MONSTROUS MAGAZINE from Monstrous Books is a black-and-white magazine-format comic book anthology, and its next issue is MONSTROUS: THE KAIJU ISSUE, which is getting a Kickstarter campaign that you can check out here. Itaru Kinoshita, the manga creator behind Dinosaur Sanctuary, created a new Kaiju …Read more »
Dark Horse Manga has a hit shojo manga on the way with the upcoming release of The Credits Roll into the Sea by John Tarachine (Good Night, I Love You, Witch of Thistle Castle). The acclaimed series will make its English debut when volume 1 …Read more »
Earlier this month we got confirmation that the Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You anime adaptation’s second season is all set for a 2026 debut. Now we’re turning our attention back toward Haruka Mitsui’s source material, with the manga’s 12th collected volume announcing that …Read more »
Hey, yet another reason why aside from Tokyo, New York City might be the best place in the world to be an anime and manga fan. This October, Kodansha House in SoHo is getting a visit from three major manga-ka for Q&A sessions and signings. …Read more »
The end is right around the corner for Robinson Haruhara and Hirakei’s ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess manga. The series first kicked off via Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ service in April 2019, and the official X (formerly Twitter) account for the manga announced that the next …Read more »
Using AI to translate manga (or anything else for that matter) is a controversial thing, and VIZ is in the crosshairs for allegedly using an AI translation for the digital version of Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze. According to The Comics Beat, eagle-eyed …Read more »
The late great Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga kicked off 40 years ago, and Japan is celebrating in various ways, shapes and forms, including a soon-to-open 40th-anniversary store. In addition, there’s now a box set collecting all 42 volumes of the manga on the way. …Read more »
This year’s upcoming combined issue 36/37 of Weekly Shonen Jump has a very special collab tied to it in the form of a Pokémon crossover of sorts. The Pokémon Shonen Jump collaboration inspired some of the magazine’s top creators to put together crossover art, including …Read more »
Over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con, horror manga creator Junji Ito received a major accolade when he was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. VIZ Media, Ito’s main American publisher, shared a subtitled video of the creator sharing his …Read more »
Gaou, an artist known especially for his light novel illustrations, is in hot water after saying in a livestream that he did some sort of sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl. According to Japanese law, the age of consent is 16. The girl, who was …Read more »
The 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election took place yesterday, and ahead of this some manga creators expressed concerns about language used by political party Sanseito related to anime, manga and games. Sanseito, a new party with the slogan “Japanese First,” listed its policy measures …Read more »
France and Germany are two countries with many otaku residents, and Crunchyroll is in the process of inking a deal with HarperCollins Publishers, allowing HarperCollins to acquire Crunchyroll’s manga publishing operations in those nations. HarperCollins Japan publishes manga, and the company as a whole wants …Read more »
Congrats to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, which has reached yet another milestone! The franchise’s official social media revealed that there are approximately 164 million copies of the series (both physical and digital) in circulation in Japan. On top of that, there are approximately 56 …Read more »
There are a couple big celebrations going on in the world of the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End manga. After being on break since January, the series is finally getting ready to return to the pages of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on July 23. On …Read more »
Another manga has its ending plans out in public thanks to an Amazon listing, and this time it’s Space Brothers. Chuya Koyama’s manga first started its run in Morning magazine back in 2007, and now the Amazon listing’s peek at the cover says the series …Read more »
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