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Barbarities is a boys’ love manga taking place in a Renaissance-esque world. Joel Montague, the very serious nephew of an important lord, gets stuck being around Adam Canning, the blond-haired playboy who’s now working as a guard for Joel’s uncle. Adam is aptly described as …Read more »
It’s not uncommon in Japan for the release of a manga to be advertised with giant murals at train stations. This technique hasn’t been used so much elsewhere, but thanks to Star Comics in Italy, that’s changing. The publisher has turned the Porta Genova metro …Read more »
As a voice actor, Jason Douglas’s credential include Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, Chainsaw Man, Black Butler and many others, while his work in live-action has had him on-camera for shows like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. While at Detroit’s Youmacon convention, he …Read more »
Millions of people have played Pokémon GO since its launch in 2016, and millions have unknowingly helped train AI by doing so. Niantic explained on its site, “When you look at a familiar type of structure – whether it’s a church, a statue, or a …Read more »
Yesterday was an important “birthday” in the world of manga — the 40th anniversary of Dragon Ball’s debut! Yes, it was on November 20, 1984 that the world was introduced to Son Goku, who would continue on through Dragon Ball Z and more, with Dragon …Read more »
How much do professional manga creators make? That varies, depending on who’s publishing, how well the manga does, and so on, but Weekly Shonen Jump has decided to up its rates. Weekly Shonen Jump is the most successful manga anthology in Japan, and its editorial …Read more »
Right after reporting on the death of Shohei Hino, a voice actor in Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron, another person involved with Studio Ghibli has passed away. This time it’s Shuntaro Tanigawa, a writer, poet, lyricist and translator, who wrote the lyrics for …Read more »
My Hero Academia’s character Best Jeanist is a pretty distinct-looking character, and his name references something in the real world. The Best Jeanist is an annual award that the Japan Jeans Council began giving out in 1984 and continues to give out to this day. …Read more »
Sony is allegedly interested in buying Kadokawa and is currently in talks. Neither company is willing to put out an official comment on the matter, but two unnamed sources talked to Reuters and apparently gave enough information for Reuters to feel comfortable covering it. If …Read more »
The nominees for the Game Awards 2024 have been announced! A number of the titles in the running are Japanese-made games, and that includes multiple games for the biggest category, Game of the Year. Among those vying for Game of the Year are Final Fantasy …Read more »
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members, the light novel series with the ridiculously long name, …Read more »
The Horry County School has officially banned Assassination Classroom from its district after a mother made a complaint. Jennifer Hannigan, the mother, learned about Assassination Classroom after her high school daughter brought it home from the school library. “Even if I didn’t have children, I …Read more »
Some people involved with a flea market in Japan came up with an unusual way to bring in customers: offering a “seppuku contest.” Seppuku, a.k.a. harakiri, was a traditional form of samurai ritual suicide that involved disembowelment and maybe beheading. Why would something like this …Read more »
The anime Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is getting a special edited compilation screening in Japan. A trailer for it has dropped, and in it you can hear the new ending theme song “Love Candle” being performed by the …Read more »
The anime Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms debuted in October, and it just recently dropped a climax trailer to get fans hyped. For people who want to physically read the manga version, there’s some good news: it’s been licensed by Graphix, the graphic novel imprint of Scholastic. …Read more »
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