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One story we're very happy to report at the end of the year is the capture of the man allegedly responsible for a year-long terrorist campaign against the creator and fans of Kuroko no Basuke , the popular basketball manga and anime series. It was …Read more »
In the 1970s, Mazinger Z and Getter Robo invented the giant robot cartoon genre and made an entire generation of kids into cold-hearted psychopaths ready to destroy any threat to their homeland with a barrage of rocket punches, giant tomahawks, and heat rays fired straight …Read more »
Did you notice today’s date? It’s August 1, which means it’s 8/1 or 801 . . . which means it’s Yaoi Day! If you’re in the mood for yaoi, shonen-ai, BL, you name it, here’s a list of places for you. Digital Manga Publishing Digital …Read more »
Dark Horse tackles the new release list with another double-dose of CLAMP. This week it’s volume two of Angelic Layer , which covers the second half and completes the series. This is one of my favorite CLAMP stories, and I think one of the most …Read more »
Yuki is trying to live her life, but she’s unsettled by a young man on the train who seems to be filming her. Things get even worse when a creep uses an umbrella handle to push up her skirt. While many manga and anime will …Read more »
You've likely read about the threats issued at pretty much anything having to do with Kuroko's Basketball , but thankfully that isn't stopping the anime adaptation of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's manga from continuing. The next issue of Shonen Jump Next confirms that the series is preparing …Read more »
Visitors to this winter’s Comic Market shouldn’t expect to see any merchandise for the manga Kuroko’s Basketball, as fan comics depicting the series have been banned from the event. The ban stems from a series of threatening letters sent to various locations linked to Kuroko’s …Read more »
Happy official-first-days-of-Autumn! Just like I used the summer heat as a reason to stay indoors and read more manga, so too will I now use the cooling days as further reasoning also (not that we need a reason to coop up surrounded by dozens of …Read more »
If you’ve seen Japanese horror films like Ring or Ju-on and lived to tell the tale, congratulations: you’ve survived an encounter with yurei , or Japanese ghosts, souls driven by powerful feelings of rage, sadness, or revenge. But yurei have been a part of Japanese …Read more »
GEN Manga has turned one year old! Robert McGuire began publishing monthly doujinshi collections last year and we spoke with him when he was just getting GEN up and running. Now that he’s reached the milestone of year two, we wanted to check back in …Read more »
Summer convention season is taking off with multiple events this past weekend. Between Fanime and Anime North, it feels like everyone knows someone who's attended an anime con recently! At the time of writing this article, the cons are still ongoing, so I'm not sure …Read more »
I'm sure you know Akihabara, the otaku town, but do you know Otome Road (Maiden Road) in Ikebukuro district, where otaku girls and female fans of yaoi get together? If you go through “Sunshine 60 Street” from the East Exit of Ikebukuro Station, you will …Read more »
It isn’t always easy to get your hands on doujinshi in America, especially doujinshi that’s been translated. Robert McGuire, who has a history in Japanese publishing, is taking a novel way of bringing doujinshi to readers. He’s begun publishing GEN Manga, a monthly doujinshi collection. …Read more »
Hello! Yunmao Ayakawa here! It has been very common among Japanese Otaku to create “doujinshi” (self-published amateur works) involving manga, magazines and novels. An individual artist or a group of artists publish their own works and distribute them through Doujinshi conventions in local areas as …Read more »
If you see a Western, English-speaking foreigner in Japan, chances are pretty good that they are an English teacher. There are no shortage of blogs, forums and website spin-offs of anime magazines where people while away their free time talking about the peculiarities of the …Read more »
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