Tsai Kun-lin, a Taiwanese manga publisher, helped bring about the country’s manga explosion in the 1960s. Now The Boy from Clearwater, a new graphic novel series from author Yu Pei-yun and illustrator Zhou Jian-xin, shares his incredible true story. Volume two drops on May 7 …Read more »
Baku Yumemakura’s Garouden martial arts novels are officially getting an anime adaptation. Netflix announced plans to premiere Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf around the world on May 23, and you can see the first English-subtitled trailer below. The Garouden anime is being directed …Read more »
When something gets a huge amount of hype, it’s natural to wonder if all that hype is really warranted. Take Kaiju No. 8. Based on the hit manga by Naoya Matsumoto, the new anime from Production I.G and Studio khara has been one of the season’s most …Read more »
Back in February, we reported that 10 titles had been nominated for the annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Now we’ve learned which manga won the coveted award, named after the Godfather of Manga himself. The lead prize went to PLINIVS, the historical manga by Mari …Read more »
There’s more of the Cardfight!! Vanguard card-battling anime on the way with the recent confirmation of premiere timing for the second season of Cardfight!! Vanguard Divinez. The latest TV installment of the mixed media project is set of July 2024 in Japan, and you can …Read more »
Another Weekly Shonen Jump manga has come to an end with the publication of the final chapter for Shadow Eliminators. The manga by Kento Amemiya first launched in the magazine on December 4, 2023, and the final chapter was just published in Japan on April …Read more »
A TV anime adaptation was announced for Shoji Goji’s Loner Life in Another World light novel series back in January, and now we have more details. A new trailer has arrived along with info on the main staff and cast, as well as plans for …Read more »
This weekend Archipel, one of our favorite YouTube channels, dropped another great video. This one goes behind the scenes of a new collaboration between horror manga master Junji Ito and modeler Yoshiki Fujimoto. The two have teamed up to create a high-end model of Ito’s …Read more »
The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan, a series of sword-and-sorcery light novels by Jaki, is getting animeized. That news comes alongside a trailer for the newly announced series, which features English subs. The series hits screens in October. Seven Seas publishes the …Read more »
Failure Frame (or to give it its full title, Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells), the new anime series based on the light novels by Kaoru Shinozaki, is on its way to screens. Now when we know when: July. …Read more »
This fall marks the return of the Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest anime, and while there’s still a wait ahead of us, a new trailer has arrived to tide us over for the time being. See more of what Arifureta season 3 has in …Read more »
Beyond Idris Elba, who provides the main character’s voice and reprises his role from the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 film, there are a bunch of characters in the upcoming Knuckles spinoff series. The six-episode event kicks off on Paramount+ on April 26, and ahead of …Read more »
Great news, superhero fans: Marvel manga are now on the Viz app! New titles are available to read with a membership as we speak, opening up a whole new world of adventures featuring familiar stars of comic and screen. Best of all, many of these …Read more »
The first time we got word of Donkey Kong Country coming to Universal Studios Japan — as part of an expansion of Super Nintendo World — was in 2021. Then, late last year, it was revealed that we could expect the Donkey Kong Country section …Read more »
Yesterday the Tokyo District Court said the operator of the infamous Manga-Mura manga piracy site has to give publishers Kadokawa, Shueisha and Shogakukan 1.7 billion yen. That’s a little under 11 million dollars. The publishers had started out by asking for 1.9 billion yen in …Read more »
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