Today’s mysterious news: the manga The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious is getting an anime adaptation. The series, based on the manga by Wakame Konbu, will hit screens this July. It’ll be animated by SILVER LINK and BLADE. Cast: Saori Hayami as Yuuri Rie Takahashi as …Read more »
The manga Yuri Is My Job! (Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu! in the original Japanese) by Miman is getting an anime adaptation! We don’t know yet when it will debut, but a one-minute trailer has dropped. Yui Ogura plays Hime Shirasagi and Sumire Uesaka …Read more »
Rent-A-Girlfriend, the manga-turned-anime from Reiji Miyajima, is now set to get a live-action TV adaptation. The show will premiere in July, the same month as the second season of the anime. That’s a lot of Rent-A-Girlfriend! Kazuya Kinoshita will be played by Ryusei Onishi, a …Read more »
Kodansha’s 46th annual Manga Awards have revealed this year’s winners! Let’s see if your favorites won. The Award for Best Shonen Manga goes to That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Taiki Kawakami, beating out A Couple of Cuckoos, Shangri-La Frontier, and Frieren: …Read more »
Japan has a declining marriage and birthrate, and last month the Japanese Cabinet Office released a document called “Research Document on Love.” It put forward the idea that the Japanese government offer education to help shy people find romance, and one of its ideas is …Read more »
Mangaka Naoki Urasawa is taking home the 20th Erlangen International Comic Salon’s Max und Moritz Lifetime Achievement Award. Comic Salon explained: “The Max und Moritz Award is the most important award for graphic literature in the German-speaking area. It is awarded biannually in the course …Read more »
It’s been around 16 years since the main Death Note manga ended, but it doesn’t exactly seem like it. Maybe that’s because of the indelible mark it left behind. Love it or hate it, Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba’s series remains popular, thanks in no …Read more »
Kiseki Himura’s Tawawa on Monday has proven both popular and the center of some controversy lately. In the case of the latter, the series caught some heat when the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) called a full-page …Read more »
Fans of Sho Harusono’s Sasaki and Miyano manga are about to be treated to more thanks to Yen Press. The publisher recently announced the acquisition of Harusono’s spinoff series, Hirano and Kagiura, with the first volume set to launch this October. Hirano and Kagiura has …Read more »
Anime adaptations of manga are never exactly the same, and Requiem of the Rose King mangaka Aya Kanno wants people to know that. On Twitter she remarked, “There are quite a lot of events that the anime had to cut for time, so if you’re …Read more »
I Want to Be a Wall opens with a very unusual marriage. The bride, Yuriko, is asexual and only interested in relationships if she reads about them in fictional BL stories. The groom, Gakurouta, is gay and is in love with his heterosexual childhood friend. …Read more »
With the Dr. STONE manga by Boichi and Riichirou Inagaki over and the anime preparing to continue, there’s room for more science in other aspects of entertainment. The next area Senku plans to conquer is the stage, and fans in Japan will be able to …Read more »
The 2017 Fullmetal Alchemist film is getting not one but two sequels this year. The first of two films, Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Chapter – The Avenger Scar, opens in Japan on May 20, and now we’ve got a new preview video hyping the battle with …Read more »
As revealed in the June issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine, Marimo Ragawa’s Those Snow White Notes manga is getting ready to end. According to the announcement, there are just three chapters left, so barring any breaks the manga is mostly likely to end this …Read more »
The fourteenth volume of the Record of Ragnarok manga came out in Japan in March, and on May 18, it will be available in English on the digital manga app Mangamo. Mangamo has also released the previous thirteen volumes. VIZ Media, which is releasing Record …Read more »
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