Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga is going strong, and the anime adaptation has been well received thus far. To keep that momentum going, the June issue of Shueisha’s Saikyo Jump magazine announced plans for a spinoff manga by Kizuku Watanabe (Koro Teacher Quest!). The …Read more »
Manga creator Yoshihiro Togashi has been posting stuff on Twitter that gives the impression he is back to working on his popular series Hunter x Hunter. First, Togashi shared this tweet with the words “I’m doing No.405. Moon healing escalation!”
Yui Kikuta’s Bibliophile Princess manga—which adapts the novels by Yui—is getting ready to go on hiatus according to the June 2024 issue of Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine. The announcement notes that the series will return sometime this fall. In place of the next installment, an …Read more »
What do you get when you combine the Keigo Shinzo manga Hirayasumi and the musical stylings of Skirt (Oddtaxi opening theme)? The following music video, which features Hirayasumi characters hanging out in the Tokyo neighborhood of Asagaya. The song is called “Kimi ni Ai ni …Read more »
Another hiatus is here for the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga. According to this year’s 10th issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine, the series by Yasuo Ohtagaki is entering a brief hiatus, with a June 28 return planned in the pages of the magazine’s …Read more »
Quro first launched the Asteroid in Love manga in the pages of Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine back in January 2017, and now it’s getting ready to end. According to the latest issue of the magazine, there are just two chapters remaining, which should …Read more »
Publisher ABLAZE revealed a new upcoming addition to its growing ABLAZE Manga imprint. Horror fans can look forward to the debut of Shingo Honda’s Happyland manga, the first volume of which is set to go on sale on September 11, 2024 for $12.99. Honda’s previous …Read more »
Haruko Ichikawa’s Land of the Lustrous, the manga about a world inhabited by people made of jewels, has come to an end. The final chapter was published in the April 25 edition of Afternoon magazine. The manga, which began in Afternoon in 2012, inspired a …Read more »
If you’re headed to Tokyo this fall, here’s one exhibition to check out. Gallery AaMo, which is located in the Tokyo Dome City complex, is holding an exhibition dedicated to Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga. The exhibition runs from September 13 to November 10. …Read more »
The live-action movie version of Golden Kamuy is set to stream on the ‘flix. The film will hit the service May 19. Based on the manga by Satoru Noda, Golden Kamuy was released in Japanese theaters on January 19. It stars Kento Yamazaki (Kingdom) as …Read more »
The That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of Monster Nation has been on hiatus for a while, and now it’s going to end prematurely. Micro Magazine’s Comic Ride magazine announced plans to end the series earlier this month as a result …Read more »
Back in February, we reported that 10 titles had been nominated for the annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Now we’ve learned which manga won the coveted award, named after the Godfather of Manga himself. The lead prize went to PLINIVS, the historical manga by Mari …Read more »
Another Weekly Shonen Jump manga has come to an end with the publication of the final chapter for Shadow Eliminators. The manga by Kento Amemiya first launched in the magazine on December 4, 2023, and the final chapter was just published in Japan on April …Read more »
This weekend Archipel, one of our favorite YouTube channels, dropped another great video. This one goes behind the scenes of a new collaboration between horror manga master Junji Ito and modeler Yoshiki Fujimoto. The two have teamed up to create a high-end model of Ito’s …Read more »
Yesterday the Tokyo District Court said the operator of the infamous Manga-Mura manga piracy site has to give publishers Kadokawa, Shueisha and Shogakukan 1.7 billion yen. That’s a little under 11 million dollars. The publishers had started out by asking for 1.9 billion yen in …Read more »
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