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Sometimes anime and manga create their own worlds, and sometimes they hearken back to real things, including those from Japan’s past. The bishonen franchise Touken Ranbu anthropomorphizes famous old Japanese swords as beautiful young men, and this has gotten many fans interested in the original …Read more »
The Utano☆Princesama franchise is getting a new anime special called Utano☆Princesama♪ Maji Love ST☆RISH Tours: Tabi no Hajimari (translated as The Start of a Journey) that will play on Japanese TV on July 31. Ahead of this a trailer has been released to show the …Read more »
The three beautiful boy sword movies in the Toku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ film trilogy are all coming out this year. The first one, Yuki no Maki (translated as Snow Story) premieres on May 20, and a trailer for it has been released. In it …Read more »
You might have noticed a certain aesthetic to how bishonen are usually portrayed in anime and manga, and that includes a penchant for the men being smooth-skinned. According to a new survey, this just matches up with Japanese women’s preferences. Men’s Hair Removal Salon surveyed …Read more »
Goo Ranking sought to discover which shonen manga Japanese fans think has the best ending. They quizzed 2,758 people during the early months of 2021. Make your bets now on who made the top five, and then look below for results...
The best heroes of shonen manga have defined themselves by their ability to leap countless miles beyond whatever limitations may be holding them back. Maybe it’s some stringbean kid who thinks he’s going to be King of the Pirates, or a ninja-in-training who seems too …Read more »
Toriko , the shonen manga about a man on the hunt for the ultimate in rare, diverse foods, has come to an end. The final chapter of the manga, which began in 2008, went on sale in today’s Weekly Shonen Jump. Toriko , which spans …Read more »
Back in August, it was announced shonen manga Bleach would be coming to theaters in the form of a live-action film starring Sota Fukushi ( Library Wars ). Now a few photos from the set have appeared showing Fukushi decked out as main character Ichigo …Read more »
Epic fail, man. That is, presumably, what the fans polled for this list thought when they saw their favorite shonen manga transformed into anime that, well, didn’t quite meet their expectations. While, ranking site Goo points out, manga-to-anime adaptations usually have a higher success rate …Read more »
Bleach , the long-running shonen manga by Tite Kubo, is set to come to an end. Volume 73 of the manga, released this week, came with the announcement that the next collected volume, 74, will be Bleach ’s last. The final volume will ship this …Read more »
What’s Akira creator and director Katsuhiro Otomo up to these days? One rumor has it he’s at work on a live-action film version of his own classic manga from the 80s, Domu ; in another, he’s working on a shonen manga set in the Meiji …Read more »
©2015 Hiro Mashima/BOKU/Kodansha, Ltd. A spinoff of the popular shonen manga Fairy Tail , Fairy Girls follows a night of misadventures featuring four wizards of the Fairy Tale Guild: Lucy, Juvia, Erza, and Wendy. While out on a lark to see the sights of the …Read more »
World Trigger took a few volumes to grow on me, but Shonen Jump finally has its Naruto and Bleach successor (meaning those are officially allowed to END!). Ever wish a shonen manga made the “underdog that has to train hard and really struggle for his/her …Read more »
Let’s be real here: Twin Star Exorcists is textbook shonen action. Our hero is a boy with amazing abilities but a bad attitude, tasked with fighting monsters. He meets a girl who motivates him to reach his true potential. They don’t get along at first …Read more »
Volleyball anime Haikyu!! —based on the shonen manga by Haruichi Furudate—is making the leap to stage play in Japan later this year, with performances scheduled to begin in November. Worry Kinoshita, who helms the Tokyo One Piece Tower stage attraction based on Eiichiro Oda's mega-popular …Read more »
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