Rifle is Beautiful, a four-panel manga about a high school marksmanship club, will be getting an anime adaptation. The manga, which runs on the Tonari no Young Jump website and is written and illustrated by Akki Sarumi, is about a high school freshman who takes …Read more »
Back in November 2016, we reported World Trigger author Daisuke Ashihara would be taking an indefinite hiatus to deal with health issues. Now we’re happy to report Ashihara, and his World Trigger manga, are back. The manga is set to return in the issue of Shonen …Read more »
Bandai Namco’s latest preview of JUMP FORCE—which has an array of Shonen Jump characters battling one another in the real world—is here to show off some new contenders. The latest legends to get in on the action are Pegasus Seiya and Dragon Shiryu from Masami …Read more »
Kabi Nagata’s manga My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness has won Best Manga at the Harvey Awards, a yearly celebration of comics. The manga was nominated alongside My Brother’s Husband, My Hero Academia, Tokyo Ghoul and Your Name. The Best Manga award is a new one …Read more »
Do you like Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic Akira, often forget what day it is and have a lot of wall space? If so, this giant calendar may be for you. Modeled after the Akira mural on display in Shibuya, Tokyo (which we showcased in a video …Read more »
Here in Japan, if you’re in a rush and need a quick charge, you can grab packs of goo called Weider In Jelly that contain about 200 calories of quick energy goodness. The packs themselves look pretty plain, but that’s about to change thanks to …Read more »
I’d like to think that at the end of the pitch to make comedy manga Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher? into an anime, some studio executive stood up and said, “why the hell not?” Whether or not a scene like that actually went …Read more »
Kentaro Miura‘s long-running Berserk manga just hit another milestone, with volume 40 launching in Japan today. To celebrate the occasion, Young Animal‘s official YouTube channel went all out with a minute-long promo starring 68-year-old singer Shigeru Matsuzaki in the role of Guts. See Matsuzaki in …Read more »
Golden Kamuy manga author Satoru Noda isn’t about to let an event like Senior Citizens’ Day slip by without putting his own spin on it. To celebrate the occasion, Noda whipped up some Silver Kamuy versions of popular chapters from the manga, taking the characters …Read more »
Back in February we reported on the announcement of a manga adaptation of live-action Hollywood film Back To The Future drawn by Yuusuke Murata (One-Punch Man, Eyeshield 21). It was set to be serialized by website Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, and supervised by film writer …Read more »
Are your current sneakers not as, uh, baller as you’d like? Maybe these Adidas Originals are just the thing. The shoe maker has just unveiled the packaging, pricing and release date for the first two pairs in its planned line of Dragon Ball Z-inspired kicks: …Read more »
Long before Kuroko’s Basketball (and heck, even a year before Slam Dunk) there was Dear Boys, the oddly-named but super-popular basketball manga by Hiroki Yagami. Yagami has basically devoted his entire career to Dear Boys: the manga debuted in Shonen Magazine back in 1989 and …Read more »
Known for its frequent hiatuses as a result of author Yoshihiro Togashi’s health issues, the Hunter x Hunter series is finally preparing to return once more. The manga’s most recent hiatus kicked off back in April, and its return is now scheduled for the September …Read more »
Chibi Maruko-chan is a beloved manga series in Japan. It first launched in 1986 and served as the basis for a famous anime, the first series of which ran from 1990 to 1992. The series comes from manga author Momoko Sakura, who passed away from …Read more »
If you’ve been following Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama manga for a while—or just watching the anime—its lengthy run is finally about to come to an end. According to the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, there are just five chapters left, which schedules the ending …Read more »
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