After years of speculation, the live-action adaptation of One Piece is finally on the way, set to hit the ‘flix in August. Now Iñaki Godoy is gracing the cover of Shonen Jump in Japan alongside his illustrated antecedent. The issue hit newsstands in Japan Monday, …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con occurred over the weekend, and that means that the winners of the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced. In the category Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia, the award went to Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki. The other nominees were …Read more »
Following up on the recent hiatus, it’s finally almost time to get back to the Boruto manga. The second part, titled Boruto -TWO BLUE VORTEX-, is scheduled to launch in the October issue of V Jump magazine, which hits Japan on August 21. The following …Read more »
Naoki Yamakawa and Masashi Asaki’s My Home Hero manga recently had its anime adaptation debut in April of this year, and now the manga has set up a time frame for the start of its climax. According to this year’s 33rd issue of Kodansha’s Weekly …Read more »
When real guns become cute girls we get the Upotte!! manga, which comes from the mind of author Kitsune Tennouji. The series previously inspired an anime adaptation, and according to the creator’s latest announcement it will officially end after three more volumes. The series just …Read more »
Pictured: Hikaru in the Light! Mai Matsuda, the creator of the Hikaru in the Light! manga, has a new title on the way, and the launch is right around the corner. According to this year’s 15th issue of Futabasha’s Manga Action magazine, the new series—titled …Read more »
Comics and graphic novel publisher ABLAZE—publisher of Centaurs and more—has a new horror manga on the way with the license of Masaaki Ninomiya’s GANNIBAL manga. The tense thriller is set to kick off with the release of volume 1 in November 2023, followed by volume …Read more »
George Morikawa’s boxing manga Hajime no Ippo has been running for an incredible 34 years, and the 138th volume just launched in Japan on July 14. This one features a cover illustration that hearkens back to the cover of the very first volume, and with …Read more »
Makoto Ojiro’s Insomniacs After School manga recently got an anime adaptation and a live-action film, and now the source material is preparing to come to an end. As announced in this year’s 33rd issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits magazine, the manga has just two …Read more »
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got good memories of Detroit Metal City, the manga about a death metal singer whose true dream is to be a twee pop star. Now Kiminori Wakasugi, the creator of DMC, is back with a new manga called Akina-chan …Read more »
The popular light novel series Rascal Does Not Dream (Seishun Buta Yaro) from writer Hajime Kamoshida is entering its final arc. That’s the word from Kamoshida in the afterword of the latest volume, the 13th, which is titled Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus. The …Read more »
Shueisha was happy to reveal that the popular manga Oshi no Ko is set to have more than 12 million copies in circulation by July 19, when the 12th volume is published in Japan. The publisher didn’t say if they included digital copies to reach …Read more »
Back in April a BOCCHI THE ROCK! spinoff manga was teased in a fairly vague way, leaving fans guessing as to which character it would follow. Now the spinoff of Aki Hamaji’s manga has officially launched on Houbunsha’s Comic Fuz website, and it has Kumicho …Read more »
See you, space brothers. Space Brothers, the manga by Chuya Koyama about two brothers who vowed to go to space together as kids will end September 22 with a “final chapter” included in the manga’s 43rd volume. The manga has been running in the pages …Read more »
The anime film adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s SAND LAND manga is set to open in Japanese cinemas on August 18, and a special version of the source material is on the way alongside it. A full-color version of the manga was announced in the August …Read more »
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