While COVID-19 is causing many events to be cancelled, it’s also showing how creative people can be in what they’re doing to make up for public events. Because Comiket—Japan’s major convention for doujinshi (self-published manga)—is a potential breeding ground for COVID, we’re instead offered Comic …Read more »
If you’re a big fan of the Platelets from Cells at Work! and can’t wait to see their escapades in the upcoming Cells at Work! film, then this manga spinoff might just be what you need to get you through. Like the other spinoffs Cells …Read more »
Many things are being done differently as we move through the COVID-19 pandemic, and that includes voice-over work in Japan for the latest anime. Anime News Network interviewed Seiichi Nakayama, a sound engineer from the production company G-angle, to see how things are being handled. …Read more »
Little Miss P, a manga series originally published as a webcomic, talks about the subject of menstruation loudly and humorously by creating an anthropomorphized period called (what else?) Little Miss P. Each chapter introduces us to a different set of characters, but menstruation is always …Read more »
Red Blood Cell and White Blood Cell are back in the manga spinoff Cells at Work! Baby.It gets this title not only because the main characters are re-envisioned as younger, chibi little toddlers, but because the story itself revolves around childbirth and infancy. We start …Read more »
The Sega Akihabara Building 2, located in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, has been a hot spot for tourists since it opened in 2003. Unfortunately, that will soon change, as the business will close at the end of the month. SoraNews24 translated their announcement: “Notice …Read more »
It was disappointing news for many Junji Ito fans that the anime version of Uzumaki is postponed until next year. But we can still see teasers while we wait, like this tweet showing people at work on the series: A look behind the scenes of …Read more »
Last year Michael Howard, an American who’s been living and working in Japan since 2008, released his humorous memoir The Salaryman, complete with manga style illustrations by Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. This year Howard is releasing a new manga series—The Salaryman: Manga Edition. It continues …Read more »
Anime keeps on growing exponentially, and so does the popularity of streaming services like Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll got its start thirteen years ago, and a decade later, in early 2017, it had gotten more than a million subscribers. But the numbers kept jumping after that. While …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a comedy shonen manga based on a real Japanese premise, where girlfriends or even other family members can be “rented.” This is a type of business recently growing in Japan, as a note at the beginning of the book explains. The note also …Read more »
The mega successful Attack on Titan manga and anime will be wrapping up soon, so fans will have to say goodbye to characters and new storylines. But that’s not the only thing going on here. With the end of such a high-grossing series, manga publishers …Read more »
It’s been 20 years since CLAMP’s successful manga Chobits was first published. Previously the series was published in America by TOKYOPOP and Dark Horse, and now Kodansha USA is re-releasing the series in omnibus 20th Anniversary Editions. 19-year-old Hideki would love to get a robot …Read more »
Comic-Con@Home may not have been in San Diego proper, but it did the best it could turning everything digital, so the Eisner Awards were still part of the big event. Named after graphic novelist Will Eisner, these are the “Oscars” of the comic book world, …Read more »
Asuka Tsukasa is scared of animals, particularly dogs. He’s even scared of the little cute breeds that couldn’t hurt him if they tried. Boy, is his life about to take a messy turn in the first volume of Bestia. Asuka is 1/8 British, and he’s moved …Read more »
Sunghoo Park, director of the Crunchyroll Original The God of High School, knew he wanted to get into animation since a young age. It started with his love of Macross in elementary school, he told Crunchyroll in an interview. “To make that dream [of becoming …Read more »
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