The ongoing Blue Exorcist manga is taking a bit of a break so the author can recover. Kazue Kato recently contracted COVID-19, so the artist is putting the series on hold for one month to get better. Blue Exorcist will return to the pages of …Read more »
My Picture Diary is a work by Fujiwara Maki, the wife of the much more famous mangaka Yoshiharu Tsuge. Each page has a short description on one side of what her day was like, and illustrations showcasing the day on the other side. The descriptions …Read more »
Back in August, we reported that Japan’s Top Cosplayer (TM) Enako would be releasing a book (er, MOOK) of cosplay that pays tribute to Keisuke Inagaki’s Baki. Now it’s out, and to remind Enako/Baki fans that it’s on shelves, some extra photos from the book …Read more »
It’s just a month ’til Halloween! With spooky season now underway, we’re already in the mood for monsters, ghouls, ghosts, and all things scary. But it’s early days yet, so we’re easing into the frights. To get started, why not try this short list of …Read more »
Inio Asano, he of Goodnight Punpun, Solanin, Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction and more, is deep into writing his latest manga. It’s called Mujina Into the Deep, and the first collected volume just came out in Japan. To hype up the release, Big Comics has …Read more »
Tadaima, Okaeri (I’m Home, Welcome Home), a boys love manga by Ichi Ichikawa, is getting anime-ified. That’s the word from Ichikawa, who tweeted an illustration to celebrate. The manga is about a stay-at-home husband, his salaryman husband and their two-year-old son. It debuted back in …Read more »
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki’s Conjecture is a manga based on a light novel series, both of which are being published by Yen Press. Naoya Fukamachi, a new college student, has a mysterious past, where something otherworldly seems to have happened at a Bon festival. He’s …Read more »
It’s been a long time coming, but fans of the Hajime no Ippo boxing saga have a new place to read George Morikawa’s source material in English. The first 10 volumes of the manga—covering Rounds 1-87—are now available through Kodansha’s K MANGA service, with new …Read more »
There are plenty of different styles of weddings out there, and BEASTARS creator Paru Itagaki decided to make her nuptials . . . a little beastly.
Kentaro Yabuki’s Ayakashi Triangle manga previously inspired an anime adaptation, and now the source material has come to an end. After three years, the series concluded with chapter 144, which made its way to the Shonen Jump+ service in Japan on September 24. The final …Read more »
The after-school manga club at Magnolia Middle School in Delaware was a popular club bringing in 20 to 80 students who would read manga, talk about it, and check out anime. In order to get in the club, kids had to have written parental permission. …Read more »
The manga series Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse (or Watari-kun no xx ga Hōkaisunzen in the original Japanese) just concluded in the October issue of Monthly Young magazine. However, that doesn’t mean the series is over for its fans. In fact, the same issue …Read more »
Why I Adopted My Husband is a nonfiction manga about a gay couple in Japan choosing adoption because same-sex marriage is not an option there. The couple, Yuta and Kyota, are otaku who fall in love and, after years of being together, want to make …Read more »
Launching in October 2017, the Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis manga serves as a continuation to the Fist of the Blue Sky manga. Hiroyuki Yatsu writes and Hideki Tsuji provides the art, and the latter confirmed that the draft layouts have been completed for …Read more »
After coming to an end on July 28, the final volume of Kenji Taguchi’s manga adaptation of Konoe’s My One-Hit Kill Sister novels is officially out in the wild. The 12th and final collected volume shipped in Japan on Tuesday, bringing the manga version of …Read more »
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