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 Haruhi Suzumiya franchise, which is getting a new light novel this month titled The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya, is holding a crowdfunding campaign to make a song and music video, among other things. While the campaign will continue to January 15, it made its …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 »
AnimEigo and MediaOCD are bringing the anime Time of Eve to Blu-ray. Pre-orders have begun, and the Blu-ray becomes available on December 10. Time of Eve got its start in 2008 as a web series consisting of six episodes. Two years later it got a …Read more »
The lengthily-titled anime I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! dropped a trailer that lets us know its start date, more of the cast and crew, and what the opening theme song will sound like. Take a look: …Read more »
Live orchestra concerts for anime are nothing new in Japan, but they’re starting to spread in other countries as well. Now the Wild Faery Company is offering the “Attack on Titan – Beyond the Walls World Tour” in 2025, and it will hit 23 cities …Read more »
Another Japanese business is being affected by Western credit card companies. Melonbooks, a chain store that sells doujinshi, will cease taking Visa and Mastercard payments on December 16. After this, people can still use things like American Express or JCB to make purchases. Melonbooks wants …Read more »
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