The second season of The Rising of the Shield Hero anime will debut in April, and its fans can hardly wait. In fact, with the Japanese release of the twentieth volume of the manga, publisher Kadokawa revealed that 11 million copies of the light novels …Read more »
Before he was a household name and anime legend, director Hayao Miyazaki released a manga titled Shuna’s Journey, AKA Shuna no Tabi. The single-volume work full of watercolor illustrations was originally published in Japan back in 1983, and now it’s finally making its way to …Read more »
The final chapter of Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force manga is officially out in the wild in Japan as of this year’s 13th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. The last page of the closing chapter includes a note from the editorial department, which asks fans …Read more »
More Monogatari anime has arrived, and while it’s not an actual TV or movie project, it does come in the form of a nicely animated promotional video for the Bakemonogatari manga adaptation by Oh! great. The 16th compiled volume launched in Japan on Thursday, and …Read more »
Seven Seas Entertainment came through with a handful of new license announcements yesterday, one of which was a major doozy for some folks. Amongst the slew of reveals was the license of Hitoshi Ashinano’s critically-acclaimed manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, which immediately had Twitter followers poppin’ …Read more »
Yesterday, Valentine’s Day, VIZ Media made a bunch of new licensing announcements to make the hearts of otaku soar. They started with this tweet: Hi! ☀️ Ready for announcements? — VIZ (@VIZMedia) February 14, 2022 Then they gave a whole laundry list of manga and …Read more »
My Hero Ultra Impact, a free-to-play battle RPG set in the world of My Hero Academia, has just launched on iOS and Android. It’s a free-to-play game with in-game purchases, and features a both a casual battle mode and a story mode that replicates stories …Read more »
Kodansha just published the 48th volume of Yuki Suetsugu’s Chihayafuru manga, and the next one will be its last. The series—which originally launched in the pages of Kodansha’s Be Love magazine back in 2007—is officially set to come to an end with volume 49. In …Read more »
Digital manga publisher Comikey has some new titles on the way this month, with four new manga series coming to the simulpub lineup. Once weekly chapters are caught up to the Japanese release, all four manga will have their chapters published simultaneously alongside Japan, and …Read more »
We recently posted about the impending end of Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force manga, and now we know exactly when to expect the final chapter. In January, the author said he had submitted said chapter, so it was only a matter of time, and it turns …Read more »
Yoshiichi Akahito, the creator of Corpse Princess, is launching a new manga. It’s called Setsuri Kyōjin Taisen Vampire Myst, and it’s set to hit the webcomic site Comic Bushiroad sometime this month. It takes place in a world where a red mist swings into town, …Read more »
The New York Times has released its latest monthly list of Graphic Novel and Manga bestsellers, and two thirds of the fifteen titles are manga. The number one spot goes to a graphic novel, Perspectives by Dav Pilkey. (Pilkey also nabs the thirteenth spot with …Read more »
According to the 26th volume of Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, and Daisuke Furuya’s Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga, the series is approaching its climax. While no specific timeline was provided, Kagami mentioned as much in the author comments included with the volume. The …Read more »
Kazue Kato’s Blue Exorcist manga has been on hiatus since July 2021, and was previously set to return in the May 2022 issue of Jump SQ. magazine in early April. The latest issue hit stands to announce that the hiatus will continue a little longer, …Read more »
Earlier this year, a new manga series was revealed for Yuki Kodama, the author of the Blood Lad manga. Now those plans have been updated, and Shoukan Suru Sekai, AKA The World of Summoning, is officially set to receive a simultaneous global launch in English …Read more »
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