Over at Crunchyroll, Daryl Harding and Kaho Shibuya interviewed GANTZ creator Hiroya Oku about adaptations of his work, Hollywood, and what he thinks about overseas fans. Asked about the possibility of a GANTZ reboot, Oku said, “I wonder if a reboot anime is possible for …Read more »
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon—the anime followup to Rumiko Takahashi’s beloved Inuyasha—is getting a manga adaptation of its own, and a well-known author is behind it. Serialization kicks off in the November 2021 issue of Shogakukan’s Shonen Sunday S magazine, which hits shelves in Japan on September …Read more »
GQ recently interviewed horror master Junji Ito about his newly released manga, Sensor. In it, Ito says he didn’t know how he was going to end the manga while he was working on it. “When I started Sensor I did not have a specific ending …Read more »
The Rent-A-Girlfriend manga hit a big milestone in this year’s 38th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. The issue hit shelves in Japan this week, bringing with it the 200th chapter of Reiji Miyajima’s romantic comedy series, and a character popularity poll has been launched …Read more »
The Golgo 13 manga series, which began publication in 1968 and is still going, is receiving a manga spinoff on Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app. The manga series Dangerous Jii-san is also getting a spinoff on the app. The Golgo spinoff manga will be called Golgo …Read more »
If anyone can stay safely away from isekai stories, you’d think it would be Lupin III. That’s not the case, though, thanks to a new spinoff manga that was revealed in this year’s ninth issue of Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Retsu magazine. Lupin III: Neighbor …Read more »
It seems we’ve been seeing quite a few notable manga come to an end recently, and the latest is Tozen Ujiie’s Seitokai Yakuindomo. The series is getting ready to close out an impressive run when the final chapter debuts in Weekly Shonen Magazine this November. …Read more »
The long run of Bow Ditama’s Kiss x Sis manga is about to come to an end. The creator of the romantic comedy harem series recently announced that there are just two chapters left, and while there’s currently no end date, we should expect it …Read more »
There’s a whole subgenre of manga that does what most of human neuroscience says is impossible. That is, comics about music! That shouldn’t work! Comics don’t have sound! And as selling manga with a recorded soundtrack would be cost-prohibitive, the best manga can do is …Read more »
Rangetsu is out for revenge. She’s an ajin, a “beastlike” being. There are more humans than ajin in the world, and the humans restrict the lives of ajin and keep them second-class citizens. For instance, young ajin females are forced to become prostitutes, and ajin …Read more »
The Slam Dunk manga ran thirty-one volumes from 1990 to 1996 and has sold more than 100 million copies. This led to anime adaptations, and the Slam Dunk franchise is getting a new movie written and directed by original creator Takehiko Inoue. This will be …Read more »
Back in the late 50s, young female textile workers in Osaka became a volleyball team so good that they had a winning streak of 258 games and took the gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The foreign press gave them the pejorative title “Witches of …Read more »
It’s hard to believe that Berserk author Kentaro Miura passed away back in May, as it still seems like just yesterday that we first heard the news. His incredible work lives on, as does the inspiration it has sown across the world, and now a …Read more »
The new Bleach one-shot is out in America and Japan, and it’s free to read digitally here on VIZ’s website! The main series officially concluded back in 2016, but 2021 marks twenty years since the manga made its debut. As a result, creator Tite Kubo …Read more »
It’s generally taken publisher Kadokawa six months to a year to get its books published in English, but now it’s looking at digital simultaneous publishing to get things moving faster. At the weekend’s Crunchyroll Expo panel, they mapped out plans to get their books published …Read more »
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