In the latest news for manga bans or attempted bans, Horry County Schools in South Carolina pulled the whole Assassination Classroom manga series after a single parent complained. The series is being looked over by the schools, a process that is said to take 30 …Read more »
One Peace Books, which publishes titles like The Rising of the Shield Hero and the recently reviewed Kurokiya-san Wants to Lead Him Around by the Nose, has announced a set of new manga titles that are coming out next year. Let’s take a look! Teppeki …Read more »
That’s a lot of Jujutsu Kaisen. The popular Shonen Jump manga, which just ended its six-year run, now has over 100 million copies in circulation. Impressive. The manga by Gege Akutami kicked off in the pages of Shonen Jump on March 5, 2018 and soon …Read more »
It’s hard to believe that this year marks the 25th anniversary of Masashi Kishimoto’s landmark Naruto manga. Shueisha didn’t let this milestone slip by, and one of the ways the publisher is celebrating is with a special video highlighting key moments from the series. You …Read more »
The anime Loner Life in Another World will be debuting soon, and Kaiten Books, which publishes the manga version in English, is offering the first volume for free on Bookwalker. This is part of Bookwalker’s bigger Isekai Manga Haul campaign, which started today and lasts …Read more »
Under Ninja, the action-comedy manga from Kengo Hanazawa (I Am a Hero) is getting a live-action film, and the movie just revealed a couple of the film’s stars, posters and a teaser trailer. The film is set to hit screens in Japan on January 24, …Read more »
The Blue Exorcist anime continues with a new arc this October, but the manga is taking a break. Author Kazue Kato announced that the series will be going on hiatus starting with the October issue of Jump SQ. magazine, with a return penciled in for …Read more »
If you’re a manga fan who lives in New York City, or if it’s a place you’re able to visit, then you might want to check out the major (and limited time) pop-up Kodansha House: Where Manga Meets. It begins on October 4 and lasts …Read more »
Requiem of the Rose King manga author Aya Kanno brought the series to an end in January 2022, ending a nearly decade-long run. Now the creator has a new series that just debuted via Akita Shoten’s Champion Cross manga website this week. Meio no Zakuro …Read more »
Jiro Sugiura’s My Wife Has No Emotion manga is currently enjoying an anime adaptation as part of the summer 2024 season. While that runs, the author announced that the manga will be going on hiatus due to the stress of his personal life. As Sugiura …Read more »
After a long break, Masaoki Shindo’s RuriDragon manga recently returned to the pages of Shonen Jump magazine. Now that the story has been underway for a few months, the second collected volume has made its way to shelves in Japan, and the folks at Jump …Read more »
In a little over a month, Hunter x Hunter fans will be treated to a new chapter of Yoshihiro Togashi’s long-running series. Ahead of that, though, the first collected volume in nearly two years is hitting shelves in Japan. To celebrate, the official channels shared …Read more »
Sasaki and Miyano volume 1, a BL manga rated Teen, has been banned by the Brevard County Public Schools Board in Florida in a 3-2 vote, though the committee recommended keeping it. Reasons given for this ban include the fact it’s a love story with …Read more »
Shiro Usazaki’s career was off to a promising start with her working as an illustrator for the popular manga act-age. However, act-age’s author Tatsuya Matsuki got caught in 2020 committing sexual assaults against underage girls, and this led to the cancellation of the series. Usazaki …Read more »
A percentage of Japan’s manga output includes sexually explicit material, and sometimes foreign credit card companies balk at the idea of certain titles. For example, website Manga Library Z was told by multiple credit card brands from the West that it needed to cease …Read more »
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