xxxHOLiC, the manga by legendary supergroup CLAMP, is getting the live-action film treatment. That’s the word from Shochiku and Asmik Ace, who will release the film on April 29, 2022. It’ll star Ryunosuke Kamiki as Kimihiro Watanuki and Ko Shibasaki as Yuko Ichihara. The film …Read more »
Light novel audiobooks are continuing to expand in America! Over the weekend both Yen Press and J-Novel Club made audiobook announcements while at Anime NYC. Yen Press said it will be making audiobooks for the series Spice and Wolf by Isuna Hasekura, So I’m a …Read more »
Blue Period: the popular manga about a young man devoting himself to art is currently being adapted into an anime series. Now it’s also set to get a stage play in Japan in spring 2022. The play will be called Blue Period The Stage and …Read more »
It’s the end of an era today, as the cult classic manga Seitokai Yakuindomo has published its final chapter. Tozen Ujiie launched the four-panel slice-of-life comedy series back in 2007, so today’s final chapter in the pages of Weekly Shonen Magazine closes the curtain on …Read more »
Anime fandom is a diverse world, and even when close friends share interests they may find themselves at a crossroads in more ways than one. That’s the case with the leads of Weeaboo, a new graphic novel from Alissa Sallah that celebrates and dissects fandom, …Read more »
Weekly Shonen Jump has spent the better half of the past decade facing gradually decreasing circulation numbers, and that trend continues with the latest update. According to the Japan Magazine Publishers Association (JMPA), the magazine’s print circulation dropped below 1.4 million between July and September …Read more »
Itokichi’s Merman in My Tub manga—known in Japan as Orenchi no Furo Jijo)—is getting an adaptation, and this one is on the way in the form of a live-action Taiwanese series. Kadokawa made the announcement in the December issue of Monthly Comic Gene magazine, with …Read more »
Originally launching on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ website back in November 2019, Yuki Konno’s SSSS.GRIDMAN manga has been adapting the anime of the same name by Studio Trigger ever since. Now its run is almost over, with just two chapters remaining until it ends. Shueisha plans …Read more »
Eternals, the latest in a long, long line of Marvel films, just got a Japan-exclusive poster from none other than Mari Yamazaki, the creator of Thermae Romae. Apparently the poster was quite a passion project for Yamazaki, who, according to a statement, is a big …Read more »
Earlier this month we reported that Japanese publisher Shueisha filed a legal application with Google, as well as with Hurricane Electric, in their attempts to fight piracy. In particular in this case, they are interested in going after the piracy site Manga Bank and people …Read more »
Fans of Ayumi Komura have a reason to be happy. The creator of the popular shojo series Mixed Vegetables just announced that she’ll be coming out with a new manga. Not a lot has been revealed about it yet, but we do know that it …Read more »
The next volume in the 86 EIGHTY-SIX light novel series was originally set to launch this December, but its release has been hit with a delay due to author Asato Asato’s poor health. 86 ―Eighty Six― Ep.11― Dies Passionis ― will now launch in Japan …Read more »
Kotaro Yamada’s Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet manga first launched in 2014 to adapt the Phantom Bullet arc of Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online novels. Now it’s about to come to an end, with the final chapter scheduled for a December 10 debut. The artist …Read more »
Ever wondered what the cast of Fruits Basket would look like in real life? Now you can see at least one interpretation, thanks to the promotion for a new Fruits Basket play. The play is set for March in Tokyo, and is called Fruits Basket …Read more »
Back in August, we posted about the possibility of Inio Asano’s Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction manga ending soon, and now we have an idea of exactly when to expect that conclusion. According to the manga’s official Twitter account, there are just 10 chapters remaining. ⚡️⚡️連載再開⚡️⚡️ …Read more »
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