Content Warning: This article mentions sexual assault against minors. Tatsuya Matsuki, the writer behind Shonen Jump manga Act-Age, has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of minors according to NHK. After being confronted with the charges, including CCTV footage taken during the investigation, Matsuki …Read more »
When you get into the realm of multiple spinoffs, you have to get creative to differentiate them from one another. That’s what Kodansha has done with Attack on Titan, which now has a new children’s book to add to its growing library. Shingeki Tantei Armin: …Read more »
Amid all the madness of the past few months, we kind of forgot that The Promised Neverland was getting a live-action film adaptation! Now here to remind us is the film’s first official teaser trailer and poster. Based on the popular manga by Kaiu Shirai …Read more »
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 »
Jiro Kuwata was a prolific manga author known for co-creating pioneering manga and anime superhero 8 Man, as well as working on Shonen King’s ’60s Batman manga—released in English as Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga. Unfortunately, publisher Akita Shoten announced this week that Jiro Kuwata …Read more »
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has attempted to calculate the ending of his sprawling series more than a handful of times over the past two decades. For once, however, Shonen Jump is doing the teasing in an ad in the latest issue, which claims One …Read more »
Nobody likes pain. Now, with Sailor Moon’s help, you can send it packing. Japanese pain reliever Bufferin has teamed up with Sailor Moon to promote its brand of painkilling magic. The headliner for this tie-up is a series of Bufferin ads featuring the voice of …Read more »
The Japanese fast fashion brand Uniqlo has just revealed a line of T-shirts sure to slay a few readers out there. It’s a lineup of shirts based on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the uber-popular series from Koyoharu Gotōge. The Demon Slayer T-shirts revealed today …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 »
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 »
Hey Death Note fans: remember the watch Light Yagami wore with a secret compartment for taking secret, death-related notes? Now that watch can be yours thanks to the folks at SuperGroupies. That’s the apparel maker behind a lot of the licensed anime merch we’ve featured …Read more »
The Shaman King manga spans 35 volumes, but only 32 volumes have been published in America. On top of that, those volumes are now out of print. But there’s good news for Shaman King fans—not only is there a new anime in the works, but …Read more »
On July 17, almost one year to the date of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, Tokyo police arrested a man for threatening the publisher Kodansha. Like the suspect in the KyoAni case, this suspect claimed that the company in question did something unseemly with his …Read more »
It’s not uncommon for a famous manga to get multiple anime adaptations, especially with the passing of time. Just look at Hunter x Hunter, which has had two separate TV shows, or Berserk, whose early chapters were adapted for TV back in the ‘90s and …Read more »
In recent days it’s become apparent that Amazon has been blocking some manga titles from both Yen Press and J-Novel Club. Both publishers tweeted about this: Sadly, we have confirmed with Amazon that they have opted to remove our No Game No Life titles from …Read more »
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