Uramichi hosts a TV program for preschoolers. You know the type — manically happy adults teaching life lessons, dressing in silly outfits, singing along with their live studio audience of children. But Uramichi sings songs like “How Come It Only Rains When You Forget Your …Read more »
The Chainsaw Man manga continues to do well, and its publisher Shueisha announced that the manga’s eleven volumes has more than 9.3 million copies out in circulation. Chainsaw Man began its publication in late 2018 in Weekly Shonen Jump. VIZ Media is simultaneously publishing the …Read more »
Toro Aho’s Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist manga inspired an anime adaptation that’s currently running on Crunchyroll, but the original story has officially come to a close. Aho confirmed as much via Twitter, saying that the installment released on February 22 was the last. Dr. …Read more »
In 2019, Wit Studio released a ten-minute long anime adaptation of the manga The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún. In 2021, they’ve announced they’re doing a feature-length adaptation of the same manga. A trailer has been released. It will be an Original …Read more »
ICv2 interviewed VIZ Media VP-Publishing Sales Kevin Hamric about manga sales and what the book publishing climate is like for VIZ during coronavirus. This is on the heels of ICv2 reporting manga sales going up dramatically during 2020. “VIZ Media saw a 70% increase in …Read more »
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is a part of the Japanese government, and it has revealed who it’s rewarding for the 2020 “Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Fine Arts Recommendation Awards.” The Cabinet Minister Award in the media fine arts category went …Read more »
With the second volume of Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga now in Japanese stores, the Shonen Jump+ series has officially hit a milestone. The editor revealed that the manga has a physical print run of a million copies across both volumes, and that jumps …Read more »
If you consider yourself a particularly huge fan of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga, you might want to look into picking up a volume of the series that fits those super-size tastes. A special volume of the manga is on the way from Kodansha …Read more »
Matthew Emblidge recently got his name in the Guinness World Records for his amazing Cardcaptor Sakura collection, consisting of 4,873 items. It’s a collection that would make many a collector drool, but it didn’t happen overnight. Emblidge spoke to Otaku USA with his words of …Read more »
ICv2 is reporting that manga sales grew in the United States last year. “Manga sales were up around 44% in the book channel in 2020, as measured by NPD BookScan, which tracks sales at book chains, mass merchants, large online retailers, and other retailers,” ICv2 …Read more »
Gege Akutami’s popular Jujutsu Kaisen manga—which runs in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump—has hit another milestone in its successful print run. The latest has it leaping past 36 million copies in print, covering both physical printings and copies sold digitally. That number is looking …Read more »
The BL manga Love Stage!! by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki ran from 2010-2016 and spun off into an anime series that’s available in America through Sentai Filmworks. From there it also got a live-action movie that came out in Japan last year. But the …Read more »
The news outlet Reuters published a piece called “For manga’s striving artists, success lurks online,” showing how sometimes manga first published on the internet will become very successful series. Their main case in point is Kamentotsu, who self-published Koguma’s Cake Shop online and soon had …Read more »
Seven Seas Entertainment has been rolling through a month of announcements, and with February at an end today’s might just be the coolest. Coming to North America this December is a hardcover single volume omnibus collection celebrating the 50th anniversary of Shotaro Ishinomori’s Kamen Rider …Read more »
The nominees for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The award seeks to reward manga that follows Tezuka’s tradition, and this year nine titles are in the running. Without further ado, the nominees are: I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly …Read more »
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