Another manga title has been pulled from an entire school district for review after a mother made a complaint. This time the manga is Unico: The Awakening, a story about a little unicorn that’s aimed for ages 8-12. The mother thought it was too violent. …Read more »
Nowadays, what we call “life hacks” aren’t really hacks at all… just daily tips to make life a little easier. But what if life hacks were actual hacks—moves that could change the way the world works? That’s the concept behind Bug Ego, the manga from One-Punch Man creator …Read more »
The anime adaptation of Saka and Chorefuji’s Once Upon a Witch’s Death light novels just got another new cast member. This time it’s Atsumi Tanezaki (Juno in BEASTARS), who will voice a “Mysterious Girl” that’s pictured alongside Meg in the fourth situation visual above. Here’s …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 »
Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe’s Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End manga has been on a couple of breaks this year, and now another is on the schedule. As announced in this year’s 52nd issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, the series will take two weeks off, …Read more »
A couple new cast additions and a fresh trailer have dropped for the From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman anime, based on Shigeru Sagazaki’s Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru: Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan Datta noni, Taisei Shita Deshitachi ga Ore o …Read more »
Alice-san Chi no Iroribata, the Bunta Kinami manga about a woman who returns to her rural hometown after living in Tokyo for a decade, is getting the live-action treatment. The series will star Fumika Baba as Alice, and premiere on January 7, 2025. Baba is …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 »
Netflix offered up a sneak peek at some of its non-English programming on the horizon, and one of the shows among the list was Alice in Borderland season 3. The live-action adaptation of Haro Aso’s Alice in Borderland manga will continue sometime in 2025. Director …Read more »
BULLET/BULLET was previously announced as an original anime from JUJUTSU KAISEN season 1 director Sunghoo Park, who has been conceiving it over the course of the past decade. Now we know to expect it in summer 2025, exclusively on Disney+, and we also have a …Read more »
City Hunter creator Tsukasa Hojo’s Cat Eye manga is about to come back for more with a new adaptation. In addition to the Disney Twisted-Wonderland news, Disney’s showcase event in Singapore revealed that a new anime adaptation is in the works, eyeing an exclusive debut on …Read more »
More details have been unveiled for the Disney Twisted-Wonderland anime, which was first revealed as an adaptation of the game of the same name back in 2021. Thanks to a showcase event in Singapore, we now know that the anime will run for three seasons, …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 »
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