Shokugeki no Sanji is a one-shot spinoff that combines the worlds of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece and Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. The creators of both collaborated on the manga, and it’s officially coming to the English version of Shonen …Read more »
Hiroshi Kajiyama, the manga writer and illustrator behind Curse Blood, has died. Aside from Curse Blood, which went into serialization last year in Comic Ryu magazine, Kajiyama was known as the character designer for games such as Dragon Master Silk, Shining Force Gaiden, and Golden …Read more »
Children of the Sea, the popular fantasy manga by Daisuke Igarashi, is getting the anime feature film treatment. The film will be animated at Studio 4°C, best known for films like Memories, Tekkon Kinkreet and the Berserk Golden Age Arc trilogy. The five-volume Children of …Read more »
Domestic Girlfriend (known in Japan as Domekano for short), the romantic comedy manga from Kei Sasuga, will be getting a TV anime adaptation, it was announced today. The announcement came alongside the first key visual for the series, as well as a pair of cast …Read more »
Trinity Seven, the manga by Kenji Saito and Akinari Nao, will be getting a “slapstick romantic comedy” spinoff manga, it was revealed today. The spinoff will be called Trinity Seven: Seven Days, and will be written and illustrated by Misaki Mori (Arifureta Nichijou de Sekaisaikyou). …Read more »
The next issue of Weekly Shonen Jump will feature a very special illustration on the cover when it hits newsstands in Japan. One Piece author Eiichiro Oda provided a drawing of Luffy and Dragon Ball‘s Goku, the latter of which… kind of looks like Luffy …Read more »
Gido Amagakure‘s Amaama to Inazuma manga, AKA Sweetness & Lightning, is about to end its run. According to the latest issue of Kodansha’s Good! Afternoon magazine, the series is set to conclude when the next issue hits stands in Japan on August 7. Sweetness & …Read more »
There was a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure panel at Anime Expo 2018 over the weekend, and Viz Media took the opportunity to announce some related licenses. Chief among them was the acquisition of the next chapter in the anime adaptation, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, which …Read more »
K-On! Shuffle, the K-On! spinoff manga written by original creator Kakifly, has gone into serialization in the pages of Manga Time Kirara magazine. K-On! Shuffle takes place in a different high school than the original, but is also about the activities of a band club. …Read more »
Hiro Mashima’s long-running Fairy Tail came to an end last year… but since then, several projects have been announced to continue the story of the popular manga. Chief among them is the official sequel, which, we now know, kicks off July 25. The manga can …Read more »
Gosho Aoyama‘s long-running Detective Conan manga is about to take a fairly lengthy break, but it’s nothing to worry about. This year’s 32nd issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine announced that a seven-week hiatus will begin with the next issue, and that Aoyama will …Read more »
We knew it was coming: the question was what. Now we’ve got some deets on the long-awaited Fairy Tail spinoff manga teased by creator Hiro Mashima. It’ll be called Fairy Tail City Hero, and is set to debut this fall. Mashima tweeted a preview image …Read more »
Popular manga-slash-anime Seven Deadly Sins is coming to the stage in Japan this August, and today, we got a look at a new version of the play’s main visual, plus photos of the main cast in costume. The main visual, which was first unveiled in …Read more »
Japanese jewelry brand U-Treasure has just unveiled two rings inspired by the one named Sailor Moon. The are, respectively, the Princess Serenity Ring and the Moon Castle Ring. According to the press release, the former is an engagement ring based on the dress worn by …Read more »
In Japan it’s typical for manga authors to leave a message for readers on the inside cover of new volumes of popular series. Usually it’s a ‘thank you’ to the fans, or a comment about the process of working on the manga. For volume 89 …Read more »
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