In Hikaru in the Light!, titular character Hikaru is a 14-year-old girl who helps out at her family’s public baths and sings while she mops. Her grandfather wants her to put on little performances at the bath house, but does Hikaru want more? She’s very …Read more »
For more than a decade, Minecraft has been the game of choice for a whole generation of creative gamers. The sandbox game lets gamers build entire worlds on shared servers while investigating the mysteries within. With a film adaptation on the way, the time is just …Read more »
Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari’s hit manga Oshi no Ko just concluded last year, and the next season of the anime is due out in 2026. The whole series has been a hit, but Akasaka is not taking any time off. Last year it was …Read more »
A new month is just around the corner, and with a new month comes new manga! Kodansha has lots of new titles coming your way, including two new first volumes and a standalone paranormal romance. And we’ve got reviews of these three new Kodansha manga …Read more »
Last September brought the news that Kirio Fanclub, the manga by Ponchan Chikyu no Osakana about two high school girls who have a crush on the same classmate, would be getting both anime and live-action adaptations. Today we’ve got some news on the latter. The …Read more »
When I think of the late great Kentaro Miura’s dark fantasy epic Berserk, “cute” is not the first word that pops into mind. But this new Guts figure from the brand Cutie1 might just change that. The figure, which depicts Guts in cute-ified style in …Read more »
SPY x FAMILY is, without a doubt, one of the big anime and manga hits of our time. Tatsuya Endo’s action-packed domestic spy series continues to wow audiences with every new episode. But what was he doing beforehand? Even if you’ve read Tista and Blade of the Moon …Read more »
The second season of the Go! Go! Loser Ranger! anime adaptation is set to debut this April, but in the meantime the manga is taking some time off. According to the official social accounts for all of Negi Haruba’s manga series, including The Quintessential Quintuplets, …Read more »
Using comics as a means of political spoof has a long history in both America and Japan, and Baki Rahen, the latest in the Baki the Grappler franchise, recently went after President Donald Trump and DOGE’s Elon Musk. Keisuke Itagaki, the creator of Baki, also …Read more »
It’s almost time to bid farewell to Shinichi Fukuda’s My Dress-Up Darling manga. Known in Japan as Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru, the series first started in Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine back in January 2018. Now this year’s fifth issue has revealed …Read more »
Duncan Sheik of Spring Awakening is writing the music and lyrics for a musical stage play adaptation of the award-winning manga Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen. The manga was created by Moyoco Anno. Musicals based on manga are nothing new in Japan, and some of them, …Read more »
Titan Manga’s March 2024 slate is full of returning titles, including Alpi the Soul Sender and Burst Angel. Also in the lineup is the first volume of Dopeman: an action thriller set in a world where Japan has legalized narcotics. But it’s not just the drugs we know that …Read more »
Hell Is Dark with No Flowers is a creepy mystery series involving yokai. The main character, Seiji, is a useless NEET who’s about to be homeless, but he has something important going for him: sometimes he sees people as yokai, or monsters. This really scares …Read more »
With the second season of the Blue Orchestra anime set to return this fall, it’s about time for the source material to follow suit. Right on cue, Makoto Akui is getting ready to bring the series back from hiatus after 16 months, with the next …Read more »
Hitozuma no Kuchibiru wa Kan-chuhai no Aji ga Shite, which translates to something like “that married woman’s lips taste like canned chuhai,” is getting the anime treatment. (Chuhai is, of course, the alcoholic beverage from Japan made by combining shochu, carbonated water and some kind …Read more »
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