The Rent-A-Girlfriend manga hit a big milestone in this year’s 38th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. The issue hit shelves in Japan this week, bringing with it the 200th chapter of Reiji Miyajima’s romantic comedy series, and a character popularity poll has been launched …Read more »
The Golgo 13 manga series, which began publication in 1968 and is still going, is receiving a manga spinoff on Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app. The manga series Dangerous Jii-san is also getting a spinoff on the app. The Golgo spinoff manga will be called Golgo …Read more »
If anyone can stay safely away from isekai stories, you’d think it would be Lupin III. That’s not the case, though, thanks to a new spinoff manga that was revealed in this year’s ninth issue of Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Retsu magazine. Lupin III: Neighbor …Read more »
It seems we’ve been seeing quite a few notable manga come to an end recently, and the latest is Tozen Ujiie’s Seitokai Yakuindomo. The series is getting ready to close out an impressive run when the final chapter debuts in Weekly Shonen Magazine this November. …Read more »
The long run of Bow Ditama’s Kiss x Sis manga is about to come to an end. The creator of the romantic comedy harem series recently announced that there are just two chapters left, and while there’s currently no end date, we should expect it …Read more »
It’s hard to believe that Berserk author Kentaro Miura passed away back in May, as it still seems like just yesterday that we first heard the news. His incredible work lives on, as does the inspiration it has sown across the world, and now a …Read more »
The new Bleach one-shot is out in America and Japan, and it’s free to read digitally here on VIZ’s website! The main series officially concluded back in 2016, but 2021 marks twenty years since the manga made its debut. As a result, creator Tite Kubo …Read more »
It’s generally taken publisher Kadokawa six months to a year to get its books published in English, but now it’s looking at digital simultaneous publishing to get things moving faster. At the weekend’s Crunchyroll Expo panel, they mapped out plans to get their books published …Read more »
Well, better late than never? Back to the Future, which was released back in 1985, is being turned into a children’s novel in Japan. The text is being written by Ichiro Omiya, while illustrations are being provided by Zerogo Iwamoto. The novel is aimed at …Read more »
Sanpei Sato is a manga author known for the Fuji Santaro series of four-panel manga, which launched in the Asahi Shimbun in 1965, among other works. Sadly, at the age of 91, the creator passed away last Saturday at a Tokyo hospital as a result …Read more »
Eiko Mutsuhana’s colorfully titled light novel—Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me (AKA Shinimodori no Mahō Gakkō Seikatsu o, Moto Koibito to Prologue kara (Tadashi Kōkando wa Zero))—is officially on the …Read more »
Enako, Japan’s most famous cosplayer, appears in this week’s edition of Monthly Action cosplaying Tohru from Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid. But not without some controversy: some fans complained that the cosplay is disrespectful to the character and property, causing a bit of a flare up …Read more »
Asahi Shimbun Publishing and Pixiv have announced that they’re looking for horror stories, and the winner will be crowned in the Asahi Horror Comic Awards. They’ve tapped some important people to be judges, including horror master and Eisner Award winner Junji Ito. Ito won’t be …Read more »
Boobs: real or animated, a pretty huge segment of the world likes lookin’ at ‘em. But like any other body part, they can be hard to draw well. Enter Hiro Mashima, the creator of Fairy Tail and Edens Zero and known illustrator of said chest-level …Read more »
The eleventh volume of the Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction manga shipped in Japan on July 30, and creator Inio Asano used this date as an opportunity to say he plans to conclude the series within the next year. This news is not out of thin …Read more »
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