If you’ve been reading OUSA long enough, you know we’re pretty skeptical about the quality of live-action adaptations. There are some manga and anime, though, that lend themselves better to these kinds of films than others—and the zombie genre has produced some good results in …Read more »
Angelinos have all the luck. Seriously, with all the great Japan-related content it gets, Los Angeles may the best place in the world to live if you’re a Japanophile (er, except Japan, that is). The latest get for LA is This is MANGA – The …Read more »
Tokyo is known for its variety of theme hotels, from hostels that reuse the pieces of an old sleeper train to ultra-kawaii Airbnbs run by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s talent agency to rooms occupied by the Big G. The latest addition to the scene is the …Read more »
Last May, Golosseum manga author Yasushi Baba launched a new manga called The Ride-On King, which centers on Aleksandr Pruchinov, who rules as the president for life of the violent country of Prugia. Aleksandr—who looks an awful lot like he’s modeled directly off Vladimir Putin’s …Read more »
Tokyo Ghoul creator Sui Ishida is teasing something from an upcoming project, and what it will ultimately be is anyone’s guess. For now we have a new character design to go on, which Ishida revealed in the form of a New Year’s greeting. The character …Read more »
To say that Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga is successful is an understatement, and the series’ accomplishments have been outlined further in NPD BookScan’s latest Top 20 adult graphic novels list. The December rankings have My Hero Academia at #1… as well as 3, …Read more »
When you’re responsible for a manga called Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san, AKA Teasing Master Takagi-san, your audience comes to expect some teasing of your own. That’s exactly what manga author Soichiro Yamamoto delivered in a recent tweet, which points readers toward an upcoming issue of …Read more »
There are currently over 200 million registered players of Epic Games’ insanely popular battle royale game Fortnite. Even if you’ve never touched it yourself, your daily life has, in some way, been invaded by an aspect of its influence. Now that influence has spread to the …Read more »
Well, it’s time to kick off the new year with a hearty congrats to Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama. Many manga authors are very private regarding their personal lives, but Isayama still keeps up with his own personal blog on Livedoor. His latest update …Read more »
Manga Kyochuu Rettou, also known as The Island of Giant Insects, will be getting the anime treatment, it was announced today. The manga, written by Yasutaka Fujimi and illustrated by REDICE, is about a group who get stranded on an island populated by—you guessed it—giant …Read more »
Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine has a special one-shot manga on the way for Dragon Quest XI in 2019, and they got a pretty big name to handle illustration duties. The artist in question is none other than Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima, who will be drawing a …Read more »
Have you been dying to find out what project Naruto author Masashi Kishimoto plans to tackle next? This weekend’s Jump Festa ’19 event brought some interesting news for the creator, who announced a new sci-fi manga called Samurai 8. Kishimoto won’t be handling this one …Read more »
Pop quiz: what’s something that’s normally pretty awful, but sometimes surprisingly good? Live-action manga and anime adaptations, that’s what. Japanese site Ranking! (can you guess what they specialize in?) recently asked 7,880 readers to list the live-action films based on manga or anime they found …Read more »
Ex-Arm, the sci-fi manga series by writer HiRock and illustrator Shinya Komi, is getting the anime treatment. The manga, which is currently on its 12th collected volume, is published by Shueisha, and has been running since 2015. It’s about a high school student named Akira …Read more »
Tetsuo!—Er, Tokyo! Tokyo Reborn, an upcoming NHK special about how Tokyo is changing in the lead-up to the 2020 Olympics, is getting some help from the creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo. The man behind that legendary manga and anime (set in the fictional Neo-Tokyo of …Read more »
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