40-year-old manga author Kenya Suzuki—best known for creating the Please Tell Me! Galko-chan manga—went missing recently, but was eventually located after about a week. Now, reports have been circulating that Suzuki was arrested on suspicion of importing child pornography from Germany, and was allegedly in …Read more »
Back in March, the My Hero Academia manga entered what was described as its ‘final act.’ Now, according to author Kohei Horikoshi—who provided a written message for the series’s Jump Festa 2022 event—he thinks it could reach the end in about a year. Horikoshi said …Read more »
Chainsaw Man has been getting in on this weekend’s Jump Festa 2022 festivities, and while we don’t have a new look at MAPPA’s anime adaptation, it has been confirmed for a 2022 premiere. Meanwhile, Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga is set to continue in Chainsaw Man Part …Read more »
The Heroic Legend of Arslan manga—which has Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa adapting the novel series by Yoshiki Tanaka—has officially hit its 100th chapter milestone, and other manga artists have joined in on the celebration. Among them is Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama, who …Read more »
One of the manga creators in the Chara Chara Makiart creative unit has been found guilty of sexual assault on a minor. Kodansha, the unit’s publisher, shared this news. Kodansha has decided to stop publishing the current series from the unit, Harapeko Penguin Cafe and …Read more »
Eiichiro Oda has done many things. He’s created the world’s bestselling manga, One Piece, let fans make money doing One Piece art (under certain circumstances), and gave the French president a special One Piece illustration. What’s something he won’t do? Watch YouTube videos about One …Read more »
While details are light at the moment, we now know we can look forward to a new manga by Prison School author Akira Hiramoto next year. As revealed in the January 2022 issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine, Hiramoto will launch the currently untitled manga …Read more »
Japan continues to look toward ways to attract tourism, often tapping into otaku interests. Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture has tapped mangaka Hisashi Eguchi as their first ever tourism ambassador. Eguchi, 65, is a native of Minamata, and his first manga came out in 1977. He’s …Read more »
Back in August, Bleach creator Tite Kubo returned to the series for a one-shot manga, which also made its way to the Manga Plus and Shonen Jump platforms in English on the same day as its Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump publication. Now the one-shot has …Read more »
If you’re in Japan and feeling hungry, there are new Demon Slayer foods to eat, and not just at the Demon Slayer restaurant in Universal Studios Japan. Now that we’re close to December, Japanese brand Priroll is rolling out a line of officially-licensed Demon Slayer …Read more »
Elections tend to have public service announcements and activists reminding people to vote, and the Honduras presidential election got an unusual person involved: Light Yagami from Death Note. This is not in any official capacity from the creator or publisher, and Light doesn’t suggest any …Read more »
The SPY x FAMILY manga has new installments debut via Shonen Jump+ once every two weeks, but fans will have to wait for the next chapter. There’s something special running in its place, though, with the one-shot I SPY manga by author Tatsuya Endo to …Read more »
After being available for a while digitally via Kodansha and other manga services, Ken Wakui’s hit series Tokyo Revengers is now coming to print in the west. Seven Seas Entertainment announced its license of the series, with plans to start publishing it in 2-in-1 omnibus …Read more »
The numbers keep on rising for Gege Akutami’s JUJUTSU KAISEN manga. Now, with the 18th volume on the way to shelves in Japan on December 25, the cover art has been revealed and those numbers have blown up to an incredible 60 million copies printed …Read more »
Urusei Yatsura never gets old. The classic by Rumiko Takahashi is beloved worldwide, and still there’s merch coming out all the time. Take, for example, this new Lum-themed lingerie from Japanese brand tu-hacci. The lingerie set is available for pre-order now and will ship starting …Read more »
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