Search Results for: mangaka
Comic-Con@Home may not have been in San Diego proper, but it did the best it could turning everything digital, so the Eisner Awards were still part of the big event. Named after graphic novelist Will Eisner, these are the “Oscars” of the comic book world, …Read more »
Asuka Tsukasa is scared of animals, particularly dogs. He’s even scared of the little cute breeds that couldn’t hurt him if they tried. Boy, is his life about to take a messy turn in the first volume of Bestia. Asuka is 1/8 British, and he’s moved …Read more »
Sunghoo Park, director of the Crunchyroll Original The God of High School, knew he wanted to get into animation since a young age. It started with his love of Macross in elementary school, he told Crunchyroll in an interview. “To make that dream [of becoming …Read more »
The Shaman King manga spans 35 volumes, but only 32 volumes have been published in America. On top of that, those volumes are now out of print. But there’s good news for Shaman King fans—not only is there a new anime in the works, but …Read more »
Kei Yonagi is only 16, but she has to take care of her younger siblings since her mother died and her father is MIA. She’s also trying to become a professional actress. She goes to an annual new-talent audition held by a large talent agency, …Read more »
Back when Miwa was in high school, she had a huge crush on an older girl, but she was too scared to say anything. Now she’s in college and her first friend is a girl named Saeko. The two young women hang out more and …Read more »
On July 17, almost one year to the date of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, Tokyo police arrested a man for threatening the publisher Kodansha. Like the suspect in the KyoAni case, this suspect claimed that the company in question did something unseemly with his …Read more »
COVID-19 has made people around the world temporarily give up a lot of fun events. Like karaoke. The Japanese sensation that swept the world first got put on hiatus in Japan earlier this year because of its potential to spread the virus. Karaoke is back …Read more »
In recent days it’s become apparent that Amazon has been blocking some manga titles from both Yen Press and J-Novel Club. Both publishers tweeted about this: Sadly, we have confirmed with Amazon that they have opted to remove our No Game No Life titles from …Read more »
There are plenty of different matchmaking services out there, including ones in Japan that provide for otaku. SoraNews24 reported on an otaku matchmaking event taking place next month from the service Party Party, where male and female respondents have different requirements. The requirements for women …Read more »
If you’ve ever experienced rain and thought, “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day,” then you’ll understand what makes 18-year-old Hina so special. She can pray to the sky and make the rain stop. She’s called The Sunshine Girl. There’s been a ton of …Read more »
With all the heavy news out there, how about a light story involving Pokémon? @Ariagemu, a Japanese high school student, shared a picture of his extensive note-taking and his mom’s glowing response.
Did you know that Ken Akamatsu, the mangaka behind such hits as Love Hina and Negima!, is sometimes asked to advise the Japanese government on manga-related issues? Just recently he was called before the Diet and talked about how manga can succeed in the next …Read more »
Minare Koda is mad. She’s mad about the breakup with her boyfriend. She’s so mad she decides to go drinking and rant to the stranger sitting next to her. It turns out that stranger works for the radio. And he records her whole rant. And …Read more »
A building in Tokyo that once housed multiple mangaka, including Osamu “God of Manga” Tezuka, was taken down in the early 1980s. However, so many people have wanted to see what it looked like that a new museum duplicating it has been created, called the …Read more »
Danica Davidson
