It’s time for a very short break for the My Hero Academia manga. The official Shonen Jump Twitter account announced that the series will be taking a week off due to the health of author Kohei Horikoshi. The series is off in the issue that …Read more »
Publisher Shueisha has referred to 2021 as “My Hero Academia Year,” and it’s no wonder. The fifth season just debuted, its third movie will come out in a few months, it’s getting its own art exhibit, and now we’ve learned that it has more than …Read more »
Publisher Shogakukan became aware of someone posting dialogue from their manga on a “spoiler website.” Allegedly this person posted almost all the text from sixty-three manga chapters of Kengan Omega by Yabako Sandrovich without permission. Shogakukan took this to court, wanting to figure out who …Read more »
It was recently announced that Samurai: Deadpool, which can be read on the Shonen Jump+ app, is Marvel’s bestselling comic this year. The series is written and illustrated by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi and takes place in feudal Japan. Deadpool has met up with …Read more »
Japan’s Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (a.k.a. Research institute of publication science) has crunched the numbers and says that print and digital sales of manga in 2020 were phenomenal. Manga brought in more than 600 billion yen (a little under 5.5 billion dollars) during the year, breaking …Read more »
Jujutsu Kaisen has been keeping up its amazing sales, and publisher Shueisha revealed that there are more than 40 million copies of the manga out in circulation. This counts both physical editions and ebooks. At the beginning of last October, there were eight and a …Read more »
The bus stop Mekki, located in Toyama, the capital of Toyama Prefecture, has unwittingly gotten itself involved with Demon Slayer tourism. It’s for a reason non-Japanese speakers wouldn’t guess, but its characters are the reverse of how to write “Kimetsu” in Japanese. According to Japan’s …Read more »
Amazingly, Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga is officially complete and is ready to hit the next issue of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in Japan on April 9. Naturally, Kodansha wants to protect its property by going up against pirated copies, and the publisher has issued …Read more »
Satoshi Wagahara, the creator of The Devil is a Part-Timer!, began a new light novel series last September. Titled Dracula Yakin! (translated as Night-Shift Dracula), it’s about a vampire working the night shift at a convenience store. Night-Shift Dracula is getting a manga adaptation, thanks …Read more »
Storm Fairy is a manga collection of three stories by Osamu Tezuka, all originally published throughout the 1950s. It’s one of his lesser-known works, but is important in manga history, and it’s very valuable that it’s been translated. In the titular story, a fairy who …Read more »
Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama is originally from Hita City, Oita Prefecture, and the city likes to show its love for his creations. After unveiling statues of Eren, Mikasa and Armin near their dam, the city has opened an Attack on Titan museum. The …Read more »
Daisuke Ashihara has been dealing with health issues, and it’s getting in the way of the release schedule for World Trigger. The manga’s latest chapter was missing in the March issue of Jump SQ, and it’ll also be missing in the May issue. We’ve been …Read more »
Tamosan joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan as a child after her mother converted. But after Tamosan grew up and had a child of her own, she learned that he had a very rare illness and would die without a blood transfusion. Other Witnesses told …Read more »
As part of the fight against COVID-19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan wants to make sure that medium- and small-sized Japanese companies outside of the country are taking preventative measures. To do this, they’re tapping into popular manga series Golgo 13. They’re using …Read more »
Seven Seas is revising and republishing Classroom of the Elite vol. 7, Mushoku Tensei vol. 1, Mushoku Tensei vol. 2 and I’m in Love with the Villainess vol. 1 after receiving criticism for changing or cutting scenes. For example, in Mushoku Tensei vol. 1, there’s …Read more »
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