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This week, a new sports manga joins the pages of Shonen Jump! With Ice-Head Gill getting the axe and The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins put to bed, Green Green Greens has stepped into one of the mag’s empty slots. And it’s fresh—just one chapter in, so a great time to …Read more »
If you’ve been eagerly waiting to play Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable, you’re unfortunately going to have to wait a little longer. While the game was supposed to come out during “winter 2023,” it’s now been bumped back to the “latter half of 2024.” UNIVRS, …Read more »
Content Warning: Discussion of suicide Famous Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke has been sentenced in the deaths of his parents. The actor, who has appeared in a One Piece Kabuki play and was scheduled to direct and act in a Demon Slayer Kabuki play, had been accused …Read more »
Many Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving later this month with feasting, so it’s the perfect time to also release the food-themed OVA Okamoto Kitchen, which is brought to us by the Okamoto Kitchen business and a successful Kickstarter. The anime will be available to view …Read more »
You may think you’ve seen bleak dystopias in fiction, but how about a world that’s turning into an enormous, all-devouring subway system? In Yokohama Station SF, the titular port city stop begins to “self-propagate,” apparently due to a bug in an AI construction program. It’s …Read more »
In Panorama of Hell, an artist with different-sized pupils tells the reader that he is “a painter of hell, possessed by the beautiful color of blood.” He cuts himself to use his own blood for paint. With that he makes his “Panoramas of Hell,” and …Read more »
The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XXXIII in 2022 included a brilliant spoof of Death Note titled “Death Tome,” nailing everything from the opulent music to the animation (using an animation studio that worked on the real Death Note!) to Lisa thinking she’s bringing justice as …Read more »
There’s a fan movement in Japan where otaku deck out their cars with their favorite anime, manga or video game characters. It’s (ironically?) referred to as “itasha,” which can be translated as “cringeworthy car.” Once totally niche, it has begun to take off in Japan …Read more »
A bipartisan group of Senators — Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) — have come out with the discussion draft of their proposed bill they’re calling the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act. …Read more »
Irodori Comics is currently holding a Kickstarter for mangaka Isaki Uta to publish the box set Isaki Uta: The Lost & Found Collection. Uta’s previous manga, Is Love The Answer?, has been published in America by Kodansha. The box set consists of the doujinshi Mine-kun …Read more »
SHUEISHA’s MANGA Plus recently released the first chapter of Rugby Rumble, and readers quickly noted the poor lettering and text placement (see above). The reason? The lettering was done by AI, not a person. Specifically it was done by Orange Inc., which says it has …Read more »
Graphic novel publisher ABLAZE is putting horror manga Gannibal by Masaaki Ninomiya on Kickstarter to fund limited edition hardcovers. Gannibal has already been published in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Brazil, Korea, and Thailand, and is finally making its way to …Read more »
A leaked email — which appears to be related to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vs. Microsoft case (in which the FTC is arguing against Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard and Microsoft is arguing in favor of the purchase) — shows that Microsoft has also been …Read more »
A new trailer has dropped for My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer (a.k.a. Bōkensha ni Naritai to Miyako ni Deteitta Musume ga S-rank ni Natteta in Japanese) that lets us hear the opening theme song "Sen" (translated as “Flash of Light”) …Read more »
Next month, the Death Note stage musical will be performed in concert at London’s Lyric Theatre. This West End venue has been home to all sorts of legendary shows since it opened in 1888. Now Light and L will tread the same boards as characters ranging …Read more »
Kara Dennison
Danica Davidson
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Shaenon K. Garrity
