Late last week the Rutherford County School board in Tennessee voted to remove multiple book titles from its school library shelves, including volumes of Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui. Among the other titles, they also banned Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, a classic which is used …Read more »
Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari’s hit manga Oshi no Ko just concluded last year, and the next season of the anime is due out in 2026. The whole series has been a hit, but Akasaka is not taking any time off. Last year it was …Read more »
Last September brought the news that Kirio Fanclub, the manga by Ponchan Chikyu no Osakana about two high school girls who have a crush on the same classmate, would be getting both anime and live-action adaptations. Today we’ve got some news on the latter. The …Read more »
When I think of the late great Kentaro Miura’s dark fantasy epic Berserk, “cute” is not the first word that pops into mind. But this new Guts figure from the brand Cutie1 might just change that. The figure, which depicts Guts in cute-ified style in …Read more »
The second season of the Go! Go! Loser Ranger! anime adaptation is set to debut this April, but in the meantime the manga is taking some time off. According to the official social accounts for all of Negi Haruba’s manga series, including The Quintessential Quintuplets, …Read more »
It’s almost time to bid farewell to Shinichi Fukuda’s My Dress-Up Darling manga. Known in Japan as Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru, the series first started in Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine back in January 2018. Now this year’s fifth issue has revealed …Read more »
With the second season of the Blue Orchestra anime set to return this fall, it’s about time for the source material to follow suit. Right on cue, Makoto Akui is getting ready to bring the series back from hiatus after 16 months, with the next …Read more »
Hitozuma no Kuchibiru wa Kan-chuhai no Aji ga Shite, which translates to something like “that married woman’s lips taste like canned chuhai,” is getting the anime treatment. (Chuhai is, of course, the alcoholic beverage from Japan made by combining shochu, carbonated water and some kind …Read more »
Back at December’s Jump Festa 2025 event, the Dragon Ball staff revealed plans for a new one-shot installment for Toyotaro’s Dragon Ball Super manga. The special chapter is set to hit the super-size April edition of Shueisha’s V Jump magazine on February 20, and a …Read more »
Leiji Matsumoto, who died two years ago, was the creative force between some of manga and anime’s most famous space epics, from Galaxy Express 999 to Captain Harlock to Interstella 5555. Now a large-scale exhibition celebrating the work of Matsumoto is set to kick off …Read more »
Manga author NON, known for series like Hare Kon (Harem Marriage) and Delivery Cinderella, has another series on the way to English-speaking audiences this year. Dark Horse Manga announced plans to release NON’s murder mystery manga Adabana, with the first of three paperback volumes set …Read more »
Ken Akamatsu’s digital service Manga Library Z (a.k.a. Manga Toshokan Z) is turning to crowdfunding as a possible way to return. Otaku USA readers might recall that the manga site, which legally offered free and rare online manga, shuttered in November because Western credit card …Read more »
Yu Chiba’s Kindergarten Wars is officially entering its final arc, but a hiatus is also on the horizon. The author shared a note via social media and the latest chapter, announcing the final arc, thanking fans and the editors behind it, and closing it out …Read more »
Earlier this month it was revealed that just two chapters were left to go in Tomohito Oda’s Komi Can’t Communicate manga. Now the time has officially come to bid the series farewell as the final chapter made its way to the pages of Weekly Shonen …Read more »
Another form of payment is rubbing up against adults-only content in the manga world. This time around it has to do with Manga Planet, which has announced that payment provider Stripe will no longer be allowing payments to be made on the service. This has …Read more »
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