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The Kyoto Animation arson took place five years ago, on July 12, 2019. 36 people were killed, and many others were injured. A memorial monument has been publicly unveiled to honor the victims. Rather than set up the monument on the site of the old …Read more »
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the most popular franchises in recent memory, so of course Osaka’s Universal Studios Japan wants to highlight Tanjiro and his friends. The park is retiring some of its previous Demon Slayer stuff, but is also adding more …Read more »
Alley is the latest short story collection from horror icon Junji Ito to be published by VIZ Media. The first story, the titular “Alley,” is a creepy tale where a young man moves into a boardinghouse near an alley and thinks he hears kids. But …Read more »
As manga continues to grow more popular in America and around the globe, additional publishers and imprints are interested in licensing graphic novels from Japan. The latest is HarperCollins’ imprint HarperAlley. HarperAlley started in 2020, publishes about 50 kids’ graphic novels annually, and is under …Read more »
The results are in for the tax evasion case of Nekokurage, the illustrator of The Apothecary Diaries manga. The artist is receiving a suspended sentence of 10 months and being fined 11 million yen (approximately $70,600). The prosecution was trying to get a larger fine …Read more »
Park Jung-hyun, who used to work as the assistant editor-in-chief in Morning magazine and editor of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine (both Kodansha publications) was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court in 2019 for murdering his wife, Kanako. The case has since gone to the Tokyo …Read more »
After the highly publicized death of Sexy Tanaka-san manga creator Hinako Ashihara, Japanese station NTV has unveiled new guidelines on how it will work to prevent a tragedy like that from happening again. Through misunderstandings and miscommunications, the TV adaptation Sexy Tanaka-san didn’t stick with the …Read more »
Season four of The Rising of the Shield Hero will be here before too long. In the meantime, a new teaser visual has dropped that highlights Naofumi, Raphtalia, Filo, Atla and Fohl. There’s also a short video of the visual! The Rising of the Shield …Read more »
Everyone’s favorite ninja Naruto is doing a crossover comic with a very different type of ninja — the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto will hit comic shops on November 13, with writing by Caleb Goellner of Sonic the Hedgehog and …Read more »
The game Seedsow Lullaby (a.k.a. Tanetsumi no Uta in Japanese) shared its opening video where you can hear sola perform the theme song “Yoru o Koeru” (translated as “Break Through the Night”). This title is part of the Aniplex.exe game brand from Aniplex. Seedsow Lullaby Opening …Read more »
Less than a week after Anime Limited revealed it is bringing DEVILMAN crybaby to Blu-ray for both North America and the United Kingdom, Milan Records disclosed that it’s giving Kensuke Ushio’s soundtrack a vinyl release. DEVILMAN crybaby Vinyl Packaging Here is the tracklisting: DISC 1 – …Read more »
San Diego Comic-Con, the mother of all comic cons, will be here July 25 through 28, and it will include stuff of particular interest to otaku, including panels with manga creators and a performance from Demon Slayer singer LiSA. Let’s take a look at what …Read more »
Meal kit delivery services are getting more popular these days, and Oisix, a meal kit service in Japan, is offering up something unique: Pokémon meals. Pokémon cafés are something that exist in Japan, and this is supposed to be a little like a Pokémon café …Read more »
Piracy is an issue the manga industry is dealing with, and the Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) organization wants to not only fight this issue, but use international papers to thank fans who read manga through proper channels like buying copies or lending from libraries. …Read more »
Manga creator Koji Aihara, who might be best-known to American fans for his book Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (co-created with Kentaro Takekuma), recently came out with a new manga in Japan that details his depression. The Japanese paper The Asahi Shimbun talked about …Read more »
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