Reiji Miyajima’s Kanojo, Okarishimasu manga, AKA Rent-A-Girlfriend, is officially getting an anime adaptation. The comedy centers on a young college student who gets mixed up in romance after finding a service that lets you rent people out to act as family members, friends, and significant others, and the …Read more »
A live-action film adaptation of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland manga was announced back in September, and now the feature has a release window. As revealed during Toho’s Conference on December 12, the movie is officially set to open in Japan in December of 2020. …Read more »
It’s raining cats and dogs! Or will be, at least, once this newly-announced anime comes out. It’s based on a series of short manga tales by Hidekichi Matsumoto called Inu to Neko Docchi mo Katteru to Mainichi Tanoshii. That’s something like If You Own a Dog and …Read more »
Ōsama Ranking, a web manga about a “good-for-nothing” prince, is getting the anime treatment. The manga, by Sosuke Toka, centers around a prince who is both deaf and weak, unable to wield even a children’s sword, who meets a literal shadow named Kage. The story develops …Read more »
You may have seen our previous posts about the kabuki play that aims to adapt Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga and anime film. Last time we updated on it we had some costumed photos, and now a rehearsal video is here to show how …Read more »
Paru Itagaki’s BEASTARS manga has been running since 2016, and its anime adaptation just kicked off this October. It hasn’t even made its English debut on Netflix yet, but there’s already a stage play on the way in Japan. Aptly titled BEASTARS THE STAGE, the adaptation has performances …Read more »
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart, the manga about an idol singer unit called Fruit Tart, is set to drop onto TV screens before too long. The series was first announced back in May, but now we’ve got an idea of what it’ll look like thanks to a newly-released …Read more »
Makoto Yukimura’s Vinland Saga manga has been running since 2005, and it’s gone through three arcs in the process. It’s currently enjoying an awesome anime adaptation by Attack on Titan‘s Wit Studio, all while the author is hard at work cooking up the source material’s final arc. Does …Read more »
© Fuyumi Soryo / Kodansha Ltd. There comes a time in every shojo and josei fan’s life when Fuyumi Soryo’s classic series Mars drifts into view. This melodramatic soap opera is a treasure that includes a little something for just about every fan, with memorable characters that …Read more »
Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger is an interesting metafictional take on traditional video-game-to-manga adaptations. While it could very easily cross over into the embarrassing world of self-insert wish fulfillment scenarios, instead it subverts expectations and turns into something much more exciting. Protagonist Shogo works at Square …Read more »
Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi’s Dr. STONE manga has proven to be wildly popular, so it’s no surprise to see it branching off into new territory. A spinoff is about to launch in the pages of home magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, with the debut of Dr. …Read more »
Satoru Yamaguchi and Nami Hidaka’s My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! light novel series is coming to TV in an April 2020 anime adaptation, and the first promo is here to get everyone ready. The trailer also reveals Maaya Uchida as lead …Read more »
Everyone’s been eager for the third season of the anime that adapts Wataru Watari’s romantic comedy light novel series My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected, which is in production now. While we wait for that, though, the original series is about to come …Read more »
There’s a girl on the cover. She wears a sailor suit uniform with a skirt hiked almost, but not quite, high enough to flash panties. Her almost featureless face wears an expression that’s vaguely seductive but mostly blank. She cradles an elaborate weapon bigger than …Read more »
Fans of the Hozuki’s Coolheadedness manga will soon get to see how it ends. The manga’s author, Natsumi Eguchi, announced plans to conclude the series—which has been running in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning magazine since 2011—in the next five chapters. Eguchi took the opportunity to share an image along with …Read more »
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