VIZ Media sent out a notification to subscribers of its Shonen Jump service earlier this week to announce an update to the monthly subscription price. Brace yourselves, folks, because as of January 2023 one of the best services available for popular manga will be increasing …Read more »
It’s that time of year again! The annual Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (translated as This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook has listed off the most popular manga in Japan for the previous year. It’s separated into lists of female and male readership. Here is the list …Read more »
Yuki Tabata’s Black Clover manga is about to take another brief break, but this time the reason cited is “production circumstances.” The announcement came through in the second 2023 issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, in which the series was already absent, and Black Clover is …Read more »
This month’s rankings for NPD BookScan’s Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels recently came through, and Chainsaw Man has utterly destroyed the competition both in terms of manga and beyond. In addition to holding the top spot as it has in the past, Tatsuki Fujimoto’s series …Read more »
You’re Under Arrest is back for the first time since the Miyazawa administration. The comedy cop manga by Kōsuke Fujishima, which ran from 1986 to 1992, has a new one-shot chapter coming out in Afternoon magazine on December 23. The one-shot will be called “Taiho …Read more »
Kawo Tanuki and Choco Aya’s Dragon Goes House-Hunting manga just published its final chapter in the January issue of Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Garden magazine. While the main series may have ended, it won’t be long before we see more, because a spinoff manga is …Read more »
Manga has traditionally been hand-drawn, and there is the issue of protecting the paper from being damaged over time. This is no small feat. “The illustration has undergone color fading and wearing,” mangaka Tetsuya Chiba remarked about the iconic last scene of his famous manga …Read more »
Knights of the Zodiac, also known as Saint Seiya, is coming to a big screen near you in 2023. Now we’ve got our first peek at the film thanks to a fresh bit of key art and a teaser trailer. Tomasz Baginski (The Witcher) is …Read more »
Kanko Nakamura originally launched the Uzamaid manga back in August 2016, and its run is about to come to an end. According to the January 2023 issue of Futabasha’s Monthly Action magazine, the final chapter of Uzamaid – Our Maid is Way Too Annoying! is …Read more »
Adult manga author Naoya Ueno is no longer with us. According to a recent announcement from the official Twitter account for Sanwa Publishing’s Comic Masyo magazine, Ueno was discovered collapsed and already passed away at his home on September 25. Nudity, Hard-X, Incest and Squall …Read more »
It’s set up in Japan so that a new invoice system will begin in October 2023, and part of it takes away tax-exempt status from freelancers and sole proprietors. 1,275 people took part in a recent manga industry survey on the matter, and just 17 …Read more »
Welcome to the new home for Korean comics. From screen to paper, Korean content materialized! Since our inception, we at Yen Press have published great stories from Korea, starting with the inclusion of manhwa like Jack Frost and Pig Bride in the Yen Plus monthly magazine to releasing the best-selling print …Read more »
Popeye and Goku are two musclemen who like to save the day. They are also both helped by food when in a pinch, though it’s regular old spinach for Popeye and the mystical Senzu Beans for Goku. The similarities between the two characters led to …Read more »
Initial D author Shuuichi Shigeno is currently serializing the MF Ghost manga, but it’s going to be taking a break for a while. According to the latest issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine, MF Ghost will be on an indefinite hiatus as a result of …Read more »
We’ve gone a couple months without writer Akira Toriyama and illustrator Toyotarou’s Dragon Ball Super manga, but it’s finally getting ready to make its return. The series went on hiatus back in August, and now it’s set to come back to the pages of V …Read more »
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