It takes a number of steps before a licensed manga reaches America. Someone has to translate it, sometimes an adaptor is hired, and someone needs to put all the lettering in. Phil Christie—a manga letterer for Kodansha, Yen Press, Seven Seas and Harlequin—crunched some numbers …Read more »
It’s a big week for Seven Seas announcing new licenses! Yesterday they began listing off licenses for their new light novel imprint, Airship. https://twitter.com/gomanga/status/1333519194458091527 https://twitter.com/gomanga/status/1333520731720847360 In this engrossing tale, one young woman lives in a book shop connected to the spirit world. Follow her various …Read more »
Doraemon, who has never really gone away, is experiencing something of a boost in Japan right now. According to The Japan Times, this past year has seen more than 5 million copies of Doraemon comics and books sold. Apparently, a lot of it has to …Read more »
Professional tennis player Naomi Osaka, who is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, is also a fan of anime and manga. Last year a tweet of hers referring to Prince of Tennis lead Ryoma Echizen as her “husband” went viral. But now she’s getting even …Read more »
The manga nominated for the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards have been announced. They are separated into four categories. Duel Masters by Shigenobu Matsumoto and Chocolat no Mahō (The Magic of Chocolate) by Rino Mizuho are competing for the Best Children’s Manga category. The titles nominated …Read more »
Publishing company Simon & Schuster, previously owned by ViacomCBS, will be sold to Penguin Random House for a little over $2 billion, it was reported today. What does that mean for manga, exactly? A lot, potentially. S&S distributes manga released by Viz Manga. Meanwhile, Penguin …Read more »
More goodies are being released for Demon Slayer fans. Publisher Shueisha just revealed that volume number twenty-three of the series (which comes out in Japan next month) includes almost 40 pages of as yet unseen extra material. According to Anime News Network, those extra pages …Read more »
Sui Ishida, the manga-ka behind Tokyo Ghoul, has a new manga on the way called Chojin X (Superhuman X). On Twitter, Ishida revealed that he had finished the finished the “names,” or storyboards, for the manga. He also revealed a sexy sketch giving us a …Read more »
Tariji Sasaki has been designing covers for monthly children magazine CoroCoro Comic since 1986, so it’s no surprise that his storied career has landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. With over 34 years of cover design under his belt, Sasaki was presented …Read more »
Hiroyuki Takei’s Shaman King is back in a big way, with both the manga re-release and the new TV anime on the horizon. Naturally, that means plenty of collaborations, including one that has the series teaming up with Seibu Railway to feature Shaman King in …Read more »
Kanojo mo Kanojo (She’s a Girlfriend Too), the romantic comedy manga by Hiroyuki, is getting the anime treatment. The news was revealed by the manga author himself on Twitter Tuesday. Kanojo mo Kanojo has been running in the pages of Weekly Shonen Magazine since March …Read more »
Hong Kong politician and activist Agnes Chow called out the Hong Kong police force on Twitter yesterday for their new mascot that looks suspiciously familiar to anyone who’s seen Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Chow, who taught herself Japanese by watching anime, posted in Japanese: …Read more »
There’s going to be a creative change for future volumes of Boruto. The Naruto spinoff was originally created and supervised by Naruto mangaka Masashi Kishimoto, but had Ukyo Kodachi writing. Now Kishimoto himself will step out of his supervisor job and become the series’ writer. …Read more »
Naoki Urasawa, the celebrated manga-ka behind works like Monster, 20th Century Boys, Yawara, Master Keaton and much more is creating an anime. That’s the word from Urasawa himself, who wrote in the pages of Weekly Big Comic Spirits this week: “I’m making an anime. I …Read more »
The International Comic/Manga Schools Contest 2021 has been announced. This is open to students who live anywhere in the world, and it’s narrowed down into categories: the comic category, the manga category, the bande dessinée category, the webtoon category, the storyboard category, and the illustration …Read more »
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