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We previously posted about the live-action Little Miss P film, which adapts Ken Koyama’s manga about an editor for a publishing company and her anthropomorphized period. The official website followed up with news that the feature will open in Japan on November 8, and a new visual and trailer are …Read more »
North American publisher Seven Seas Entertainment has a big week to kick off October, with seven announcements planned. The first is the acquisition of Atto's Non Non Biyori manga. Non Non Biyori is a rural comedy series that launched in Monthly Comic Alive in 2009, …Read more »
Busty ninja video game series Senran Kagura has a number of adaptations in Japan, and the anime version was recently streamed by FUNimation in North America. Next up it looks like we'll be getting in on some of the manga the series inspired, with Seven …Read more »
A manga adaptation of Nexon’s KONOSUBA: Fantastic Days mobile game launched in April 2022, and now, almost exactly two years later, it has come to an end. The final chapter was published in the July issue of Kadokawa’s Comic Alive magazine on Monday. The game …Read more »
The end has come for Masaaki Kiasa’s Combatants Will Be Dispatched! manga, which adapts the light novel series by Natsume Akatsuki. The final chapter made its debut in the May issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Alive magazine, which hit shelves in Japan this week. The …Read more »
In addition to a TV anime, Nigoju and Umibozu’s The Detective is Already Dead light novel series inspired a manga adaptation. Now that take on the material, which comes from Mugiko, has ended. The final chapter of The Detective is Already Dead manga was published …Read more »
The anime adaptation of the light novel series Spy Classroom (a.k.a. Spy Kyōshitsu or Spy Room) is coming out next year, and in the meantime a trailer has dropped thanks to Kadokawa. Members of the cast have also been announced, but we don’t yet know …Read more »
First the KonoSuba light novels inspired an anime, and then both it and the anime inspired a mobile game. Now that mobile game—KonoSuba Fantastic Days—has inspired something of its own, because it’s getting an official manga adaptation. The adaptation will launch in the May issue …Read more »
The TV anime adaptation of Asato Asato’s 86 EIGHTY-SIX light novels recently debuted, and now there are new developments for the original series. According to Kadokawa’s listing for the Comic Alive magazine’s June issue, a new prequel manga is on the way. While there’s no …Read more »
Satoshi Wagahara, the creator of The Devil is a Part-Timer!, began a new light novel series last September. Titled Dracula Yakin! (translated as Night-Shift Dracula), it’s about a vampire working the night shift at a convenience store. Night-Shift Dracula is getting a manga adaptation, thanks …Read more »
The Irregular at Magic High School: Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, a light novel spinoff of the original Irregular at Magic High School, will be adapted into a manga. The light novels, which are written by Irregular creator Tsutomu Sato, will be adapted by manga-ka …Read more »
We knew was coming, and now we know when: Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto spinoff manga is set to debut in Shonen Jump on April 27. The manga, titled Naruto Gaiden: Nanadaime Hokage to Akairo no Hanatsuzuki ( Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring …Read more »
photo: Comic Natalie As of this past weekend, the Live Spectacle Naruto stage play is open for business in Tokyo! Japanese websites Famitsu , Cinema Today , Nico Nico , and Comic Natalie were given a sneak peak via a dress rehearsal on Friday, followed …Read more »
The Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs announced Thursday the winners of 2014’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Recommendation Awards, and the Rookie of the Year for media/arts went to none other than Masashi Kishimoto, creator of the recently-completed manga Naruto . …Read more »
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