This week the Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided to restrict the sale of a manga titled Imoto Paradise 2 , designating it as “unhealthy” and mandating the manga be placed in bookstores’ adult sections and sold only to customers over 18. It’s the first time the …Read more »
More than anything else in the world, Thorfinn wants revenge against Askeladd, the Viking who killed his father. When Thorfinn was just a boy, he saw the murder right in front of his eyes—how Askeladd used a cheap trick in order to slaughter Thorfinn’s father, …Read more »
Worick has two jobs: having sex with women and hunting down bad guys. As they say, it’s a living. He and his business partner Nic are known as the Handymen, and they’re supposed to take on the nastiest of the nasty people in an already …Read more »
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga-making Shonen Jump series Bakuman is set to get the live-action treatment. A movie is officially on the way , with a premiere planned for 2015. The Bakuman movie will be directed by Hitoshi Ōne, who also adapted Mitsurou Kubo's …Read more »
Popular Japanese lifestyle site MyNavi Woman held a poll recently to determine the 10 most popular manga series involving music among working women aged 22-34. Oddly specific, but the results are fascinating and might just give you a few ideas about what manga series to …Read more »
Excellent news out this week for fans of Kuroko’s Basketball (or as it’s officially awkwardly translated, The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays ). Comic Market, the twice-yearly Tokyo doujinshi (fan comics) event will be holding a special extra event next year focused solely on Kuroko's . …Read more »
Domo. Ninja Slayer is a Japanese light novel series that was definitely written by Bradley Bond and Phillip “Ninj@” Morzez and which was definitely translated into Japanese by Honda Yu and Sugi Leika. It is absolutely not written by Japanese people who are just having …Read more »
Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter manga is notorious for going on hiatus, with the most recent one beginning after the publication of chapter 340 back in March 2012. It looks like Togashi is ready to come back after a couple years, and both the Japanese …Read more »
If you want to know your manga history, you've got to start with Osamu Tezuka. The "god of manga," Tezuka created not only Astro Boy, Blackjack and a host of other iconic characters, he also pioneered the very system by which manga and anime are …Read more »
The Seven Deadly Sins are getting a totally different vibe with this new adventure manga. Meliodas is a boy of unknown age who runs a tavern (where he serves terrible food) and he’s helped by his talking pig companion, Hawk. They live in Britannia, in …Read more »
Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso caused a bit of a stir last week when he was found… buying manga? Yes, Taro Aso. The same Taro Aso who’s a self-confessed anime and manga fan, was caught reading Rozen Maiden in an airport back in 2011, …Read more »
Remember when we posted about a special Dragon Ball manga chapter that focuses on Goku's past and introduces his mother, Gine? Akira Toriyama's bonus Dragon Ball Minus chapter was included as part of the Jaco the Galactic Patrolman manga collection in Japan, and it looks …Read more »
A couple hot bits of Fairy Tail news landed on our desk this week, so let’s not waste any time and get right down to ‘em, shall we? First comes news of a new magazine called Monthly Fairy Tail , announced by creator Hiro Mashima …Read more »
Torrent and download sites have long been in the crosshairs of anime and manga producers and license holders, but one Japanese Naruto and One Piece manga spoiler site this month found itself on the receiving end of a note from the Japanese publisher. Kotaku reports …Read more »
45th anniversary Shonen Jump fighter J-Stars Victory Vs. hits PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in Japan tomorrow, and promotion finally reached overload. The last hurrah of hype landed in front of the Parco department store in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping district with a bang. That's no …Read more »
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