Fans of the Hunter x Hunter manga have been keeping track of the series’s many hiatuses over the years, but the manga has been off and on for very good reason. Author Yoshihiro Togashi—also known for Yu Yu Hakusho and more—has been suffering from debilitating …Read more »
Kenichi Sonoda is the mangaka behind Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean, and he’s also worked on anime such as Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force – Eternal Story, and Scramble Wars as a character designer. This weekend he’s going to the doujinshi convention Comiket, and one of …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of My Broken Mariko by Waka Hirako is being released in Japanese theaters on September 30. Ahead of that, a minute and a half long trailer has been unveiled. For those familiar with the story, you can see that it flashes back …Read more »
Udon Entertainment recently announced a handful of new licenses, including the Robotics;Notes manga by 5pb. and Keiji Asakawa. The adaptation of the third entry in the Science Adventure series is on the way in the form of three 2-in-1 volumes starting in 2023, and that’s …Read more »
The Twitter account for OTOMO The Complete Works recently held a Q&A session with Katsuhiro Otomo—the creator of the groundbreaking Akira and more—in which a fan asked about the future of his manga work. Otomo had something interesting to say in response to the question, …Read more »
The Town of Pigs is the first manga title of horror icon Hideshi Hino’s work to be published in English in more than ten years. Hino is a top horror mangaka in Japan, and it’s easy to see why: his work is unsettling, moody, and …Read more »
Despite the tragic death of manga master Kentaro Miura, Berserk is back thanks to his best friend and a team of talented artists. Why not celebrate the news with a new Guts figure that’ll only set you back, uh… 1,500 bucks? Yes, that’s the price …Read more »
Last year (almost to the date), Sony’s Funimation Global Group acquired Crunchyroll, and the company continues to grow. It was revealed yesterday that Crunchyroll bought Right Stuf, a popular anime retailer that formed in 1987. It’s supposed to be an extension of Crunchyroll’s eCommerce service. …Read more »
Under Ninja, the anime adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa’s manga of the same name, is set for 2023. That’s the word from Young Magazine. Hanazawa, perhaps best known for the manga I Am A Hero, started writing Under Ninja back in 2018, and it now has …Read more »
If the Naruto cat toys made you want to get more cute Naruto merchandise, then check out these Kokeshi dolls shaped like Naruto and Sasuke. Nippon.com explains the history of kokeshi dolls: “Kokeshi, produced in many hot spring towns of the Tōhoku region, originated in …Read more »
Vampeerz starts with something very serious: a 14-year-old girl named Ichika mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother. But the manga soon turns more lighthearted and slightly suggestive. Family members bug Ichika about getting a boyfriend, and she insists she’ll follow her grandmother’s advice, who …Read more »
With the Japanese release of volume 103, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga has officially hit a major milestone. The series has pushed past 500 million copies published around the world, netting it the Guinness World Record for the “most copies published for the same comic …Read more »
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) has announced it’s giving its second annual Tom Spurgeon Award to translator, writer, and Osamu Tezuka interpreter Frederik L. Schodt. Schodt is the man on the far right in the above manga drawing (from Stone Bridge Press’ The Osamu Tezuka Story …Read more »
Anybody reading the Norio Sakurai manga The Dangers in My Heart? If not, this official cosplay photo session by cosplayer Moe Iori may tempt you into checking it out. The complete collection goes on sale in a photo book on August 8 in Japan, but …Read more »
I have a special place in my heart for Gurazeni, the baseball manga by Yuji Moritaka. Maybe that’s because its main character Bonda plays for a team modeled after the Yakult Swallows, or maybe because he bears a certain resemblance to a friend of this …Read more »
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