Some changes in manga production are necessary to keep up with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. One example is Kohei Horikoshi‘s My Hero Academia manga, which is moving to a fully digital system to create upcoming chapters. As a result, the next chapter will be postponed. …Read more »
During last weekend’s Anime Expo Lite online convention, Yen Press held a special panel to celebrate the So I’m a Spider, So What? light novel series, which is about to become a Crunchyroll Original anime. This celebration included a Q&A with writer Okina Baba and …Read more »
Did you know that Ken Akamatsu, the mangaka behind such hits as Love Hina and Negima!, is sometimes asked to advise the Japanese government on manga-related issues? Just recently he was called before the Diet and talked about how manga can succeed in the next …Read more »
A building in Tokyo that once housed multiple mangaka, including Osamu “God of Manga” Tezuka, was taken down in the early 1980s. However, so many people have wanted to see what it looked like that a new museum duplicating it has been created, called the …Read more »
Salmiakki’s Rifle is Beautiful manga—which follows a group of girls as they revive their high school’s light rifle team—has been running since April of 2015, and now the end is in sight. The series officially concluded in Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump digital magazine, closing …Read more »
This news is anything but annoying: comedy manga My Senpai is Annoying is getting an anime adaptation. The anime will be animated at Doga Kobo (Sing “Yesterday” for Me). Shiro Manta’s My Senpai is Annoying has been running on pixiv Comic since 2017. It’s the …Read more »
Kuki, Saitama has spruced up a few of its manhole covers. The city, known best to anime fans as the setting for Lucky Star, has installed four colorful manhole covers based on that series. But wait, you say: wasn’t Lucky Star set in Washimiya? Yes …Read more »
Yohei Yasumura’s fantasy manga The Dungeon of Black Company is about to be turned into an anime. An adaptation was announced on MAG Garden’s MAGCOMI site this week, with staff, cast, and broadcast info to follow later. The Dungeon of Black Company has been running …Read more »
Yowamushi Pedal is set to pedal its way into Japanese theaters August 14 via a new live-action adaptation. The film, entitled simply Yowamushi Pedal, stars Ren Nagase as Sakamichi Onoda, Kentaro Ito as Shunsuke Imaizumi and Kanna Hashimoto as Miki Kanzaki. It’s directed by Koichiro …Read more »
With, a popular Japanese women’s magazine, has more than its usual makeup and clothing articles in its latest issue. This time it also sports a specially designed Sailor Moon marriage registration form. This isn’t the first time there’s been a Sailor Moon marriage registration form, …Read more »
Otaku of a certain age will remember a franchise called Battle Athletes, a manga and anime from the ‘90s in which girls from around the world face off in an Olympic-style athletic competition… in space! Now the ‘90s franchise is back with a new manga …Read more »
Ryoichi Koga’s Ninin ga Shinobuden manga—known as Ninja Nonsense in the west—first launched in MediaWorks’ Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh in July of 2000, making next month the series’ official 20th anniversary. The original series ran until January 2006, but now Koga has announced the launch …Read more »
The 18th volume of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ōoku: The Inner Chambers manga recently hit shelves in Japan, bringing with it an idea of when to expect the series to end. After kicking off the final arc in the pages of Hakusensha’s Melody magazine, the manga will …Read more »
Azu’s Magical Sempai manga—which kicked off in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine in February of 2016 and inspired a TV anime last year—is officially coming to an end. Azu made the announcement herself via Twitter, saying that the series will be complete as of the eighth …Read more »
Ken Wakui’s manga Tokyo Revengers is getting anime-ized. The adaptation of the manga, which launched in Shonen Magazine back in 2017, is set to hit screens in 2021. The news came alongside a short teaser for the series and a new illustration by Wakui, who …Read more »
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