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This year marks the 30th anniversary of Mitsuru Adachi’s popular Touch manga. It also happens to mark 30 years since the debut of McDonald’s limited-time Chicken Tatsuta line, which is coming back to restaurants to mark the occasion. Since both are celebrating milestones, Adachi’s beloved …Read more »
Mitsuru Adachi‘s MIX is a spinoff baseball manga set around 30 years after the events of Touch, and it has a TV anime on the way this April. The manga is currently being promoted in Japan with a series of commercials featuring AKB48 idol Moeka …Read more »
If you asked me a while ago what title we'd most likely be seeing on Viz's Shonen Sunday site, I would have said "I don't know, but definitely not a Mitsuru Adachi manga." I really dig Adachi, but we're not exactly talking about someone that's …Read more »
What better time to dig into baseball manga and anime than October? Viz seems to agree with that, and are marking next week as somewhat of a "Cross Game Week" in celebration of the release of the manga's first volume. Series creator Mitsuru Adachi ( …Read more »
Blue Box is a much-loved manga in the Shonen Jump line-up, and its anime adaptation has been winning people over this season, too. Its mix of sports, youthful aspiration, and love geometry is a hit with viewers. And if you find yourself craving more like it, …Read more »
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got good memories of Detroit Metal City, the manga about a death metal singer whose true dream is to be a twee pop star. Now Kiminori Wakasugi, the creator of DMC, is back with a new manga called Akina-chan …Read more »
The spring anime season is just around the corner, and you know what that means… new simulcasts! Tons of fresh new anime are on the way, and we can’t wait to dive into them. But alone with those new shows are some returning titles. And …Read more »
Based on the baseball manga by Mitsuru Adachi, the MIX anime takes us 30 years beyond the events of Adachi’s legendary Touch manga and follows stepbrothers Touma and Souichirou Tachibana as they attempt to take Meisei High School back to the Koshien tournament. The first …Read more »
Came the Mirror & Other Tales is a short story collection by Rumiko Takahashi that mostly offers up supernatural stories, but also includes some autobiographical work. In the first and titular story, “Came the Mirror,” characters get strange mirrors on their hands that can suck …Read more »
A good fight is exhilarating… provided you’re a good fighter. If you’re not, watching a good fight will do the trick. Fortunately, anime is just full of them, from epic ninja battles to giant robot combat. But sometimes you just want some hand-to-hand brawling, like Megalobox or Ashita …Read more »
Mitsuru Adachi has been working on baseball manga since the ’70s, from Nine to Touch, H2, Cross Game, and the currently-running MIX. This followup to Touch has been running since 2012, but it’s now going on indefinite hiatus as a result of COVID-19 concerns. Adachi …Read more »
It doesn’t quite have the Stateside name recognition of, say, Shonen Jump, but Shonen Sunday, the weekly manga magazine that’s been running since 1959, has produced its share of classics. But what are the best of the best from those 60 years of manga? That’s …Read more »
Another week, another history-making milestone courtesy of Koyoharu Gotoge‘s Demon Slayer manga. This time the series has taken up all of the top 19 spots on the Oricon sales chart, which tracks physical sales of manga. This marks the third week in a row for …Read more »
Teamwork, self-awareness, and optimism Baseball and anime seem to go hand in hand, from classic works like Touch and Princess Nine to this year’s repeated team-ups between Gundam and the Pacific League. The spring 2019 anime season has gifted us with two baseball series on opposite ends …Read more »
More information recently surfaced about Mix, an upcoming anime based on Mitsuru Adachi’s baseball manga about siblings striving toward success and the ultimate goal of the national tournament. The series officially premieres in Japan on April 6, and the news was quickly followed up with …Read more »
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