Dealing with COVID has had a lot more people at home watching anime, but it’s also led to a lot more piracy of anime. The Content Overseas Distribution Association, a watchdog located in Tokyo, crunched numbers on how online piracy has affected video, books, video …Read more »
Loving Yamada at Lv999!, which has a brand-new anime adaptation titled My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999, opens with Akane being dumped by her boyfriend. She’s spent a ton of time gaming lately because he’s a gamer, only to find that couldn’t cement her …Read more »
Plus-sized Misadventures in Love! is a charming, original manga that rises above the usual formulas, and not just because the heroine looks different. At the beginning, the main character, Yumeko, is miserable. But after a serious bump to her head, everything changes. In real life, …Read more »
Yoko Kamio’s Boys Over Flowers manga, AKA Hana Yori Dango, just received some impressive accolades. The Guinness World Records has officially recognized the series—which ran in Shueisha’s Margaret manga magazine from October 1992 to January 2004 for a total of 37 collected volumes—under the distinction …Read more »
The ending plans have been confirmed for the Naruto: Konoha’s Story spinoff manga, which will officially come to a close with its second volume. Shueisha listed two collected volumes for Natsuo Sai’s series—based on the Naruto: Konoha’s Story—The Steam Ninja Scrolls novel by Sho Hinata—with …Read more »
Kaoru Mori, the mangaka behind Emma, A Bride’s Story, Shirley, and the currently running Shirley Madison manga, has been dealing with a number of health issues. Because of this, the next chapter of Shirley Madison will be published in Japan with some pages just consisting …Read more »
Boy, it seems to be the week for everyone to launch new manga. Just today we’ve reported on new titles from the authors of both Beezlebub and Aharen-san wa Hakarenai. Now comes another: Outsider Paradise, a new manga from Rin Suzukawa, the creator of Asobi …Read more »
Asato Mizu, the manga author behind the Aharen-san wa Hakarenai series, has a new manga in the works. According to this year’s ninth issue of Futabasha’s Manga Action magazine, the new series will launch in its pages with more details to be revealed in the …Read more »
Following up on a tease last month, Beelzebub manga author Ryuhei Tamura officially has a new series out, and now we know more about what it is. The series is titled COSMOS, and it made its debut in the May issue of Shogakukan’s Sunday GX …Read more »
In a perfect world, we’d all be reading more manga. Especially since simulpubs are a thing now, meaning we don’t have to rely on the manga section at the local bookstore to decide what to read. At the same time, lots of popular titles are …Read more »
Initial D creator Shuuichi Shigeno previously had to put his sequel manga MF Ghost on hiatus due to his poor health back in November, and it just came back to the pages of Weekly Young Magazine on February 20. The return isn’t long-lasting, though, because …Read more »
Kitaro mixes horror, weirdness and humor in a unique formula. The main character, Kitaro, is a strange little boy whose father lives in his eye socket . . . in fact, his father is an eye with a tiny body, arms and legs underneath. And …Read more »
It was a short and sweet run, but the Ichigoki’s Under Control!! manga has officially come to an end. Seiji Hayashi’s series published its final chapter in the pages of this year’s 20th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and June 2 will mark …Read more »
Hiroyuki’s Girlfriend, Girlfriend manga has been running in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine since March 2020, and now it’s getting ready to come to an end. As revealed in this year’s 19th issue of the magazine, the series has just four chapters remaining. Before it closes …Read more »
The slice of life romance manga Kimi ni Todoke will be the subject of a exhibition in Tokyo and Osaka featuring over 250 pieces of artwork this fall. The exhibition is entitled Kimi no Todoke: The Shape of Love, and it’ll be held from September …Read more »
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