World Trigger readers will need to wait a little longer for the next chapter of the series, because author Daisuke Ashihara has come down with a sudden illness. While no specifics have been divulged, the official Twitter account confirmed that the illness in question is …Read more »
2020 marked a boost in book sales for Japan, and much of that can be attributed to the runaway success that is Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer manga. According to an article in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Publishing Science Institute announced that combined book sales …Read more »
It’s been a wild ride full of equal parts laughs, action, and education, but the time has officially come for Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! manga to end. We recently posted about the final chapter coming in the next issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius, …Read more »
Ninety-five people (mostly bookstore workers) looked at 216 different manga titles to decide which they think should be nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho awards (a.k.a the Cartoon Grand Prize). In order to qualify, the manga had come out in 2020 and have eight volumes …Read more »
Some paradise-y news for fans of Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku. The Shonen Jump+ manga by Yuji Kaku has landed a TV anime adaptation. The manga is about a rogue ninja named Gabimaru who’s somehow survived multiple execution attempts, and who is sent on a mission to …Read more »
It’s been almost 24 years since Yukiru Sugisaki’s D.N.Angel manga made its debut in the pages of Monthly Asuka magazine. The series first kicked off in November of 1997, and despite its on again off again hiatus status at times, it’s now officially coming to …Read more »
Mangaka Gege Akutami has reason to celebrate. Oricon released its rankings for the 50 top-selling manga in Japan for the time period of January 11-17, and Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga placed from second place to sixteenth. And since there are exactly 15 volumes of the …Read more »
Where the hell is Jack? Oh, there he is. Go Nagai’s rude dude Violence Jack will return in a new manga called Violence Jack 20XX later this month. It’s written and illustrated by Yu Kinutani, and it’ll unfold in the pages of Monthly Young Magazine. …Read more »
In November all the nominees for the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards were announced, and yesterday the winners were revealed in Japan. The Best Children’s Manga category had two winners: Duel Masters by Shigenobu Matsumoto, and Chocolat no Maho (translated as The Magic of Chocolate) by …Read more »
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Mitsuru Adachi’s popular Touch manga. It also happens to mark 30 years since the debut of McDonald’s limited-time Chicken Tatsuta line, which is coming back to restaurants to mark the occasion. Since both are celebrating milestones, Adachi’s beloved …Read more »
Throughout Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama manga, you’ll see characters saying “Oi” as a greeting a lot. No, really, a lot. Just how many times has the word been uttered over the course of the manga’s 77 volumes, thought? Jump publisher Shueisha decided to remove any doubt …Read more »
Yu Tomofuji’s manga Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts has landed a TV anime adaptation. The manga, which ran for five years starting in 2015, is about the relationship between a beast king and a young woman. The manga is quite popular in Japan, …Read more »
Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s manga Blue Period won the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize. Now it’s getting an anime adaptation! Yamaguchi released a fresh illustration to celebrate the news. Here’s how Kodansha Comics describes Blue Period: Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and …Read more »
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Koi’s Is the Order a Rabbit? manga, AKA Gochumon wa Usagi Desu ka?, which has been running in the pages of Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Max magazine since March of 2011. The March 2021 issue of the magazine …Read more »
Assassination Classroom creator Yusei Matsui and Astra Lost in Space creator Kenta Shinohara will both be debuting new work in Shonen Jump this year. Matsui’s new manga is called Nige Jōzu no Wakagimi (translated as The Young Lord Who is Skilled at Escaping) and it …Read more »
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