It’s really, truly happened — the 100th volume of the One Piece manga has been released in Japan. Within the first week, more than a million copies sold. To commemorate this achievement, Japan Forward interviewed creator Eiichiro Oda’s editor at Weekly Shonen Jump and the …Read more »
Hiroyuki Takei’s Shaman King: The Super Star manga is the latest arc for the series, and it’s about to take a break. The author is currently busy with other work, so the October issue of Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine Edge announced a hiatus for the manga. …Read more »
cloba.U’s Magic of Stella manga first began in the pages of Manga Time Kirara Max back in 2013, and has since been compiled in nine volumes as of December. Now, according to the November issue of the magazine, the series has just three more chapters …Read more »
The final volume of Attack on Titan will become available in print for American fans on October 19. And its publisher Kodansha is offering exclusive goodies to go with the epic conclusion. “Kodansha has teamed up with retailers Kinokuniya USA, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, …Read more »
Writer Saki Hasemi and illustrator Kentaro Yabuki first kicked off their To Love Ru manga back in April 2006, and the series went on to run in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump until August 2009. With the manga celebrating its 15th anniversary, it’s about …Read more »
Following the sudden passing of Berserk creator Kentaro Miura in May, publishers were left wondering what they should do with his ongoing series. In addition to Berserk, Miura was working on the Duranki manga, featuring production by Studio Gaga, and both the studio and the …Read more »
The Kumamoto Prefectural Takamori High School in Takamori, Japan, hasn’t been doing so well in recent years, and the Kumamoto Prefectural Board of Education has a unique way of trying to change this. They’re planning to create a high school “manga studies” department, which is …Read more »
J-Novel Club LLC just held a Twitch livestream that revealed their acquisition of four new light novels plus a manga adaptation of one of those light novels. Each of the light novels will have parts 1 and 2 from the first volume made available online …Read more »
Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer manga is beloved around the world, and it’s being celebrated in a Demon Slayer art exhibition that touches down in Japan next month. The Kimetsu no Yaiba: Koyoharu Gotouge Art Exhibition is currently scheduled to run from October 26 to December …Read more »
Sasaki and Miyano, the anime adaptation of Sho Harusono’s manga of the same name, is set to hit screens in January 2022. That’s the word from a new teaser trailer for the series, a meta boys’ love comedy. Here’s how Yen Press describes the original …Read more »
Hiro Mashima followed up the original Fairy Tail manga with the sequel series Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest—which Mashima writes and storyboards and Atsuo Ueda illustrates—and now that one is getting a TV anime of its own. The news was revealed during the Hiro Mashima …Read more »
Shonen Jump readers will have to do without the My Hero Academia manga in the next issue. According to the announcement, author Kohei Horikoshi recently had some health issues, so he’s taking a break and will be sitting out the issue that hits stands in …Read more »
Gantz creator Hiroya Oku is about to bring another series to a close. According to this year’s 19th issue of publisher Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine, the author’s GIGANT manga will end later this month. The final chapter will be published in the magazine’s 20th …Read more »
The late Kentaro Miura is known for his amazing work on the Berserk manga, but he also had other titles to his name, like King of Wolves. Miura’s collaboration with Fist of the North Star creator Buronson had the latter writing while Miura provided the …Read more »
Yuki Yaku, the author of the Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki light novels, is working on a “big project” that’s set to take us by surprise. That’s the word from Yaku himself, who posted the news on Twitter. That project has made it hard for the author …Read more »
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