Talentless Nana is headed to screens. The manga by Looseboy and Iori Furuya, known as Muno no Nana in Japanese, is about a girl named Nana who studies at an academy where the main subject is fighting against the enemies of humankind. Not a lot …Read more »
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has caused most publishers and distributors to seriously retool their schedules, and Yen Press is no different. The publisher announced plans to reschedule releases for manga and light novels that were originally solicited with on-sale dates between May and August. Volumes …Read more »
While we didn’t get to see much of it in English at the time, Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. franchise had some great manga in Japan. One of the series was Super Mario-kun, a manga by Yukio Sawada that kicked off in CoroCoro Comic back in …Read more »
Granblue Fantasy has come a long way since its launch as a web and smartphone game back in 2014. It’s been downloaded over 25 million times, been adapted into two seasons of anime, and is even getting a console game this year. The game also …Read more »
The series may be just as popular as ever, but it’s almost time for the KONOSUBA light novels to come to a close. As revealed via the official Twitter account, Natsume Akatsuki’s series is set to end with the next installment—volume 17—which is scheduled to …Read more »
Last week Comiket, the world’s biggest gathering of otakudom, was canceled to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus. But while Comic Market 98 won’t officially take place, thousands of fans will be getting their hands on its catalog. The catalog was already scheduled for printing …Read more »
Y’all know Doraemon, right? The blue robot cat from the future beloved by generations of Japanese kids? Softbank, one of Japan’s leading cell phone carriers, has recruited Doraemon as part of its 5G rollout—and they’ve thought pretty far outside the box in terms of casting. …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, the latest (and last) films in the live-action Kenshinverse are on the way. The two films are set to hit Japanese theaters on July 3 and August 7. Now we’ve got a new poster for the …Read more »
Masaaki Yuasa and Science SARU’s excellent Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! anime adaptation has officially come to a close, but thanks to Dark Horse we have more to look forward to in the future. The publisher announced the license of the manga by Sumito Oowara, …Read more »
One story ends and another begins! Wednesday marked the final installment of Nakaba Suzuki’s The Seven Deadly Sins manga, but it came along with some new announcements for the series. Chief among them is a new TV anime called The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger’s Judgment, …Read more »
Well, that didn’t last quite as long as Naruto. Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru, the manga from Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto and Akira Okubo, has come to an end in the pages of Shonen Jump this week. The manga launched in April 2019. When …Read more »
The Thousand-Year-Blood War anime wasn’t the only project revealed for Bleach and its author, Tite Kubo. There’s also his one-shot spinoff, Burn the Witch, which is officially getting an anime film adaptation sometime this year. Studio Colorido (Penguin Highway, Pokémon: Twilight Wings) is handling animation …Read more »
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final and The Beginning are mere months away from slashing their way into Japanese theaters. Now we’ve learned who’s set to play Tomoe Yukishiro in the films: Kasumi Arimura. Arimura is best known among manga and anime fans for her roles in …Read more »
It’s always fun to see how a well-known manga might be adapted into another genre. Shoujo manga artist Yoko Maki—who worked on series like Romantica Clock, Aishiteiru Ze Baby, and more before retiring in 2019—decided to apply a distinctly shoujo aesthetic to the characters and …Read more »
It was back in August of 2018 that The Seven Deadly Sins manga author Nakaba Suzuki said the series had about a year left to go until its conclusion. While it’s been more than a year since then, that prediction ended up being pretty on …Read more »
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