It’s been 75 years since Osamu Tezuka first began selling his manga, and people want to celebrate. A limited edition of 350 prints showing his iconic Black Jack character have been made, pulling from a 1977 cover of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion. Each print …Read more »
It’s January, meaning we’re in for a bunch of lists of stuff that happened in 2020. Here’s one from Japanese retailer Cospa, which sells cosplay and other anime and manga stuff. Cospa has revealed which anime and/or manga franchises sold the most merch in 2020—in …Read more »
One of the most popular manga of all time is coming to an end. The final chapter of Attack on Titan will run in the April 9 edition of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, it was announced today. We’ve been hearing for quite a while that Hajime …Read more »
Are you a fan of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend? If so, you might want to keep an eye out for the new manga Media Mix Maiden. That’s because it’s by Fumiaki Maruto, the creator of Saekano. Illustrated by Sabu Musha, it’s the …Read more »
Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga continues to flex its (all) might. The latest milestone has the series surpassing 30 million copies in circulation, which it managed to leap past just as the 29th collected volume hit shelves in Japan. The ‘over 30 million’ number …Read more »
Today marked a huge moment for Eiichiro Oda’s popular series, with the official arrival of the One Piece 1000th chapter milestone. Jump is celebrating in a bunch of different ways, including a campaign centered on a global character popularity poll and more. That’s right, Shueisha …Read more »
Keigo Maki’s romantic comedy manga Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie is officially getting an anime adaptation. There aren’t too many details at the moment, and we’ll have to wait to find out when it’s set to air, but for now there’s an announcement trailer to …Read more »
Enjoying Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Alice in Borderland, the manga by Haro Aso? Well, prepare to enjoy more of it. Netflix has given the go for a second season. Like the first season, which hit the ‘flix December 10, the second will star Kento Yamazaki …Read more »
Tatsuya Matsuki, the writer of Act-Age, has been found guilty of a coerced indecent act. Matsuki had previously confessed to groping two middle school girls. During the trial, the prosecution argued for an 18-month prison sentence. Meanwhile, the defense argued that because Matsuki’s manga series …Read more »
Demon Slayer is breaking all sorts of records with sales. Yet in terms of bestselling manga, it’s still a long way from beating the numbers of One Piece. But it turns out that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has not only been reading Demon Slayer, …Read more »
Tatsuya Endo’s spy comedy Spy x Family has been doing so well that the sixth volume is receiving an initial print run in Japan of more than a million copies. Volume six becomes available on December 28, and at that point there will be more …Read more »
All good things must come to an end, and that includes We Never Learn: BOKUBEN, the manga from Taishi Tsutsui. Tsutsui’s manga came to a close in the pages of the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, out in Japan this week. How did it …Read more »
Think you know the story of the upcoming Rurouni Kenshin film? Think again. The story of Rurouni Kenshin: The Final will differ from the original manga, says Takeru Satoh, who stars in the film. Satoh, who plays Kenshin, revealed the news at an event this …Read more »
The magical girl genre is one of the longest-running in manga and anime, and spans a surprising range from the upbeat shojo fare which has been its trademark, to male-oriented fan service like Cutie Honey, and darker themes like Madoka Magica. While some magical girl …Read more »
Yoshiyuki Kondo is a Buddhist priest in Japan who has also become a professional mangaka. His manga is called Yankee to Jushoku (translated as Bad Boy and Chief Priest). In an article on his work with The Asahi Shimbun, Kondo says that Buddhism first really …Read more »
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