Paru Itagaki’s BEASTARS manga is celebrating a big milestone with the announcement that it currently has printed (physically) and sold (digitally) more than 7.5 million copies. The story ended in the pages of Weekly Shonen Champion over a year ago, but the Netflix anime adaptation …Read more »
Yoshiharu Tsuge has been very influential in the world of manga, but very little of his work has been translated into English. We have Drawn & Quarterly to thank for licensing The Swamp, and its new followup, Red Flowers. Red Flowers is a short story …Read more »
Melody of Iron is a solid short story collection by Osamu Tezuka, the “god of manga.” It contains three stories, with the first and titular story being the longest. In the afterword Tezuka explained that these stories were written during difficult times for him, and …Read more »
The Japanese government has unveiled the names of 21 people who will receive this year’s Person of Cultural Merit honor, and two of them are beloved by otaku. First up is none other than Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. Tomino got his start working under Osamu …Read more »
Aoi Nemo seems to have it all. He’s exceptionally rich through his family, set to inherit a pharmaceutical empire, and is a doctor to boot. He’s on the covers of magazines and is treated like a celebrity. He goes to swank parties full of bigwigs. …Read more »
Hellsing isn’t a new manga in America, but more recently Dark Horse has come out with some pretty impressive formats for the series. Hellsing: Deluxe Edition contains the whole vampiric series in three large, handsome hardcovers with blood-red binding. The third volume also has its …Read more »
Sanpei Shirato and Tetsuji Okamoto were brothers as well as professional manga creators, and they passed away within days of each other. Shirato (a pen name for Noboru Okamoto) died first, on October 8, from aspiration pneumonia. On October 12, Okamoto died from interstitial pneumonia. …Read more »
Love it or hate it, you gotta admit there’s nothing quite like Yoshi Sawai’s Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo manga. The series ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from February 2001 to November 2005, followed by a sequel series—Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo—from December 2005 to July 2007. Now …Read more »
Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers manga follows the life-or-death time traveling exploits of high school delinquents, but even they haven’t been depicted stealing manga to the best of our knowledge. Unfortunately, one 48-year-old man in Japan allegedly took it upon himself to do just that, and …Read more »
A 66-year-old Japanese man might be in hot water for selling mask covers with images of characters from Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen. A police officer stumbled across the case while doing cyber patrol, and then looked further into the situation. Police believe that the …Read more »
It’s been six long years since we got any new Nichijou manga chapters, but that’s about to change. Series creator Keiichi Arawi announced plans for a return, lining the series up for a comeback in the pages of Monthly Shonen Ace magazine on October 26. …Read more »
The 59-foot tall Gundam statue in Yokohama is offering something special on November 3. This is the Culture Day holiday in Japan, and Gundam Factory Yokohama is using the opportunity to teach people more about sustainability. The Gundam franchise is owned by Bandai Namco Group, …Read more »
Masami Kurumada, creator of the classic Saint Seiya manga, is teasing something new. As revealed in the December issue of Akita Shoten’s Champion RED magazine, Kurumada has a “shocking new project” on the way, and it’s set to debut in the magazine’s February 2022 issue. …Read more »
The Harem Marriage manga is all about polygamous married life, and the next stop for the series is a live-action adaptation. Japan’s ABC television channel announced plans to bring Non’s manga to the small screen in a new series that’s currently set to kick off …Read more »
We all know that Demon Slayer is doing crazy well, with the manga and its anime adaptation getting fans all over the world. But how much money has it made? The Japanese business news outlet Toyo Keizai crunched some numbers on Demon Slayer’s merchandise, and …Read more »
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