No country imports more manga than France, and manga and anime can also influence the French art scene. A new article at The Guardian, titled “Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime” talks about the new French animation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, based on …Read more »
Blue Thermal manga author Kana Ozawa has a new series on the way, and its debut is right around the corner. As revealed in the May issue of Kodansha’s Kiss magazine, the new manga is a love story titled Kō-2 (Kō-Ni) no Koi no Wasure-kata—or …Read more »
Fuse and Mitz Vah’s That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime light novel series is inspiring a new spinoff. This time around it’s a new gourmet-themed spinoff by Chika Nakatani—titled Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken: Bishoku-den ~Peko to Rimuru no Ryori Techo~, or That …Read more »
The manga series Barefoot Gen, based on the life of creator Keiji Nakazawa, is about what a boy and his family experience from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It’s been used as an educational manga and as a warning for the dangers of nuclear bombs. …Read more »
The My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected -Monologue- manga first started serialization in Monthly Big Gangan magazine back in September 2012, aiming for a more direct adaptation of the anime that is itself based on the light novels by Wataru Watari. Now, …Read more »
Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., which is behind hits like Attack on Titan, Tokyo Revengers, Ghost in the Shell, and many more, has announced K MANGA, a digital service for American fans. The app will become available in just under two months, on May 10. There …Read more »
Flavor Girls is a graphic novel that’s now available from BOOM! Studios, collecting issues 1-3 of the comic written and illustrated by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky and featuring colors and cover art by Angel De Santiago. The series takes great inspiration from magical girl anime like Sailor …Read more »
A new manga is officially on the way from Beelzebub creator Ryuhei Tamura, and we won’t have to wait long for its debut. According to the April issue of Shogakukan’s Sunday GX magazine, Tamura is set to debut a new series in the next issue, …Read more »
When Sosuke Toka’s Ranking of Kings manga first made its way to English audiences through BookLive, it came with a poor translation loaded with typographical errors and mistranslations. In addition to that, BookLive said they found the previous translation had “plagiarized part of the translation …Read more »
This past weekend’s Academy Awards may have snubbed anime again, but there are other award ceremonies that honor anime and manga. The Magademy Award, which comes to us from BookLive, revealed their winners today. While there are categories of Best lead male actor, Best lead …Read more »
UNIQLO, which has previously worked with SPY x FAMILY and One Piece, is coming out with Attack on Titan T-shirts! The collection will become available all around the world, with different release dates for different areas. In America, these shirts will be out on March …Read more »
Most artists don’t make a lot of money or have a lot of free time to take care of things around the house, and this includes manga artists. As a result, a rent-free shared house called “Manga-so” has popped up in Tokyo to give mangaka …Read more »
Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa’s The Heroic Legend of Arslan manga—based on the novels by Yoshiki Tanaka—first kicked off in 2013, and now it’s barreling toward the big conclusion. The April issue of Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine published a “story review diagram” in an effort …Read more »
The end is almost here for Soichiro Yamamoto’s In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki manga. According to the April issue of Shogakukan’s Gessan (Monthly Shonen Sunday) magazine, the series will end in two chapters, with the final chapter set to be published this May. Yamamoto, …Read more »
Back in December it was announced that Hunter x Hunter manga chapters would no longer be published on a weekly basis, instead publishing periodically as they’re ready. This should make things easier on creator Yoshihiro Togashi, who has been open about his health woes. However, …Read more »
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