Pulling from over 16,000 locations—including online retailers, physical chains like Barnes & Noble, and independent shops—the BookScan rankings are here to showcase the U.S. charts for January 2019. Manga once again dominates the Top 20 list of adult graphic novels, with Dragon Ball Super coming …Read more »
In 2017, we reported that Park Jung-hyun, the former editor of Attack on Titan, had been arrested in connection with the death of his wife. At the opening day of his trial this week, the former editor pleaded innocent, stating “I did not kill my …Read more »
Young debuts are far from unheard of in the manga industry, but some cases really push the boundaries and go beyond simply being impressive. Case in point, the latest debut author in shoujo manga magazine Margaret is named Nana Hoshiki, who is just 13 years …Read more »
Manga to Return from Hiatus” width=”1000″ height=”400″ />The master is back. Naoki Urasawa, the pen behind works like 20th Century Boys and Monster, has been taking a break from his latest manga, Asadora!, since January, after that manga’s first arc wrapped up. Now it’s been …Read more »
Two of the world’s most famous giant robot teams, those of mega-franchises Mazinger Z and Transformers, are set to face off in an upcoming manga. Now we’ve learned the cover of that manga was drawn by none other than the legendary Go Nagai, the creator …Read more »
Yuri Fair 2019 is an exhibition celebrating love between women, and it’s coming to five cities throughout Japan this March. The exhibit—which first began in 2016 and has Village Vanguard on board as a sponsor—will feature around 30 artists celebrating the yuri theme, from books …Read more »
Ken Koyama’s Seiri-chan manga, AKA Little Miss P, is a series about an anthropomorphized period. It started its life on the Omocoro website as Tsukiichi! Seiri-chan, with a serialization following in Monthly Comic Beam back in November. Now, the next step for the series is …Read more »
Ahead of his planned appearance at this year’s Crunchyroll Expo, horror manga master Junji Ito will be making his first North American appearance at another big event. Viz Media announced plans to bring Junji Ito to this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), which will …Read more »
The Irregular at Magic High School: Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, a light novel spinoff of the original Irregular at Magic High School, will be adapted into a manga. The light novels, which are written by Irregular creator Tsutomu Sato, will be adapted by manga-ka …Read more »
Just as the legions of One Piece fans have grown up over the years, so have its characters, thanks in no small part to the way Eiichiro Oda’s illustrations have advanced. Similarly, Oda isn’t too shy about answering some of his fans’ cheekier questions in …Read more »
If you were wondering whether or not the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations series would be as long as Naruto, well, not if the authors behind the manga have anything to say about it. Shueisha’s Manga Plus website posted an interview with Mikio Ikemoto, who handles …Read more »
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, a fish-out-of-water story about a boy studying at a school for demons, is getting an anime adaptation. The news was announced on the cover of this week’s Weekly Shonen Champion magazine. That same issue announced the upcoming BEASTARS anime adaptation. Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, which …Read more »
Lost no more. Sci-fi manga Astra Lost in Space has just found a home on television as an anime series. The series, based on the manga by Kenta Shinohara (known in Japanese as Kanata no Astra), will be directed by Masaomi Ando at studio Lerche. …Read more »
A beastly bit of good news for fans of the manga BEASTARS: it’s getting an anime adaptation. The adaptation will be produced by CG-centric studio Orange, best known for their anime version of Land of the Lustrous. The news comes via this week’s issue of …Read more »
To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts, AKA Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e, is a manga by writing duo MAYBE that’s been running in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine since July 2014. Vertical publishes the series in North America, and the next step is an anime adaptation by …Read more »
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