Adult manga author Naoya Ueno is no longer with us. According to a recent announcement from the official Twitter account for Sanwa Publishing’s Comic Masyo magazine, Ueno was discovered collapsed and already passed away at his home on September 25. Nudity, Hard-X, Incest and Squall …Read more »
It’s set up in Japan so that a new invoice system will begin in October 2023, and part of it takes away tax-exempt status from freelancers and sole proprietors. 1,275 people took part in a recent manga industry survey on the matter, and just 17 …Read more »
Welcome to the new home for Korean comics. From screen to paper, Korean content materialized! Since our inception, we at Yen Press have published great stories from Korea, starting with the inclusion of manhwa like Jack Frost and Pig Bride in the Yen Plus monthly magazine to releasing the best-selling print …Read more »
Popeye and Goku are two musclemen who like to save the day. They are also both helped by food when in a pinch, though it’s regular old spinach for Popeye and the mystical Senzu Beans for Goku. The similarities between the two characters led to …Read more »
Initial D author Shuuichi Shigeno is currently serializing the MF Ghost manga, but it’s going to be taking a break for a while. According to the latest issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine, MF Ghost will be on an indefinite hiatus as a result of …Read more »
We’ve gone a couple months without writer Akira Toriyama and illustrator Toyotarou’s Dragon Ball Super manga, but it’s finally getting ready to make its return. The series went on hiatus back in August, and now it’s set to come back to the pages of V …Read more »
Yoshihiro Togashi was unable to work on his popular manga Hunter x Hunter for three years and eleven months, putting the series on hiatus. He returned to the manga this year, but because of health reasons, it’s slow going and he’s having issues. As an …Read more »
Is Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto on Twitter? In the past there’s been a Twitter account called Koharu Nagayama that claims it’s Fujimoto’s little sister. It would tweet artwork and commentary on the anime. The general belief was that this was probably Fujimoto himself behind …Read more »
Kentaro Sato, creator of the horror manga Magical Girl Site, noticed that Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk used an image from Sato’s manga without permission or credit. Sato retweeted Musk’s use of Sato’s work in a meme, commenting, “Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk has reprinted …Read more »
We recently posted about four new manga series making their way to Shonen Jump, one of which is Taizan5’s The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins. Not only did the series mark the first of the four to debut, but it’s also now available to read for …Read more »
The latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine gave Black Clover fans a heads up on what’s coming up for the series, and that includes a brief break of two weeks. As a result of what has been described as author Yuki Tabata’s “sudden illness,” …Read more »
A 30-year-old man in Japan says that he recently bought a copy Weekly Shonen Jump for 180,000 yen (approximately $1,230). That’s a lot more than your average issue of Shonen Jump, but the price was so high because this issue happened to be the fifty-first …Read more »
Itaru Bonnoki’s The Vampire Dies in No Time manga is about to go on another brief break. According to the latest issue of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion magazine, the series will go on hiatus for roughly one month as a result of the author’s …Read more »
Four new series are on the way to Weekly Shonen Jump magazine over the course of the next four weeks, including a new one from Monogatari series writer NISIOISIN. All four have officially been previewed alongside color artwork for each, with the first to debut …Read more »
Inspired by Haruichi Furudate’s popular volleyball manga Haikyu!!, Retsu’s Let’s! Haikyu!? is a spinoff gag manga that first debuted in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ app back in September 2014. Now it’s officially set to end its eight-year run, with the 294th and final chapter to debut …Read more »
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