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Shonen manga can often seem never-ending, especially when they're among the top tier in terms of popularity. That's where Tite Kubo's Bleach stands, but an ad in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump teases the story's next arc, along with the possibility that it …Read more »
In a not so common "adaptation" move, the Hiroshima Children's Museum has whisked the award-winning manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms into a 50-minute planetarium show. With supervision from original mangaka Fumiyo Kono, the show combines 130 frames from the comic—which originally …Read more »
When you're a manga-ka as huge as Rumiko Takahashi, you don't even need a title or premise to get people pumped for your next project. That's not to say it's going to be easy to follow an act as massive as the 50-volume monster known …Read more »
Manga authors rarely visit the United States because of their constant deadlines, so seeing Rei Hiroe, creator of Black Lagoon, at AnimeNEXT 2016 was quite the rarity. We got a chance to talk with him … while surrounded by a small army of publishing execs …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , we feature a One Piece cover story that deals with the current goings-on of the anime and its latest film incarnation, One Piece Film Z . As a bonus, we're doing the same with the manga here, …Read more »
Eiichiro Oda has built himself one hell of a playground. It's like those old toy commercials that featured the luckiest kids in the world slammin' their G.I. Joes or Turtles in elaborate, craggy playsets that didn't exist and would take way too much effort and …Read more »
The American public education system doesn't teach anything about Japanese history, so all that I—and most US anime fans—know about the subject is what is conveyed within pop culture, and most of that focuses on samurai or ninja since they’re the ones with the sharp …Read more »
In his book Making Comics , Scott McCloud makes a good argument for the case that, in the past 25 years, American comics have gotten more realistic while manga has gotten more fantastic. And indeed, after thousands of spirit-possessed super-powered teenagers and science fiction futures …Read more »
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