If you have a manga fan on your gift list this year, there’s no shortage of options out there worth considering. One way to ensure you truly light up their holidays, however, is granting them access to the newest rising stars on the shelves. VIZ …Read more »
Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone else, the clock is ticking for holiday gift inspiration. Thankfully, VIZ Media has everyone covered with some awesome gift picks that will light up the season for manga and anime fans of all ages.
Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga is Amazing!) is the annual manga magazine-y award-y thingy that lists the best manga of the year. It’s due out tomorrow in Japan, but for now, it has revealed its number-one choices for the best men’s and women’s manga …Read more »
pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing trend of some Western credit card companies and their agencies refusing to work …Read more »
Takopi’s Original Sin, the manga by Taizan5, is getting the anime treatment. The manga, which ran for two volumes of material between 2021 and 2022, is about a “deceptively cute alien” who lands on earth and meets a depressed earthling. It was nominated for several …Read more »
Kodansha’s K MANGA service recently revealed a new addition to its simulpub lineup in RiverSlan’s Dungeon Elf: What’s a Dungeon without Treasure Chests?. Those looking to check it out can read the first six chapters now, with new chapters to be added simultaneously with the …Read more »
If you ever wanted to see My Hero Academia author Kohei Horikoshi take on Spider-Man, a new collaboration has you covered. The creator of the recently-concluded series teamed up with Marvel for an illustration exchange with artists Edgar Delgado and Humberto Ramos, with the latter …Read more »
Dozens of manga have been pulled from school districts in Tennessee to comply with the state’s new obscenity laws. For starters, Rutherford County Schools yanked more than 150 books from its districts shelves, and it’s reviewing the first volume of Fire Force and the first …Read more »
More of Hiroyui Takei’s Shaman King manga is on the way with the upcoming Shaman King Yard series, and the official account of the Shaman King 25th anniversary project confirmed that it will be the last arc. There’s no date in place for the new …Read more »
Robinson Haruhara and Hirakei’s Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess manga will be taking a month off. According to the duo’s announcement, the break has been put in place so Haruhara can focus on recovering after being hospitalized for a few days early in November. Haruhara …Read more »
You and I Are Polar Opposites, the manga by Kocha Agasawa about opposites attracting, is set to get a TV anime series in January 2026. The series will be animated by the studio Lapin Track (Sarazanmai, Undead Murder Farce). The manga, which launched as a …Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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