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Yesterday the Tokyo District Court said the operator of the infamous Manga-Mura manga piracy site has to give publishers Kadokawa, Shueisha and Shogakukan 1.7 billion yen. That’s a little under 11 million dollars. The publishers had started out by asking for 1.9 billion yen in …Read more »
Yusuke Murata—who works as the One-Punch Man manga artist, following the act of creator ONE—is always impressing us with his artistic feats. The latest has him creating his first original anime project titled Zaiyuki with his in-house Village Studio behind production, and he went ahead …Read more »
Junta Shima’s Murai in Love romantic comedy manga came to an end on June 13, but as the latest announcement states, “Murai & Friends will return in the animation.” That’s right, an anime has officially been unveiled for the series, with more information to come …Read more »
The administrator of the manga piracy website Manga-Mura was recently sentenced to three years plus major fines after costing the manga industry $2.93 billion in damages. However, since his arrest other manga piracy sites have popped up and exploded during COVID-19. The Japanese news outlet …Read more »
We recently posted about a giant promotional manga magazine that combines Shueisha’s Shonen Jump with Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine to create a 2,264-page monstrosity (pictured right) with a ton of popular series represented. As cool as that wiiiiiide mag may be, there’s an even better way to illustrate what happens when two …Read more »
Back in February we reported on the announcement of a manga adaptation of live-action Hollywood film Back To The Future drawn by Yuusuke Murata (One-Punch Man, Eyeshield 21). It was set to be serialized by website Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, and supervised by film writer …Read more »
Last month saw the opening of a webpage called Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr. Murakami’s Place), a kind of question and answer/advice column by none other than Haruki Murakami, probably the most famous Japanese author in America and the writer of such books as Hard-Boiled Wonderland …Read more »
It’s the beginning of the end for Yu Muraoka’s “Ippon” Again! (Mo Ippon!) manga, which officially has just four chapters remaining. If the schedule continues as planned, May 9 should mark the date of publication for the final chapter. The news was revealed in chapter …Read more »
Maru Murata’s Honey Lemon Soda, which our own Danica Davidson describes as “an all-out shojo manga,” has landed an anime adaptation. The series will be helmed by Hiroshi Nishikiori (A Certain Magical Index) with animation at J.C. Staff. Other staff members include: Scripts: Akiko Waba …Read more »
Writer Riichiro Inagaki and illustrator Yusuke Murata’s Eyeshield 21 football manga has been celebrating its 21st anniversary lately, and the ultimate means of doing so just arrived. A special 55-page one-shot manga chapter made its way into the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in the …Read more »
The new anime PHOENIX Eden 17, with its stories coming from the iconic manga series Phoenix by Osamu Tezuka, had its music composed by Takatsugu Muramatsu, whose musical credentials include working on Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie was There, Mary and the Witch’s Flower, and the …Read more »
Su Morishita’s A Sign of Affection manga—known in Japan as Yugisaki to Renren—is officially getting an anime adaptation. With the romance story on the way to the small screen, the first teaser trailer and visual made their way online along with the first info on …Read more »
It’s been nearly two years since One-Punch Man manga creator ONE released chapter 141, which went live on July 5, 2021. Now the web manga version of the series is officially back in action, because ONE published chapter 142 of One-Punch Man this past Saturday, …Read more »
No country imports more manga than France, and manga and anime can also influence the French art scene. A new article at The Guardian, titled “Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime” talks about the new French animation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, based on …Read more »
Digital manga app Mangamo announced new titles it licensed, which are either already out or will be out soon. Killings Bites by Shinya Murata and Kazuasa Sumita became available on the app yesterday. Mangamo gave this description for it: “Nomoto, a dull young man, is …Read more »
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