones, here.


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

Two living machines who refuse to become deadly weapons and two galaxy-faring heroes of classic animation!


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

A pair of unlikely teachers; two teens with supernatural powers—four will enter, two will leave!


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

The ultimate anime hero against the fan-favorite video game villain. Plus, can the manga version of the world's most ready superhero prepare him for the onslaught of cuteness from Sanrio? It's Final Fantasy VII's baddie Sephiroth vs. Dragon Ball hero Goku and Hello Kitty versus Manga Batman.


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This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each arena match-up will be posted and voted on by you, the MTV Geek reader, and each winner will advance closer and closer to becoming the supreme reigning champion of the Battle Arena Otaku! Who will take the top spot? Sailor Moon? Godzilla? Hello Kitty? There's only way to find out…FIGHT! FIGHT!

Two laid-back antiheroes and two young guys with one thing on their mind: being the best!


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The Nicktoons animated series gets a comic tie-in from manga and anime publisher VIZ this week.
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