Paru Itagaki’s BEASTARS manga has been running since 2016, and its anime adaptation just kicked off this October. It hasn’t even made its English debut on Netflix yet, but there’s already a stage play on the way in Japan. Aptly titled BEASTARS THE STAGE, the adaptation has performances …Read more »
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart, the manga about an idol singer unit called Fruit Tart, is set to drop onto TV screens before too long. The series was first announced back in May, but now we’ve got an idea of what it’ll look like thanks to a newly-released …Read more »
Overflow, an adult manga by author Kaiduka, is getting the anime treatment. The news, revealed yesterday, comes complete with one of the most, uh, creative pieces of key art we’ve seen in a while. Overflow tells the tale of college student Kazushi and his childhood …Read more »
Makoto Yukimura’s Vinland Saga manga has been running since 2005, and it’s gone through three arcs in the process. It’s currently enjoying an awesome anime adaptation by Attack on Titan‘s Wit Studio, all while the author is hard at work cooking up the source material’s final arc. Does …Read more »
Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi’s Dr. STONE manga has proven to be wildly popular, so it’s no surprise to see it branching off into new territory. A spinoff is about to launch in the pages of home magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, with the debut of Dr. …Read more »
Satoru Yamaguchi and Nami Hidaka’s My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! light novel series is coming to TV in an April 2020 anime adaptation, and the first promo is here to get everyone ready. The trailer also reveals Maaya Uchida as lead …Read more »
Fans of the Hozuki’s Coolheadedness manga will soon get to see how it ends. The manga’s author, Natsumi Eguchi, announced plans to conclude the series—which has been running in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning magazine since 2011—in the next five chapters. Eguchi took the opportunity to share an image along with …Read more »
The 20th anniversary celebration continues for Hiroyuki Takei’s Shaman King series, and one of the big aspects of the milestone party involves an original art exhibition in Tokyo. Original manga art—both black and white and color drawings—and other items will be on display when the event kicks …Read more »
A poster that has the Japanese Red Cross Society teaming up with manga Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! has stirred up debate online. The poster encourages readers to donate blood with a picture of Uzaki-chan saying, “senpai, you’ve never donated blood? Could it be you’re… scared of needles?” The busty image …Read more »
The God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka—creator of Astro Boy, Black Jack, Phoenix and more, and pioneer of the anime art form—passed away back in 1989. Despite that small hangup, there’s a new Osamu Tezuka manga in the works, and it’s all thanks to the artificial intelligence technology of Japanese …Read more »
Back in June, we posted about the impending end to Nio Nakatani’s yuri manga Bloom into You. Well, the time has come at last, with the final chapter having run in the November issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine. The issue hit Japanese stands on September 27, and …Read more »
Michael B. Jordan is no stranger to the anime world. His love for everything from Dragon Ball Z to Naruto is well documented, and he’s bringing his passion for the latter to the fashion world in a new collaboration with Coach. Viz Media is even getting in on the …Read more »
If you’ve seen Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, you no doubt remember the Ohmu, the giant misunderstood insects that play a pivotal role in the story. Now you can get your hands on a hyper-detailed Ohmu of your very own. The figure is …Read more »
The next manga and anime series up for a live-action film is none other than writer Kaiu Shirai and artist Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland, which has been running in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump since August 2016. It previously received an anime adaptation, for which a …Read more »
It’s been a couple months since Japan’s most notorious manga pirate, Romi Hoshino, was arrested in the Philippines. There have been plenty of developments in the story since, and the latest has Hoshino back in Japan as a result of a forcible repatriation flight from Manilla …Read more »
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