Seven Seas Entertainment came through with a handful of new license announcements yesterday, one of which was a major doozy for some folks. Amongst the slew of reveals was the license of Hitoshi Ashinano’s critically-acclaimed manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, which immediately had Twitter followers poppin’ …Read more »
Came the Mirror & Other Tales is a short story collection by Rumiko Takahashi that mostly offers up supernatural stories, but also includes some autobiographical work. In the first and titular story, “Came the Mirror,” characters get strange mirrors on their hands that can suck …Read more »
Yurika Mito’s childhood friend Souta Shishihara isn’t just cute. He’s ridiculously cute. He likes to sew, bake cookies, and cook, and his hair always looks nice. His ears are studded with earrings, and he has a soft, sweet face. He is the essence of a …Read more »
Last night the Japan Society of New York City gave the livestream “Japanese Pop Culture: Connecting the World through Manga and Anime.” It was moderated by Bill Tsutsui, writer of Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization, and starred manga creator and Content Production Group Manager at …Read more »
Yesterday, Valentine’s Day, VIZ Media made a bunch of new licensing announcements to make the hearts of otaku soar. They started with this tweet: Hi! ☀️ Ready for announcements? — VIZ (@VIZMedia) February 14, 2022 Then they gave a whole laundry list of manga and …Read more »
Japanese ice skater Yuzuru Hanyu might not be taking home the gold from the 2022 Olympics to sit with his previous gold medals, but his fans are as excited about him as ever. Sui Ishida, the creator of Tokyo Ghoul and Choujin X, shared some …Read more »
The “Merc with a Mouth” won’t rest until he’s conquered every medium, it seems. Including shonen manga. In 2020, Deadpool: Samurai brought Wade Wilson’s antics to Japan — both literally and in the pages of the manga itself. Tony Stark tasks DP with heading up the Samurai Squad: Japan’s …Read more »
Kaiju No. 8 takes a popular form of Japanese entertainment — the kaiju, a type of giant monster — and instead of recycling the same type of story, gives it an entertaining, refreshing twist. Yes, the manga opens with a typical kaiju scene as a …Read more »
The Academy Awards may have snubbed anime again, but there’s still the Magademy Awards. Never heard of the Magademy Awards? That’s because it’s brand-new this year, and it gives a unique twist: the winners are all fictional characters from manga. The idea came from BookLive, …Read more »
It’s time to get your nostalgia on! The Eternal Shojo Café has debuted in Shibuya, Tokyo to highlight five shojo series from the 90s and early 2000s. The anime series from the 90s are Akazukin Chacha, Kodomo no Omocha (a.k.a Kodocha), Nurse Angel Ririka SOS …Read more »
Kodansha just published the 48th volume of Yuki Suetsugu’s Chihayafuru manga, and the next one will be its last. The series—which originally launched in the pages of Kodansha’s Be Love magazine back in 2007—is officially set to come to an end with volume 49. In …Read more »
If you’re over 21 and you like both sake and the artwork of Yoshitaka Amano, then there are some cool offers available to you. Introducing the Bleed Them Dry Limited Edition Collector Sets, which supply both sake and exclusives from Amano. Amano has done a …Read more »
Digital manga publisher Comikey has some new titles on the way this month, with four new manga series coming to the simulpub lineup. Once weekly chapters are caught up to the Japanese release, all four manga will have their chapters published simultaneously alongside Japan, and …Read more »
We recently posted about the impending end of Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force manga, and now we know exactly when to expect the final chapter. In January, the author said he had submitted said chapter, so it was only a matter of time, and it turns …Read more »
We at Otaku USA tend not to cover American celebrity news, but sometimes American celebrities indulge in their own otaku interests. Kanye West (who now goes by Ye) and Kim Kardashian are in the news during their divorce for (among other reasons) an Instragram post …Read more »
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