It isn’t often that a weekly or monthly manga magazine sells so well it needs to be reprinted, but that’s exactly what happened to the Bessatsu Shonen Magazine issue with the final chapter of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga. The latest installment of the …Read more »
After eleven years of serialization, the Attack on Titan manga has officially ended. Creator Hajime Isayama has received kudos from fellow mangaka online, including some who show their support in creative ways. Shuzo Oshimi, creator of Flowers of Evil and Blood on the Tracks, tweeted, …Read more »
There’s manga with great storytelling—then there’s manga with great storytelling and great art. With all due respect to all the manga artists pumping out pages week after week, some are just, well, better than others. Japanese site Magmix has just put out an article listing …Read more »
2021 marks the 45th year Kodansha has put on its yearly Manga Awards. It has revealed its nominations, with the promise of learning who won on May 13. The titles nominated for Best Shonen Manga are Fire Force by Atsushi Ohkubo; Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End …Read more »
Tesla Note, a manga that is not about cars or Elon Musk, is getting the anime treatment. The TV anime series revealed a teaser trailer, key art and cast and crew details today. Based on a manga by Masafumi Nishida (writer, Tiger & Bunny), Tadayoshi …Read more »
Just as the anime adaptation kicks off, writer Shimesaba and illustrator booota’s Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway light novel series is about to come to an end. Kadokawa announced the upcoming fifth volume as its last, with …Read more »
There are officially 200 volumes of Takao Saito’s Golgo 13 manga out in the wild, which puts it in the rare company of Guinness World Record holders. Back in 2016, Osamu Akimoto’s Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo (Kochikame) manga hit the 200-volume milestone and earned the …Read more »
It’s time for a very short break for the My Hero Academia manga. The official Shonen Jump Twitter account announced that the series will be taking a week off due to the health of author Kohei Horikoshi. The series is off in the issue that …Read more »
Publisher Shueisha has referred to 2021 as “My Hero Academia Year,” and it’s no wonder. The fifth season just debuted, its third movie will come out in a few months, it’s getting its own art exhibit, and now we’ve learned that it has more than …Read more »
Publisher Shogakukan became aware of someone posting dialogue from their manga on a “spoiler website.” Allegedly this person posted almost all the text from sixty-three manga chapters of Kengan Omega by Yabako Sandrovich without permission. Shogakukan took this to court, wanting to figure out who …Read more »
It was recently announced that Samurai: Deadpool, which can be read on the Shonen Jump+ app, is Marvel’s bestselling comic this year. The series is written and illustrated by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi and takes place in feudal Japan. Deadpool has met up with …Read more »
Japan’s Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (a.k.a. Research institute of publication science) has crunched the numbers and says that print and digital sales of manga in 2020 were phenomenal. Manga brought in more than 600 billion yen (a little under 5.5 billion dollars) during the year, breaking …Read more »
Jujutsu Kaisen has been keeping up its amazing sales, and publisher Shueisha revealed that there are more than 40 million copies of the manga out in circulation. This counts both physical editions and ebooks. At the beginning of last October, there were eight and a …Read more »
Amazingly, Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga is officially complete and is ready to hit the next issue of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in Japan on April 9. Naturally, Kodansha wants to protect its property by going up against pirated copies, and the publisher has issued …Read more »
Satoshi Wagahara, the creator of The Devil is a Part-Timer!, began a new light novel series last September. Titled Dracula Yakin! (translated as Night-Shift Dracula), it’s about a vampire working the night shift at a convenience store. Night-Shift Dracula is getting a manga adaptation, thanks …Read more »
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