Princess Jellyfish, the manga from Akiko Higashimura about a group of otaku women in Tokyo, will be getting a live-action television series adaptation. The series, which goes on-air January 2018, will star Kyoko Yoshine in the main role of Tsukimi Kurashita. It will be directed …Read more »
Well, that ending didn’t last long! While it was previously reported that Sankaku Head’s Himouto! Umaru-chan manga was coming to an end, the issue of Weekly Young Jump also asked fans to stick around for a follow-up report in the 50th issue. Now that we …Read more »
Fans of Prison School’s Meiko Shiraki will be happy to learn a spinoff manga about the Underground Student Council Vice-President is out in Japan. The manga, titled Fukukaichou Ganbaru (Go, Vice-President) is about Shiraki’s everyday life. A “silent” (meaning, ostensibly, there’s no dialogue) comedy, it …Read more »
Hiroyuki’s four-panel comedy manga Aho-Girl is preparing to come to an end. According to an announcement on his official website, Hiroyuki will end the series in the January issue of Bessatsu Shounen Magazine, which ships in Japan this December. Aho-Girl first began in the pages …Read more »
Will these long-running manga series ever end? Not if the fans have anything to do with it. Ranking site Goo just asked its readers to choose the manga series they hope go on forever, and here are their top 20 picks: Date in parentheses indicates …Read more »
For those who missed its English publication in Raijin Comics, Fist of the Blue Sky is a prequel manga to Fist of the North Star by Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Tetsuo Hara. The series is due for a comeback, because the latest issue of Monthly …Read more »
Banana Fish, the classic shojo manga from Akimi Yoshida, will be adapted into an anime series, it was reported today. The series, set to air on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block in 2018, will be directed by Hiroko Utsumi (Free!). Banana Fish ran in Bessatsu Shojo …Read more »
Author Ryohgo Narita is known for gripping works like Baccano! and Durarara!!, and his latest series is titled Dead Mount Death Play. The series teams Narita up with artist Shinta Fujimoto, who previously adapted Baccano! into a manga, and Yen Press announced SimulPub plans this …Read more »
Hollywood has been cooking up a live-action adaptation of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s Lone Wolf and Cub manga for quite some time, with Paramount and Justin Lin (Star Trek Beyond) still on board. Lin is producing, and he would also like to direct the …Read more »
Sankaku Head’s Himouto! Umaru-chan manga—which is currently enjoying a second season of anime—is about to come to an end. According to the latest issue of Young Jump magazine, there are just three chapters left, with the final to run in this year’s 50th issue. There’s …Read more »
You may have heard tales of Japan as a country where adults and children alike openly read manga without fear of criticism, and while adult comic readership is certainly higher than that in the west, grownups do sometimes get chided for sticking with their childhood …Read more »
In Japan it seems there’s a stereotype that shojo manga begets unrealistic expectations of romance from its readers. Rich, powerful, handsome men seem to always go dropping into the protagonists’ laps with implausible ease, so people assume that women who grow up reading shojo manga …Read more »
Karuho Shiina’s Kimi ni Todoke romance manga originally kicked off back in 2006, and has been a top-seller in Japan ever since. The end of an era is on its way, though, because home magazine Bessatsu Margaret announced that the series is officially set to …Read more »
North American manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced the launch of an all-new adult imprint called Ghost Ship. The imprint will feature a line of specialty titles for adult fans, including previously announced series and two new print and digital manga acquisitions, Tadahiro Miura’s Yuuna …Read more »
What’s going on with Tokyo Ghoul? While we wait for this month’s English release of the live-action movie and the October 17 North American launch of the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, there’s even more to keep an eye out for in the pages of Young Jump. …Read more »
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