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Plenty of people have bad memories of sex education class, whether the class didn’t tell them what they needed to know or spent its time terrifying them about STDs. Sex Ed 120% follows a teacher determined to give the students at her all-girls school accurate …Read more »
This past weekend a fire broke out at the home of mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. Miyatake survived and was hospitalized, but his wife, 60-year-old Tomoko Watanabe, unfortunately died. Miyatake remains in the hospital as of the …Read more »
Yutaka Abe and Jiro Maruden just finished up their manga adaptation of the Detective Conan: Fist of Blue Sapphire movie (twenty-third in the series!), and they’re on to the next project. It was just announced that they’ll adapt the fifteenth Conan movie, Detective Conan: Quarter …Read more »
Mangaka Ruri Kumashika publishes yuri manga through Lilyka. Her series Around The Season of Cherry Blossoms is a story of yearning from a student who loves her female teacher, and the fourth issue was just released. She is also the mangaka behind The Sweet Ring …Read more »
Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy is about a private school where “young blossoms enjoy their high school lives.” If that sounds feminine, that’s the point. But it’s an all-male school and all the boys wear women’s clothing. Most of the boys wear miniskirts, but class …Read more »
Pioneering manga creator Ichiro Tominaga has passed away earlier this month from old age. He was 96-years-old. While his name might not be well-known in America, he was an important figure in Japan. His most successful manga series were titled Chinkoro Nee-chan and Sekkachi Neeya. …Read more »
Mangaka Yasunori Mitsunaga recently finished the Princess Resurrection manga franchise with the final volume of Princess Resurrection Nightmare, and the creator is off to work on a new series. Mitsunaga will do the writing, but instead of doing the art as well, Yoshimitsu Iruka has …Read more »
Lyricist Akira Ito has passed away at age 80 from renal failure, after a lifetime writing the lyrics for some of Japan’s best-known jingles and anime openings. He wrote the words for the original Urusei Yatsura opening theme song “Lum’s Love Song,” as well as …Read more »
The news of Kentaro Miura’s passing at age 54 has brought renewed attention to his books. The eight deluxe editions of his Berserk manga have shot up on the Amazon bestsellers list, including some making the top ten. When you consider that millions of books …Read more »
Hatsune Miku can perform for Lady Gaga or become a My Little Pony, but for a while there she couldn’t tweet. That’s because her Twitter account set her birthday as 2007, the year of her debut, and Twitter says you have to be at least …Read more »
The Kamen Rider franchise and Super Sentai franchise are both having a big year, together and separately. 2021 marks 50 years of Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai is coming out with its 45th work. That work is the crossover movie Saber + Zenkaiger: Super Hero …Read more »
Sociologist Junko Kaneda wrote an essay book called Grappler Baki BL de wa Nai ka to 1-Nichi 30-Jikan 30-Nichi Kangaeta Otome no Kiroku (translated as Notes of a Girl Who Spent 30 Hours a Day for 300 Days Thinking “So Baki The Grappler is BL, …Read more »
Japan can’t seem to get enough Attack on Titan displays. Statues of characters have been placed in creator Hajime Isayama’s hometown, there’s an Attack on Titan museum, and there’s even a Titan-sized Attack on Titan manga. And right now if you head over to the …Read more »
A Japanese collector of Game Boy games known as @marumi_1985 has quite an impressive collection of 1,236 Game Boy games. But it’s his goal to get every Game Boy game ever released in Japan, and according to him, he’s 99.36% there. His collection does not …Read more »
The passing of Kentarou Miura, the creator of the Berserk manga, has devastated fans around the world and gotten many Western news outlets (who usually ignore manga) to pick up the story. Since then, condolences have amassed. “Miura no longer exists in a physical space,” …Read more »
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