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Kazue Kato, the creator of bestselling shonen manga series Blue Exorcist, is exhausted from working on the series for twelve years. On Twitter she explained to her followers that she is taking a two-month vacation, during which new chapters will not appear. She was also …Read more »
CLAMP has produced a long list of hit manga, but in the 2000s, one reigned supreme. After winning over younger readers with Cardcaptor Sakura and the magical girl audience with Magic Knight Rayearth, CLAMP took a different approach and went after teenage boys. Enter Chobits. …Read more »
With 2020 behind us (good riddance) it’s a good time to look back on the anime that aired in the last year. What do you think was best? Voice your opinion below. It’s multiple choice, and we wanted to include as many conceivable answers as …Read more »
The first episode of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime landed on October 2 and is available streaming on Crunchyroll. To help fans get ready, VIZ Media is offering the first seven chapters (in other words, the first volume of the manga) for free online. Get a …Read more »
While K-Pop group TOMORROW X TOGETHER kick off the new opening theme of the Black Clover anime, Asta voice actor Gakuto Kajiwara is here to handle the ending. As revealed yesterday, the new ED, “A Walk,” just premiered with the latest episode of the Black …Read more »
After Act-Age writer Tatsuya Matsuki was arrested over accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault toward junior high school girls, Shonen Jump put out an official statement that they were canceling the series. We also got a statement from fellow shonen mangaka Taishi Tsutsui of …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a comedy shonen manga based on a real Japanese premise, where girlfriends or even other family members can be “rented.” This is a type of business recently growing in Japan, as a note at the beginning of the book explains. The note also …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 »
For decades, anime adaptations of shonen manga have represented the bulk of the most popular titles in Japan. Initially the anime brought to the United States was a little more genre-diverse, but Cartoon Network syndicated Dragon Ball Z in 1998, localized anime rapidly became as …Read more »
Adaptations of titles from shonen manga magazines makeup a disproportionate amount of the new anime produced every year, so in our recent efforts to poll for audience opinions, we’d be remiss not to hit this topic. We’ve put together a list of 29 of the …Read more »
The immediate comparison to Our Last Crusade: or The Rise of a New World is Romeo and Juliet, but this story of star-crossed love is also steeped in magic, politics, daring swordsmen, and warring empires. One hundred years ago, a magical power source was discovered …Read more »
Depending on what generation of manga readers you belong to, the idea of manga made outside of Japan might conjure up all kinds of images. Some might think of manhwa, Korea’s homebrewed answer to Japanese manga, while others will have flashbacks to the glut of …Read more »
Ninjas, mononoke, and shady intelligence agencies get an action-packed mash-up in Black Torch. Street tough Jiro Azuma might look like a petty criminal, but he uses his ninja training to defend helpless animals, which he can talk to. This unique ability leads him to rescue …Read more »
From now until the end of the year, Otaku USA e-News presents 98 Degrees: a deep dive straight into the anime of 1998. Which greats of ’98 would you like to see covered? Comment below or drop our editor a line. Adapted from a long-running …Read more »
Tite Kubo’s Bleach manga may have come to an end, but memories of the long-running shonen manga remain. That’s the idea behind a new web app called Bleach Endless Memories, in which fans can mix and match their own favorite scenes from the manga into …Read more »
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