Just as the anime adaptation kicks off, writer Shimesaba and illustrator booota’s Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway light novel series is about to come to an end. Kadokawa announced the upcoming fifth volume as its last, with …Read more »
There are officially 200 volumes of Takao Saito’s Golgo 13 manga out in the wild, which puts it in the rare company of Guinness World Record holders. Back in 2016, Osamu Akimoto’s Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo (Kochikame) manga hit the 200-volume milestone and earned the …Read more »
It’s time for a very short break for the My Hero Academia manga. The official Shonen Jump Twitter account announced that the series will be taking a week off due to the health of author Kohei Horikoshi. The series is off in the issue that …Read more »
Publisher Shueisha has referred to 2021 as “My Hero Academia Year,” and it’s no wonder. The fifth season just debuted, its third movie will come out in a few months, it’s getting its own art exhibit, and now we’ve learned that it has more than …Read more »
Publisher Shogakukan became aware of someone posting dialogue from their manga on a “spoiler website.” Allegedly this person posted almost all the text from sixty-three manga chapters of Kengan Omega by Yabako Sandrovich without permission. Shogakukan took this to court, wanting to figure out who …Read more »
It was recently announced that Samurai: Deadpool, which can be read on the Shonen Jump+ app, is Marvel’s bestselling comic this year. The series is written and illustrated by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi and takes place in feudal Japan. Deadpool has met up with …Read more »
Japan’s Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (a.k.a. Research institute of publication science) has crunched the numbers and says that print and digital sales of manga in 2020 were phenomenal. Manga brought in more than 600 billion yen (a little under 5.5 billion dollars) during the year, breaking …Read more »
Jujutsu Kaisen has been keeping up its amazing sales, and publisher Shueisha revealed that there are more than 40 million copies of the manga out in circulation. This counts both physical editions and ebooks. At the beginning of last October, there were eight and a …Read more »
Amazingly, Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga is officially complete and is ready to hit the next issue of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in Japan on April 9. Naturally, Kodansha wants to protect its property by going up against pirated copies, and the publisher has issued …Read more »
Satoshi Wagahara, the creator of The Devil is a Part-Timer!, began a new light novel series last September. Titled Dracula Yakin! (translated as Night-Shift Dracula), it’s about a vampire working the night shift at a convenience store. Night-Shift Dracula is getting a manga adaptation, thanks …Read more »
Daisuke Ashihara has been dealing with health issues, and it’s getting in the way of the release schedule for World Trigger. The manga’s latest chapter was missing in the March issue of Jump SQ, and it’ll also be missing in the May issue. We’ve been …Read more »
As part of the fight against COVID-19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan wants to make sure that medium- and small-sized Japanese companies outside of the country are taking preventative measures. To do this, they’re tapping into popular manga series Golgo 13. They’re using …Read more »
This year’s Free Comic Book Day will be August 14, and it marks twenty years of this event. “The variety of this year’s comic book selection is really exciting!” commented Free Comic Book Day spokesperson Ashton Greenwood. “There’s something for every kind of fan, from …Read more »
The Japanese government has been cracking down more on illegal online distribution of manga, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has teamed up with My Hero Academia to spread the word. The video is in Japanese, but even if you don’t speak it, …Read more »
Late last year Yuu Watase announced that she would be returning to her manga series Arata, which had been on hiatus since 2015. In March 2021 she shared that she and Weekly Shonen Sunday had picked out a date for when Arata will continue to …Read more »
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