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If you're not aware, a long-overdue child pornography law was passed in Japan this week which finally bans the possession (production and sales were already outlawed) of pornographic depictions of children. The exception is, notably, comics and cartoons, rationale being that children aren't abused in …Read more »
Crunchyroll recently set up a major move to jump into the manga game. As announced via Japan's Nikkei Business Daily , in a special partnership, Crunchyroll will simultaneously publish a select assortment of Kodansha's manga series, and it all starts on Wednesday, October 30. 12 …Read more »
Happy May, everyone! Have you gotten some spring weather yet? I think I saw some sun here this past weekend, and just in time, too. While this week’s manga supply may be a bit sparse, comic readers will still have lots to look forward to …Read more »
January went out like a sheep but February is coming in like a lion. An extra-long list of titles deserves an extra-long installment of On The Shelf, so let’s get started on my look at some of the over two dozen books out this week! …Read more »
While this week’s biggest crowd-funding story was that of Production I.G.’s Kick-Heart , it wasn’t the only game in town. Japan-based manga website J-Comi, which offers free, legal digital versions of classic manga, held its own crowd-funding project in recent days, offering up digital sets …Read more »
This past weekend's AWA was one of the last conventions of the year but Vertical still spiced it up for us manga fans with a new license. I'll be sad when we hit that dry spell of conventions in the winter. The anticipation of conventions …Read more »
Happy Autumn! I'm not a big summer person myself so I love when the season fades out to nice breezy days and crisp, colourful leaves. Mother Nature still isn't sure what she's doing here with steamy hot sunshine and biting cold winds at the same …Read more »
Japanese landmarks getting attacked by aliens is so cliché that it's probably also cliché by now to mention the cliché in the opening of your manga review. Well, that's fine. Mao-chan has enough other stuff "going for it•bCrLf (let's use that term loosely for now) …Read more »
In February we posted about live-action film adaptation plans for Ken Koyama’s Seiri-chan manga, AKA Little Miss P. The series about an anthropomorphized period is on the way to the big screen in Japan this year, and a new update reveals cast members and theme song artists for the production, …Read more »
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