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 »
Since One Piece has reached 1,000 chapters, it’s clear that many people love its story and characters. But the One Piece franchise wants to officially know who the most beloved characters are for fans, and they have a website in English where you can vote. …Read more »
Ikuma Saeki has known Sumika since childhood and he’s adored her the whole time. Now they’re adults and married, with Ikuma working as an app developer and Sumika working as a high school nurse. Despite their history, despite all the time dating, and despite the …Read more »
Mushishi fans have a reason to celebrate, because creator Yuki Urushibara will be releasing a new “special short” manga for the franchise. Called “Chikakeru Kage” (translated as “The Shadow That Soars Through Land”), it will be available in the March 25 release of Afternoon magazine …Read more »
Piracy is a major issue manga has to deal with, especially when it comes to digital piracy. But now Weekly Shonen Jump is saying that pirated physical copies of all 23 volumes of Demon Slayer are being sold online, including with some Amazon vendors. The …Read more »
Cities around the world are doing their best to lessen the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but a recent Kyoto manga strategy ended up rubbing some people the wrong way. Restaurants remain a risky place to visit considering the need to remove masks to …Read more »
Miyano is a pretty high school boy who loves to read BL and who goes to an all-boys school. But he’ll tell you up and down he’s not into BL himself. He just likes to read it. He wouldn’t want to do that in real …Read more »
Yasuhiro Fukuda’s Cells at Work! Baby manga is a spinoff of Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! series that first kicked off in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in October of 2019. The manga previously went on hiatus last June, and now it’s set to take a three-month …Read more »
Emuko is a timid twenty-something who loves shojo manga. Reading all that shojo manga as a girl made her believe that someday her “prince” would arrive for her. But not only does she not have her prince, she’s never even had a boyfriend. She’s a …Read more »
Creator Kaori Yuki is currently in the hospital and going through rehabilitation. Reports did not specify why she is in the hospital, but said that she suddenly become very sick at the end of 2020. She came close to death at one point, but has …Read more »
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