Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man manga is very rooted in its visuals, but its story is plenty buckwild on its own. Now that story will soon be told in prose form, with the official account for Shueisha’s Jump J-Books imprint announcing plans for a novel adaptation. …Read more »
It’s been three years since the most recent Berserk manga volume hit stands, and now it’s finally time for the next. It’s a bittersweet release following the passing of manga author Kentarou Miura, but fans will still be excited to learn that volume 41 has …Read more »
Death Note artist Takeshi Obata is working on a new manga, but this time around he’s not doing it with his usual partner in crime, Tsugumi Ohba. Instead, the manga will be written by novelist Akinari Asakura, who is the author of Rokunin no Uso-tsuki-na …Read more »
Could it be? Could Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga actually be on the cusp of reaching its climax? The author has teased ending plans and vague trajectories in the past, but now editor Yuuji Iwasaki has backed up some of those plans in an interview …Read more »
There are a number of different groups and events that give out manga awards each year, but in 2021 we have something unique and fitting with the times: the Corona Manga Grand Prix awards. The brain child of CoV-Navi (a COVID information service overseen by …Read more »
Kazuo Umezu is the king of horror manga, the brilliant and twisted mind behind stuff like Orochi, Makoto-chan, Drifting Classroom, Cat Eyed Boy and much more. Umezu hasn’t drawn a new manga in a while (26 years, to be exact), but that long drought is …Read more »
Yesterday Kodansha revealed five manga series that will receive digital debuts for Americans in September. Kodansha wrote, “As a reminder, these new digital debuts as well as returning favorites will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors including Bookwalker, comiXology, Kindle, Apple …Read more »
One Piece began in 1997, and its one hundredth volume will go out on September 3. Japan is in the mood to celebrate, and One Piece is getting all sorts of ways to enjoy the milestone, including having 100 One Piece taxis in Tokyo. Japan’s …Read more »
Keiji Nakazawa survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and this experienced forever colored his work. He’s most famous for the manga series Barefoot Gen, a fictionalized story borrowing from what happened to him. And now Last Gasp Publishing has revealed on Twitter that it’s licensed …Read more »
COVID has really thrown off some planned stage plays for My Hero Academia, but it was just announced that MHA will receive a new stage play next spring. And while that’s still a ways off, a visual has already been released to give us a …Read more »
The manga Drops of God by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto is receiving an international live-action adaptation. Legendary Television, Dynamic Television and Hulu Japan are all working together on this, with Adline Entertainment also producing. The series will consist of eight hour-long episodes and it’s …Read more »
Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga continues to be a hit, and the latest numbers have it zipping past 4 million copies printed physically and sold digitally. This helps it hold onto its reign as the fastest-selling series that originated on the digital Shonen Jump+ …Read more »
A new One Piece spin-off manga is on the way in the form of a one-shot, and it will feature the work of none other than Nisekoi author Naoshi Komi. Titled Vivi no Bouken (The Adventure of Vivi) the one-shot will be featured in this …Read more »
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon—the anime followup to Rumiko Takahashi’s beloved Inuyasha—is getting a manga adaptation of its own, and a well-known author is behind it. Serialization kicks off in the November 2021 issue of Shogakukan’s Shonen Sunday S magazine, which hits shelves in Japan on September …Read more »
GQ recently interviewed horror master Junji Ito about his newly released manga, Sensor. In it, Ito says he didn’t know how he was going to end the manga while he was working on it. “When I started Sensor I did not have a specific ending …Read more »
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