Titan Manga is going into next month swinging! The publisher, whose offerings range from Atom: The Beginning to the manga adaptation of BBC’s Sherlock, is preparing to launch a trio of new series in English in September. Get ready for a spinoff of a beloved classic, a new …Read more »
Specialty cafés are a popular thing in Japan, and after the success of the One Piece café in Las Vegas, it’s expanding into Los Angeles! While people have been able to preview the new location, it will officially open on August 2. The opening comes …Read more »
Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze is the latest close-quarters rom-com this anime season. But it’s more than an odd couple situation… our hero Yu is sharing living space with three highly accomplished young ladies! You can watch the anime as it airs and see …Read more »
The late great Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga kicked off 40 years ago, and Japan is celebrating in various ways, shapes and forms, including a soon-to-open 40th-anniversary store. In addition, there’s now a box set collecting all 42 volumes of the manga on the way. …Read more »
This year’s upcoming combined issue 36/37 of Weekly Shonen Jump has a very special collab tied to it in the form of a Pokémon crossover of sorts. The Pokémon Shonen Jump collaboration inspired some of the magazine’s top creators to put together crossover art, including …Read more »
The One Piece Heroines book series is a unique offering. These anthologies zero in on the ladies of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running series. But in most cases, they’re not building on the greater lore of the world. Rather, these slice-of-life tales tell us more about the girls: …Read more »
Over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con, horror manga creator Junji Ito received a major accolade when he was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. VIZ Media, Ito’s main American publisher, shared a subtitled video of the creator sharing his …Read more »
Manga artist Deme Kingyobachi has more than a few manga under her belt. And her most recent, 2023’s My Instructor Won’t Yield, is getting an English-language release next month. Released in Japan as Chiba Kyokan wa Nabikanai (“Instructor Chiba Isn’t Flattered”), the one-shot BL story follows the …Read more »
The Horrors of Noroi Michiru contains 10 horror short stories that are provocative, sinister, sometimes erotic, always fascinating. While some stories are more effective than others, as a whole it’s a very strong horror collection. Michiru likes to twist and contrast things. In the first …Read more »
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is Osamu Nishi’s surprisingly wholesome series about a boy adopted by a high-ranking demon. As he attends demon school, he inadvertently teaches the underworld about the power of friendship. But in a new spinoff series, Iruma descends into a very …Read more »
Gaou, an artist known especially for his light novel illustrations, is in hot water after saying in a livestream that he did some sort of sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl. According to Japanese law, the age of consent is 16. The girl, who was …Read more »
The 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election took place yesterday, and ahead of this some manga creators expressed concerns about language used by political party Sanseito related to anime, manga and games. Sanseito, a new party with the slogan “Japanese First,” listed its policy measures …Read more »
Whether you’re looking forward to Last Samurai Standing already or just heard the hype, there’s no denying it’s pretty big. And if you want to get ahead of the curve, you’re in luck! Tomorrow, Kodansha is releasing the first volume of the manga, based (like the …Read more »
Season 2 of Kaiju No. 8 premiered today… just two days after the original manga came to an end. While we can still enjoy the anime adaptation of Kafka Hibino’s monstrous adventures, it’s sad to know there’s a kaiju-shaped gap in our manga reading list. Fortunately, …Read more »
France and Germany are two countries with many otaku residents, and Crunchyroll is in the process of inking a deal with HarperCollins Publishers, allowing HarperCollins to acquire Crunchyroll’s manga publishing operations in those nations. HarperCollins Japan publishes manga, and the company as a whole wants …Read more »
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