The Chainsaw Man manga continues to do well, and its publisher Shueisha announced that the manga’s eleven volumes has more than 9.3 million copies out in circulation. Chainsaw Man began its publication in late 2018 in Weekly Shonen Jump. VIZ Media is simultaneously publishing the …Read more »
Toro Aho’s Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist manga inspired an anime adaptation that’s currently running on Crunchyroll, but the original story has officially come to a close. Aho confirmed as much via Twitter, saying that the installment released on February 22 was the last. Dr. …Read more »
ICv2 interviewed VIZ Media VP-Publishing Sales Kevin Hamric about manga sales and what the book publishing climate is like for VIZ during coronavirus. This is on the heels of ICv2 reporting manga sales going up dramatically during 2020. “VIZ Media saw a 70% increase in …Read more »
With the second volume of Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga now in Japanese stores, the Shonen Jump+ series has officially hit a milestone. The editor revealed that the manga has a physical print run of a million copies across both volumes, and that jumps …Read more »
If you consider yourself a particularly huge fan of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga, you might want to look into picking up a volume of the series that fits those super-size tastes. A special volume of the manga is on the way from Kodansha …Read more »
ICv2 is reporting that manga sales grew in the United States last year. “Manga sales were up around 44% in the book channel in 2020, as measured by NPD BookScan, which tracks sales at book chains, mass merchants, large online retailers, and other retailers,” ICv2 …Read more »
Gege Akutami’s popular Jujutsu Kaisen manga—which runs in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump—has hit another milestone in its successful print run. The latest has it leaping past 36 million copies in print, covering both physical printings and copies sold digitally. That number is looking …Read more »
Kousuke Oono’s manga The Way of the Househusband is getting the anime treatment. Today we got our initial glimpse of the anime thanks to its first trailer, courtesy Netflix. Here’s how the ‘flix describes the series: This world-class househusband was once a feared legendary member …Read more »
Seven Seas Entertainment has been rolling through a month of announcements, and with February at an end today’s might just be the coolest. Coming to North America this December is a hardcover single volume omnibus collection celebrating the 50th anniversary of Shotaro Ishinomori’s Kamen Rider …Read more »
The nominees for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The award seeks to reward manga that follows Tezuka’s tradition, and this year nine titles are in the running. Without further ado, the nominees are: I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly …Read more »
Since One Piece has reached 1,000 chapters, it’s clear that many people love its story and characters. But the One Piece franchise wants to officially know who the most beloved characters are for fans, and they have a website in English where you can vote. …Read more »
Mushishi fans have a reason to celebrate, because creator Yuki Urushibara will be releasing a new “special short” manga for the franchise. Called “Chikakeru Kage” (translated as “The Shadow That Soars Through Land”), it will be available in the March 25 release of Afternoon magazine …Read more »
Piracy is a major issue manga has to deal with, especially when it comes to digital piracy. But now Weekly Shonen Jump is saying that pirated physical copies of all 23 volumes of Demon Slayer are being sold online, including with some Amazon vendors. The …Read more »
Cities around the world are doing their best to lessen the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but a recent Kyoto manga strategy ended up rubbing some people the wrong way. Restaurants remain a risky place to visit considering the need to remove masks to …Read more »
Yasuhiro Fukuda’s Cells at Work! Baby manga is a spinoff of Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! series that first kicked off in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in October of 2019. The manga previously went on hiatus last June, and now it’s set to take a three-month …Read more »
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